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Show DARES NOT TELLSTORY Schepps Fears Gang Will Put Him to Death for Talking Hot Springs. Aug 12. Sam 4Schepps, paymaster of the men who murdered Herman Rosenthal, spent today in a cell under double guard. It is feared that he will attempt to kill himself. Schepps almost collapsed col-lapsed when arrested and tonight .had not recovered his usual poise. His fear of the New York police and the "system" if he turns informer, Is just about balanced by his dread of the electric chair if he does not tell all he knows. Schepps admits he knows all the ins and outs of the connection of the New York police and the underworld. un-derworld. "If I start to telling things," said he, ( 'it will reach a long ways, but I can't make up my mind that I'm going go-ing to tell it all The graft situation situa-tion in New York is so far reaching that it will reach well into next year. Between Two Fires. "The trouble with the whole thing is that the men can't trust each other. oth-er. If I tell, I can't live in New York; they won't let me. And if r don't tell, God only knows what will hscomo of me I never sanctioned the killing of Rosenthal; I only wanted want-ed to serve all my friends." Schepps refused to tell who gave him the money to pay the murderers murder-ers and hints that the stupidity of the police allowed him to escape from New York. 'I was sleeping in a gymnasium In Sullivan county," he said, "when five friends of mine from tho New York police forco entered and lifted up my cover. 'Who is this?' one of them asked. 'Ifs Smith,' I repliod, looking up. The officers threw back the coer and left Half an hour later I was in an automobile speeding out sf town." , Letter to Rose, Schepps was arrested just as he was about to post the following letter let-ter addressed to "Harry Smith, No 13?. Third avenue, New York City" containing an enclosure addressed "For Jack R." Dear Friend Jack Your letter forwarded to me and contents noted. All I can say is T am mightv sorrv it has turned out that way for you, dear old pal However, at this stage I can dispense dis-pense with sympathy, as it can't bear to think of it any more What you ask of me I considered consid-ered ery carefully and looked at it from all sides and find I am in ery bad. regardless, of the leniency leni-ency you say Mr. Whitman holds out for us. That you had a guilty knowledge knowl-edge of the facts before tbe perpetration' per-petration' is a fact from your confession. con-fession. So why do you want me to corroborate a few lies, for instance, in-stance, such as that I paid the $1000 to L. I on Forty-sixth street and few others which I dare not mention? However, Jack, my - name is Sam and I don't go back on a pal such as you. If you bad trusted me with more of your confidence this terrible state of affairs mav never have come to pass. But that is done and can't be undone I have no right to preach to you and I won't I am at present in poor health and am all broken up with worry and sickness However, How-ever, if you decide to state truthfully truth-fully the entire state of affairs and what part vou had in same, 1 will come gladly for you. Jack, because you know what I think of you Yes, I have been very sorrv for it. as now to prove my loyaltv J.0 yon I must become a squealer. Still I am willing, even at that cost, on these conditions. That you will only expect me to tell the truth and nothing but the truth or else to write word for word what you expect of me. Also, I will not be able to sec Mr. W.'s (district attorney) representatives rep-resentatives until after the 19th of August. If the foregoing is satisfactory, I will come, but you must send me a wire to this effect ef-fect before the 19th. Then I will be ready to meet the man and go with lilm to New York. He won't find mo if I don't get this wire. I shall change my address today, to-day, but If all is O. K. I will meet on the 19th at thi Arlington Arling-ton hotel the man he will send. Let me know hs name In advance. ad-vance. I am sick of being hounded hound-ed and seeing ray mug In the papers. pa-pers. Mv bent wishes to you and mav God help us all. (Signed) SAM FRANKLIN Rose to Schepps. The letter which Jack Rose had written here to Jones read as follows: fol-lows: " Dear Sam I don't know what 3-011 have heard or read, but it got down to a stage where tbe electric chair stared us In the face. Tho first man to trv and get from under was Becker. Beck-er. "There were many people who saw everything that night, and the (Continued on Page Ten-) TELL STORY! I (Continued From Page One ) i net day the district attorney knew !hat part everybody paerl in the thing and nobody could "hae got away 1 was deserted like a dog jy Becker When I saw what the situation situa-tion was 1 opened up negotiations 'With the district attorney, who offered 'me a sort of a coer that I cannot z.u nto details about by wr-.tinj;. I Insisted In-sisted that the same protection given me be extended to Hairy. Bi idgy' mid l you. to which he finalh agreed. We are all pleased with the arrangements and all our worry has been to get jon I to come in, to get the same benefit we got, before it is too late "Mj advice Is to let me senu a rep- i rcsentullve of the district attorney