The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-10-14
ROSE TELLS
OF PLOT
Gambler Says Becker Gloated
Over Victims Body
HE OFTEN URGED MURDER
Slayers Rounded Up as Though the Job
Were an Ordinary Business
Deal - Protection
Promised
HE OFTEN URGED MURDER

4 oatufuuy una saturday nlRht, ana Tn
/. defense failed to catch him in le
Without nestating. without stoppin,
TO weigh his words, without the slight
est emotion, he swore that Rocker or
dered and contrived the murder of Her
man Rosenthal to prevent exposure as
bIackmailer; that Becker gloated oveI
the dead body as it lay in the West For
ty-seventh street station. and that Beck
err paid for the murder and tried for i
time 10 protect the murderers.
The climax was Roses recital of wha!
he swore were Beckers own words when
the lieutenant, coming from the West
Forty street station an hour
after the murder TO meet him and Web.
Der at Sixth avenue and Forty-second
street, made this reply TO Roses question
az to whether or not he had seen the
body:
at was pleasing sight to me to look
and see chat squeaIing there.
and If il was not for the presence o,
| the district attorney | would have
reached down and cut his tongue out as
warning 70 future squealers."
Becker Faces Horrible Story.
Nearly every man and woman in the
court room shuddered. Rose had spoken
| ir quiet. absolutely expressionless tone
which intensified the dreadful accusa-
| tion he was liking before justice and
| jury. Lieut.. Becker did not blanch or
quail. But he was visibly exerting self
control. His jaw set like a rock. One
could see the muscles stiffen. Sweat
streamed from his face. One hand
gripped his chair, the other the table in
front of him.
AT this crisis he had to sustain the
fixed inspection OF the jurors. No hui
man being could have been subjected to
worse ordeal, but the accused man
faced 800 pairs of eyes without finch.
ing.
The direct examination of Rose by
Assistant District Attorney Frank Moss
gave the states star witness an oppor-
tunty to volunteer a narrative which /
was scarcely ever lightened by touch
OF real humanity. Ii was a tale Of
grafters and thieves and bad women, /
tale of treacherv and robbery and muir
der The principal characters of HIS
story were men outside the law.
Utterly self-possessed, grave at all
times, as calm as though telling a story
to friends in a parlor, never excited or
Hurried or taken back; deferential 20
justice and eounsel wholly without Wis
ible emotion, Rose talked for upward
of ten hours, never faltering, hardly
pausing. The scrutiny of 800 people did
not affect him at all.
The steady stare of Becker, who was
seated before him, where he could look
the witness squarely in the eve, never
him. And his main idea
seemed to be TO get through with ii
story that wearied him az soon as posi-
BILE. There was that about his whole
mpassiye manner that bore out his own
boasts that he was one of the best poker
players in New York. One became GER
tain. somehow. that the only thing that
would have Jared Rose out of his com
,osure would have been dynamite ex-
1losion set of near him.
He began his story with the first meet.
ng between Herman Rosenthal and
Becker and he carried il straight through
% his own surrender at police head
Iuarters. He put the full responsibility
or the crime on Becker, but he did noe
Ittempt to hide his own participation.
Becker was the director, he was the
gent
One of the main points of his story ,
vas his interview in the Tombs with ,
Zig Jack Ielig. And Roses testimony
mplied how much the prosecution would
ave expected from Zelig in the way
( testimony against Becker,
Mr.. Mcintyre devoted all of the aft
rnoon and much of the night session to q
merciless cross-examination. He was J
rmed with all the facts of Roses career
5 a gambler and an associate OF loose
Zen, and he brought these facts TO bear
18th al the power he could summon. :
Ie labored to discredt the witness as
onfessed murderer of previous bad rec '
I'd. He drove and stabbed at Rose with II
,vage intensity. But he could not find
here Rose had lied or where Rose hall :.
himself in any important
atails. The ross-examination ran into o
lie night. Mr. Mcintyre at the end WAS
Shausted. His breath had gone. He u
as weary 10 the hone. But the witness r,
as as cool and as ready-witted as he
as al the beginning of the day.
The chief counsel for the defense was u
smayed By Justices COTS order that o
lie direct and cross-examination of Rose
ust be contained in one day Mr.. Me b.
tyre protested. saying he needed more n,
IAN a dav. Justice Golf was infexible.
e overruled every objection. Save only =
r an hours recess for luncheon-l ;lJ y
m. to 2;l5 p. m.-the examination h'
mt steadily on.
Mr. Mcintyre belabored Rose for eX- of
tly six hours and half. Justice COTS "
termination to finish with Rose in one
v made j; impossible 10 have recess
r dinner. The court was in session in "a
g afternoon. therefore. from 2:l5 p m. ho
SEAS p. m. In all, the two sessions 90
cupied nearly eleven hours. Rose ties
led for ten hours -,
BY every lefty woven insinuation and :.
ery direct charge he could throw into az
questions. Mr.. Mcintyre sought to tu
in Roses credihility with the Jury.
equently Justice GofT excluded the CO
rstions and rebuked the questiones. 10,
Mr.. Mcintyre was pouring words 90
q the jury's ears
The observer was unable 10 detect
Il Mr. Mcintyre had broken through We
SOS story. The witness, under cross Ne
animation. not only repeated his tee ha
lonv given under direct examination I
almost alwsvs gave the repetition 70.
rally. All OF Alr. Mclntyre's harry -,
.wT h rprinsr JAILED 70 shake Rnsrss -