Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-08-08
Burns Detectives Worked at Tables Occupied By Pc
 lice and Gamblers.
A REIGN OF TERROR
Becker'> iiskc-Oh Si. 900 lo si5.O0N q Month. Says Rose in His
 Confession.

New York. Aug. IA reign of ter TOT Tor the Police Department, from patrolmeu 10 inspectors, has been in ] ]ected into the Rosenthal murder mystery and the gambling graft n- Vestigation By the announcement that Detective William j. Burns had been trailing the grafters for at least two mouths hefore Rosenthal was killed Who employed Burns to make this 1 opportune investigation has not yet been made public. Further details of Burns investigation came to light today.
 Police officials were in the habit of meeting at George Constitutes Met ropole Hotel, ill front of which Ros- enthal was killed, and there dividns the spells ol their alliance with the underworld. Barns installed several of his men as walters in the Metro pole, put dictagraph in tho private room in which the police leaders met, and stenographer in an adjoining building took down every word of their conversation, while the walters saw the money pass across the tables. Based on the evidence thus secured, a complete ease against several off cials of the Police Department and the lawyers involved, will be present. ed to the grand jury as soon as the district attorney is through with the murder investigation.
 One of the detectives employed as a waiter at the Metropole Hotel is re-. ported to have been bought over by the system for five thousand dol lars.
 Police Liel tenant Charles A. Beck CT, according to a ten thousand word written confession, given to the Dis trict Attorney by Gambler Jack Rose, today, received from $12,000 to S13,- GOO a month for ten or twelve months from Roses collection alone. Becker had other collectors besides Rose, and
 icme of them gathered in more money than did the confessing gambler. Rose gave a list of names of the men from whom he made collections for Becker All these men who paid protection money will be summoned before the grand jury. Court records in the Williamsburg District of Brooklyn. where there were number of small gambling houses, corroborate Roses confession.
 Attorney John w. Hart, represent
 ing Becker, today argued before Judge Maruueen for the dismissal of the in dictment against his client on the grounds that it was illegally found, Judge Marqueen will render decis- ion Monday.
 Late this afternoon twenty Wltnes- ses were subpoenaed to appear be- fore the grand jury to testify Ill the l Herman Rosenthal murder case. Bridgy WebEef, one ol tile lHei "i'o confessed, today declared that he was awakened in his cell early Monday morning by mysterious intruder who warned Webber that if he dared mention a certain police inspectors name in his confession he would De killed. District Attorney Whitman has ordered an investigation.
 Denying te "a any fund tcr the ee- | fsnse of Lieutenant Becker mas peeh
 raised among the police or Ne"
 York. John F. Mcintyre, who was re- 1 tained te assist in Beckers case to- day said he will secure an acqulttaA of the Indicted officer
 q see no reason to ask TOT :" change of venue from New ioi county" he said. "There Is no poilce defense fund and the story that am to get $1O0,000 ii l secure ah ee
 ouittal is the joke of the case l
 look to Becker and lis family Tor h' | S