The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-31
the LIME LIGHT TO Be
TURNED ON MEN HIGHER UP
Immunity for Lieutenant Becker,
Silent Partner Of The Murdered
Gambler, Not Forthcoming
(By Associated Press.)


n proved that Police Lieutenant Becker
iLstigated the Rosenthal murder. ex-
posure OF graft will not condone the
crime said District Attorney Whit
nan today Whtmans statement
Uas in answer to the talk now being
n made of immunity for Becker, in
\ event OF his disclosing the operation
of the system The district attor-
B ney will hold another conference with
hose this afternoon. Rose has as
sured him he can implicate the much
talked of men higher up Roses es-
innate of the annual graft OF the po
I lice in New York is two million four
I hundred thousand dollars, and he re-
garded that as very conservative
estimate.
Sworn statements tending to show
that the annual graft collected by
high police officials in New York
City from gambling houses and other
Illegal resorts has amounted, within
the last year TO S22 4Q0 600, are in
the hands OF District Attorney Whit
man tonight.
The statements were made TO the
district attorney today by Bald
Jack Rose, self-accused graft collector
for Police Lieutenant Charles Becker,
head of the Strong Arm Squad" who
tonight began his second day of in
generation in the Tombs prison as
an alleged instigator of the murder |
of Herman Rosenthal, the gambler
Officials Divided Money
This annual yield of s.. 400 600 pro |
lection money was equally divided |
according to the story told by Rose |
among the high officials of the police
department, one OF them being Beck
er and from other evidence the dis.
trict attorney has collected he has
reason TO suspect that each 5000 900
was further distributed In other
words, there were four separate sys-
Tens or bureaus of graft collection,
each headed by a high police official
Mr.. Whitman ii was learned, has
the names of the other three police
Officials whom Rose has named and
his further efforts in this now most
sensational police exposure that
New York has ever seen will be di
rected toward Strengthening The evil
dence which points against them.
Ciemency Offered Lieutenant
1t also became known that If Lieu
tenant Becker will tell all he knows
not only in respect to his own alleged
completely in the murder, but will un
fold the inner workings of the graft
system, in so far as it may involve
the men higher up no effort will
he made to enforce the extreme pen
atty for the crime Of which he now
stands accused-the murder of Rosen-
thal-but he will be granted leniency
on that condition only
The alleged fact of the 81. 400, 900
9 aft fund was told to him by Becker
Rose said, in a sworn statement to-
day. Becker, he said, told him that
he handled S600000 a year and that {
equal amounts were handled by three {
other officials. This, he said. came in t.
pool rooms. houses Of i'll reputs and c
collections from gambling houses. o
pooh rooms, houses of i'll repute and
the like. {
Rose said he had collected gambling a
glaft for Becker for months. and he Q
promised that he would obtain the Il
rates paid by gambling houses. make II
tabulation of what these receipts d
amounted to and how the money was
handled. "
Price Of Murder $4,000 Il
NNhNi tOlu me llldL Ht NdS we q
LrInce of the police department, c
rose said He paid me literally out r.
OF my collections, but | was never V
aole to keep what | got | was fool
and gambled i all away"
Bridgie' Webber the gambling il
mouse keeper, who also has confess L
sd and whose story resulted in the al.
rest of Becker, promised Mr. Whit h
nan, 1t was learned. to cOrrObOrate tC
nose 8 statement in regard to the col! a
lectons. incidentally. Webber today m
aumltted TO the district attorney tnat
s-'oo0 was the sum which he receiy Il
ga TO pay the men who actually fred 81
ne shot which killed Rosenthal d
relied on Police Protection Oi
,, III regard TO the murder itself,
nose stated TO Mr.. Whitman that the tC
tason why il was done so openly
Ina that no effort was made to cover fe
ne number Of the big gray murder q
ar as 1t drove up to the Hotel Met
Iopole' to 'get Rosenthal, was that di
1ecker was relied upon for protec- c
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