Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-31
BECKER, CHARGING
PREJUDICE, SEEKS
CHANGE OF VENUE.
New Move Follows
His Failure to
Get Delay.
CHARGE BECKER PLOT TO
SHIFT BLAME ON vALLON
Murder Car" Chauffeur Tells
of Being Approached by De-
fense Emissary.

NEW YORK. Aug. s1.-Failing 10
an attempt to delay the trial of Pc.
lice Lieutenant Charles Becker for
the murder of Herman Rosenthal,
counsel for the accused lieutenant
will ask that Becker be tried in am
other county. District Attorney Whit
man plans to bring Becker to trial
before Justice Goff here on Septen-
ber II, but John F. Mcintyre. chief
of counsel for the policeman, said
today that he would fight to the limit
to prevent his client from being triea
during the present clamor, which
consider so prejudicial to my client"
Mr.. Mcintyre said that if he wa;
unable to get a delay he would seeh
to obtain change of venue. jus
what plan of action the States a :
tornev will follow in the case against
Becker has not become known, but
one of the assistant district attorneys
remarked today: "The district at
torney's case, as it now stands
against Becker for murder, Is strong
enough to convict
Conspiracy Is Defense.
Conspiracy Will be the defense for
Becker Lawyer Mcintyre said: MY
associates and myself feel that we
will be able to reveal at the trial a
conspiracy framed up by the wit
nesses upon whom the State is now
relying outrivaling the plots and con-
spiracies formulated by Titus Oates
in the seventeenth century
Deli II fAfrf Ton q N
Charles Becker hopes to shift blame
for the assassination of Herman
Rosenthal upon the shoulders OF
Harry Vallon, the gang leader, was
given today when 1t was admitted
that William Shapiro. chauffeur of
the murder car" was approached
in the Tombs by man who urged
him to say thai vallon shot the in
former who had accused BeclSers of
amassing a quick fortune through
selling -proteetion' 10 gamblers.
1t is understood that the man who
| spoke to Shapiro was another pris-
oner in the Tombs, but Aaron J.
/ Levy, the chauffeur's lawyer. re-
fused totstate whether the man was
Lieutenant Becker.
District Attorney Whitman has or
dered an investigation today into the
been adopted to Great a defense for
Becker.
Hears of Plot.
Mr.. Whitman has heard that
friends of Becker are keeping "Gyp
the Blood and Lefty Louis in
hiding, and that at the approaching
trial the two gunmen will come for
ward and testify that Vallon com
mitted the murder.
The original plan, according to
their story, was to kidnap Rosenthal.
carry him off in the automobile and
scare him so badly that ne would
not dare to carry out his threat to
"squeal.' The plan was thwarted
by Vallon, the story continues. who.
in sudden fury. pulled out a gun
! and murdered his fellow gambler.
/ On his last visit TO the Tombs At
torney Levy is said to have found
his client in an unusually agitated
/ state Of mind. Shapiro told his
| counsel that he had been approached
by man, who urged him to testify
that vallon fred the fatal shot. Sha-
! piro answered:
Shooting Surprised shapiro.
81 really don't know who did the
| shooting. ] was so excited 1t was
all surprise to me-
| District Attorney Whitman believes
4 Shapiro knows who We're the assas-
sins. Not only was Shapiro within a
/ few feet of the scene of the murder.
! but he drove the murder party away
and overheard the conversation of
| the gunmen.
Because the chauffeur did not tell
all that the district attorney Is con-
| vinced he knows he was indicted for
four gangsters.
Grafters Are Blackmailed.
/ The startling assertion is made to-
| day by persons familiar with under
world conditions that certain high
police officials and others who have
been grating are themselves paying
a heavy toll now to keep from the
! district attorney information that
would be disastrous to them
The men who for years have been
paying graft are collecting it IN
chunks as the price of their silence.
4 Some of them are alleged tot have
I demanded regular incomes to be paid
/ until the storm blows over. and ges-
sip in the underworld is that they
are getting It The original graft
ers, fearing their names will be
brought to the attention of District
1 Attorney whitman. if they have not
been already. are understood to be
paying without a murmur.
Judge Otto Rosalsky of General
Sessions Court. has announced that
he will call Dougherty before his court
to account for failing to keep track
of the gamblers paroled in his Gus
tody.
Dougherty Must Explain.
"Dougherty mus explain,Y said the
/ iudse THE gamblers are paroled to
him because prison sentences or fines
would not work half the good that
paroling them in the custody of an
hpnest commissioner would work. II
4 Dougherty is an honest commissioners
nv plan worked out we'll yet though
the gamblers were to report to him
| weekly. he has never told me of their
doing so unless ] have asked him
particularly about it."
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