Show We ates Details us i or of- of r rus i 1 li Grafting Operations f I y 9 C 4 T y u t tS S 5 4 A r I S t wu nee i DISTRICT ATTORNEY WHITMAN Ever e since a Herman RO Rosenthal was murdered the district attorney has hasi i been working day clay and night in an effort to run down the murderers and to to get the men tl higher up aP He has received but little encouragement from the mayor mayor and police department of New York city and a less able or less persistent persist- persist persistent ent man would have been discouraged His efforts have haye been crowned with unusual success however and after he lie has procured the conviction of Roseno Rosen- Rosen thaIs murderers he will doubtless play playa a large part rt in cleaning up the police o department of New York I 1 Rose Writes rites History o of His is Relations With Ac use Police e Official i EW YORK YORK Au Aug 6 Bald 6 Bald Jack JackRose JackRose N NE NEW Rose the gambler upon whose testimony tes tes- l 1 was chiefly based the indict Indict- indictment ment went of at Police Lieutenant Becker on the the charge of Instigating the murder of ot Merman Herman Rosenthal today furnished furnished District t Attorney Whitman with a written statement disclosing In detail th the history Mator of his of-his his rei relations with Becker Beckeras as one of the police officers officer's alleged graft collectors Rose in his confession conCession reiterates his I previous allegations that Becker was one of four toUr high police officers who I I j. j 1 collected between and yearly early from Crom Illegal resorts and gives a complete table of his collections I I from gamblers which he says lie he O turned over to Becker These collections collections col col- according to tho the confession averaged from 1000 to a month and came carne from a a. dozen or more gambling g houses The names of about ton of them Rose gave ave to the district attorney Becker the thc self accused gambler wrote rote was as continually hounding him for tor mone money telling him he said that the bunch downtown dow Isn't getting setting k enough t Roses Rose's statement Is several thousand nd words 1 long The gambler had been working on It In his cell ever since on the promise of leniency District new Whitman got him a week ago to tomake tomake make his first confession conCession Rose said he had always alwn's tUrn turned d his collections oyer oler to Becker In tn cash frequently at Roses hoses home and that his wife and andt t servants had seen the mone money pass and could testify to the truth of or his state state- ment Coerced d by hY Beckers Becker's methods of or bringing the gamblers to terms was to raid them first Rose said This was he as the the police way a he lie explained of getting ac ac- After the raid Becker would offer otter to H fix the case before the grand jury jur I s Rose Ease charged provided the unfortunate Gambler would come across across To im impress ins Irn- press the gam gamble le Becker would procure procure procure pro pro- cure further wan warrants ants threatening to I continue his raids as long as the gam gasn- gambier bier bler refused to pay blackmail Specific Sp Instances are aro given en Rose said that his own acquaintance began when Becker Decker ral raided ed his gambling hour house e. e Rose said he then became a stool pigeon for Becker in his raiding j. j activities and later his collector Ro Rose e substantiates all that Ro Rosen Rosen- en- en thai that had charged as t to Becker being his 1115 partner In the Rosenthal gambling gt house He Ho said that Becker got ot thirty thirty- A. A two and a half per pcr cent of ot the play pla IT twenty per cent on his own account and one half of Roses Rose's share hare which was twenty five per cent The district attorney It was learned tonight ht obtained telephone records ft substantiating Roses Rose's story tor that a few fow minutes after atter the murder of ot Rosenthal l t p Rose Ros called Becker up and asked him HT to com come downtown at once and that he l f communicated b by telephone with 5 Becker several times that day 1 r McIntire to 0 Defend Becker Becker saw sa newspaper men in his cell today When he was asked f it if It was I I I true that the s system stem was collecting a fund to defend him he re replied re- re plied pIled I havo have engaged John F. F McIntire to conduct m my case by advice of m my counsel counsel coun coun- sel John W. W Hart No system will sU suggest gest m my counsel I am master of ot my nty own case Friends of Alc Webber who Is being held here hero In connection with the Rosenthal thai case protested today that two policemen who have havo access to the pilson prison where he is confined have been hounding hounding- him for two days Webber ebber It Is alleged char charges cs that a certain police Inspector placed the two men In the prison and arranged matters so that they could talk to him whenever when- when over ever the they wanted to He has been warned It Is said that If he supports the statements of or Jack Rose he will r forfeit his life Ute Spencer Mass Aug 6 Two G-Two Two young oun men suspected of ot being Lefty Letty Louie and Gib the Blood wanted In conI con- con l section with the Rosenthal murder case casein casein in New ew York were detained by b- the police pollee this afternoon The men were held for an examination as to their identity |