The Sentinel=record., 1912-09-12
JUSTICE BnScHoFF GIVES HIM UNTIL OCT. 7 TO ANSWER
 MURDER CHARGE.
WHITMAN READY TO TRY CASE
Delay Is for the Alleged Reason of Sending Commission Here to Take Testimony on What
 Schepps May Have Said.

That DlStrlct Attorney whitman or New York wired here yesterday for > confirmation or denial of alleged statements and affidayits that while Sam Schepps was here he made dec. Iarations exculpating Becker .-om guilt, is taken locally as proof that fa'se affidavits have been sent out of Hot Springs on this subject.
 Tom J. Petit is in Georgia, having eft the city last Saturday on busi ness mission, but Petit before his departure refused to give Burns any aftidavits. and Burns said just before his departure from the city that Petit had not given him any affidayits
 ]. L. Wadley, Jr., and Douglas Hotchkiss, newspaper men, were re quested by Burns to make a brief a...davit that certain statements that had been published as coming from Schepps while he was here, were true, and they dld 70, but on immaterial laet and only attesting that certain newspaper articles in the Sentinel Record and News were correct.
 If these affidavits have been the base of false affidavits and have been perverted, there will be a come back of course. in event the commission from the court is sent here to take evidence.
 John Sullivan, of tho New Era, whc was also supposed to have furnished an affidavit, stated last night that he had never done so, and that he had only brief conversation with Burns
 captain George Howell of the police department in whose custody Schepps was held for five days and nights, and who knows each interviewer Schepps had, is authority for the statement that Schepps never excul- pated Becker from guilt. and he is in the best position to know
 Postmaster Johnson is absent from the city, but will also be probably be used before the commission which is to be sent here to take evidence.
 New York, Sept. 11.--Instead of Se- ing called to trial tomorrow, as tne first to be prosecuted for the Rosen- thai murder, Police Lieutenant Charles Becker has won nearly a months de- lay of the ordeal. Justice Bischoff, of the supreme court, today granted the application of John F. Mcintyre, counsel for the indicted policeman, for a stay until Monday. Oct. z.
 The reason for the stay is to allow the appointment of commission ot one or three persons to go to Hot Springs Ark, to take testimony, which is said to be valuable to Beck CTS defense. This tDtimony has to do with Sam Schepps, the alleged pay. master of the murderers who, after his arrest at Hot Sprigs, is declared to have told various persons that Becker had nothing to do with the Rosenthal murder.
 There were reports tonight that District Attorney Whitman might go before Justice Golf to seek an order vacating the order. and for proceeding with the trial, but the district attor- ney. on learning of Justice Bischoff's action, refused to make known wha: he would do until he was served with the order.
 T am ready to try Becker" was all that Mir. Whitman would say.
 Tonight the district attorneys office received a telegram from Douglas Hotcnkiss of Hot Springs, stating that allegations concerning him in MT. McIntyre's motion today were false.
 The message, addressed to "the dis trict attorney" read:
 T have made no afiidavits in effect that Schepps here exculpated Becker and have reason to believe no others made them. Refute any such alleged aflidayits
 DOUGLAS HOTCHKISS.
 It is understood that the district at torney will send representatives to Hot Springs to investigate the affi. davits of the three men mentioned by Mir Mcintyre. Should these bear out the telegram the district attorney will present them before some supreme court justice and ask that the order granting a stay of the Becker trial be vacated on the ground that it was based on an application made in bad faith