The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-08-16
JACK ROSE MAKES CONFESSION,
TELLING OF LiEUTENANT'S Re.
LIEF AT GAMBLERS DEATH.
"H|GHER-UPS" THREATE ENED
Webber and VaIIon Told to Throw
Becker to the Wolves, But Shield
Other Three Men Threats Made
Against "SqueaIers."


sion of Bald jack Rose, as prepared
by the gambler for District Attorney
Whitman and printed this morning
with Roses own spelling and pune
= tuation, Rose declares that Becker
himself had decided to kill Rosenthal
if others had not done the work. After
the killing, Rose says, he met Becker
by appointment near the murder
scene. In his written confession Rose
says: -
81 opened the conversation by say
ing; My God, Charlie, this is horri-
Bile. There will be - to pay He
said: What is the matter? Don't you
worry, leave all that to me- 1 asked,
Have you seen him and he said, 4
saw the squalling-I would have liked
to have taken my knife out and cut
piece of his tongue out and hang
it on the - building as a warning
to possible future squealers' He said,
We'll, l was saved the trouble doing
it myself! He said, I became tired
waiting for you fellows to get the
gang to do it, so decided tonight to
do it myself
Becker Was Going to Kill RosenthaI
81 asked him how. Well he said,
after 1 left Jack Sullivan l instruct
ed Otto to drive by the Metropole and
to slow down without stopping.
intended, if Rosenthal was thvre, to
take out my gun and blaze away at
him, and then tell Otto to keep going,
but he wasn't there l said, Well,
what about these fellows?' He said,
1 will take good care of everybody
concerned. To Webber he said, See
that these fellows get enough money
to get out of town, say about thou
sand dollars between them,' which
Webber said he would, which makes
fifteen hundred from Weber"
The grand jury was prepared to re-
sumo its investigation into the Ros-
enthal case today. District Attorney
Whitmans assistants are making an
investigation of real estate transac-
tions. information having come to the
district attorney that within the last
year one police inspector had invest
ed over 100000 in choise uptown
lots.
Threatened With Death.
Threatened with death if they re-
veal information regarding the three
men higher up in the gambling
graft scandal "Bridgie" Weber and
Harry Vallon, two of the associates
of Rose, may prove to be recalcitrant
witnesses. The two prisoners are
confronted on the other hand by pos
sible indictments charging them with
the murder of the gambler, Herman
Rosenthal, unless they tell the entire
truth. The two prisoners tried to
determine today what course to pur-
sue
Weber and Vallon have been
reached and told, according to Val
Ions counsel, to throw Lieutenant
Becker to the wolves, but to shield |
the names of three men now regard |
ed by the states attorney by the
states attorney as directors of the !
graft system.
Indictments Depend on Them.
District Attorney Whitman is let
ting the two prisoners decide them
selves what attitude they will take.
Their indictments depend largely upon |
the testimony thSg give. Rose in
sists that he will go through with the
case to the end and that pressure of
threats will not swerve him from tell
ing the secrets of the gambling and
police system.
james M. Sullivan, Vallon's lawyer.
says that for some time messengers
from those higher up" and from GER
tain police inspectors have surrep-
titiously visited Vallon and Weber
in their cells and told them that they
might tell what they pleased about |
Lieutenant Becker, but that If they
informed on the big fellows they
might as well make away with them
selves. as they would meet death