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Show MAKE PLEA Becker Must Stand Trial for Rosenthal Murder September 12 New York. Sept. 3. On the application appli-cation of State's Attorney Whitman, the case of Police Liouteuant Charles Becker, charged with the murder of Herman Rosenthal, was transferred todav from the court of general sessions ses-sions to the criminal branch of tho supreme court before Justice John Goff quickly overruled four motions for delay and set the trial for September Sep-tember 12. To the surprise of nil, Becker's lawyer did not ask for a change of venue. He requested, however, that tlio,,trial be set for. -seme, time about the' middle of October, when the "presont hysteria and clamor" should have subsided. Becker came into court nonchalant nonchal-ant lv and pleasantly greeted several friends He stood erect and followed the proceedings closely. Aside from tho arraignment of Beckor, most Interesting In-teresting of the day's developments in the Rosenthal ease was the discovery dis-covery by the district attorney's office of-fice of two alleged hiding places for i possible state witnesses conducted by the Eo-culled "vice trust" in Hobok-en, Hobok-en, N J., and Ccntrevllle. X. Y., and the report that much money belonging belong-ing to Becker had been traced "to Port Jervls, N Y. Thomas Coupe, met today by detectives de-tectives at Liverpool, is one of the few actual eye witnesses to the murder mur-der of Herman Rosenthal He left Xew York last Tuesday on the Lusi-tanla Lusi-tanla District Attorney Whitman said at the time he feared attempts to spirit away witnesses. |