Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-10-26
FOUR CUNMEN NOW PLEAD FOR MERCY But District Attorney Whit man Will Prosecute All
 Of Them. MURDER CAR DRIVER G0nieSSes Eui Fears Death of Iii', Mother il He Goes to thc
 Witness Chair.
MURDER CAR DRIVER

New York, Oct 25.-ghe conviction CT as anjnsligator of the murder of ! Herman Bosu)hal,1 causca the four gunner implicated in the crime. to { rush to the District Attorney today and plead for mercy.
 A message Nas brought to Mr Whit man today bv former Magistrate Charles D. Waffle, that Lefty Louie,' "Whitey Lewis, "GSp the Blood" and @Dago Frank wore ready to turn states evidence The pnb- lie prosecutor and the lawyer for the alleged aSsassina of Rosenthal we're i'll conference more than all hour AL though neither of them would discuss the meeting it was learned that the ovcrtures of the san2aters were re- ieCted.
 District Attorney Whitman plans te prosecute the four gunmen with all possible promptness. He expects to move for the trial of either Lefty Louie or "Whitey Lewis on NoVcm- bcr 2. The other two will Ee brought to the bar immediately after. Then will follow the trial of Jacob Reich l or ,jdCks DHJIls dh w Nii'iati' .'''tti''D' inc youth who drove the murder ear, was said tonight to have made full confession, which absolutely ident- fies Lefty Louis, "Gip the Blood, "Dap0 Frank and Whitey Lewis, as the men whom he took from Web bers gambling house at 42nd Street and Sixth avenue to the Metrepole. The chauffeur also admitted that lm- mediately following the shooting or Rosenthal these same four men rush ed to his automobile and ordered nm to drive as fast as possible. Shapiro said that he was so panic stricken that he forgot how to start the car and that one of the gangsters then placed a revolver to his head and threatened him with death if he delay ed them any longer. Shapiro, 1t IS said fears to take the stand against the eunmen, believing that murder of his own mother will follow on the vengeance of the system of the under world.
 Fight For Beckers Life
 The fight to save Beekers life will include not only an appeal to the courts but also efforts to have the Attorney General and possibly GOV ernor Dix intercede. MT. Mcintyre said tonight that after election he would ask Attorney Genera Cafmoay to make an investigation as 10 whether District Attorney Whitman was within hs rights in permitting Jack Rose, Brdgy Webber and Harry 1 Vallon to escape prosecution in re- turn for thebr testimony aga nst Becker. MT. Whitman maintains that, inasmuch as the stipulations granting immunity to those two men were ap- proved by the court there was no basis for Mr. Mclntyre's charge or i.Tegularity.
 John F. Mcintyre, Becker's chief counsel, sa d that as soon as posslble he would prepare an appeal.
 "Red Phil' Davidson, the confessed slayer of Big Jack" Zelig, will be put on .rial next Wednesday, the day when Becker will be sentenced by Justice Golf. The District Attorneys medical experts today declared David son sane.
 To protect Shapiro he was trans ferrad to the west side prison. The news that Shapiro had confessed reached the alleged assassins of Ros- enthal in the Tombs this evening ana together with Becker's conviction by a midnight jury, threw them into a state of utter panic.
 The hurried visit of their lawyer to MT. Wh 'tman was the logical out come of their desperate situation.
 The quartet of gunmen have thus stuck together from first to last, when it became known that Lefty Louie as the result of the pleadings of his father, was about to confess y the other three told Lefty that such a move would mean his death. Lefty was heightened out of his determina- ton to save himself at the expense of his compan ons and it is said that he was the first sxo communicate with the other thYee Nhat they should all four confess together.
 Among the most important witness : es in the trial of the accused who shot Gambler Rosenthal in front Of the Metropole are the four men upon whose testimony the prosecution of Lieutenan Becker rested.