Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-12-11
WEBER SAYS
PLOT is LIE
Declares Never Intended to
Kill R0senthaI.

NSN IOfA, Lee. IL bTluRie WeD'
Der, one Of the four informers In the
murder trial Of Lieutenant Becker, re-
pudiated his sworn testimony on his
return to New York from Havana. He
said that remorse prevents him from
sleeping and that he cannot keep his
mind of the FIVE men In the death cells
In Sing Sing prison.
He said there was no murder plot and
that while Becker was anxious to have
Rosenthal scared of or bought off, the
idea Of killing the gambler was never
mentioned. Rosenthal. according to
Weber, was killed by the mistake Of
W of the gunner. who got drunk and
dfsobeyed instructions.
John F. Mcintyre and Joseph A.
Shay, attorneys for former Police Lieu
tenant Becker in his recent fight for
life. were highly pleased at the state
ments made by Weber. When seer in
their offices they were busy porting
over the testimony Of the trial and
picking out conflicting statements and
errors to be used In the retr1al which
they are expecting.
Mr.. Mcintyre exclaimed forcibly: ut
is just what I have been expecting. l
knew that those men would recant. l
believe now that Schepps and WALTON
will have a different story to tell. As
for Rose. you can't expect anything diff
ferent from him, for he admitted to me
on the stand that he had no conscience
and that II he did have one 1t never
troubled him"
Take the Dreyfus Case.
Mr.. Shay said: 1--WE are going to
show that this is the greatest injustice
that has ever been done a man since
the Dreyfus case. I should not be sur
prised to see a Wholesale prosecution
for perjury and perhaps subornation Of
perjury.
"Why, look at the men who testified
for the state in that case" continued
Mr.. Shay. THE Lubans are working In
Mr.. Whitman's once az process serv-
ers. Max Margolis IL also a process
server. while Louis Krouss IL cutting
clippings for the Society For the Pre-
venton Of Vice in Mr.. Moss Office.
John Hallam, the other ~corroborative
witness for the state. is ut present In
Sing Sing, and there are seventeen
charges Of forgery awaiting him when
he gets out"
Becker's counsel said that they had
enough new evidence for the court to
set the former verdict aside.
I'VE do not expect much in the su-
preme court" said Mr.. Mcintyre. "but
wait until we carry the case to the
court Of appeals. The press and public.
sentiment had already convicted Beck
er when the case began. Now that
Weber has recanted. District Attorney
Whitman ought to be the first one to
come forward and say. If an injustice
has been done to Becker l shall inves-
tigate the matter at once"
No Evidence of Plot,
Mr.. Shay said that in order to testify
as they did against the convicted lieu.
tenant they had made themselves guilty
men. They might be in spirit, but, ac-
cording to Mr. Shay, they were not in
act. No murder was ever really in
tended. All Of them had talked Of the
murder. but when 1t came to getting on
the witness stand they had baked at
the plans and the formulating Of them
according to their testimony. None of
them was willing to say that he had
engineered the murder. "Bald Jack
Rose testified In cross examination that
he never intended to have Rosenthal
killed; that he never told the gunner
to do 1t; that he never directed the
killing and did not plan 1t.
"Then," said Mr.. Shay, "Rose put 1t
all up to Weber and created the al
legged meeting at One Hundred and
Twenty-fourth street and Seventh ave.
nue., where the plotters are supposed
to have met Becker and where he is al
legged to have said that he wanted
Rosenthal killed. and Weber agreed to
do 1t. Yet when Weber was asked on
the stand If he had engineered Rosen
thal's killing he said he had not. Nc,
one was more surprised to hear of the
killing of Rosenthal than Becker, and
no n was more displeased. for he had
a great deal Of material to refute tn.
gamblers allegations against him. That
meeting on Seventh avenue v took
place. as our new evidence will show
We will show when the case comes to
trial again that every one who testified
In the trial committed perjury. There
ought to be a wholesale prosecution for
perjury and perhaps for subornation OF
perjury"