Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-14
BECKER ADVISES WITH
LAWYER ABOUT RICHES
WHITMAN UNEARTHS
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lice vary: First-class uptown gam
bling houses, $1,000; a middle-class
gambling house, $500; east side gam
ing houses, anywhere from 800 to
$500; high-class pool-rooms, $500;
poker dice games, $500; uptown illegal
resorts, $500; east side resorts, $100.
With the cooperation of all the
banks in the city District Attorney
Whitman has been able to get the
names of four police inspectors whose
bank accounts run into the several
hundred thousands. One inspector is
said to have accumulated 81, 200, 900
Indictment of these officials Is not
being pressed at this time, as the
district attorney is devoting his CHIEF
attention to trapping the murderers
of Rosenthal.
Becker Deposits s5s .s45 in Year.
The hunt for additional bank &C.
counts of Police Lieutenant Becker
vas resumed today by District At.
torney Whitman, who, with the ale
of the Institutions. has disclosed thai
the lieutenant accused If the murder
deposited within the year s5s,8 45. The
district attorney believes it will be
disclosed that Becker has accumu-
lated about 5000. 900,
District Attorney Whitman OBJ
tain a new clue today to a second
safety deposit box in which 1t was re-
ported Lieutenant Becker had placed
large amounts of money and securi-
ties. County detectives were sem to
investigate.
Lieutenant Becker was asked about
the deposits in various banks accred-
tied to his ownership. He admitted
that he had SO, 900 in a branch Of the
Corn Exchange Bank.
II borrowed hat money" said
Becker. land paid it out to the build
ers to put up my house."
Lieutenant Becker would not talk
further of the bank deposits.
Jack" Sullivan, who is in the West
Side Court prison with Rose. Weber
anc Vallon, almost came to blov 6
with Rose today vher HE prosiners
morning exercise.
Sullivan had heard tot Rose had
toid the grand jury that Sullivan
PLAYED a part in the murder. When
Sullivan saw Rose IN the corridor he
cursed him and called h'm a "s%1ueal-
eT" end a yellow hound"
Sullivan told Rose he did nGt see
a:ly reason why the gambler should
have told untrutn3 about him ana
Grag him into the case. Sullivan
ii n turned on Veober and de-
1ounced him.
Bald Jack" Rose, In his story be-
fore the grand jury, is reported to
have involved Jack Sullivan, the
"newsboy king and close friend of
Lieutenant Becker in the murder plot
Rose is said to have declared that
Sullivan, after riding around the city
the night of the murder with Lieuten :
ant Becker, went to Bridge" Web
ber's gambling house, and seeing that
the gunner were there, went to the
Hotel Metropole to locate Rosenthal
Rose, it is further said, told the grand
jury that Sullivan then returned to
Webber's and told the gunner where
Rosenthal could be found.
For several days it has been report
ed that Sullivan was on the point OF
COllLSSSllS. Ills llulClilltIll lOT HluT-
der is anticipated.
Prominent Men Named.
After eighteen witnesses had beer
examined by the Grand Jury the in
formation came from a positive
source that among the new name:
obtained. and which probably will fig.
ure in early arrests, are those of tbs
proprietor of one of New York's lead.
ing hotels, a mar known the country
over and in Europe; one of the bes
known inspectors in the police de
partment and a lawyer-politician o.
prominence. Five, and possibl,
seven, indictments are expected as {
result of the Grand Jury session.
Also, it is said, that five police in
spectors, seeming indictments, haC
offered a $40, 600 retainer to a prom
inent law firm to prepare their de
Tense in advance,
District Attorney Whitman and De
tective William j. Burns are almos
ready to turn over to the Grand Jur,
a mass of evidence tending to show
that wire tappers working under pc
lice protection las veal fieeced thei
victims out of 81, 900. 900, an averag
of one-half of the loot going to tn,
police. This information was con
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