Norwich bulletin., 1912-07-31
Jack Rose Asserts That Collections From Illegal
 Resorts Reached That Figure in Past Year
MONEY DIVIDED AMONG FOUR HIGH OFFICIALS
Becker May Be Able Escape the Extreme Penalty by Ex posing the Men Higher Up"-" "Bridgie" Webber Says He Was Given $2OOO to Pay the Actual Murderers of Rosenthal-Ready to Coroborate Roses Statement

New York, July 30.-Sworn state ments tending to show that the annual graft collected by high police officials tn New York city from gambling houses and other illegal resorts has amounted within the last year to S2,- 40B, 900 are in the hands of District At torney Whitman tonight. The state nents were made to the district attor- ney today by Bald Jack Rose, sell accused graft collector for Police Lieu tenant Charles Becker, head of the strong arm squad" who tonight be- gan his second day of incarceration in the Tombs prison as an alleged in Etigator of the murder of Herman Rosentbal, the gambler.
 Distribution of the Graft.
 This annual yield of $2,4O0 900 pro lection money was equally divided, &C., cording to the story told by Rose, among four high officials of the police department, one of them being Becker, and from other evidence the district attorney has collected he has reason 10 suspect that each s6Oo,000 was fur ther distributed. In other words, Mr Whitman believes there were four sep arate systems or bureaus of graft col lection. each headed by a high police official.
 District Attorney Has Names.
 Mir Whitman, 1t was learned, has the names of the other three police officials whom Rose has named, and his further efforts in the most sensational police exposure" that Now York has ever seen ing the case which points against them. One of the officials named, it was learned, heads a position at head quarters, and Is in a strict sense a civilian employe. The name of for nnsr prominent city official has been brought to the attention of the district attorney as having been closely con- nected with the graft system. but 1t was learned that the evidence thus far obtained against him is not Of a tangi- ble nature. The evidence, however, is being closely followed by the detectives fn the employ of the district attorney,
 Possible Immunity for Becker.
 IL also became known tonight that if lieutenant Becker will tell ali he knows. not only in respect to his own alleged compiicity in the murder, but will unfold the inner working of the graft system insofar as it may involve the 'men higher up" no effort will be made to enforce the extreme penalty for the crime Of which he now stands aecused-the murder of Rosentilal-btt he will be granted leniency on that condition only.
 Rose Handled s6oo.0oo Year.
 The alleged fact of the g. 400, O0O graft fund was related to Rose by Becker. Rose said in a sworn state rnent today. Becker, he said, told him that he handled s600,000 year and that equal amounts were handled by three others. This. he said, came in collections from gambling houses, pool rooms, houses of i'll repute and the like Rose said he had collected gam bling graft for Becker for months and he promised the district attorney he would obtain for him the rates paid by gambling houses, make a tabuls- ton of what these receipts amounted to monthly and yearly, and how the money was handled.
 Rose Paid Liberal Commission.
 That there were other collectors be- Eidss Rose is the assumption of the district attorney, who hopes to iden- tify them. Becker, he said. gave him liberal commissions for his work.
 Becker toic me be was the prince of the police department" Rose said. He paic me literally out of my col iections, but I never was able to keep what I got. ] was a fool gambler and Eambled it all away"
 Part Of the business between the gamblers and the police, the district attorney was told, was boldly done through checss, although his efforts to secure evidence in this form proved f-uitless.
 Wsbber Given 5000 to Pay Murdsrsrs
 "Brsdgie" Webber, the gambling house keeper, who has also confessed and whose story largely resulted in the arrest of Becker, promised MT. Whitman. it WAS learned, to corrob- crate Roses statement in regard t.l the collections Incidentally, Webber today admitted to the district attorney that s2,00O was the sum which he re- ceived 10 pay the men who actually fired the shot which killed Rosenthal
 Car Relied Upon for Protection.
 Tn regard 10 the murder itself, Rose stated 10 Mir. Whitman that the req son that it was done so openly and no one made effort to cover the num Der of the big gray murder car as if drove up Co the Hotel Metropole to
 get- Rosenthal. was that the car was relied upon for protection" In addi- faan to the men higher up, District Al t0rney Whitman is investigating the records of two members of the strong arm squad who helped Becker in some of his so-called fake gambling raids. They will be asked to appear volunta- rilv Although Mir. Whitman realizes ne is dealing with the testimony of gamblers in constructing his case. he believes that the corroboratfve evil den-e is strong. He plans. it was learned. to 20 slowly in the case and ft appears likely that the grand fury investigation will continue all summer 
 Story Only HsH Told.
 The arrest of Becker lays bare a scandal in the police department that threatens to shake ft to it's foundations for District Attorney Whitman be- iieves the story of police graft has only half been told.
 Bald Jack Rose confessed that Becker came to him and, fairly des- perate over Rosenthars intention of telling all he knew of his relations with the police lieutenant, said 'Ro- senthal has lived too long. He has got Go be put out of the way"
 the grand jury how the rpurder band WAS hired at the instigaton of Becker and that after the killing Beck er met Webber and himself and prom ised complete police protection.
 Murdsrsrs Loaded With Liquor
 The confessions show that the mur- derers of Rosenthel were Lefty rouie" or Louis Rosensweig: Harry Porwitx or "Gib the Blood" Frank Muller. or White Jack Lewis" and rago Frank cirohri. Only cArcAei