Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-08-14
BECKER BANKED
HIS THOUSANDS
Charged He Owes Webber
Money for Murder.

New York, Aug. 14.-In ten months
Lieuter ant Charles Becker, indicted
for the murder of the gambler Her
man Rosenthal, deposited in n bank
alone $50, 115. That was the evidence
furnished by bank officials to the grand
jury. Becker's salary was $3.50 a
year.
There are other records supplied to
the district attorney by bank officials
concerning Lieutenant Becker's pre-
cautions against a rainy day. There Is
now proof that while the graft was
good he made these deposits in four
banks: April, 1912, Lincoln Trust COM
pany, $3.50; May, 1912, West Side
Savings bank, $1,000; April, 1912, EN-
pire City Savings bank, $500; No
vcmber, 1911, Corn Exchange bank,
$29,615.
And besides these accounts obtained
from bank ledgers, the district at
torney. through the intelligent work
Of his assistants, has information that
Lieutenant Becker has at least i've
other bank accounts In Manhattan
alone, and that Becker's total cash
savings approximate 100000.
Becker's money and the use he made
Of 1t was the central feature of the de-
velopments as to the lieutenants part
In the Matchmaking OF lawbreakers
and in tho murder of Rosenthal
After the district attorney had Sc
cured the records of the bank ac-
counts the grand jury heard from Jack
Rose and BRIDGE" Weber that 1t
vas Becker's cash that went to pay
the pistol men who shot down Rosen-
thai.
Becker Hasn't Paid Wsbbsr.
Before the murder Becker owed Web
Der $500. Less than one hour after
Rosenthal was murdered he told
"Bridgie' Weber in front Of the Muir
ray Hill baths In the presence Of Rose
and with Jack Sullivan standing by
that he hadn't much money with him,
and he ordered Weber to give Rose or
Schepps $1,000 80 that the boys could
get out Of town In a hurry.
He told Weber that he would pay
ulE1 thc "uOlC SI,OOO tuo AcAt uhS.
Weber sent Jack Sullivan three times
to get the money from Becker, but the
lieutenant lodged payment, and Web
Der never got his money.
Having scrutinized and analysed the
profits of blackmail as exemplifed in
attorney examined with much interest
a tabulation he secured from William
]. Burns and from the gamblers as to
assessments and rates Of blacknail,
the financial details of the gathering
Of what Rose says was $2,400,00O In
Manhattan alone.
Illegal Resorts Graded.
This tabulation reveals that there
was a complete and systematic sliding
scale Of collections from big and little
gambling houses, from large and small
disorderly houses and other unsavory
resorts, from stuss and crsp games,
from poker rooms, from pool rooms
and even from the dice throwing priv
ilege In saloons and cigar stores.
Nothing was too big for the appetite
of the grafters, nothing too small for
their greed.
The big gambling houses-the elabo-
rately furnished art galleries main
tanned by the bl1e ribbon gentry-paid
$1,000 a month. The first class pool
rooms, with a wide telephone patro-
mage as well as a handsome cash play,
contributed 5000 a month. And on
down through levels Of gambling from
top to bottor, the grafters worked
their perfected system, even to black
mailing the cheap and fly by night
crap games at the rate of 500 a week.