Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-08-10
BECKER USED
FALSE NAMES
AIIsqs Graft Hidden in Out
of Town Banks.

New York, Aug. 10.-District Attor
ney Whitman has learned that the III,
G.. Kennedy" who put $4,000 in an
Elizabeth IN. j. bank last June was
Lieutenant Charles Becker. The u. G..
Cullom" who deposited $1,000 in a
Newark bank at about the same time
was Lieutenant Becker, Whitman says,
The district attorney has learned also
that Becker had at least five other
bank accounts, including the deposit in
the West Side Savings bank.
The ROsenthal murder investigation
had to do almost entirely with the
lieutenant who Is accused Of murder.
Ing a gambler because of the fear that
his profitable matchmaking would be
exposed. The new discoveries of the
district attorney are that it was Becker
himself who took Lawyer John w.
Hart and the notary public, Richard
G. Barter, to call on Jack Rose at
Harry Pollok's house on the Wednes-
day night after the murder. 1t was
Becker who hired the notary. 1t was
Becker who gave Instructions under
the name Of ~. C.Cullom." 1t was
learned that Cullom was really Becker
and that Becker was using several
ame to cloak his identity.
AL. c. Kennedy" Deposits 5000.
The inquiry led Mr.. Whitman's men
to Elizabeth. The officials Of a savings
bank in that city said that $1,000 had
hpnn 6pnnuftod fharo nv II ~ Knn
nedy, who, 1t was understood, was
really Becker. The deposit Of So, 1000 in
the West Side Savings bank here had
been made in May Of last year. SINH
lar deposits were made In at least foul
other Manhattan savings banks, the
district attorney said, but he declined
to tell what banks, because the Off
Gals Of these institutions will be called
before the grand jury.
On the basis Of the Information
already acquired Mr.. Whitman did
some figuring. 1t appears that Lieu
tenant Becker made deposits here and
there in this city and elsewhere of at
least $1,000 u month. But there Is
reason to believe, the district attorney
says, that in some months there were
several such deposits. Already there
are traces Of about $21, 1000 having been
banked in Manhattan and In Jersey
towns. There is also information, as
yet uncorroborated, hat Lieutenant
Becker had an account In Rochester.
While In the matter Of bank ac-
counts and while running down Lieu
tenant Becker's financial operations,
the district attorney investigated the
bank accounts Of two inspectors of
police. The statements Of gamblers
and other witnesses as to the CLEAN
ings of these inspectors amounted to
$4,000 In less than a year. One In
spector appears TO have sent collectors
to seventy-ive d~isorderly houses and
sixty-1ve gambling houses. The dis
trict attorney has an idea that he di-
vided his profits with another inspec-
tor with whom he had a working
agreement. At any rate, the bank &C
counts Of these officials seem a little
too plethOric for their salaries or for
their probable savings, according to
the district attorney. Both have been
mentioned by Jack Rose as officials
with whom Lieutenant Becker diyid-
ed the loot taken by the strong arm
squad. But the best information is
that the inspectors worked also on
their W account and that because of
their individual power and because Of
their old time pull with the bigger
gamblers and with disorderiy houses
they were able to enrich themselves
on the side.
Becker 1t Roses Hiding Place.
The story Of how Lieutenant Becker.
finishing his days work at police head
quarters, wen with Lawyer John w.
Hart and the notary public to the hid
ing place Of a man who had been want
ed for murder by Deputy Commission
err Dougherty ever since noon Of the
day before vas told by Richard G.
Barter, the notary. Barter not only
drew up the affidavit that Becker
wanted, but overheard, he told the dis
trict attorney, the conversation be-
tween Hart and Rose. The notary
went to the district attorneys office
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be secured not only from Rose. but
from Harry Pollok. Pollok at Becker's
request was to have backed I'D Roses
statement that Becker was not a graft
er, but Pollok, suspectlng that Becker
and Rose were implicated in a worse
crime than grating, kept away from
home that night.
While Investigating Lieutenant Beck
er's bank accoun and Becker's COM
mun1cations with Rose after the MIR.
der Mr.. Whitman found time also To
question Giovanni Stanich, an Ans
trian business man, who was in front
Of the Metropole hotel when Rosenthal
was shot down. Stanich is the new
witness whose story In some detail was
printed a week ago last Sunday, but
whose name was withheld at the re-
quest OF the district attorney. He not
only identified Jack Sullivan as the
man who stood with the group of muir
0prQra whpp tho shots ,yoro a~al -.