The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-08-16
BECKER WOULD TALK
REPORTED WILLING TO MAKE
SOME DISCLOSURES, UNDER
CERTAIN CONDITIONS.
ASKS FOR CONCESSIONS.
These Conditions, However, Whitman
Says He is Not Able to Grant
-Lieutenant Insists He Has
Nothing to Confess.

New York, N. Y. - Although Po-
lice Lieutenant Charles Becker declar-
ed that he had nothing to confess
in connection with the R~osenthal MUIR
der of which he is the accused IN"
stigator. District Attorney Whitman
learned that the police Lieutenant was
ready to make some disclosures under
certain conditions. The conditions m
posed, however, are more than the dis
trict attorney is willing or able to
grant and is waiting for Becker to
make other overtures.
Becker's emphatic statement was:
II am not going to confess, for have
nothing to confess" The district at
torney, however, says he is steadily
piling up evidence against the police
lieutenant which he thinks will alter
this attitude.
Mr.. Whitman also learned that Jack
Sullivan, who has been involved in
the murder plot by several witnesses,
was ready to make a confession that
would corroborate the stories told by
Bald Jack" Rose, Bridge" Weber
and Harry WALTON, who have obtained
a promise of ~leniency for turning
states evidence.
1t also became known that Giovanni
Stanich, one Of the 16 witnesses who
appeared before the grand jury Thurs
day as an eye witness to the murder,
had identified Jack Sullivan as having
been on the scene and having left
NTH %hn rurIororc in tho prQv qnfn,
mobile.
In addition to this the district attor-
ney has learned from Richard g. Bar
ter, a notary public, that on the day
after the murder Becker took his at
torney, John w. Hart, in a taxicab
to the house where Jack Rose, then
wanted by the police for the murder,
was in concealment. This was the
house of Harry Pollok, who with his
wife, was one of the witnesses before
the grand jury.
Barter told the district attorney, it
was learned that Becker and Hart had
come to his place of employment in
the taxicab on the night Of July II,
the day after the murder, and had
taken him round to Pollok's house.
Hart took him inside, he said, leaving
Becker. who then drove away in the
taxicab. Barter said he was then
asked to witness an affidavit made
by Rose that the 1900 loan which
Rose has said was made through him
by Becker to Herman Rosenthal. was
in fact, made by Harry Pollok.
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Becker forced from him as the price
of protecting him from arrest and was
to clear Becker of the charge made
by Rosenthal before he was shot that
the police lieutenant was a partner in
Rosenthals gambling house. Barter
said Pollok was not present during tho
conversation between Hart and Rose
as to the af1ldavite, and it was learned
hat Pollok testified before the grand
jury that he never made the loan
named in the affidavit, which was pro-
duced for the grand jury's inspection
The notary public related further
that during the conversation he re.
marked: That was terrible murder,
wasn't it,"
That was as far as l got on that
line of conversation" Barter told the
district attorney. Il heard Rose ask
Hart If he had better go to the district
attorneys Office, but / didn't hear the
lawyers answer. They left me over in
n corner of the room during most
of their conversation"
Stanich it was learned, was in tho
1871
the grand jury, it was learned. that
he stood within a few feet of Rosen-
thai when he fell under the fusilade
Of bullets. He saw Jack Sullivan, he
said, lean over Rosenthal's body and
say. Hes dead, all right" and then
drive away in the automobile.