The Sentinel=record., 1912-09-25
TESTIMONY OF HOT SPRINGS AT ToRNEY MAY BE URGED IN
 THE BECKER CASE.
NEW PHASE VERY IMPORTANT
Plainly Apparent in Statement Issued by New York Defense Lawyer that Much Hope is Placed in
 Graham's Statement.

District Attorney Charles N. Whit man. accompanied by Mrs. Whitman, Assistant District Attorney Rubin. John B. Sheridan, the New York de tectiye known as the man with the camera eye.' and the newspapermen with the Whitman party. all left for their homes yesterday afternoon.
 Bat" Masterson, of the New York Telegraph, left later in the afternoon. sohn w. Hart, counsel for MT. BecRe, the accused police lieutenant in New York, is still here, and may remain several days discussing the situation with Associate Counsel L. E. Sawyer.
 Before his departure. Mir. Whitman expressed again and again his hearty appreciation of the many favors ex tended to him here and the splendIo results that he found. as the district attorney expressed it. through the ab- solute integrity of the people of this good city"
 Counsel Hart for Mir. Becker. has found also. much to please him in a survey of the commission work here, and sets forth his version in lengthy statement. It Is indicated from this statement that staetments made by James l.. Graham, attorney of this city, are taken as most hopeful by Mir. Hart, who will endeavor 10 es- tablish that Schepps. the main state witness, was here ill Hot Springs when the state believes he was about Beck CTS home in New York, and later hid ing in the Catskill mountains.
 MT. Hart's statement follows:
 s.s: as Hart Hart, counsel for Lientenan, Becker, in reply to questions as to whether he considered the evidence taken in Hot Springs of value to the defense and to point out such parts of it as he though important, said:
 Tt must be borne in mind that the purpose of taking testimony in Hot Springs was to find out whether Schepps had made contradictions and inconsistent staetments.
 @Schepps is relied upon by the dis trict attorney as the principal witness for the prosecution and hopes, through Schepps' testimony, to corroborate that of the three accomplices, Web Der, Vallon and Rose.
 When Schepps takes the stand for the prosecution at the Becker trial. he will be subjected to cross examination as 10 what he did and said in relation to the Rosenthal murder We must assume that Schepps' direct testi- mony, when given. will, if uncontra- dicted. be damaging to the defendant and therefore the production of any evidence, documentary or other, that will shown that Scnepps agreed with his friend Rose, in advance of
 
 Schepps' arrest, to commit perjury, or any evidence tending to show contra dictory statements or to shake the credibility of Schepps is very mater ial, anu in that sense is exculpatory in character.
 The evidence taken in Hot. Springs  must be read in connection with Schepps letter to Rose in which he of fered to come in under the cover of immunity and to corroborate Roses confession, even though false, if Rose would write down word for word what Rose wanted Schepps to say.
 There is no doubt whatever. and 1t will be proved at the trial, that Schepps left New York on Thursday, the day that Jack Rose surrendered; l; that he never went to the Catskills; that all this talk about fooling the de- teetives in the Catskills is the product of scheaps' vanity and fertile imagina, tion. Schepps arrived in Hot Springs on Saturday night following the mur. der and on Sunday told lawyer in Hot Springs that he wanted to hSs until the other men implicated in the Rosenthal murder had negotiated terms of immunity with the district at torney; that they were going to saddle the crime on Becker and thus get this