Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-18

eistant district attroney. Audubon
6694"
The number is that of Beeker's house
telephone and the time corresponds to
that at which Jack Rose testified he
telepnoned to Becker apprising him
that the job has been DONE
The next witness. Lucius Haywood,
Negro telephone operator at the Belle
clair apartments. where Becker lived
in July, testified that Audubon 1854
was the telephone number of the
apartment house. He remembered the
telephone call to which the previous
witness testified. He said the man at
the other end of the wire asked for
Becker.
Lefty louie's" Wife.
Lillian Rosenberg. wife of Lefty
Louie one of the gunner charged
with The actual staying of Rosenthal.
testified that she had been at Rocka-
way Beach until July IA, and there met
"Gyp the Blood his wife, "Dago
Frank" Whitley Lewis and others
she did not recall.
Did you ever meet any of these
gentlemen at your home on Southern
Boulevard? Mr.. Moss asked.
She said she had met Jack Rose,
Schepps, Frank Gyp and Whitley there.
Whitley was living with them then.
when did you leave Rockaway??'
1.-The night of July IA"
"Where was your husband the night
of the murder" asked MIR. Mcintyre in
cross examination. Il don't know"
WAS he at the scene of the murder -
Il don't know
Where were YOU AT home
Since her husbands arrest she had
written him two letters. In one she
said she would testify for the state.
The witness said that she had seen
Rose and Weber since her arrest.
She saw Schepps in June.
What was your husbands bust
ners?" Salesman; he travelled"
Didn't you, as matter OF fact, see
Schepps the latter part of May" I
don't remember; the day Jack Sullivan
was arrested was the first time | ever
saw him.
THAT was on May 1872" Mr.. McIn-
tyre volunteered. well, that was the
time"
Did you hear any talk between
your husband and Schepps. that day."
Yes; they We're talking about 20 min
utes. Louie was sick in bed and
Scnepps came to see him with Jack
Rose"
When did you see schepps again."
Never
The gun men We're brought into
court and William Reilly, the next
witness, identified Whitley" Lewis
and "Dago Frank as the men who
rented apartments from him under
the name of Gordon. some time after
June 10.
The Fake Raid.
Max Margolis, who described him.
self as a ''tipster' for newspapers,
testified next. He said he had known
Becker for five months and was pres
ent at the so-called fake" raid made
by Becker on Rosenthafs gambling
house and saw Becker there. Becker
asked him to enter the house and be
ready to swear out affidavits, he said,
as to what he saw in the house. as
evidence that Rosenthal was keeping
a gambling house.
After we got in l heard Mrs. Ros-
enthal ask: Why, Charley, what are
to back room and held a converse
ton with her"
On cross-eXamination, Mr.. Mcintyre
attacked the character of the witness.
Margolis denied that he had ever
been charged with theft or that he
was a stool pigeon" for the police.
He said, however, that at the behest
of Becker he had entered a racing
pool room to get evidence.
The attorney forced from the wit
ness fiat admission that he COM
mitted perjury when he swore in his
affidavit that he had made bets in a
pool room.
'Dld Becker give you $50 when you
went to play in Rosenthals gambling
house," Yes"
did you play ito" No"
Did you give the $50 back" mo"
After a brief redirect examination.
Mr.. Mcintyre asked the court to COM