Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-08-23
BECKER NOT READY TO PLEAD
Lieutenant Formally Arraigned for
Rosenthal Murder.
HE Is GIVEN UNTIL TUESDAY
Four other Accused Men Plead Not
Guilty-~Citisens offer Reward
for Capture OF Two Miss-
Ing Men.

| NEW YORK. Aug "a Police Lieuten.
ant Charles Becker and four of his al.
legged underworld accomplices, were ar.
raigned in the court Of general sessions
today to plead to an indictment charging
them with the murder OF the gambler
Herman Rosenthal Counsel for Becker
said that he was not ready to plead
today, and the court set next Tuesday
| for the pleading.
The other four all pleaded hot guilty
with permission to withdraw or exchange
the plea by Tuesday.
District Attorney Whitman has infor.
nation that he will lay publicly before
Justice Goff that no less than four in.
spectors and three civilians are Involved
In police corruption. ~
The arraignment OF Becker was pre-
ceded by the coroner's inquest, which had
been adjourned. Daniel Frohman wal
foreman of the Jury, which, after hcarins
the evidence, returned a verdict thai
Rosenthal had come to his death by
means OF a bullet wound in the brain
caused by some person or persons un.
known" They recommended that Louis
Libby. part owner of the gray murder
carr be discharged from custody. This
will be done.
District Attorney Whitman gave out the
information this afternoon that he had
unearthed six more bank accounts of
Police Lieutenant Becker. showing de-
posits of about $12,5OO The prosecutor has
now located sums of money aggregating
sl25,0OO held on deposit In several banks
by the accused police officer.
Cttin.ns offer Reward.
Charging that some members" OF the
New York police department knowingly
permitted the escape Of "Gyp the Blood
and Lefty Louie, the missing gangsters,
indicted for the murder of Herman
Rosenthal, District Attorney Whitman
tonight announced the offer of reward
of 5000 for the capture Of the fugitives.
throughout the country.
One of the district attorneys reasons
for suspecting that the police have al
lowed the two to escape was indicated
tonight when 1t became known that Sam
Schepps In his testimony before the
grand jury yesterday said that three de-
tectives from New York police head
quarters had recognized him while he was
hiding In Fallsburg, N. y, and had
deliberately allowed him to escape. These
detectives were three of five sent to the
region to find him and arrest him on
the charge OF murder. which the police
had made against him.
schepps told the jury. II Is said. that
he and the detectives knew each other
well and that they had accepted his
facetious declaration that he was "Mr.
Smith" with mock apologies for dis
turbing him.
Flynn to Assist in Inquiry.
The news, from Washington that Will
liam j. Flynn, chief OF the New York
division of the United States secret serv-
ice, was to assist the graft investigation
OF the aldermanic committee caused a
sensation in police circles here tonight
detective. bureau. the position now held
by Deputy Commissioner Dougherty. His
publicly stated reason for reslgning was
that his powers had been curtailed and
his efforts to, close up gambling resorts
had been interfered with He declared
there were several high police officials
who were crooks ana that when he had
given evidence Of their dishonesty to his
Euperiors nothing had been done about 1t