The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-31
Who COT The Cash
Graft Money to the Amount of
S2,4OO,OOO
Said to Have Been Paid to
New York Police.
THE MURDER OF ROSENTHAL
Has Become Subordinate to the
Sensational Scandal
Which Was Unearthed by the
Gamblers Taking Off.

New York, July 31.-Every trail and
lead is to followed persistently no mat
ter where it ends, by District Attorney
Whitman to learn by whom $2,4Oo, 900
graft money said to have been distri-
buted, was finally received.
Bald jack Rose whose confession
put Police Lieutenant Becker behind
the bars, for the alleged murder of the
gambler Herman Rosenthal, has told
the public prosecutor that this huge
sum of money was obtained by police
blackmail from gamblers and disorder
ly houses and that Lieutenant Becker
told him the money went to four police
officials. The public prosecutor has ar
ranged to keep the grand jury in ses-
sion all summer to investigate the re-
lations between the gamblers and the
police which is in the opinion of the
district attorney matter of mere pub
l'c Importance than the Rosenthal
case.
District Attorney Whitman proposes
to break up the relations said to exist
between the gamblers and the police
and he has indicated that he will do so
Il he had to protect every man involved
In the murder of Rosenthal except those
VINO fired the shots. Whether Lieu
tenant Becker will care to avail himself
OF an opportunity to make his own
position easier by telling the prosecutor
the recipients of the graft money which
Bald Jack Rose says he turned over to
Becker is doubtful. If Becker is dis
posed to tell his story it must be COM
plete in every detail, the district at
tcrney is reported to have said.
More than fifty witnesses will be
subpoenaed to appear before the grand
jury to tell what they know of alleged
police blackmail
The information obtained from Rose,
who says he was Becker's collector
from gam bling houses, will be suscepti-
bic of proof, by the district attorney
All records of gambling arrests will be
closely scrutinized to obtain evidence
in the case and District Attorney Whit
man is in possession of list of names
of big and little gamblers given him by
Rose who. in his accusations against
Becker said that when the police lieu
tenant took charge of the strong arm
squad he asked for the names of
gamblers who could be made to give
UP for police protection.
Rose says that Becker took the list
and determined how much money each
gambler was to be assessed for the
privilege of doing business unmolested.
Some gamblers, Rose said paid as high
as $500 month while the little fellows
got off with anywhere from $50 to 500
a month.
Meanwhile Police Lieutenant Becker.
a prisoner in the Tombs is saying moth
ing and there is no confirmation of the
report that his defense will be that the
three gamblers, Rose, Vallon and Web
Der, finding the case going against
them got together and framed the story
that would involve Becker.
big Jack" Seelig, to whom Rose
says he sent word to get the men to
slay Rosenthal, will appear when want
ed. His counsel has told the public
prosecutor that Seelig will tell every
thing he knows of the case. Seelig is
now out on $4,000 bail for carrying
concealed weapons.
The alleged assassins of RosenthaI.
Harry Horowitz or "Gib the Blood"
Lefty Louie and Whitley" Louis, are
still at large.
'Dago Frank Ciroffci is in custody.