The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-08-06
Does Not Appear in Court Him
self
POLICE COLLECTING $4,000
For Defense of the Accused--Indictments
of Police Officials Expected-The
Grand Jury to Be Given a
~l Mass of Evidence.

New hOlk, aug y. "a pphNe $500
of $4,000 is being raised for the de-
fence OF Charles Becker, the police
lieutenant charged with instigating the
murder of Herman Rosenthal, accord
ing to information in the hands of Dis
trict Attorney Whitman.
The money is being collected, it -
said, by the so-called system" which
aside from the murder case is to he
subject to separate investigation by
Whitman. who believes there is a
corrupt alliance between the system
and the gambling fraternity founded
on graft and blackmail.
The information came to the dis
trict attorney in connection with ar
raignment yesterday of Becker to an
swer an Indictment charging murder
in the first degree. During the five
hours of legal procedure which included
the withdrawal of Becker of his plea
of mot guilty for purpose OF offering
motions to invalidate the indictment
Becker was represented by three law
yers, one of who entered the case and
mysteriosly withdrew while the other
when the proceedings were over.
II is said the lawyers engaged by
/ Becker were not satisfactory to the col
lectors of the defence fund, who. the
district attorney has heard have pratti-
cally engaged a prominent criminal law
yer to defend the accused police lieu
tenant, superseding his personal choice.
Judge Mulqueen declined to hear ar
guments on the motions made to dismiss
the Indictment on the ground that It
was irregular and to review the grand
jury minutes and take evidence to show
whether there was sufficient ground for
the indictment. The case was postponed
until Wednesday.
The fact that Becker was expected to
appear attracted crowd to the Grim
inal Courts building in which were many
gamblers and underworld characters.
Plain clothes policemen were ready 70
forestall any possible violence. Becker
was somewhat pale from his week Of
prison life but walked with firm step
and maintained self possessed and
grave demeanor.
The board of aldermen unanimously
voted a $4,000 appropriation to under
take the investigation of the police de-
partmens A committee of six Repub-
licans or fusionists and three Democrats
was appointed, There is an unconfirmed
report that Mayor Gaynor will be the
first witness called.
Rose will soon be nervous wreck and
of little aid to prosecution, his brother,
Morris Rose, believes Morris visited
BALD Jack" yesterday in the West Side
court Jail after which Morris said:
~ never saw such a change before in
man. Jack Rose is in state of ner-
vous collapse. He can't eat and he can't
do anything except think about the muir
der / tried to cheer him up, but he
sat in his cell with his face buried in
his hands brooding about the tragedy.
think he is frightened out of his wits.
Dense crowds surrounded the prison
and court buildings eager to catch
glimpse of the accused policeman. Squads
of additional policemen We're stationed
about the two buildings to keep the
crowd moving, while scores of police
men and detectives maintained order
in the crowded corridors of the courts
building.
A mass Of evidence is to be pre- |
scented to the grand jury this week |
out of which the officials of the public |
office believe that several |
indictments for extortion will be found |
against certain police officials for graft |
ing from gambling houses. Police
Lieutenant Beckers alleged activities |
with gamblers are being investigated |
on information furnished in the CON /
fession of "Bald Jack" Rose Private |
detectives also working on the gamb |
ling end of the Rosenthal case. are re-
ported to have unearthed evidence that |
will result in indictments of two high |
police officials and man not in the de-
partment. For several days the dis
trict attorneys assistants have been cX-
amining witnesses to learn more of the |
relations of Lieutenant Becker with /
gamblers.
The hearing Of, the case of Jack Rose
was on the calendar to-day.
Meanwhile the Catskill mountains will
be the scene of the hunt for Louis Ro-
senzweig and Harry Horowitz. wanted
in connection with the shooting Deputy
Police Commissioner Dougherty said this
morning that he was still working on
the theory that the men were in the
Catskills and were being confined 20
small district where they would be un-
able to conceal themselves much longer.