The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-08-20
LIEUT.. BECKER ATTEMPTED SEW
ERAL MONTHS AGO TO HOLD
UP PRIVATE POKER CLUB.
SIX CAUGHT IN THE Tolls
One Laid Away $4,000 Commissions
On Graft Collections in Seven
Months-schepp Not Afraid of the
SYSTEM

New York, Aug. 49, Schepps came
back to Broadway today, ready with
statement corrobo,ating the con
fession CT BALD jack Rose, charging
Police Lieutenant Becker with insti-
eating the murder of the ga lbler,
Herman Re senthal For two hours
Schepps and District Attorney Whit
man were in conference on New
York Central train, speeding south
from Albany; and when the train
reached New York, Mr. Whitman de-
clared:
"Schepps has done all that We ex.
pected of him. He has corrooorated
the most important part OF Jack
Roses confession.
Authorities Clash.
New York's peace authorities, when
Schepps arrived, were present. Two
detectives from police headquarters
declared they were acting on orders,
attempting to seize Schepps before he
left the train, but Mr. Whitman was
quick to announce that his office was
in command, and the police were
held off.
Schepps was taken to the West Side
station by detective from the dis
trict attorneys opice, and there held
as prisoner on technical charge Of
vagrancy, as a material witness along
with Rose, WALTON and Weber.
Schepps himself refused to say a.
word about the conference with Mr..
Whitman To all inquiries he gave
grinning response that they ''just
had sociable chat" AS for fear o
the systems vengeance, he grinned
again, and tilted back his straw hat
as indicative of his unconcern.
OF the authorities, Mr.. Whitman
alone knows what part Schepps play
ed in the Rosenthal case. To all 9TH
ers, including Assistant District Attor-
ney Rubin, who accompanied him from
Hot Springs, Schepps turned deaf
ear.
Say" he would burst out, when
urged to tell of his underworld asso
Citations. do you think I'm going to
squeal on pal?"
Bernard Sander, counsel for
Schepps, issued this statement:
Why schepps Came.
Sam Schepps is not criminal. He
has come here on my advice to rem
der whatever aid he can in prescott
ing the murderers of Rosenthal. While
he does not represent the highest type
of citizenship, yet he is man of no
mean intellectual attachments, and he
appreciates that in coming to New
York as he has, without legal process,
he did so of his own free will, when
he could at any time have seriously
embarrassed the district attorney oyi
recourse to writ of habeas corpus
Or other legal steps"
Lieutenant Becker made brief ap-
pearance in court today to plead to
the indictment charging murder in the
first degree. At the request of coun-
sci, the pleading was adjourned until
Wednesday. Becker appeared cheer
full.
The train bearing Schepps reached
Albany at 4.40 this morning. Mr..
Whitman, in the meantime, was wait
ing at an Albany hotel. Schepps was
taken from the train. Then Mr.. |
Whitman suddenly decided to leave
for New York Immediately, and dash
was made for the station to get the
sos train.
Notwithstanding the early hour, a |
curious crowd followed Schepps !
through the streets. 1t was after mid
night when Schepps retired on the
train last night, but he was one of
the first up when Albany was reached. /
He ate hearty breakfast and today
evinced none of the fear of the "sys-
TENS" vengeance that has been at !
tributed to him heretofore. He was
dressed modestly, wore eye glasses
and looked on the whole very much
like a quiet little travelling salesman |,
Of studious bent.
When the party reached New
York Schepps was taken first to the
West Side prison, where Rose, Val
Ion and Weber are held, and tomor-
row probably he will GO before the
grand jury.