The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-23
TWO INDICTED ON
 PERJURY CHARGE Stated Policemen Talked Charge Against Zelig MORE BANK DEPOSITS Police Inspector and High Civilian Employe. Had Large Accounts.
 Whitman Secures Panel of
 Fifty Men for Probe
MORE BANK DEPOSITS

New York, August 22-Two former members of Police Lieutenant Charles Becker's strong arm squad of garib- ling raiders, Detectives James White and Charles Steinert, were indicted for perjury today in connection with tho alleged framing up of Jack Zelig, the Eastside gang leader, who is said to have suggested the names of the gunmen in the Rosenthal murder plot. Their indictment came soon after Beck CT charged with instigating the mur- der. had refused to plead to the super cedinB Indictment against him and four of his alleged tools. fWhiteyH Lewis, 'Dago9 Frank Cirofici, Jack Sullivan and William Shapiro, had entered pleas of not guilty to murder indictments. Becker was allowed to delay entering his plea until Tuesday.
 Framed Up" on Zelig
 White and Steinert. who arrested ze- liz on the charge of carrying con cealed weapon, were accused in the in- dictment of fals ly swearing that they found a revolver in the gang leaders pocket Becker, according to testimony before the grand jury, ordered zelig's arrest to get him in his power and making use of him to carry out his alleged plan to get rid of Rosenthal.
 Tn addition to the testimony of wit ! nesses who declared that the detec- lives had refused Ieligs demand that he publicly be searched when they arr rested him, Zelig himself furnished the | ri AtfOrnpN ! Whitman regards as conclusive evi- dence that the charge was false. Ie- l liz showed, the coat he wore on the night of his arrest to the jurors to demonstrate that it had no pocket large enough to contain the revolver said to have been found on him
 Zelig today declared in an inter- view that Jack Rose, Becker's self accused graft collector, was the man who engineered the frame up." Zelig absolved Becker
 Detectives White and Steinert were suspended from the police force by Commissioner Waldo as soon as he was tnotified of their indictment Steinert was locked in the Tombs tonight and White, who Is ill was arrested, but not taken to prison. District Attorney Whitman will ask tomorrow that they be placed undef $0VVV paii.
 Whitman Secures Panel
 Mir whitman today procured iron Justice Mccall d panel of 30 men iron which the 23 members of the extraor dinary September grand jury will b' ! selected to cooperate with Justice Gof | in his proposed John Doe investi' gation of the general police graft sit nation. The prosecutors investigatoi | af a par bs ul accounts held by a police inspector and high civilian employe Of the po' lice department which will be sub
 feet of investigation The Inspector hat | accounts in three banks and the civil ian in one, and all of them were be- gun during the time in which Jack | Rose said that gambling graft pick ings" were the best The district al | tornev has a record of their visits tt
 the banks and to safe deposit boxes and has found a surprising parallel 1T ] the dates on which the inspector vis- tied one of his banks and the civilian his safe deposit box.
 StiIl more of Becker's bank deposits came to light today. Detailed tabula tions of his accounts in nine bapk' show deposits as high as $6300 in one day. There is one of s600O. one Of 5000 two of s2500, one of s230o. four ol | 5000. four -of $500, four of 5000 and several In odd amounts varying be- tween 5000 and s2O00. The totals foI these nine banks was s49,623 and II Is believed his total savings will foot up to s100.000. The records show that on July 31, two days after Beck CTS arrest, his wife withdrew si6.000 and on August 1 took out sS500 more. l Late tonight Detective White, whe has been convalescing at Far Rock away from an operation for appendi-