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Show i .1 Cliief Intormei- Who Tells All in Becker Case Gambler and Gunman Relates Events Leading Up to the Murder of Rosenthal and Confesses lo Perjury. CHIEF INFORMER ON STAND ALL DAY Declares the Police Lieutenant Insisted .That. His Former Friend and Partner Be PuLOut of Way. N'JJW YOHK. Oct. 12. Long hours of cross-oxaminutiuu by supper-Jesh supper-Jesh lawyers before a supperless court and jury failed I aright to make "Bald Jack" IUM; vary his story of thu part ,o played and the part he fays former Police- Lieutenant Pecker plnyo-,1 in the murder of Herman Rosen-thai, Rosen-thai, tho gambler. Pecker (old mc." ho said, "Mint ,e wanted Rosenthal murdered, shot, croaked or dynamited. A I hij, bidding I got the. gunmen to kill Rosenthal. I hid after the murder. I -aw Becker that morning and later talked with him over tho tolouhnne. I paid tho gunmen gun-men $IO()0 for Bc-ker. and told them lie said nut to worry but to lay low. "J gave, myself up and become a state's witness because Becker desertpd me like a flirty dog, and was gotling roady to th'row me to tho wolves." Lawyer Tires Out. Justice Goff convened tbo afternoon session of court at 2:h" o'clock. Short, ly before 0 o'clock tonight ho declared it adjourned until Monday morning, after John Molnlyrc, Becker's lawyer, protested that he was ou Iho verge of collapso. Court, ;jury. counsel, witnesses and tho accused had been without food since jioon. Becker, cool and stoical, leaned on the tablo at which he sat, his' chin in his hands, his elbow on the table, during the long cross-examination. Twenty feet back in tho first row of scats usually reserved for spectators, sal: hit) nifc. Her eyes woro for her husband rather than tho court. Onco, only once, ho glanced back at her and smiled. 'Bald Jack" Tfoso, thick lipped,, wido eared and without a hair on his head, was unruffled by tho ordeal. Admits Criminal Career. Rose admitted that ho had lied, had perjured Himself, had been a gambler and had been engaged for twenty years in illegitimate business. Ho admitted that ho was testifying to savo his own life but said he was tolling tho truth now. Ho said ho had concluded to be-como be-como state's witness only when tho electric chair stared him iu tbo faco and that he was not ashamed of his determination. Without emotion, in a slow drawl, ho said he had deliberately plunned, at Becker's behest, to "put Rosenthal whore ho would never worry anybody else.' He knew, ho added, that it was a terrible deed to plan. "Whero was your conscience 1" demanded de-manded the lawj'cr. "I don't know," he said, measuring his words and facing the lawyer squarely. square-ly. "I never saw it." Intends to Reform. "Do you now intend to lead a respectable re-spectable life?" "Yes, but not in this communitj'. I value my lifo too much and I wouldn't bo a froo man hero." "With words tumbling over each other in thoir haste, Roso declared ho had been a "true friend" to Sam S:hepps and Harry Vallon and had interceded for them with the district attorney. Roao said ho had no motive of his own for killing Rosenthal, but had acted solely at Becker's direction. Time and again McTntyro quoted alleged conversations conver-sations betwoen Rose and men of the underworld apparently in an attempt to prove that Roso himself desired the gambler's death. ffXo such conversations over occurred," occur-red," was his reply to those questions. "But you wore Becker's graft collector, col-lector, so you say." '"T was." Court Room Crowded, Notwithstanding that it is Saturday, ! when adjournment is usually taken over tho week end, tho trial of Polico Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Charles Becker, charged with tho murder of Herman Rosenthal, went on as usual today. "Bald Jack" Roso, chief informer against Becker, was called to tho witness wit-ness stand at .10 o'clock. It was ex- (Continued on Pago Plvo.) B-tjnuecl from Pago One.) KrTiiis csl.inioii.v and cross cxumi-Mlop cxumi-Mlop mi'lJt new ,ho on,iro di,-v-Kforo coiiiff on tho staud Hose Kj unt CO'mC to ';'ho good. 1 Ml what '"' "l uainsl., but I'm K throned vr'tli it. I don't caro Mil happens. J u''u only ono rojret "; ou the stand I have mot and ggonie decent, people, and now Kncb mo tliov will be besmirched. I MS that nobodv but mysolf need be Buveil n0 tllis' but T SUP')0S,C H 5a ii Kt of tho penalty. 