The Sentinel=record., 1912-08-10
POLICE LIEUTENANT DENIES HE WILL "PEAcHp ON OPEL
 GERS HIGHER UP.
WHITMAN THINKS OTHERWISE
Believes Web of Evidence Against Becker Will Cause Him to Change Ills Mlnd-Beckers Alibl
 on Partnership.

New York, Aug 9--Although Police | Lieutenant Charles Becker declared i today he had nothing to confess in connection with the Rosenthal mur der, of which he is the accused insti- | gator, District Attorney Whitman | learned that the prisoner was ready to make some disclosures under certain | conditions. The conditions imposed | i however, are more than the district | attorney is able to grant, and he is waiting for Becker to make other 1 overtures.
 Strong influences are being exerted, 1 the prosecutor has learned, to keep Becker from saying anything to strengthen the evidence regarding al legged gambling graft on the part of other high police officials whose in dictment Mr. Whitman seeks.
 Becker's emphatic statement today was:
 T am not going to confess for have nothing to confess The dis trict attorney however, says he is steadily picking up evidence against | the police lieutenant which he thinks will alter this attitude Mir Whitman also learned today that Jack Sullivan, who has been involved in the murder
 plot by several witnesses, was ready
 to make confession that would cor
 roborate the stories told by Bald"
 Jack Rose, "Bridgie" Webber, and
 Harry VallOn, who have obtained a promise of leniency for turning f states evidence. It became known
 today that Guivania Stanich, one of N thSsi6 witnesses who appeared before f the grand jury yesterday, as an eye
 witness of the murder had identified
 the four men accused of the actual
 shooting of Rosenthal and also had identified Jack Sullivan as having been on the scene and having left
 with the murderers in the gray auto mobile
 In addition to this, the district at-
 torney has learned from Richard c. : Barton, notary public, that on the day- after the murder, Becker took his
 attorney, John W. Hart, in a taxicab
 to the house where Jack Rose, then
 wanted by the police for the murder, Twas in concealment This was the
 house of Harry Pollock who, with his
 wife. was one of the witnesses before
 the grapj jury
 Barton told the district attorney that Becker and Hart had come to his
 place of employment in the taxicab
 on the night of July IT. the day after
 the murder, and had taken him
 around to Pollocks house Hart took
 him inside. he saidI leaving Becker,
 who then drove away in the taxicab
 Barton said he was then asked to wit
 ness an affidavit made by Rose that the 1,50O loan which Rose had made
 through him by Becker to Herman
 Rosenthal, was in fact made by liar
 ry Pollock. This is the affidavit Rose
 claims Becker forced him to make at
 the price of protecting him from ar
 rest and was to clear Becker of the
 charge made by Rosenthal before he
 was shot, that the police lieutenant
 was partner in Rosenthals gambling
 house. Barton said Pollock was not
 present during the conversation be-
 tween Hart and Rose as to the diff
 dayit, and it was learned that Pollock testified before the grand jury thas he never made the loan named in the , affidavit, which was produced for the , grand jury's inspection.
 The notary public further related that during the conversation he re- marked: That was a terrible mnr.
 der, wasn't it."
 That was as far as 1 got on that : lline of conversation, Barton told the district attorney T heard Rose ask
 Hart if he had better go to the dis } trict attorneys office, but I didn't
 hear the lawyers answer They left , me over in one corner of the room during most of their conversation"
 Stanich, who is an Austrian of good } birth and educated, testified before f the grand jury, 1t was learned, that t he stood within a few feet of Rosen- van, he said, lean over Rosenthal's 3 body and say, Ines dead, all right, Q and then drive away in the automo- @ bile.
 e lStanich was in the courtroom when d Jack Sullivan was arraigned two days S after the murder and, it is said, posi-
 lively identified him. The fact of the S Identification was not made known at : the time, however, owing to the de e sire of the district attorney to keep e the Austrian away from police influ l. ence before he testified before the l. grant jury His identifications oi y 'Gyp the Blood,' Lefty Louie, | f "Whitey" Lewis and "Dago Frank d Cirofici, were made in the presence e- of the jury by means of photographs n and without hesitation.
 i. Mr Whitmans expectation that Jack Sullivan will confess is based