New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-09

his idea Of how the problems Of gam
bling and vice should be handled by
the police, and he will be asked TO ex-
plain just how he intended his ideas
along those lines to be worked out in
the police administration.
Commissioner Waldo will be the next
witness before the Curran committee.
but his subpoena does not call for his
appearance until a week from to-day.
If the committee finishes the Mayor s
evidence to-day it will adjourn for a
week. and if not the Mayor will he
asked TO continue on the stand to-
morrow.
At Police Headquarters the police
trial Of Captain Cornelius q. Hayes will
he resumed tomorrow. Hayess ses-
sion on the stand az a witness for him
self was not over when adjournment
was taken on Saturday.
Precautions at Becker Trial.
The beginning Of the Becker trial on
Thursday will mark the staging OF
what will probably he the most elab-
crate precautions ever taken al a trial
in the county. Mr.. Whitman has
heard from Bald Jack" Rose.
Bridge" Weber, Harry valinsky and
sam Schepps, and particularly from
the first two, that they do not expect
TO be able TO live in New York after
giving testimony against the accused
lieutenant.
Although each Of the four gamblers
has assured the District Attorney that
he will go through with his part. and
tell before the jury the same story that
he told before the grand jury. Mr..
Whitman is satisfied that any one Of
them might fall down" and might
even refuse TO answer questions. or
take refuge behind the old Il don't
remember" answer, if the courtroom
was filled with gangsters as il was at
the first Of the Coroner's hearings in
which Rose and Weber testified
To protect his witnesses from any
thing like that, Mr.. Whitman has made
arrangements to sift the crowd Of spec
tators who attend the trial, by hay
ing them pass muster before trust
worthy detectives who can spot pos
sible trouble in advance. East Side
personages whose names. faces and
regulations are familiar alike TO the
police and TO the four men who will
testify as witnesses for the people will
find it difficult to gain entrance.
For the benefit Of any of them who
has the temerity 20 come "heeled." or
packing a gat," which ia the gang
ster's method Of describing one who
carries a revolver, the Sullivan law
will be invoked in the speediest man
ner possible.
The District Attorney plans to have
his detective staff arrest any man
found carrying gun at the door of
Justice COTS courtroom. ANY one
who is arrested under those circum
stances will be taken Immediately to
the Tombs police court, where an As
sistant District Attorney will be on
hand 10 urge that the prisoner be held
for the grand Jury, and an Indictment
under the Sullivan law will eventuate
just as quickly as the matter can be
placed before that body.
Won't Take Slightest Chancs.
Mr.. Whitman does not intend TO take
even the slightest kind OF a chance OF
trouble in the Becker trial, either from
friends or the accused lieutenant, or
from gangster enemies OF Rose or
Weber, who might think TO gain the
favor OF certain elements in the Police
Department by brazenly doing away
with one or the other OF the impor-
tant witnesses for the people against
Becker.
Rose, Weber, Valinsky and Schepps
will have a special guard to look after
them throughout the Becker trial.
They will not be in or around the
courtroom at any time except just
when they are wanted to testify. The
four witnesses will be brought down
from the West Side prison and kept in
the Criminal Courts Bullding-probably
in Mr.. Whitmans private Office
throughout the trial. except when one
or the other of them is actually testi-
flying on the witness stand
From the talk of the four men
yesterday il was plainly evident that
their fear of New York police perse-
cutors" and "gangster enemies who
would curry favor with the police" as
schepps put it, is very real fear.
Schspps himself declared that he was
going to leave New York on the first
train that went West the minute after
he was freed from the West Side
prison.
Rose. who has changed his prospec-
tive destination a dozen times since he
first began talking about leaving New
York, says now that he is going TO so
either TO South America or TO Austria
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