The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-30
Police Of New York, Hand in Glove With the
Gamblers, Arranged and Carried Out Cold
Blooded Murder Of Ro.enthal.
'AN AMAZING STORY OF BIG GRAFT
Lieutenant Becker Indicted After Three Gamb-
lers Make Full Confession Which Startles
Citizens Of the Metropolis

rrynited Press Leased Wire Service. +
NEW YORK, July 30.--A score of
no,ice ofiicials all above the rank of
sergeant, were facing Indictment for
uermitting law breaking In return for
! price when the grand jury went in
s.o session today A number Of citi-
,ens including some high In political
gl;fe and we'll known throughout the
country were also involved. More
than a dozen men Of nationwide re-
mite in the sporting world had fed
the city overnight and others were
going. In a cell in the Tombs, rest
lessly pacing up and down like Gagged
animal. was the central figure in a
scandal the worst in the history of
New york, Police Lieutenant Charles
Becker. indicted directly for the
amazing murder Of Gambler Herman
Rosenthal two weeks ago today in the
yery heart of New York City's great
white light district.
In carefully guarded cells in the
city prison in West 54th street, re-
moved the width Of the city from the
man they accuse, were Jack Rose.
nBridgie, Webher and Harry Yallon,
gamblers, whose astounding confession
+ Of murder, general crime and police
graft, told to the grand jury at an ex-
traordinary session last night, result
ed In Becker's indictment, and today's
probe which promised revelations that
will shock the nation.
Last night Jack Rose agreed to tell
all and his example in confessing was
followed quickly by Webber and Val
lon. The tale they told was SO re-
narkable that the grand jury content
ed itself with the Indictment OF Beck.
er for murder In the first degree and
he was arrested In uniform at hif
desk in the fremont station house
Arraigned before Judge Mulqueen ~
general sessions court through his at
torney, the police official pleaded moi
guilty. He was granted a week II
which to change or amend this ap
peal. When the grand jury reconvenee
today it resumed the consideration o
the story Of graft told by the three
confessed accomplices, who said the.
had arranged the Staying of Rosentha
at becker's behest and because n
told them every resource of the polio
department would be exerted to pre-
tect them and the actual slayers afte
the killing. Rose admitted acting a
Beckers collector Of tribute from Law
breakers for years and Weber an
Vailon corroborated him in all Of hi
Statements. He detailed how the pc
lice graft was split and involved b
name three police inspectors and
host of minor officers. He also II
solved former city official and SCI
eral politicians and it was to prob
these charges that the jury reassen
bled today.
In Fear. OF Their Lives.
The three men who had uncoyere
the scandal slept on cots In the jur
room in the criminal courts buildin
all last night. In an agony OF fes
they protested to District Attorne
Whitman that If they were sent bac
to their cells In the Tombs they woul
pc murdered by the system an
Whitman, although he professed to b
lleye that there was no danger the
would be killed, with the recollectie
OF the Staying OF Rosenthal, after J
mad become a district attorneys w
ness in mind, refused to send the
back. He had them placed in a car
1ully guarded room near his ON
where they could sleep on cots al
Today ordered that instead of beil
sent to the Tombs they be kept in =
west side prison for the present. Ro
also appealed for his family, sayil
there was no doubt his wife who cou
corroborate many of his statemen
would be killed. The district attorn
ordered four private detectives
tailed as special guard to Mrs. Ro
and they will watch her at all time
Roses story was So amazing tn
District Attorney Whitman admit
today he would not have believed c
tain parts of it if Webber and Vail
mad not Independently related
same facts.
From the time he first met Becl
N an east side precinct, the ba