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Show WITNESSES fTWY FOR THE 0UR DOOMED MEN fRK. April 11. Counsel for tlio doornca to illo ut SIiik Sing 2Jy. for the murilor of Ilef-ptnal. Ilef-ptnal. ua(n n Html plea for lP before Supreme Court Jus-Slsr" Jus-Slsr" G today. The justice. Pfed at tli trial, agreud last eleventh-hour procedure on Ration of counsel that new kw? l'CCn ,ll8C0Vern tonrtlns to B"' prlsoneri w6ro not the real P' District Attorney Whitman. g1 from Chicago, appeared to potion for n new trial. The T Bt for noon In tho JikIro's Wa transferred at the Inst jj. the supreme court proper. p,omo delay In atartlne. E' Wahlu. chief of counsel for suid that ueven new nfll- obtained, but the Hlsnors C , 4' 'hem would ho called on g ' ndded that nil sorta and rU t Porso"s !inJ votuntccrod i o,' evidence, and that couu- ael had run down many of these stories, only to ilnd a majority false. Tho proceedings wero Interrupted here when Judge Goff ordered a younp man who delivered a note to him stopped before be-fore he could leave tho room. The man was placed on tho wltnena stand. He said ho waa Gustavo Beck and that ho had come to tho court to deliver a noto to E. 13. M. Browne, a rabbi, who liaa been working1 in the fcnmmcn'3 bchair. Tho noto hud been handed to him in tho hall of the courthouse, ho explained. That waa all ho knew about It. Rabbi Browne, on tho stand, enld Jhat hu had been working In tho gunmen'o behalf be-half at the requoBt of several Jewish societies. Ho disclaimed all knowledge of tho mysterious noto tho young man had delivered, and Ub contents woro not made public at the time. Tho rabbi read It, but would only say, "It la a Becrot." Bartender's Story. Carl Dresner, a bartender and signer of an affidavit stating that ho had soon tho now notorious informoro, "Brldglo" Webber, Harry Vallon and others, speod-lng speod-lng away in tho automobile from tho scene of tho Rosonthal murder, was called to the stand. Dresner said that on tho morning of July 13, 1012, ho waa standing at Flftloth street and Seventh avenue from 1 o'clock until shortly before 2 o'clock a. m. This was three days before the murder. Ho said he saw Rose, Webber and Vallon in front of a cafe, and heard Rose urge Wobber and Vallon to "put It over on" Rosenthal, when the latter emerged from the placo with his wife Coming down to the time of tho murder, mur-der, Dresner swore that ho waa standing stand-ing on tho steps of tho Elks club, which Is diagonally across the street from tho Hotel Ictropole, whon he heard shots, and then a gray car raced by him through Forty-third street. Sam Schepps was on the running board and In the car lie saw "Bridgy" Webber. Harry Vallon pnd Schaplro. Two othor men were In tho car, said lho witness, but thoy were not any of the gunmen now In Sing Sing. Ho said ho told Policeman Po-liceman James Kclloy what ho knew during dur-ing the week Beclcer was convicted. Dresner insisted that ho had kopt still because he hnd been in fear of hla life He had lost that fear now. he udded. Took no Chances. District Attorney Whitman tried to get the witness to tell Just who ho was afraid would kill him. Dresner said tlioro wero "plentv of pcoploV in New York to bo afraid" of. Ho was unable, however, to glvu any names. "I was taking no chances with New York gunmen and stray bullets," ho explained. "Whv dldn t you come to mo and tell n:o the story?" asked tho district at- '"ThTwItncss laughed loudly. VKw said. " If I had gone to you and told that IM never even had a chancu to gel out of the criminal courts' building without being -shot. I doubt whether I would have been alive fifteen minutes after I started to tell you the story. Jack Rose's friends would have put It over on me milck, you can depend on that. The district attorney asked Dresner whv hu failed to warn Rosenthal when he heard Rose say to Webber and Vallon, Val-lon, '"Go put 11 over on him. Tho witness wit-ness said hu did "not want to get into Uni Vhen Mr.' Whitman concluded, Wahle, rtlorney for the gunmen. Questioned tho wVtneSH about his fear of Rose, Webber ai 1 Vallon. Dresner repeated that ho I a 1 bee afraid that these men or their friends "would have got me. If I had told a story Involving them. Stuck to Affidavit. Tin. next witness was William E. Bur-well Bur-well a professional billiard player of aibDsnCcrr Burwell stuck to tho text nfLft nffldav't as mndo public yeater-S yeater-S ,v which " described how ho had seen S"wo eatliat8 tl(eln,an at iincnniNi was not anions the loin. District Attorney Whitman m.sirut..u mm in the .courtroom io inndp. Dp HV"V.f Burll. "The"? are Con-uccWfc Con-uccWfc poillllnS.? i luavo known them BlMn P'JrdnJK limes and tnut in '"l ' i " ifiiim and present It. Goff Asks Question. Justice Goff asked Bunvell for" a ml-mJn ml-mJn toO . " " shake him. Thief on Stand. ss1 lit . SHL"i.,bas ssssr i'r wE kssa from Russia In 1007 and went to Pittsburg Pitts-burg to live with an uncle. The uncle mot with business reverses and ho (Kal-manson) (Kal-manson) was placed In tho care of the Republic. Ho denied that ho had been sent there for any misdeed. He was In tho Republic three years. In