1 sbull tell every :Wm of the most awful plot that ever i hatched." Brors Guarded. . In, iyrors nro held in the strictest ' IMlauon nt their hotel wIicd not in IKtt Even telephone connections in IKr'rooms wero cut off. 'IMlhero was a crauinj? oL necks In the IBitfded courtroom as the bald headed IBaMer bcan to testify. "Roso said IMlsd known "Rosenthal for twonty nMin and Bocher for several years. BKrffjtne53 did not look at Becker as 'We his testimony, but the former mB(a officer watched "Rose intently. K. moko in deliberate tones, MbtJ Vu have business relations with vMktrr he was asked. rj I collected money for him." Br object aa Incompetent." shoutod Ka J". Mclntyrc, counsel for the de- ivKjection Overruled. I overruled," ordered the court lkggg then told of meeting "Rosenthal DB Becker In the 15Hcs' club on a Ncvr tfMifi celebration. Mrs. Rosenthal was ifKenL Becker said to Mrs, Rosenthal, I Molding to the witness, "now don't (nr. Herman and I have r thorough I Htnhindlng. He Is my friend and i jj.y i(j friend and his troubles are all lBf raid ha met Becker again at his WMrti and at the Union Square hotel, JyHo Becker told him tho dctallo of the I Burtf partnership in a gambling house Ktio Booker and Rosenthal. ' BTkeker," Rone testified, "said Herman flu nice a proposition to him that lie Blnto partnership with Rosenthal In Bsln? a gambling house and had asked b to Invest ?5000 In it. I ealfl no ono r.tnade any money In the gambling ifcefs Tvltli Rosenthal." tcker as Rosenthal's Partner. Bder, however, continued tho witness, j tot agrco and made a proposition to 9ir Rose to take a 25 per cont .share In I foulness of the proposed C3tabllsh-Becker C3tabllsh-Becker took a $2500 chattel mort-(4 mort-(4 on RoEenthal'a property a.nd a.r-4A a.r-4A for a "dummy" to hold the mort- Btcker esked me," the witness went , "ff I would take the mortgage, and I !d I TTOllld." thawitno's told of conversations with i iir. In which tho police lieutenant in- IttdTvhnt woro tho prollts of tho sam-tg sam-tg house- "1 reported to him oii one sstBn that tho house had made sev-U sev-U Ihnusiind dollars," nald Rose. "He i me to toll Rosenthal to send him . I "rreiit to aco Rosenthal and Rosen altald he wouldn't give it. because ht Sht ho hadn't had a square dual on j i tacrigape. 1 told Becker. Becker Bald that Junt i,ioonSs his attention was called to t plafs hs would raid it. He- told me I'lfll that to Rosenthal. I told Rosen-Hi. Rosen-Hi. Kosenthal said: ?7ou tell Becker he. can't raid thlH Kt unless ho gets ths proper evidence, i3 he can't get H because T. )cnow all lits njijd they can't gel. In hero.' ua Threatened. "Ec that's his attitude. Is it:.' Bcckei HV4 when I fold hhn this. 'All right; ' IB r2d 1L Tell RosenthaJ.' i- ffHtOKnthal sent back word by me- to 'Tclkthat fellow ho'd hotter not t Hla.nTthlug with me.' : B?0 day Becker told mo that jfcmlatloniir "Waldo had called his at- l fltllim lp the place and Tie fBecker) ( mfM have to .lfl it i told Rosenthal, ' 4n"s!nthal said, 'T.;ll Becker ho can't ff tno: I don't helicve Commissioner J Bf? evr caJled his attention to my R&veral daTs later Becker told mo thai J pphlnts vwe pourins: in and he- wouIq , T to raid tlio plaice. Ho told mo to jl Mfteenthal and tell him to do him a "Tell him he vxa to stutnd ror a. raid,' fl"t said, 'l did him a favor and he . f'.50 on0' for mo. I'll raid the placs Mr t rcl'6V m9 from worrj". and . IB, lw daya he can reopen his place ' L7r5lhlng will be all right.' -1 KyWenthal replied to me: Ton tell ' BFtt 1,6 a"" thinlc I'm crar.y to 3land 5ch a thing. H might as well tak. it- Kh an( hum it up. It's my place I WS.Jp oln to handle It the way 1 t MA bat' " ' Beclcer and told him what Ro- iRth&l raid. i- fcdo Becker Angiy. V A!ufi l m Bolnij (o raid the place and lt m a few days within a, week-' i fci,i,i Eeckcr 11 vould only .use ; y"1 and h-o said 'Don't you worry about that; it won't cause mc anv trouble; trou-ble; it will only cause trouble lor Rosenthal. Rosen-thal. "Do you want me to tell that to Rosenthal?" Ro-senthal?" 1 asked. r " 'No.' he answered, 'I'm through with that fellow.' "A few days later Becker told me that he was going to get two men from the strongarm squad to swear to the evidence evi-dence " 'That's awfully dangerous, Charlie,' I said. " 'Xp.' ho said, 'it'n all right, I'll let Rosenthal satisfy the mortgage first. I'll .? . 