The Sentinel=record., 1912-08-23
MEMBERS OF BEcKER's STRONG ARM SQUAD ARE INDICTED AND
 PLACED UNDER ARREST.
BOTH CHARGED WITH PER JURY
Alleged Frsre-up on Jack zeiig for Carrying a Gun Is the Charge. More of Beeker's Graft
 Money unearthed.

New York, Aug. 22. Two former members of Police Lieutenant Charles Becker's Strong arm squad" of gam bling raiders, Detectives James White and Charles Steinert, were indicted for perjury today in connection with the alleged framing up'' of Jack Ze- liz, the East Side gang leader, who is said to have suggested the names of the gunmen in the Rosenthal murder plot.
 Their indictment came soon after Becker, charged with instigating the murder, had refused to plead to the superseding indictment against him and four of his alleged tools, sWhitey" Lewis Dago Frank" Cirofici, Jack Sullivan and William Shapiro. had en- tered pleas of not guilty to murder indictments Becker ,s.. ;si,ss i, we'd W ss,i to delay entering his plea until Tuesday.
 White and Steinert, who arrested Zelig on the charge of carrying con cealed weapon, were accused in the indictment of falsely swearing that they founa revolver in the gang leaders pocket. Becker, according to testimony before the grand jury, or dered Zelig's arrest to get him in his power and making use of him to carry out his alleged plan to get rid of Ro. senthal
 In addition to the testimony of wit nesses who declared that the detec- tives had refused Zeligs demand that he publicly be searched when they ar rested him, Zelig himself furnished the grand jury what District Attorney Whitman regards as conclusive evi- dence that the charge was false. Ze- liz showed the coat he wore on the night of his arrest, to the jury, to dem onstrate that it had no pocket large enough to contain the revolver said to have heen found on him.
 Zelig today declared in an interview that Jack Rose, Becker's selfaccused graft collector, was the man who en- gineered the frame ID, " zsisssss zzsisssss aa5- at solved Becker
 Detectives White and Steinert were suspended from the police force by Commissioner Waldo as soon as he was notified of titer indictment. Steinert was locked in the TQmbs to- night and White, who is ill, was ar rested, but not taken to prison Dis trict Attorney Whitman will ask to- morrow that they be placed under $5.- 900 bail
 MT. Whitman today procured from Justice Mccall a panel of 30 men, from which the 2s members of the extraordinary September grand jury will be selected to cooperate with Justice Golf in his proposed John Doe investigation of the general po- lice graft situation The prosecutors investigator turned up today evidence of large bank accounts held by police inspector and a high civilian employe of the police department, which will be q subject of investlga- tion.
 Still more of Becker's bank depos- its came to light today Detailed tabu- lations of bis accounts in nine banks show deposits as high as $6,300 in one day There is one of s6,000, one of $3,000, two of $2,500, one of $2300, four of $2,000 four of si 500, four of 1000 and several in odd amounts varying between 1000 and S2.000. The totals of these nine banks was $49,- 623, and it is believed his total say ings" will foot up to $l00.000. The records show that on July 3h two days after Becker's arrest. his wife with- drew sl6.500, and on August l, took out $3,500 more.