The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-07-30
Police Lieutenant Held
for Killing Gambler
ROsenthal.
ENTERS PLEA AND
IS SENT TO TOMBS
Sensations Come Thick and Fast
in New FORKS Police-Gam-
blers- Murder Case = Rose,
Weber and Vallon Are
Chief Witnesses Before
Grand Jury.

uirht session OF the grand jury. In
which Bald jack" Rosr. "iirideIe'
Weber aud Hurry NulioD alleged
20 hnyc mndc confcssIon> directly I'm
piirntiuI Police Lieutenant Charles
Hccicr ia the murder OF Herman RIOS
cnthni in from, of the Hotel Mctrop"le
/ two >cLcs u.,o BECKER Nns indicted for
murder in the trst degree. placed Under
arrest and hurried before midnight
session at The Court uf 1cncrnI scs-
sions.
F After entering plea of not guilt
/ tho police official remained ritaout ball
and VAS taken 70 the Tomos. Inc
Gamblers whose statements are SAID 20
nave caused the Indictment OF Becker
/ pleaded v!tn tAe officials no, 20 oe
taken back 70 inc Tomhs tonight, de-
/ clariuE they would o. kilie.i II re-
/ Turned 10 their cells
Their Fcnr Is Real.
80 real was their fear that thcy
wee allowed 10 sleep Ia the Criminal
Courts Building under the guard q
/ oigh, detectives The greatest seorety
was maintained as 20 the admissions
made before the grand jury oy iao
three men WHO have been nc!d pris-
/ crors for some time In connection with
/ Rosertnai murder.
| !, is asserted however. that rose
+ TOLD % practically being forced to ar
range the illing Of Hosenthni under
threats Of being 'JoObod' bs the police
and sent 20 prison on manufactured
evidence. That Lieutenant Becker vas
ia Communication with the actu-l niur-
Geregs after the killing also was as
serted TO have been part OF Roses
confession. Another statement at
tr!ouieG 10 Bald Jack" was tina; for
several months ne had acted as COL
lector for certain police officials OF toll
from gambling houses
The confession q the gam blors were
made to-n!Ea, after Man H. Steur ana
James sullivan. counsel for the mon.
had ple4cel all afternoon with then.
10 tell shat they knew OF the murder.
Once shcir consent was won. District
Attorney Whitman lost not moment
IN rusring ;hem before the grand Jury.
In order 10 avoid a change o: heart
on the part Of these witnesses the
grand jury was assembled Tor the FIRST
night session held by that BODY in
eighteen years WITH this testimony
as a basis the grand jury acted JUS; as
quickly and an Indictment was voted
before the sitting closed
Becker who had been arrested On
charge f eNtortion at his station
house IN the Bronx. was a, once hur-
ried before Judge Mulqueer to plead.
faced the cour; ,nat the full gravity
OF the charge against him was made.
He hat supposed until that time that
the accusation u eXto-tion alone faced
him
Know Names OF singers
Indications about the Criminal Courts
huildng after Becker had Seen return
60 to the Tombs were that with the
confession Of the gamblers fresh inn
pe,us had been given to tho iayes,i-
CATION 81 Rosen;havs Staying
Late tonight several subpoenas
we're sent out from the Criminal
Courts building. and il Is reported
that thew We're seeking new witnesses
IN the neighborhood Of the Hotel
Metropole. Among we ruuors cir
culated to-nigh; was one that the
names OF the actual slaye-s were now
definitely Known 10 District Attorney
Whitman. and that even tHei. present
hiding places had been revealed. No
one would indicate. however that the
arrest of the murderers were in i'm
mediate prospect. James sullivan.
counsel FOR Jack Rose. made a state
ment tonight In which he said Il
took UP the matter OF confession BY
Rose with Nj. Whitman early last
week. and Friday afternoon l came to
pIACt!Cil Understanding with MI
Whitman that my client would tell all
he knew II promised imniunity feel
that Il great step has been taken in
the furtilcrance OF justice. want TO
say that Rose was not 'squealer. IN
the ordinary sense OF the term lie
held out and refused TO entertain any
proposition for a confession until the
men who should have stuck to him de
serted him. When he found himself
without friends. without money. he de-
cided that he should not DO made tho
goat OF the situation. but that those
who had brought him into 1t must SUI
fer their share If they would not HELM
him out OF It, Rose was an old FRIEND
OF mine years ago in Waterbury.
Conn
Developments Come QuIckIy
New York. July 29-Sensat!onal dc.
ve!opment in the inveetl cation of the
murder Of Herman Rosentnal the
gambler. who was shot down in
front OF the Hotel MetroDola ~,