Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-09-14

Police con HISS fk EllDO
Removed as result Of graft exposures
| waiting for you fellows to get the
gang to do it so decided to do 1t my
self.
Becker Would Have Killed.
He said after left Jack Sullivan
instructed Otto to- drive by the Metro
pole and to slow down Without stop.
ping. / intended If Rosenthal was
There to take ont my gum blaze away
Fat him and then tell Otto to keep go.
I ing but he wasn't there. r said well
/ what about these fellows he said VII
take good care of everybody concern
ed; to Weber he said see that these
/ fellows get enough money to get out
Eof town, say about a thousand dollars
Ibetween them which Weber said he
would make $500.
4 Schepps said Weber had money &C
give me to give those fellows for Beck
er. told Schepps to get 1t and meet
i me at 50th street and Eighth avenue
weber handed me some money; he
i said 1t was thousand dollars; hand
led it to two fellows with him and told
them Becker said to lay low for 9
while and everything would be o. K.
1 Becker kept in constant communica
/ ton with me either by telephone OF
through Schepps, cheering me up final
Ily or Wednesday morning received
q Telephone message from him advis
! ing me to give myself up as they were
asking for me in connection with the
llGilbelt AFFIDAVIT.
l said, Charlie, am almost crazy.
am sick I'm mind and body. / don't
dare trust myself being questioned, ]
am thinking of you and will surely
make mess of it; he said, we'll
guess you are right, rest and stay here
Ia while until T phone you. received
another message later in the day tell
ing me. to come to Lawyer Harris q
flee, as he wanted to see me. / told
! him was too sick;i he said, well |
will send him to you
Visit From Hart.
Lawyer Hart and notary came and
began questioning me. / was on the
bed asking to be left alone, but he was
the most insistent that everything was
all right, all that was needed was the
ex planning away of the $500 tranSac-
ton and everything would be all right.
/ let him 60 on questioning me and he
put down whatever he wanted and /
signed it.
Schepps came in when they left and
l said to him." Sam. have been trick.
ed and dnped and it looks like Becker
is trying to make me the goat.
rocked and tossed with fever on
Thursday a. m. l got a newspaper and
read A. ]. Levy's statement about me
and / realized at once that there was
treachery somewhere. Il awoke
Scheprs and told him ] was going to
Headquarters and give myself up and
tell all; he went out with me and SAID
first telephone Becker. We went to a
drug store, telephoned the house and
the man at the switchboard said the
telephone is not working. +-~ .
Gives Himself Up. -, =
: / then hired a taxi and started down
town Schepps all the while accom-
ranying me and begging me not to do
it before consulted with Becker but
was determined and continued at
about 25th street asked Schepps to
leave me which he did. went to head
quarters and waited the arrival OF
Deputy Comm. Dougherty.
s"5 / was taken in the office with him
and Hughes and questioned about the
murder then Dougherty left me, re-
turned and left the door opened and
Becker appeared in the doorway pale
as ghost. Dougherty said, shut the
door, then he questioned me about
Becker. The trick of having Becker
appear in the doorway had its effect.
my heart went out to him. and I de-
MED any relationship with him.
. l was then charged with an aces
sorry to the murder of Herman Rosen-
thai. / was taken from there to the
Dist. Atty's office I met Mr.. Whitman
1 was taken to the Tom6s where |
kept getting messages from Becker
through Pitt advising me to sit tight
and not worry as he, was looking after
everything including my family. hut I
was sorely troubled and the talks l
had with my attorney convinced me l
ought to tell all.
Decides To Tell All.
began to see lot of things that
looked as if ] WAS to be made the goat
and LAWYER Sullivan was advising me
to tell all and Becker herd of this as
received a note from Pitt telling me
to engage lawyer Moore, turned the
communication over to my attorney.
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he talk with Mr.. Sullivan, but he