The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-25

tHt ItodTLfOI dDDtdlS at AiptIl ana dGlS, of course, as stay of execution. When the jurors left the court room. they went directly to their homes. They were under the mandate of Justice Golf not to communicate the nature of what had taken place in the jury room.'
 Mcintyre Gives Views
 There Is not the slightest doubt that there will be a reversal of this verdict in a higher court,' said MT. Mcintyre, after the jury had filed out. "I cannot and will not say anything more.'' he added. John w. Hart, attorney of record for Becker, said:
 T agree with MT. Mcintyre. I have nothing further to say"
 District Attorney Whitman returned to his office as soon as the court proceed ngs following the rendering of the ver- diet were concluded
 T prefer to say nothing he said when asked for an expression on the verdict. ''The verdict speaks for itself" was his only comment.
 MT. Whitman said the trials of the remaining prisoners in the Rosenthal case will be called in an order to be decided on later. All the prisoners indicted with Becker have asked for separate trials. The trial of Philip Davidson. charged with the murder of Jack Zelig the Eastside 2 but MT. Whitman was undecided which of the other prisoners would follow Da- vidson
 Wife Sees Becker
 Before Mrs. Becker was taken to her home she was allowed to see her husband in the sherff's room in the building As she entered the door her husband clasped her in his arms. Mrs. Becker burst into tears and Becker tried to calm her
 She clung to him for more than a min ute and then two women companions touched her, but she did not move Beck CT kissed her again and again, and finally whispered to her:
 Tt will come ont all right Finally, Mrs. Becker stepped back and with a parting kiss the couple separated
 As Becker walked toward the entrance to the Bridge of Signs he smiled back at his wife, but she suddenly threw her arms of her women companions They half carried her to waiting taxicab. Becker soon was in his cell Beokers conviction comes exactly 1o0 days, almost to the hour. after the mur- der of Rosenthal. It was in the early morning hours of July IS that the gam bier was shot to death in front of the Hotel Metropoe On July 21 the grand jury took up the case: on the 29th t in- dicted Becker. On August he was ar raigned and pleaded not guilty: on Au- gust 70 he was reindicted His trial was set for September q, but stay was granted until October ' by Justice Bisch- off. to enable q commission to take tes- timony at Hot Springs, Ark. On October I the trial began. It lasted r days. Ninety eight witnesses testified; their testimony was placed on 2745 typewriter pages. Becker Awaits Verdict I ia,,t in the Tombs tonight while across the Bridge of sighs'' in the darkened crim- inal courts building 12 men struggled Id decide whether he was guilty of murder of Herman Rosenthal.
 Twice during the afternoon the i,ry communicated with Justice Golf. Once it asked for the stipuations made by the state with the four informers, Rose. Webber, valon and Schepps, and Schepps' letter to Rose written at Hot Springs, Ark, and expressing his willingness to testify The second time the Jury wanted the testimony of persons who talked with Schepps in Hot springs. The first re- quest was granted; the second denied because portions Of the testimony taken at Hot Springs had been excluded by the court Schepps. in view of the court $ charge, apparently was much in the jury $ mind.
 Golf Leaves Court Room After waiting four hours for verdict Justice Gofr went home for dinner He left word that he would return at 1G o'clock unless he should be wanted by the jury in the meantime. Before leaving Justice Golf instructed court attendants to take the Jury to din ner when its members should signify they wanted to go. But the jurors made no ~.~~~.~~~~->~~~>~~~
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