1,,s p,flce lf l'a thc la3t tlllnS 1 do-' All right,' I said. 'I'm not' going to be in the houae when It's raided." Tho house was raided, "Later," Rose testified, "Rosenthal complained to Becker that policemen were stationed in front or his place, and said he was sore because his wife's nephew waH taken in the raid." Rose said hie next meeting with Becker was at his own house. "He told me." mda Rose, "that Rosenthal Rosen-thal wao calling him up every day asking a meeting to find out what ho was going to do about the indictments against tho men arrested In Rosenthal's place. Ho put Rosenthal off. Soon after Becker enld Rosenthal had begun to talk uround street corners that ho was in partnorahlp with Becker and was going to show him up. Waldo's Great Faith. Beckor a few days Inter iold me of having seen Commissioner "Waldo and that the commissioner 'had heard of Ro-fientlial's Ro-fientlial's charges and had not believed them. "Becker aald to mo 'That follow Rohmi-thal Rohmi-thal is getting dangerous.' "I said, 'Nobody will believe Rosenthal Rosen-thal I" " " 'Well,' he anBwerod, 'no long as Commissioner Com-missioner TValdo doesn't believe him, I guess there's nothing to worry about." "I askod Becker if he had taken the policeman out of Rosonthal'n plaxio. He said 'No.' " "Well,' I told him, 'as long as that man stays there Rosenthal will talk.' " T. don't caro much what he (rays, Bocker replied." " 'Did you and. Booker discuss newspaper news-paper IntorrlewB that Rosenthal had given?" . ,. "Yes, Becker told me that I shouldn t worry about that; that he had Jack Sullivan Sul-livan looking after tho papers and that Rosenthal couldn't got anything prlntod Itor Becker told mu.a morning paper had gotten an affldavl-t from Rosenthal and was going to print It. " 'I suc3.i Rosenthal means to o wrtat ho sold bu would to squoal and break me,' Becker said. , " TU get n. couplo of gang rnen, i told Becker and go around and tell Rosenthal Rosen-thal that lf he doesn't Ktop his attack on vou. something will happen to hlnu "'Oh, hell!' Becker said. J .dori.. "tT'',-ni tho f-Uow beaten up. If T did Id boat him un nmoJf or have him beaten up for resisting arrest. But a besting up won t do for him. Ho must he- Put whore neither 3'ou nor 3. nor anybody else, will evor have to worry about blni aga n. " 'Who.t do you want done with Ro-contbalV Ro-contbalV I askod Becker during the t-on-versa.tion," tho wltneFS testified. Insisted on Murder " T want him nmrdored, shot, croaked, dynamited or anything.' Beukcr replied, r want him put wher wc wib never have to worn' about him apiln- The witness hero told of Becker n Di-lngod Di-lngod instructions to htm to get out on ball "Big Jack" Zelig, the gang leador. thon in tho Tombs, and have Zellg'i. men put Rosenthal out of tho way. "Do vou know sentiment at police head-quart head-quart ei-s Is so strong that 'they don t care If Rosenthal ic put out of the saj Becker asked. 'I want you to go over to the Tombs and sec Zelig and ask him lo give orders to oroHk Rouenthal tonlglit T will see that 55ellg lu out on the street. "Beckpr gavo me $100 to tako to iellg. 'I'll met you tomorrow morning Jo see what Zelig says,' ho told mo. 'Toll him 1 that th'ire will bo no danger to ins "f'saw Zollg and gave him the $100 and told him that It came from Becker, I Rose continued. "Zelig said. I don t want that ?100. 1 want to get out of here, you and Becker got me Into tins trouble.' I told him that thc S100 was just a little favor" from Becker and that he was not to worry. "Zelig said: 'If you want to do me a favor, get me out. I won't do anything for Becker unless ho does get me cut.' "I saw Becker next day and told him that Zelig wanted to get out and would not do anything unless he did get out." Rose said he went to the home of the four gunmen. "Gyp the Blood" and his pals, and explained tho Roscnthal-Bcckcr situation. He told them, he said, that Becker would "frame them up" if they did not "croak Rosenthal." Agreed to Kill Gambler. "They agreed lo do It that night." Rose said they had delayed "doing tho Job" and Becker hail Inslstod that they "hurry It along." TTc told of a plan to kill t tie gambler at the Garden restaurant. restau-rant. It failed, he said, because of a suspicion that private detectives were present and guarding Rosenthal, "Eccker got hot at this," Rose added. "Ho kept asking, 'Why all this stalling? Vk'hy don't you get him"' One day he said: 'Now, this la going on too long. Either you are stalling them or these fellows are stalling you.' "I told Becker that n doloctive scared tho boys off at thc Garden restaurant," Rose continued. " 'Dotectivo!' ho said. 