The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-08-23
whitman HOLDS
SAM SCHLEPPS
DISTRICT ATTORNEY THWARTs
ATTEMPT or POLICE TO
SECURE PRISONER.
ROSE Is CoRRoBoRATED
Material Witness Tells Same Story.
Do Not Know Whether Ne Gave
Money to Murder
Crew."

new fOTk. aug. Z.-PerSlStent eff
forts of the police to wrest Sam
Schepps from the custody of Assistant
District Attorney Rubin during his
trip from Hot Springs have come to
naught. Schepps is now q prisoner
on technical charge in the West Side
jail under surveillance Of men from
the district attorneys Office. who have
orders to allow no one to communi.
cate with him without credentials
from Mr.. Whitman himself.
Sohepps will 60 before the grand
Jury Immediately and IL expected to
corroborate In every essential detail
the story told BY his friend. Jack Rose,
upon which Police Lieutenant Chas.
Becker was indicted for RosenthaIs
assassination.
Schepps reached here accompanied
by District Attorney Whitman. who
Joined the schepps party at Albany
after q journey from his summer
home at Manchester. VT.
How essential It seemed to Mr..
Whitman that he should personally
protect Schepps from New York po-
lice interference appeared when It was
learned that Detective AL Thomas. the
police officer who. with Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Rubin. brought Schepps
from Hot Springs. had received dur.
ing the journey east several telc.
grams from Deputy Police Commits
sioner Dougherty. ordering him to
bring the prisoner to police headQuar.
ters directly upon his arrival.
Thomas. who though a police detec.
tive. is attached to the district attor.
ney's Office. did not answer the tele-
grams until he had wired to Mr.. Whit
man, who was then In Manchester.
Thomas Wired Oousherty.
From Buffalo, on Saturday. Thomas
sent a night letter to Dougherty, say.
ing:
Leave Buffalo 1905 a. m, Aug. 10;
due 9:25 a. m, via New York Central.
At Hot Springs Schepps consented to
waive extradition provided he be TAX
en- direct to Whitman. This agree.
ment entered into with Schepps by
Whitman and Rubin. Schepps now &C.
companied by his own counsel, Der.
nard Sander. Under these conditions
what will I do? Please answer"
This Dougherty did not answer. nor
did the deputy commissioner answer
similar message sent by Thomas
the next day.
But when the train bearing Mr..
Whitman and the Schepps party ar.
rived at the 125th street station in
New York City. FIVE headquarters de-
tectives. headed by Detective Hagger.
ty. boarded 1t and demanded Schepps
as their prisoner.
Il will order the instant arrest of
any officer who attempts to take
Schepps to police headquarters" Mr..
Whitman told Haggerty. land you can
present my compliments to your com.
missioner
Whitman Holds Schepps.
Mr.. Whitman explained to the de-
tectives that as district attorney Of
the county he was thoroughly familiar
with the evidence against Schepps az
an alleged accomplish of the murder
and told them that 1t was insufficient
to arrest him on such a charge. this
being the one the police have made
against him.
"Schepps has come q voluntary wit.
ness into the state on a pledge from
me that he be protected and ] intend
to protect him." declared the district
attorney.
Schepps was arraigned and held on
Q technical charge of vagrancy. His
fellow prisoners in the West Side Jail
are Rose. BRIDGE" Weber and
Harry WALTON. with whom he exchang-
ed greetings In the prison.
I'm going to stick by YOU" yelled
Schepps when he spied Rose behind
. cell window across the court yard
Of the prison.
On the trip from Albany. Mr.. Whit.
man had a long conference with the
witness behind stateroom doors and
obtained from him. he said. a story
which materially strengthened his evil
dence against Becker and other pris.
oners, seven in all. whom he expects
the grand jury will indict.
HE has corroborated everything In
Jack Roses story that Rose said he
would" said Mr.. Whitman.