reply to another question by the district dis-trict attorney, ho said tho last he eaw of Harry Vallon was when tho gray murder mur-der car dashed from in front of tho Motropolo. To tho best of his recollection, Vallon was still standing on the running board of tho machine After again stating stat-ing that Harry Vallon was the man who had tho Bmoklng rovolver In his hand, tho witness was excused. Delivered a Note. The next witness was Frederick (Pinky" Reo, who said ho was a special officer In a Harlem dance hall. Rco signed an alibi affidavit for "Dago Frank" Clroflcl a fow days ago. His affidavit was to tho effect that ono "General" Gordon, "Dago Frank's" sweetheart, was arrested on a charge of loitering on tho night of July 15, 1912. Reo, In his affidavit af-fidavit nnd his testimony on the witness stand, said ho met the woman as she waa being taken Into a police station In Harlem nnd that sho asked him to deliver de-liver a noto to "Dago Frank." Reo said ho took tho noto to Frank's house nnd delivered It to him about 2 o'clock on the morning of July 10, about the samo time Rosonthal waa klllod. Roo said he also saw Frank nn hour after that, when the latter was under arrest in another police po-lice station In Harlem. On cross-examination. District Attorney Whitman asked tho witness why he had told Doputy Police Commissioner Dougherty Dough-erty that he had not delivered tho Gordon woman's note to "Dngo Frank." The witness answered that lie did not want to get mixed up In tho case,- and that he thought tho best way to keep out of It would bo to say that ho knew nothing about tho note. Tho witness said he had determined to tell tho truth about the matter when urged to do so last week by tho mother of "Dago Frank." Ruled Against Women. Jusllco Goff ruled against tho placing of Mrs. Rosenborg, wife of "Ivcfty Louie," nnd Mrs. Horowlts, wife of "Gyp tho Blood," on tho stand. Wnhlo said ho wanted to prove by theso women that Coupo, the clork of tho Elks' club, who was brought back from England by the district attorney and then placed In tho houso of detention as a witness, but who wa never called upon to testify, had told tho wives of t.ho two gunmen that although al-though ho had witnessed the shooting of Rosenthal ho was unablo to Identify any of the men who had tired at lilm. Wahle then read an affidavit from Thomas F. Robinson, a former policeman, police-man, who Is now serving a term of six yoara in Sing Sing. Robinson was one of tho men caught in the Whitman graft hunt In tho pollco department. Tho Robinson Rob-inson affidavit was In tho main a corroboration cor-roboration of the testimony and affidavit of "Pinky" Rco. Robinson said In hla affidavit that ho had arrested tho Gordon woman on the night beforo Rosenthal was shot to death. As he was ncaring tho pollco station sho spoko to Roo, who was passing, and nHked him to tako a noto to "Dago Frank" for her, telling him that sho had beon arreBtcd and asking him to socure ball for her. Robinson said ho allowed the woman to wrlto the note nnd saw Reo start away with It. With this affidavit Wnhlo rested the case of tho gunmen. Only Two Witnesses, District Attorney Whitman called but two witnesses. The llret was Harry F, Caffcrty, a policeman, who waa Robinson's Robin-son's "partner" before tho latter was sont to prison. Cafforty said that he and Robinson walked to tho police station sta-tion with tho Gordon woman after she had boon arrested. Ho denied that she had met Rco. Ho said ha had never seen Rco in his life. On cross-examination he admitted, howover, thnt during the walk to the station house ho had left tho other two for a moment while ho Btepped Into a cigar storo. Ho tald ho was In the atoro only a fow minutes. Vlncont Meo, a bartender, was the prof.fecutor'3 other witness. Carl Dresner. In his testimony earlier In the day. had said that In tho early morning of July "l3, three nights before tho Rosenthal shooting, ho had gone to the Garden restaurant to aeo Mco about getting work. It was whllo standing on tho corner cor-ner of Fiftieth street and Peventh avenue ave-nue waiting for Mco, to get through with his night's duties, Dresner said, that ho had heard Rose urge Webber and Vallon "to put It over on Rosonthal when the latter emerged from thu cafe with his wife. Meo tcstlllcd at first that ho never knuw Dresner. He admitted on might have talked to Dresner "about a lob " The witness added that he never worked at night. Ho wns emplbycd nt the Garden, as Dresner said, during July. 1012, but ho was working In tho daytime. Wahle 's Plea. Wahle, In summing up, made a strong nlca for tho gunmen ana said ho believed th testimony of the witnesses for them who had beon upon tho stand during tho dnv He also told of ut least a score of nersons who had thought they knew something about tho killing of Rosenthal, Rosen-thal, but who "were proved to be liars bDl3trIct Attorney Whitman made no attempt at summing up. After tho crowd left tho courtroom TiiHtlco Goff went to his chambers ami later loft for a near-by restaurant. At 7 o'clock ho returned to his chambers and started to go over the case as it had 3een presented to him. |