New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-08-20
Alleged "Paymaster" Tells Dis
trict Attorney His Story,
and Will Corroborate
the Revelations Made
by Jack Rose.
CATSKILL MAN PROMOTED
Lieutenant Cray Becomes a Captain
Justice Goff Said to Intend John
Doe Proceedings Under the
Dowling Law to Get Evi-
dence in Scandal.

"sam" schepps, who will be wit
ness for the people In the trial Of Lieu
tenant Charles Becker for the murder
Of Herman RosenthaI. was brought back
to New York yesterday from Hot
Springs, Ark. His story Of the murder,
which he told to District Attorney
Whitman on the train running down
from Albany, will eorroborate the story
told by "Jack" Rose.
The arrival Of schepps disclosed the
| fact that since Thursday the Police
Department, through Second Deputy
Commissioner George S. Oougherty, has
been exerting every effort TO have
Schepps taken TO Police Headquarters.
Ooueherty teIegraphed positive in.
structions to Detective Albert n. Thon-
as, who. with Assistant District Attor-
ney Rubin. brought Schepps back, 20
bring the fugitive to Police Headquar-
ters as soon as he got to New York.
These teIegraphed orders were sup
plemented by the appearance Of five
! detectives from the Central Office on
the train, when il stopped at the 125th
street station, and by dozen more at
/ the Grand Central Station.
Detectives Hssscrty and Dietz, in
charge of these men, made great dis
play Of demanding the custody Of
Schepps under specific orders from
Commissioner Waldo, but Mr.. Whitman
informed the detectives that if they
attempted to arrest Schepps without a
warrant, he would have them arrested.
Misunderstanding" He Says.
Later in the day Oougherty got into
communication with Mr.. Whitman, and
after assuring him that the department
would work with him" declared that
the misunderstanding Of the morning
was due TO Commissioner WaIdo's or.
ders.
Schepps was lodged in the West Side
prison-technicaIl as vagrant, aetu-
ally as a material witness for the pco-
pe-and was held for ore week.
Lieutenant Colonel Henry S. Stern
berger. the stock broker who made 4
practice Of Ioanina his automobile to
Lieutenant Becker, will be subpoenaed
as witness before the grand jury. He
will be asked not only as to 6ecker's
use Of his car. but as to what relations
Becker had with him in business way
in stock speculation or investments.
Other brokers whose names MIR. Whit
man now has as those of men who
handled 8ecker's accounts will also
be subpoenaed to testify along the Same
lines.
Lieutenant John j. Cray, who was in
charge Of the men in the CatskilIs,
whom Schepps accused Of permitting
him to escape, was promoted 10 a cap
tsncy yesterday by Commissioner
Waldo.
John Doe Proceedings.
Il was reported that Justice GoH
who was designated by Governor Dix TO
preside over the extraordinary torn OF
the Supreme Court which will have
CHARGE of all the RosenthaI cases, is
consulting with District Attorney Whit
man as to the ACCESSIBILITY Of institut-
ina John Doe proceedings under the
Dowlnq law as means of getting at
all the evidence in the general police
graft situation.
William Shapiro, the chauffeur Of tho
"murder car" had his last chance to
become witness for the people yes.
terday, when he was taken into MIR.
Whitr,an's office to talk things over.
The District Attorney is convinced that
Shapiro is not telling frankly all that
he knows about the murder, and il is
likely that Shapiro will be included in
the blanket indictment. which will name
the four eunmen, Becker and Jack"
Sullivan, and which will probably be
handed up to-day.
Lieutenant Becker was arraigned be-
fore Judge Grain in General Sessions
yesterday. to plead to the murder in
diotment, but his plea was postponed.
John Purroy Mitchell, President Of the
Board Of Aldermen, and the man who,
as Acting Mayor, exposed the police
corruption in Coney Island, promised
to aid in the adermanic investigation
of the malice system.