The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-24
FIRST MRS. BECKER GOT DIVORCE FROM
 POLICE LIEUTENANT
Trapped Him in Hotel Seven Years Ago and Got
 Goods on Him
HE PAYS $8 ALIMONY
Second Wife, He Asserts, Has Helped Him Save For
 5000 House

New York, July 24.-In his effort to dlscred1t Herman Rosenthal and the gamblers charges against him Lieut. Charles Becker sent his press agent to Rosenthal's first wife, Dora Gilbert of NO. l5l East Twenty seventh street, to obtain from her an affidavit concern ing her life with Rosenthal It was apparent that Becker's intention was to have Rosenthars credibility dis counted by facts in his private life.
 As for Becker himself, the records or the Supreme Court would do little Tn constructing him into a. church pill lar. His first wife obtained a divorce from him in 1905 on evidence that he and another woman had been found together in a room at the Eagle Ho- tel,..No. g Cooper square. Mrs. Beck CT got the custody of their boy, then five years old.
 In view of Becker's building opera tions his testimony during the trial is also interesting. He now receives $2.250 year, about $43 a week He IS building an expensive. home at No. 3248 Olinville avenue, the Bronx. Fix blaming how he could do this and support himself and his second wife, he said few days ago that the sec ond Mrs. Becker has been saving money for many years as a school teacher, position she now holds. ALIMONY AND MOTHERS ALLOW
 ANGIE LEAVE $32.75 A WEEK :.
 During the trial of the divorce suit he was a roundsman = grade now known as isergeant-and received $1, 800 a year. He said from this he paid his mother $10 month. The Court ordered him to pay $8 a week to his first wife. Counting the alimony and the money to his mother he is left with but $32.75 a week with which to run his house, feed and clothe himself and build new house with the assistance of his wife But long training had made him so thrifty he and his wife have been able to expend 5000 on their new Bronx homestead and envi- rons.
 Becker's first wife was Mrs. Letitia Becker. On Nov. 4, 1904, she institut- ed proceedings for divorce. Her. at torney was Robert V. Hubbard Oe No. 220 Broadway, the lawyer who, Rosenthal said, acted for Becker in negotiations for the alleged loan of $1. 300 by Becker to the gambler, for which the policeman was to receive 20 per cent. of the Rosenthal gambling profits. Archibald Van Ness of Van Ness & Van Ness. No. 22O Broadway, was Becker's counsel.
 The divorce action was tried before S. Morrill, Banner, appointed referee by Justice Leventritt. The first ref cree named Warren Leslie, resigned because he knew the defendant.
 Mrs. Letitia Becker testified the po- liceman had married her on April 21, 1893.
 LAWYERS STORY HOW BECKER
 WAS TRAPPED.
 Jeremiah A. OLeary, an attorney in v110 <Nf 1IN1e focf GnI thus:
 T went to the Eagle Hotel at No g Cooper square some time between 12:30 and 1 o'clock on the morning of Oct. 26, 1904. I went to room on the third floor. I think it was room No. 9, which was occupied by Charles Schneider, a private detective I stay and we then heard some voices in room across the hall when waiter went to the room. After he went away weswent to the room and listened at the door of room No. 20 We stayed there for moment and then we out Who is there? The detective ans wered, The bell boy and the man inside inquiped, What do you want? An answer was given and finally the door was opened and we pushed our way into the rom."
 D1d you see the Q0IeuudHL III tAC room?'' asked MT. Hubbard.
 ''I did" answer MT. O'Leary.
 How was he dressed?''
 ''In his underclothes and under shirt
 ..Who else did you see in there?''
 "A woman. She had the bedclothes pulled around her and was sitting up in the bed. Only her head could be seen.''
 O'Leary testified that the woman was not Mrs. Becker.
 BECKER HAS A SCUFFLE WITH
 THE DEFECTIVE
 .sThe private detective and Becker had a conversation O'Leary went on .HThe detective asked me if 1 knew the woman and I said I didn't. Beck CT and the detective had scuffle, Becker trying to push him out ef the room. Becker said he knew, he was caught, but would get even with him. We were eventually pushed out of the room.''
 MT. o'Leary then told of serving pa pers on Becker at. the Charles street station and of saying the policeman had lost his mustache Becker want ed to know how OLeary knew that, and was told that O'Leary had seen him at the Eagle Hotel:
 Why" said Becker, the witness as- serted. .'were you there?'
 Detective Schneider followed on the stand with corroborating testimony. Then Becker was called as witness He named his position and gave the figures of his pay. He said that he and one of his brothers practically supported his mother. a widow.
 Justice Fitzgerald, on the referees report. granted the decree to Mrs