Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-10-16

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Rose told the jury in Supreme Court
Justice Goffs court his whole story of
the pIo5 leading up to and the events
following the murder of Herman Ro-
seminal, the gambler.
Without hesitating, without stopping
to weigh his words, without the slight
est emotion, he swore that Police
Lieut.. Charles Becker ordered and
contrived the murder to prevent eX-
~'~~iler: that Becker
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gloated over the body Of Rosenthal as
it lay in the West F~orty-seventh street
station, and that Becker paid the gun
men and tried for a time to protect
themt J
Fer More than ten hours Rose re-
dated a narrative sordid and horrld.
It was a tale of grafters and thieves
and bad women, of treachery n rob-
berry and murder.
y OnIy once during his cross-eXamina-
tion by the defense did Rose falter,
and at the close all of his auditors
knew he had not been trapped in a
single lie. This was in spite of the
fact he was almost overcome by
fatigue twice during the ordeal.
Says Becker GIoated Cruelty.
The climax Of what probably is the
most remarkable and coherent confes-
SIGN of crime ever heard in court was
Roses recital of what he swore vas
embodied in Becker's own words when
the lieutenant, coming from the West
IForty-seventh street station to meet
him and "Bridgie'' Weber at Sixth
javenue and F~orty-second street, made
this reply to Roses question as to
whether or not he had seen the
body:
TT was a pleasing sight to me to
look and see that squeaIing - 3"
- there, and, if it had not been
for the presence of the district attor-
,ney | would have reached down and
cut his tongue out as a warning to
future squealers."
Tells Murder Plot Details.
At every turn of his direct examina-
ition Rose laid the full blame for the
plot on the shoulders of Becker.
Becker told me-" he said, that
iRosenthal had threatened to squeal
and break him, and that we have to
put RoseGthal where 0 nor | nor
anybody else will ever have to worry
about him again."
Rose said that when he suggested
that Rosenthal be beaten up Becker
replied that he did not want him beat
en- up, but wanted him murdered.
shot, croaked, or ~dynamited."
The witness testified that he was
ordered to get the gunner who were
to do the job and that his first move
was to get big jack Zelig out of the
Tombs prison to gather them to-
gether. He said that Becker told him
to tell the gunner "he would frame
them up" if his orders we're not car
ried out.
Rose said the plan had been laid
to shoot down Rosentha1 in an uptown
restaurant, but that the murderers
had been scared off by private detec-
tives who surrounded Rosenthal. He
reported this to Becker, who replied:
why all this %stalling? Why don't
you get him? Walk right up and shoot
Rosenthal in front of a policeman.
Get through with it; get it over"
Expects Death If Freed.
During the cross-examination Mr.
Mcintyre, counsel for Becker, fired
this question at Rose:
You expect to go out from here
and walk the streets a free man, when
this trial is over, don't you?"
mot these streets; I shall not be a
free man in this community" Rose re
piled. Not as I value my life would
! attempt to live here again"
Later Mcintyre asked:
you are willing to swear Becker
into the electric chair to save your
own life, aren't your
II am trying to save my life, OF
course; if / had not come here and
testified I would have lost it, Rose
answered. ST am merely testifying
against Becker because he was pre-
pairing to throw us to the wolves
That was what he had fixed up fol
me-
Rose admitted, time after time, that
he had lied, had perjured himself, had
been a gambler and had been engaged
for twenty years in illegitimate bust
ness, but said he was telling the truth
now. He said he had concluded to
become states witness only when the
electric chair stared him in the face
and added that he was not ashamed OF
his determination.
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