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Show JURY FINDS BECKER GUILTY OF MURDER FORMER POLICE LIEUTENANT IS HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR KILLING KILL-ING OF ROSENTHAL. Only Reversal of Judgment or Pardon Can save Convicted Man From Fate of Gunmen Found to Be His Agents. New York Charles Becker, for the second time, on Friday was held responsible re-sponsible by a jury for the Rosenthal murder, which nearly two years ago awoke New York to a realization of corruption in the police department and opened a new era of police reform. re-form. Becker, a former police lieutenant, was found guilty of murder in the first degree. Only a pardon or interfer-1 interfer-1 ence again by the court of appeals can save him from following to the electric chair the four gunmen who shot Herman Rosenthal, the gambler, early on the morning of July 16, 1912. The jury Friday decided that the gunmen gun-men were Becker's agents. The jury reached its verdict in four hours and four minutes. Five ballots were taken. Becker's counsel announced he would appeal and gained a week's stay for the preparation of his campaign. The defendant was granted grant-ed a short meeting with his wife anO brothers and then taken back to his cell in the Tombs. |