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Show SENTENCE IS Becker Will Hear Fatal Words Tomorrow Is Calm Again New York , Oct. 29. Lieutenant Charles Beckor. who has shown signs of hysterical collapse during the past two days, had regained his nerve today to-day and was the same collected, quiet, calm man of iron that ho was beforo he heard himself pronounced guilty of murder in the first degroe. Ills bitterness of yesterday had disappeared dis-appeared and he had so far recovered his grip thnt he was ashamed of the impetuous statements which he had allowed lmself to make a few hours before. "f am sorr," he said, "that I was impelled b. Impetuosity to issue statements in contradiction to the orders or my counsel, John F. Mc-Intyre. Mc-Intyre. 1 have nothing else to say." Becker tomorrow will face an or- ' deal just as trvlng as was the Jk. : of JlBtenlttg "to 'tS5 Venfiet when ho Is arraigned at 10:30 o'clock for sentence. sen-tence. In One of his statements yesterday yes-terday Becker declared that when he I wns asked if he know any good reason rea-son why sentence should not be jkiss-j jkiss-j ed upon him. he would tell the whole I storv which he had planned to toll on tho witness stand In is owu defense. I Becker's changed attitude makes it almost certain now that he will make ' no such an sddress to the court. If ! he should, he will speak against the I strongest advice of his counsel. Mclntyre said that he deeply regretted re-gretted the statements that Becker had given out that they were contrary con-trary to hi orders and that their tendency wrtp lo make harder the I work of his lawyers in preparing his I case for appeal. I Jack Rose, Sam Schcpps, Harry Vallon and "Bridgio" Webber, the four Informers and chief witnesses in tho Becker case, arc likely to spend the next year probably the next two or three in Jail. District Attorney Whitman has docided that they must be kept under lock and key until tho Becker case is closed. Mr Whitman will need all four men it Beckor should get a new trial, and as it will take a year or more to settle whether or not tho former lieutenant lieu-tenant is to be tried again, Mr. Whitman Whit-man does not Intend to risk losing hir. star witnesses by permitting thorn nok to go about their business. There seems no doubt that the district dis-trict attorney can keep tho men in Jail as long as he likes, for Rose, Webber, and Vallon nre held on charges of murder, while Schepps will be held from week to wcok on a vagrancy va-grancy charge. |