'Wake up and shool Rosenthal In front of a policuman. Get through with it. cct it overl' " The witness then passed quickly to the events Immedlntoly preceding the murder. mur-der. He told of going to "Bridgie" Webber's Web-ber's gambling plnce. and tbeuco to the Lafayette- baths, where he mot Jack Sullivan. Sul-livan. Becker Impatient. " 'I received a telephone message from Becker.' " Rose testified. " 'FIc nslrcd mo If r hod hoard of subpoenas Issued by the attorney for TJollar John' and If I had fiTotl It so that 'Dollar John would corroborate Rosenthal before tha grand jury. I told him it had not been fixed.' "Becker Hald. '1 told you what this thing would come to If tou didn't get rid of this fellow. TVhy don't you do it tonight'" I sfdd Fd do my Ixat. "J remained at the baths that night and hnd dinner with Sam Schepps. G allon al-lon and Plltt. They camo in a machine." Plltt has been described aa Becker'a press agent. Rose testified that Vallon. Schepps and himself went to Fourteenth street and Second avenue and got an automobile-Then automobile-Then they went, to "Dago Trank'n" house. "I asked Frank where tho rest of tho crowd way." Rose continued. "Ho salrj they had received k message to comi downtown to 'flrldgle' Webber's plact. Murder Party Gathers. "We went to 'Bridgie' W-bber,B place and saw 'Rrid'glo,' 'Gyp the Blood,' 'Lefty Louie' and. 'Whltey' Lewis on th sidewalk. side-walk. We all went up into 'Brldgie'a' place and hod drinks. 'Bridgie' eald. 'Herman Rosenthal Is a.t thn Metropole. ISveiybody got up then and wont out." "Who went out"" "Lefty," 'Gyp." "Whltcy,' 'Dago Frank and 'Brldsle.' I stayed behind and was waiting when word en me In that Rosenthal Ro-senthal hnd been shot." Rose said ho went to Iho Lafayette baths and telephoned tele-phoned lo Becker. " 'Did yon hear the newo?' I asked him. 'Ycf Becker nald. T congratulate you." " i " 'Mow did you get tho news o soon"' I a-slod Becker. "'1 got It from a newspaperman.' hs said. " 'Are you coming down town?" I asked hlrn. " TU hi right down,' he replied. That was about 2:?0 o'clock. Rose said. Booker came down about dawn, met Rose on the sidewalk with "Brldgy" Webber a.t "BrldcyV gambling place. Glad Deed Was Done. "I am glad It"s done," Becker said- "Becker said he was Jato in coming down." Roso added, "becausu ho had stopped at tho police station to scii Rosenthal's Rosen-thal's body. 'If it was not for District Attorney Whitman being there I'd have reached- around and cut his tonguo out," Becker said to me," Rose said slowly and deliberately. " 'Don't worry, Jack,' Becker told me. 'The only thing to do now is lay low till It blown over." " Rose said lis hid nt Harry Pollock'"H horno with Sam Schcppo. Rose telephoned tele-phoned Becker and wa told not to worry, nut to stay whero he was. Becker told hlni. Rase continued, that he nhould sign un affidavit saying that ho fRose) had advanced the ?1COO which Keeker loaned Rosenthal. "I told Becker It wits a poor thing to do, now thai, the man was murdered." Rose said, "but he insisted. At midnight he :ent his lawyer, John "W. Hart, with tho affidavit. I signed it." Becker Plainly Worried. Before Rose was half through with hln story drops of perspiration were Etondlng on tho brow of the accused police lieutenant. lieu-tenant. Ho did not once take hU eyca off the witness. Mrs. Becker, who sat near her husband, lookiyj steadily at the floor. Attorney Mclntyrc. Becker's counsel, coun-sel, volleyed objection after objection until un-til "he was reprimanded by Juotlco Goff. Twice he demanded that, court be adjourned ad-journed on the ground that it was a legal holiday and each tlm the court cut his j arirunient short- i " 'Brldgy' Webber ga,ve me $1000 after the shooting at Fiftieth street and Eighth avenue." declared Rose, continuing his teGtiniony. "I gavo it lo 'Lefty Louie,' " "When was this?" asked Mr. Mob:j. "On the Tuesday aftomoon after the shooting. Tho shooting was early Tub-dav Tub-dav morning." 