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Show BECKER ASKS MOREJIME Alleged Instigator of Rosenthal Murder Arraigned Ar-raigned in Court Now York, Aug. 22. Police Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Charles Becker and four of his alleged underworld accomplices were araigned in the court of general sessions today to plead to an Indictment Indict-ment charging them with the murder mur-der of the gambler Herman Rosenthal Rosen-thal Counsel for Becker said that ho was iioroaiy to plead today and the court set nevt Tuesday for the pleading. plead-ing. The jither four prisoners all pleaded not guilty, with permission to withdraw or change the plea by-Tuesday. by-Tuesday. Court Room ia Packed. The court) room was packed to suffocation suf-focation when the prisoners entered. Becker towred above the others like a giant. The first case called was that of Becker. Ab the clerk read the Indictment, charging murder in the first (egrce, John F. Mclntyro, Becker's counsel, said that he was prepared to plead to the Indictment which the gand jury handed up some weeks ago. i "But thatf indictment has been superseded su-perseded bj the present one," said Judge Mulwaeen "Then we refuse to plead," said Mr. Mclutyre. He then asked for a postponement. post-ponement. August 27 was the date set Whitey Lewi's was quickly disposed of by his p'ea, and "vvas followed by similar pleas from "Dago Frank,' Jack Sullivm and William Shapiro, chauffeur o the 60-called "murder car " Court then adjourned. The five nen arraigned today included in-cluded all thf prisoners so fai arrested arrest-ed In the Rosenthal case, all those Indicted. "GJp the Blood" and "Lefty Louie," the two remaining gunmen invohed in the shooting, have not been capturei, although they have been Indicted. The arraignment of Becker was preceded by xn inquest by Coroner Feinberg. Daaiel Frohman was the foreman of th grand jury which returned re-turned a verdict that Rosenthal came to his death by a bullet fired from the hands of some person unknown. Tho inquest was brief and perfunctory perfunc-tory ar;d was confined merely to determining de-termining the case of. Rosenthal's deuth. Officer Criticised. s Policeman William J. Files, when criticised for his failure to capture the assassins, testified that he was dining In the Metropole at the time, and that when ho heard the shots he pulled his gun and ran out on the sidewalk He and other officers jumped, into a taxicab and gave pursuit pur-suit to an automobile going east This automobile, he learned later, was uot the one In which the assassins escaped es-caped The policeman's most interesting bit of testimony was a statement that he had seen "Brldgie" Webbor in the Metropole shortly before the shooting and had seen him again In front of the Cadillac hotel when Rosenthal was dead District Attorne Whitman gave out the information this afternoon that ho had unearthed six more bank accounts ac-counts of Police Lieutenant Becker, showing deposits of about $12,500 The prosecutor has now located sums of money aggregating $125,000. held on deposit in several banks by the accuBed police officer Ferret Out Evidence. All the forces of the district attorney's attor-ney's office, with the aid of a squad of private detectives, wore directed today to ferret out evidence of polieo graft. When Justlcie Goff convenes the extraordinarj session of the grand jury August 23, District Attorney Whitman purposes to lay before the court that several persons can sup-plv sup-plv valuable lnformatloln of polieo blackmail. With the flllnig of the Information In-formation scores of subpoenas will be Issued for arlous "John Does" to appear ap-pear In court an tell the truth or go to prison. With (lie formality of the arraignment arraign-ment today of fie of those indicted for the murder of Herman Rosenthal concluded, the district attorney Intends In-tends to diroct his entire attention for tho next week or so hunting evidence evi-dence for use In the "John Doe" inquiry. in-quiry. District Attorney Whitman has information in-formation that he will lay publloly before be-fore Justice Goff that no less than four inspectors and three civilians are Involved in police corruntlon |