Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-08-01
WILL TELL EVERYTHING
Gamblers Under Arrest in New York
Determined to Lay Bare Whole
System of Graft.


New York.-HerefoEd Marshall,
counsel for Jack Sullivan" Jacob
Reich), the go-between between Po-
lice Lieutenant Charles Becker and
Jack Rose, now held in the Tombs
in connection with the murder of the
gambler, Herman Rosenthal, an
nounced Tuesday morning Sullivan
was ready to tell all he knew on the
witness stand, and that his story
would prove more astounding than
any yet told Sullivan, he said,
would not talk to either the police
or the district attorney.
The indictment and arrest of Beck
er for the murder of Rosenthal, soon
after the confessions of Bald Jack"
Rose, BRIDGE" Webber and Harry
Vallon, revealed to District Attorney
Whitman the police system" in all
its hideousness.
Bald Jack" Rose confessed that
Becker came to him and, fairly des-
perate over Rosenthal's intention of
telling all he knew of his relations
with the police lieutenant, said:
"Rosenthal has lived too long. He
has got to be put out of the way"
Rose told the public prosecutor
and the grand jury how the murder
band was hired at the instigation of
Becker, and that after the killing
Becker met Webber and himself
promised complete police protection.
The confessions show that the mur-
derers, members of the notorious
big Jack" Selig gang, piled them
selves with liquor and then went out
to shoot Rosenthal for price said to
be $1,000.
Terror-stricken, Rose, Webber and
Vallon spent Monday night in the
public prosecutors office, fearing
that they would be murdered if they
were taken to the Tombs prison. Dis
trict Attorney Whitman believes his
case against Lieutenant Becker is
without flaw; that the confessions,
taken separately, dovetailed and
from the testimony of other witnesses
the case against Becker cannot be
broken down
Bald Jack" Rose, gambler, who
says he was Becker's gambling house
collector, felt the ground slipping
from under him day by day. With
out money or friends, he realized
that he was being made to bear the
weight of the crime. His counsel ad-
vised him to confess. Rose became
completely terrified. To his counsel,
James M. Sullivan, he said:
If you see to it that my wife and
children are protected, I'll come
across and tell the truth about this.
| am afraid it will be the end of me
No cell on earth can be strong
enough to keep the life in a man who
gives up about this killing"
Intimations were made to Rose
that an indictment might be expect
ed against him, and then he con
fessed
Counsel for Webber and Vallon,
catching the drift of things, also ad-
vised their clients to tell the truth
and become immune.
Rose told District Attorney Whit
man that for a long time he had
been Beckers gambling house coli
lector; that Becker, as head of the
gambling house squad, smelled out
profitable places and that each
| month collections were made Becker
did not get all the money, Rose says,
but some of it was distributed to
others.
Rosenthal was thorn in Becker's
side. Becker had pressed Rosenthal
| to the wall, according to Rose, and
he threatened to make things pub
lic."
Six weeks before the killing, Rose
says, Becker sent for him and said
Rosenthal must be made away with.
Rose says he went out and saw
Big Jack" Selig to make a deal for
his gunner. Selig was under indict-
ment for carrying concealed weapons
and the possibility of stay in Sing
Sing prison did not appeal to him.
Consequently, Rose says, when a
promise was made to see that moth
ing happened when Selig came to
trial, there was no trouble getting
the gunmen.
All the gunmen were informed to
be ready to kill Rosenthal, who in
the meantime had been shadowed
day and night. A few days before
the killing, Rose says, he met Web
Der and Becker, and while the three
were talking it over Becker said to
Webber:
This job has got to be done and
Rose says they won't do it for him.
Now, Bridge, you can get it done.
They all know you. You have got
the money and | have got the power.
I'll protect everybody"
OF the real murderers, Rose says:
These poor devils did not know
what they were doing They were
full of booze. They had been told to
kill and they went out and did what
they were told"
Weber and Vallon in their confes.
sions supplied many missing links in
the confession of Rose. Speaking OF
Becker and his alleged connection
with gambling, Rose said:
why, of course, | was Becker.
collector. Everybody knew it."
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