'What did you any to "Lefty Louie' when you gave- him tho money?1' "I told him, 'There's $1000 for you, Louie- Vou and the rit of the boys lie low for n few days. Becker nays above all things you must not talk and that everything will he all right.' "' The witness was then turned over to tho defense. Cross-ExaminatioiL "Vou will havo only today to crow-examlne crow-examlne Jack Rose," Justice Goff notified noti-fied Becker's counsel. "Vou will finish his cross-examination If I have to sit hero till midnight." "Rone, are you a murderer?" wan tho firxt question. "No." "Did you procure tho murderers of Spanish 1OuleV" 'T did not." "Were you guilty of that murder V" "No," shouted the wltno.-is. "Did you kill Kid Twist?" I "No." "Did yon erer Doe hlmT "No, W heard of him." "Did you procui'6 bto murderers?" "No." "Was Bam Schepps with you whan you signed tho affidavit unnt you tj' Becker at Pollock's homo?" "He wis" Admits Perjury. "Tou olsnieil that paper under oath, did you7'r "Tea." "And tharebr committed perjury?" "Yes, 1 did. admitted Roho coolly. 'lWhy did you do IhlaT" "I did It for Becker: I would have done anything 'or him that nlsht." "What it? your name?" "For twenty yeara," tho witness aald, "I've betn known m Jack Rose." "Did you know Jamea M. Sullivan In ConnocticutT" "Yea, he wa my press aprent when I used to set up prbw fights In Now Haven, Ha-ven, Waterbiiry, Hartford and oLhr cltlos." "And whon you wcro apprehended for murder, ho became your lawyer, didn't ho?" "I was never apprclicntc.d, ' Hihh replied re-plied emphatically. "J Rave myself up at police headquarters.'" iwor you held for murder In this flMO?" "Tea." Rose Hold ho camo hero from Poland when he wan 25 ycara old. He lo now 37, he added. Roso refused to say whethor he had lived In Connecticut with a woman not his wife. "Tou once forged som- union label Htamps, didn't you?" "Never," replied Rose. Mr. Mclntyrc sought further to unfold Roue's history. The wltneBB nald that about twenty years ago he ran two gambling gam-bling houseB and three or four yoara ago he had an lnteroai In a gambling house called tho Hcsper club. "Was Rosenthal Interested In the Hea-per Hea-per club with you?" ' "Ho wus." . , "Was that vour first business connection connec-tion with Rosenthal V" "No; I was employed by Rocenthal in his gambling house In TSast Broadway twenty-one yeara ago." Roso added that he also had been engaged en-gaged tn the theatrical business and had vorlouHlv been a gambling house proprietor. pro-prietor. iKiokmakor and play-producer. Expert Poker Player. "What did you do for a living In 1D10?" , , ,, "I was an export pokor player. "Did you not swear, In a lawsuit against Roaonthal In 1007," domanded Mr. Mclntyrc, reading from a printed record, "before ck supreme court Justice, that you wero not Interested In gambling houses?" "1 did." "Did vou tell the truth Mien? ""c-' , . .. "I made up my mind," Ro,e volunteered, volun-teered, "to Quit gambling for the sake of my family and lend a respectable life." "When?" "Oil. two yearn ago, Roto replied, wuarllv. "threo years ngo, four year.s ago. bIx years ago. ten years ago, twenty vears ago and 1 hope to lead a respecta-blu respecta-blu Hf again." "How did vou terminate your Interest In Rosenthal'a gambling house?" pursued Mr. Mclntyre. ... "It terminated when Becker raided the P'"And you and Rosenthal fell out then?" "Vou; our relations were strained nftcr that." , ... "Weren't you known ns a stool-pigeon for the police?" "No; 1 was known as a rolleelor. "When Rosenthal t'd H dlatrlrL ;it-tornov ;it-tornov about rclaLloini with IJrcUor, dlit vou lenrn that Kouetithal hud xlon your hamo to the dlstrlcL attorney?' iisg! "Becker told me so." . . ' "And you felt that Rosenthal had squealed on you. didn't you?" "I felt so, cp. I felt that Becker's in-terest in-terest and mtue ucro the -ame." 1 "Did vou tell a newspaper reporter that you resented Hosentlial's squealing 1 on you?" , . IIH did not." "Didn't you say that the squealer should IH be put out of the way?" "No," "Or anvthing resembling that?" "Ves; I told that to Becker." A moment later Rose declarod h.9 had B told Booker no &uch thing. |