Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-08-11
FREEDOM FOR 'BALDY JAcK'' ROSE Gambler and Collector in Rosenthal Case Tells Val
 uable Story. WRITES CONFESSION Is New Man-Scllepps Arrest at
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WRITES CONFESSION
Is New Man-Schepps Arrest at Hot Springs Latest I'm.
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New York, Aug. 10.-The reward of "Baldy Jack" Rose, gambler and collector Gf gamblng-graft money fer Police Lieutenant Becker and whose confession started the detec- tives on the'tral of Rosenthal'.s mur- derers VIII, it is reported tonight be unconditional freedom as soon as the trial is en1ad Rose waived inn munity when he confessed to the District Attorney and he told such a straightforward story that Mr. Whitman took the matter up with the grand jury and then with Trial Judge Mulqueen and it was decided to reward Rose, who had no part in the actual murder, with his freedom Vlslcns of the daath chair drove Rose to confess; visions of an honest life far from New York have made almost new man out of him and he is eager to tell his story before the l court, so that he may go free.
 "Bridgy' Webber and Harry alloVn l co-prisoners With Rose, who also 1 confessed, waen they learned that 1 Rose had told all he knew, probably will get some reward but it will not be freedom, though probably it will consist Of cutting down their sen- tences to a comparatively low limit The New York American will to- morrow publish the first part of a signed confession of Jack Rose. In it he tells h'5'w he was lured into the web of the underworld; how he met Rcaenthal; how they quarreled, and finally, how they made up that quar- rel. In paxt he says:
 "As I sit in my cell I look back with heart filled with sorrow and regret and all caused by one thing, 'fthe curse of gamblirg.' I gambled away everything, first my own money then the money 1 could borrow from friends then my credit; then my word of honc.. When, nothing re- mained wherewith to gamble let myself become the tcol in the plot ting of a mans life. It resulted in myself and three of my deares! friends facing the charge of being accessories to the murder of Herman Rosenthal. I do not know now it is all gonig to end, but if ever again I set my foot on the pavement as a free man I want to take my wife and boys to some place where in some way I can start life over again."
 Rose tells of hew he became prey to the gambling spirit, of how two theatrical friends attempted to- help him, but of how he slipped back into the gambling houses again. Then he became the friend of Hermani Rosenthal. They were chums for years, but, four years ago, they had serious quarrel, which they after wards made up, taking drink in Tom Sharkey's cafe.
 From this very cafe," says Rose in closing, about four years later, started the gray automobile which ended it's ride in the murder of Her. man Rysenthal. and all through gambling"
 Sam Schepps. the man alleged to have paid $1,O0O to the murder CTS for the death of Rosenthal, was arrested this afterrcon at Hot Springs, Ark. Schepps is broken in packetbook, health and spirit and said he was willing to give himself up. if assured that he would not fall into the hands of the New York po- lice. Detectives from the District Attorneys office have been sent to Hot Springs, followed by a guard of men from Burns force, to see that no oarm befalls the prisoner or his guards. ],
 Schepps will be brought into New York secretly and taken at once un- der the protection of District Attor- ney Whitman. E The Curran' aldsrmanic investigat- ing committee will have the benefit of all the evidence obtained by the District Acuorney's office in the graft probe. Mayor Gaynor will be