Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-15
POLICE THREATEN
MURDER Witnesses
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.wtsBER AND vALLoNs
S IN SERIOUS POSITION
40 Ind,etm.nt. ,ser Murder y They hey
sfai, !. Civ. iTsstimony Sought BY
platriet AtssrS,y whitman, and
. Tht,atsnsd With Death II They
n s,-peIies Sacrifice Becker.

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New York, Aug. 15.-Threateneo
I MIR, death II they revealed information
reiarding the three men "hisner UP
insthe gambling graft scandal. Bird
rie. webber. and Harry WALTON, two OF
the ASSOCIATES Of .'Bald Jack Rose
nay prove to, Be recalcitrant "'t-
nesses. The two prisoners are CONFRONT
"a on the other hand by possible IN
dictment charging them with the mur-
der. .of the gambler. Herman Rosentna'
lnless they tell the whole truth. the
two prisoners tried to determine wnat
course to pursue.
webber and vallon have been
reached" and told. according to val
Ions counsel, to throw Police Laeu-
tenant Becker to the wolves out 20
shield the names Of the three men now
renarded by the states attorney as oi-
rectors Of the graft system.
D,strict Attorney Whitman is letting
tha Two prisoners themselves decide
what attitude they will take.
~ Make Becker the Goat.
James N. Sullivan, Vallon's lawyer
saws that for some time messengers
fron those ..higher up and from Ger
tatn police inspectors have surrepti-
tiously visited vallon and Weber I'M
their cells and told that they might
tell what they pleased about Becker
nut IL they informed on the big feilo"s
Sthey might a. well make make away
With themselves az they would meet
cath later.
Mr. Sullivan said after seeing Ns-~
trict Attorney Whitman:
..Whitman has made = case against
Be6ker and nose OF Becker's SDiack- sIe.1.l..
4 / 80 Ming employers seem to care 2 nans
ABOUT Beckeras situation.e In fact tney
: hayes sent word TO Rose. Webber ana
Walton to throw Becker to tine Wolve..
But they are determined tna! tnear
own names shall not be brought out.
POKE win make good but vallon and
webber have been reached and am
.fraid they have made up their minds
q weaken. have told vallon he IL
NOT playing square and that Will no
longer act as his counsel"
II, the confession of Bald Jack"
Rose as prepared by the gambler for
D,strict Attorney Whitman and printed
tlis morning with Roses own spelling
ana punctuation, Rose declared that
Recker had decided to kill Rosenthal
himself II others had not done the
work
Confession Of Rose.
After the murder Rose says he met
Becker by appointment near the scene
81 the killing. In his written confess
z olon Rosa SAWS:
..I opened the conversation by say
inK. MY God, Charley. this is horri-
sble. there will be to pay. He said
.What ID the matter? Don't worry.
leave all that to me- asked. Have
vo,, seer, him! and he said Yes; saw
the suuealing -----. would nave
liked to have taken my knife out and
cut 4 piece Of his tongue out and hang
II on the building as warning to pos
sible sauealers.' He said, We'll, was
! saved the trouble Of doing it myself.
became tired ofwaiting for you fellows
to get the gang TO do 1t SO I decided
tonight to do 1t myself
II asked him how. Well he said. 'af-
ter left Jack Sullivan instructed
otto to drive me to the Metropole and
10 slow down without stopping. in
tended, IL Rosenthal was there. to take
c,,f NV 1nn blaze away at him. and
trsr te,i Otto "a keep going. but he
v..n,t there"
The Grand jury was prepared to re-
sumo the investigation into the Rosen-
thai case today. District Attorney
whitmanss assistants are making an
Investigation Of real estate transac-s
/ finna. information having come to the
sttorney't office that within the last
veAr one police inspector has invested
morc thai 100000 in choice uptown
iofs.
Sss.. F,ahn,an Heada coroner'. Jury.
ssg ~. cnvoner,s inouast was late II.
s~sss4sn- ,,,ier wav. MANY prominent
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