to bring you back here Tnat would present the police getting on and putting you through the third degree ' Don't say a word to any one. Von know, Sam. that you have been too loyal and dear a friend of mine to ask you to do this if 1 wasn't positive that you haven't got a chance otherwise, immediately upon receipt of this wire me to Louis" house what you want to, do. (Signed) JACK. Reason for Confession. j The date o' Schepps arrial in New-York New-York will not bo reeaucd, not even to the New York police department, but it Is supposed that he will leave here under a strong guard of the district dis-trict attorney's detectives within a da or two. Schepps probably will make a clean breast of the whole matter, more to aid his "pal " Jack Rose, than to further the ends of justice jus-tice His confession, if he tells all he claims to know, will prooaly re-eal re-eal the whereabouts of "Gp the Blood" (Harry Horowitz), and "Lefty Louie, the two remaining members of the gunmen s gang who fired the shots into Rosenthal and who are still At large "Well, captain, I have told you a great deal more thnn I will ever tell Wiiitman or anybody elFe," said Schepps tonight when Captain of Police Po-lice George Howell, who has him In personal custody, took him to dinuei. "And I won't hae much to say en route to New York," said Schepps. "It is one long think for me on that trip. If the district attorney thinks he will have a whole lot of stuff to report to his chief when he gets through with me. he is mistaken. The officer 1 travel with is going to play solitaire with me on the wnole of the tri,) and that Is a cinch Whateer I tell or whateer I have to tell that has dl-icct dl-icct bearing on tis case I want it told straight and I want to teil it myself. It will be told so that the district attorney at-torney will not misunderstand." Schepps makes veiled references to the actual murderers of Rosenthal, and tells enough to point out that they are not a hundred miles from Buffalo and are in a "plant." Greed of the Grafters. He places the blame for the downfall down-fall of the network of graft that has ; been worked in Ndw York on two things. -but centers the blame on the greed of the men who furnish the protection. "It got to be awful," said Schepps, "I worked with the men who needed protection and with the meu who furnished fur-nished protection, and the latter are responsible for all the troubles "If they were getting 25 per cent they wanted 10. Tf they were getting id they wanted 5U. Then when they got 50 they wanted 75, and then it they saw a poor devil who was coughing cough-ing up all he could already, buying k bottle of wine for a girl or riding in a taxicab, they thought he was doing do-ing too well financially and would come aloner and squeeze a larger piece from him. "That was where Rosenthal fell out with them. Rosenthal had a more powerful bunch of gunmen at his command com-mand than any other man in New York, and I don't doubt now but that they rire Just as lo.al to his memory asthey were to his command. "Rosenthal could get a man assassinated assassi-nated for a (He-dollar bill. Tnat gave him a lot of confidence. He had the police in his power in a way, and he had a gang of gunmen and he didn-'t feel that he should give up any more, and of course he couldn't operate op-erate without a division. Then came the crash " .Schepps was asked If the gamblers working under protection of the police po-lice operated openly. He smiled "No, they work behind four or five heavlh-barred heavlh-barred refrigerator doors. They don't have to have open doors or signs out In New York. Why, a man can niako a fortune In a little while in a heavily barred gambling house through only a few mon, and he would tondor an invitation to come to his placp, and he needn't have such a long invitation list either." When Schepps came to Hot Springs he selected a quiet place to live. A nhyslcian ani his wlio met "Mr, Samuel Sam-uel Franklin."' Tae physician's wife was Interested In social affairs and particularly In church social affairs Her church was giving n little social and wouldn't Mr Franklin come Or course he would and h did. Predicts Chair for Becker, if Lieutenant Becker gets the fate that Schepps predicts for Dim ho will go to the electric chair, and this is not a fate Inspired in Schepps' mind by any enmity toward Becker He recites re-cites that even beyond District Attorney Attor-ney Whitman men of power in New York will keep in touch with Becker, and they will hold out to him that the prosecution cannot win It he don't squeal. "Thc will carry him on this way,' said Schepps. "until they team him to death in silence. If Becker was on the way to tho chair and they knew the juice was to he turned on him and he hesitated as If to Bqucal for Immunity, there aro powers that would check him with the hope that the current would be misdirected " Then Schepps talks about Whitman and the fact that he Is one man in New York that money cannot reach He lauds him to the sky for being square Speaking of his getaway from New York. Schepps said "I beat It out of New York until 1 got far enough away to take It easv, and then I used autOB for pleasure rides. Jumplnlg from one to anothe. W hen I got to Sullivan county I toou a rest." |