The Sentinel=record., 1912-11-20
SAM SCHEPPS' PROPHECY TRUE
TOLD HERE IN NIGHT OF ARREST BECKER AND GUN WOULD
 BE CONVICTED.
Also Prcphesied That They Wculd All Five Be Executed Just as They Were Sentenced to Be
 By the Courts.

When dapper little Sam Schepps, the keystone of the arch" in the matter of evidence against Lieutenant Charles Becker and the gunmen con victed of the murder of Herman Ros- enthal in New York city, was picked up in Hot Springs, he was in a frenzy of excitement for the first hour. He probably talked more in that first hour than he has since CT before in anything like similar period of time.
 WTinging his hands. and talking os killing hmself rather than return and be 'squaler," he bewailed the fate ahead of him, and told what would happen if he went back to New Yors and told District Attorney Whitman his story. He said that Police Lieut. enant Becker and the gunmen would be convicted and executed, and he SScihSu ASitiitu lbI isuI tAdt OtntfS "hieher up" might be brought into the affair, and then at other times he talked of Becker's sterness, and that Becker would take the fall" on him. self and that he never would tell on the others who were with. him.
 The predictions he made that night in his excitement, of the conviction of Becker and the gunmen, is history. But Shepps prophesied further, and said that the executions of the men would follow beyond question In the presence of Postmaster Fred John son. Captain of Police George Howell and Douglass Hotchkiss. he went over the situation thus
 Becker will be the first to be con victed. Whitman seems to know where all the trouble started. and he will strike at the head of the sys-
 tenn first Then he will go on down the line and he will convict all those
 who were responsible for the murder of Rosenthal.
 But that isn't all. They vii go to the chair It won't only be a case of getting a verdict, and then some thing happening that will leave the convicted men in the death house at Sing Sing. It's horrible to think of but that is what it is coming to. It can't be stopped. They can't pull Whitman off, and he has the proof, and the result will be inevitable
 Becker will never tel anything higher up" past him. He isn't the kind that will tell Besides. they will assure Becker all during the trial that he won't be convicted. and then when he is convicted they will assure him that he will never be executed, and that soon the whole thing will blow over and he will have freedom. Then when the time draws near for him to be executed they will tell him that a reprieye will be granted in the last hours, and when hours turn to min utes he will still be comforted by those higher up.
 Even up to the time they set Becker in the chair, and start to turn the juice on him, there will be as surances whispered that the electro current will be turned aside and that he will be saved Becker will be mis led until the electric current has passed through his body. and then when his tongue is stiled through death there will be sigh of re'ief from whole lot of people in New York. and from some higher up than Becker
 That is the reason all this is so terrible. It can't be helped. Whit man knew as soon as Rosenthal was killed that it was no ordinary mur der, and he went to work on evid- ence. and he got It. He has got the proof now, and he will finish his work. It is too terrible to think uf all the things that are going to fe- eult from this murder