Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-16
SAM SCHEPPS, ON
STAND, TELLS Of
Staying
Paymaster of SIayers Corrobo-
rates Stories of Rose and
Weber Against Becker.

NEW YORK, Oct. 15.-Sam Schepps.
one of the states big four witnesses
and alleged paymaster of the gunner
who slew Herman Rosenthal, was the
star witness today at the trial of Lieu
tenant Charles Becker, the police Off
cial charged with instigattng the assas-
sination of Rosenthal
Schepps, who fled after the murder
and was captured at Hot Springs. Ark
was called to corroborate the stories of
Jack Rose and Louis Weber that
Becker plotted the death of RosenthaI
because he "squealed" on Becker's
grating. While Schepps was kept
waiting in an ante-room before taking
the stand, police and detectives in
spected the crowd in the corridors of
criminal courts building for gangsters.
Mrs. Becker was one of the earlier
arrivals.
When Schepps was called to the
stand Assistant District ATTORNEY
Frank Moss at once plunged into the
same story that Rose and Webber had
related Schepps looked we'll groomed.
He had grown stout in prison and was
well dressed, with considerable orna-
ment. He gave his occupation as
portrait enlarger He said he had
known Rose about eighteen Years and
that he met Becker first at the Lafey-
cite baths and later when Becker raid
ed the rooms OF the Sam Paul associa-
ton. Later he acted as messenger
between Becker and Rose.
Got Affidavit Ean
Il was at the home Of Dora Gilbert
Rosenthars first wife, on July Is last"
TESTIFIED Schepps. Il was asked to 90
there for Becker and get an affidavit
and | did it to accommodate Rose
Harry WALTON and Rose went with mo
AtterWard we drove I'D to a. number
IN Seventh avenue and got .Dago
rank Clro1cf into the car. Then VIC
went 10 Webber's gambling place ~
SlXth avenue and Forty second ,+roo+
Later left and some time early a.,
the morning of the 18th while NOS
drinking a soda in The Times souero
urus store L heard four shots near bv
l ran toward the Metropole, for the
shots sounded like they had been fired
there. %
saw crowd collecting and a bodv
was lying on the pavement.
i ran into Harry WALTON AT tho
Elks club and went to Fourteenth
street, where we lived, and remained
there the balance Of the night,
About o'clock Jack Rose came
and woke me up. Lefty Louie Rosen
berg, Dago Frank Cirofci, Whitley
Lewis and 'Gyp the Blood Horowitz
were with him
Paid Slayer Gang.
They wanted to know where
would meet them with the money!
replied at Fiftieth street and Eighth
avenue. 80"
At the hour we had agreed on we
met at Ffftteth street and Eighth av
enue, where Rose passed over tha
money to Lefty Louie. 1 did not have
II. Then we went to the home of Har-
ry Pollock ] stayed there all day. 90
ing that night to Becker's apartments
at the request of Rose told Becker
that Rose was sick and worried. Beck
er said:
You tell him not to worry. I'll fix
everything all right They have to
prove who killed Rosenthal before thew
can convict any one
I started to light a cigarette, but
Becker detained me- saying: Don't
make light here. They have been
trailing me all day
Becker wanted to know If the gun
men had been paid and told him they
had Then | went back to Pollock's,
where found Lawyer John w. Hart
This concluded the direct examina-
ton and John F. Mcintyre, chief coun-
sci for the defense, began cross-ex
ination.
Mcintyre attacked the witnesses
character. but most of District Attor-
ney Whitman's objections were sus-
tanned by Justice Golf. Schepps final
ly admitted that he was once an opium
smuggler In the Northwest, carving
the drug across the Canadian border.