Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-16

Charles Becker in. the murder of Ro-
| senthal.
Schepps, glib of tongue and inclined
to he combative. swore that Becker
had asked him if the gunpen accus-
Led OF he murder had been paid. He
| declared that he had played the go-be-
tween for Rose and Becker, when the
| FORMER WAS in hiding after1the muir
der and had taken from Becker to
I Rose i reassuring nessag &c.
Don't light that match, somebody
might see you from the street, Beck
er said according to Schepps during
| a midnight visit of the witness To-
Beekers home.
Scheprs corroborated many of the
details OF the murder plot as told by
Jack Rose. for whom. he said, he act
ed as 4 messenger also, lin rounding
up the gunner.
Schepps gave his residence at Hot
| Springs, Ark. where he was arrested,
| lest August. and brought back as a
state witness. He told of knowing
Jack Rose and Former Lieutenant
| Becker and of carrying messages be-
tween these two.
Schepps also told of getting into the
murder car at 14th street with Rose
and Harry WALTON; of picking up pa
GO Frank and thence driving to Wen
bers poker rooms. Sam Paul, Whit
ey'' Lewis, Lefty Louie and 6yp
the Blood, were waiting on the street.
All went ZIP into the poker rooms,
Sehepps said, and sat down AZ a Ia
he. t@....5t=
-Bsidgie" fWebber, he continued went
| ont and returned With the message
/ n OF
| WHAT happened them asked AS
| sistant Dist Atty. Moss.
Lefty, GYp. Whitley Lewis ana oaz
go Frank went out.
| Schepps said he went out later ana
traced Tor Mr. Moss his movements
on Broadway and other streets. He
said that about 80 O'Clock that morn
ing. about half an hour before the
murder ne saw Lieutenant Becker
driving III an automobile ON 42d street.
After the murder he met Harry Val
| Ion at the Elks Club.
Thence he went TO hi appointments
on i4th street and then 10 the apart
rnent Of the gunner. They asked II
there was any message from Jack
Rose. Schepps told them there was
acme money coming to them. Schepps
them AZ 18th street and Eighth ave
nue.. Webber giving it to Rose, VINO
handed it to Lefty Louie
Schepps said he then went with Rose
to the home of Harry Pollock and
STAYED with him there until n.5o
o'clock that night. From there he went
to the Lafayette baths and. returned
to Pollok's house, the next morning
He remained all day and at the re-
quest of Rose went to Beckers house
in tie evening.
Attorney Mcintyre for the defence
ON cross examination tried to break
down Schepps' testimony but the wit
| ness refused to be entrapped.
You were not supposed to know
that this gang was going to murder
Rosenthal, were you?' asked the at
| torney, ironically.
Il did not know it, rejoned
| Schepps hcatedly.
he denied that after the murder
he and WALTON rode away in the muir
| DER car.
| cchepps volunteered the statemeny
| that Rose had made clean breast
| of the murder to him and that he had
| GONE virn Rose to police headquar-
ters when Rose gave himself up.
| lanes Nj. sullivan, a lawyer, had
advised him after that, said the Wit
| ness TO get out of town, and he took
| The advice.
| AAt this point two men We're elected
| from the court house. They appeared
Ia have been trying to intimidate the
| witness according to one of the court
| officers
After schepps had denied that while
! in Hot Springs he was IN CUSTODY
| there Mr.. Mcintyre showed him
copp of a letter which the witness al
! mitted he wrote to Rose IN reply 10
the letter Rose wrote to him SAYING
liz. district attorney mad promised
leniency in return for his confession.
! The letter read in part;
| aAu can say is that ! am mighty
sorry II has turned out this way for you,
! dear old pal. However, at this stage
can dispense with sympathy as 1t can't
be helped now.
- have read very little about the case
/, so far and can't bear to think OF II any
more. What you asked of me nave
considered and | find tn am in very
bad. in spite of the leniency the district
/ attorney holds out to us. so why DO
YOU want me to corroborate a few lies
for INSTANCE. that ! paid $1,000 TO 4. L.
on 42nd street?
| .However. my name is Sam and yours
is Jack If you had trustee ms with
/, more of your confidence this terrible sit
uation would not have happened. How
ever, / will come gladly 10 YOU To
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