New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-24
BECKER MUCH AFFECTED
BY LAWYERS STRONG PLEA

traffic. then the hand that slew him was
inspired by the Almighty And II Her
man Rosenthal was in the unholy traffic
OF the virtue OF our young wOmanhood
Rosenthal was no loss 10 our society.
HIS absence now must be praised, a IL
Is warning 10 others who would engage
In that unholy traffic.
Mr.. McIntyre's first words were to
repeat the charge on which the de-
fence was predicated-that Becker was
the victim OF conspiracy-and
throughout his address Rose was paint
ed as the arch conspirator. Continu-
ing no said:
am defending an American-not a muir
derer. His accusers are vile-not lovers
OF the flag or the institutions under
which We live. but a lawless and degen-
crate set reeking in filth and infamy:
they have furnished the fair name OF a
great city, a city more philanthropIc and
generous than any IN the world Per-
haps when l say this you may think /
mean the man OF foreign blood. | do not,
since some OF my closest friends are
that klnd-closest TO me in a profess
sional and social way
The District Attorney has been mis-
led-perhaps deceived, maybe actuated
by ambition, and ambition often beclouds
good Judgment. to the end that he has
fathered a prosecution framed up" by
This trial had It's birth in the hearts
OF four NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., Weber Val
Ion and Schepps-self-con assas-
sins all of whom, when II is over, Will
be free men again In this city TO again
murder II they please.
Rose, as the evidence shows. cherished
his animosity against Rosenthal, as
Will show; his feeling toward him was
bitterer than gall. He despiSed the
ground upon which he walked. He con-
nIyed at his murder, and when detected
link had TO be forged connecting some
one higher up. The public mind had been
Acknowledgements prevailed. Public clam
or was rampant. The evidence shows
that the District Attorney didn't want
portunity and the framing up" on Beck
er then starts.
Then turning from the jury, whom
he had been addressing at times in a
conversational tone and again with
all the voice and gesture at his COM
mand. Mr.. Mcintyre rushed toward
Becker, and, with his hands out
stretched, cried out:
You have Charles Becker here this day.
on trial for his life. and the four gunner
still untried See the anomalous sltua-
ton that arises II Becker Is convicted OF
murder and the case against the gunner
fall. You have Becker up In the dead
house awaiting execution, and the four
gunner accused OF the murder walking
the streets OF New York. as free as you
or ].
Why is It that none OF these gunner
have been put on trial first2 Is II because
there is nothing against these men and
they could not be convicted?
Is there not little bit OF legal jugglery
in this case? Isn't there a little Jockey
ing in this case? Take that, too. into con-
sideration with you into the juryroom.
II these four men, "Gyp," Lefty"
Louie, "Dago" Frank and Whitley
Lewis, did not commit the murder and
somebody else did Becker Is not guilty.
There Is not a single bit OF evidence that
Becker ever saw any OF these gunner in
all his life.
Mr.. Mcintyre then turned to Kidding
tho testimony Of those who identified
the gunner. notably the waiter Krese
and the Austrian, John Stanich.
Krese said he saw Jack" Sullivan.
smiling, az II were, with diabollcal glee,
bending over the lifeless body OF Rosen-
thai. Krese lied when he told that 10
you, and he knew he was giving perjured
testimony.
And the most extraordinary conduct
noted in Krese Is his hiring a lawyer
James Marks Sullivan. who has been
guilty OF the most gross unprofesslonal
conduct In this case. Why should wit.
Roses lawyer and lawyer to Sam
Schepps, the murderer, who told Schepps
to escape the Jurisdiction Of the court