The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-22
OFFERS REWARD FOR
MISSING CANCSTERS
District Attorney Charges Po-
lice With Allowing Escape
of Rosenthal MurdererS.
CITIZENS GIVE MONEY
John Doe Inquiry Before JUS
tice Golf Preliminary to the
Trials Is Planned.
CITIZENS GIVE MONEY

NEW YORK; = Aug; Aug, si.1GsarSSins q. tSs Sas
York poIice department knowingly per.
mitted the escape of "Gyp the $1,000
and HLefty" Louie, the missing
gangsters indicted for, the murder OF
Herman Rosenthal, District Attorney
whitman tonight offered q reward OF
k5i)l0 for the capture of the fugitives.
The prosecutor. in a formal state
ment, said:
stThis reward is not offered to any
member Of the police department. OF the
city of New York OF anybody IN the
employ of the police department, ana
will not be paid any such member or
to any of the police department s en-
ployees. .,
actuated by no feeling Of unkindness
toward the police department. but 1t is
my belief that if proper police, work
had been done those men would now
be in custody. The city of New YORK
is paying millions of dollars annually
to the police department. whose duty IL
is to detect crime and apprehend GRIM
inals, and I cannot escape the cop-
lice department have known. if they
do not now know, the whereabouts of
the murderers.
Citizens Put Up Money.
The generosity of private citizens
made il possible for the district attor-
pey to offer the reward.
One of the district attorney s reasons
for suspecting that the police have al
lowed the two to escape was Indicated
tonight when it became known that
Sam Schepps, in his testimony before
the grand jury, said three detectives
from New York police headquarters
had recognized him while he was hid
ing in Fallsbure. N. Y, and had de
liberately allowed him to escape. Those
detectives had been sent to the region
TO find him.
Further details of Schepps's testi.
mony involving police Lieutenant Beck
er was learned today. Schepps, while
acting as a go-between for Rose and
Becker, swore that he had frequently
stopped at the police lieutenant 8
house, and narrated conversations with
Becker which the district attorney De-
lieves points to Becker's alleged de-
termination to get rid of RosenthaL
What Becker Said.
On one occasion Schepps declared
that Becker, in speaking of Rosenthal,
said:
'fI am glad he is out of the way.
The cur should have been killed long
ago. No one cares about Rosenthal,
anyway"
Becker, the witness testified further,
told him to tell Rose, then il hiding in
Harry Pollock IS house, not to give him
self up,
'.I can control Waldo,' Becker said,
according to Schepps, f'and no one
need be afraid. Don t worry about
the district attorney, either. can
prevent him from doing anything.
The district attorney cannot do any
thing without evidence, and I'll see
that the police hold out the evidence.'
a John Doe police graft inquiry is
to be undertaken several weeks before
the trials Of the men charged with the
murder OF the gambler. Herman Rosen-
thai. it was learned today.
Preliminary proceedings before Su-
preme Justice Goff are expected to
strengthen the case against Police
Lieutenant Becker and the six others
indicted yesterday for the Roscnthal
killing by unearthing new evidence of
police corruption. The John Doe in.
auiry will cease during the murder
trials, but will be resumed after they
are concluded.
Becker and the others will be called
to plead in court tomorrow.