The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-23
CASE OF HE STATE AGAINST BECKER CLOSES ABRUPTLY Justice Golf Will Charge the Jury Tomorrow
 Morning
ADMITS TESTIMONY
 OF JACK SULLIVAN
King of the Newsboys" Declares Rose, Webber, Vallon and Schepps Had Asked Him to Testify
 in Their Behalf

New York, october 29-The case Of the state against Police lieutenant Charles Becker closed abruptly and dramatically this afternoon. with the district attor ney, at the courts command reading into 1 the record flood ol testimony from Beck CTS star witness. Jack Sullivan" for whose admission Reeser's lawyers fought | long and hard when Sullivan testified before.
 Amid the vigorous protests of Becker's counsel who had objected as Vigorously when Sullivans testimony was barred sew eral days ago. the king of the news boys unloosed his tongue He told ha story belliverently and excitedly, in his own way. Just as he had asked permits sion to tell it when he was the stand
 before. Hts testimony was in direct sup- port of the contention of the defense that
 Rose, wehber. yallon and schepps. on the l formers and state witnesses, had eon- spired in jail 10 send Becker to the elee- trie chair by their own perjury.
 John r. Mcintyre. Beeker's chief eonn- sel, had declared his case rested when sullivan was recalled He said frankly
 that he did not want Sulivan's testi- mony. The court ordered the ease re- opened and instructed an attendant to call Sullivan to the witness stand. MT.
 Mcintyre refused 10 question him aud Justice Con leaning over the bench. in- strueted the district attorney to ask the
 witness, "as part of the case of the defense certain questions which the court had excluded during Sullivan's pre- Vious testimony.
 Sullivan Aids Defense
 These questions had to do with con versatcns Sullivan said ha had In the
 West Ffty-third street jail with Rose and Webber
 Rose told me that he and Webber and vallon and sehepps were going to frame up Becker sullivan declared. He asked me to eorrohorate his testimony. They an aAited ne kent at ne day and fnsht Wi,ss. afte left 5aA lhs otiie. ite gan. Rose got a lettef from the dislticr attorney one day and after he had read l it he came to me and said. Jack. the district attorney writes me that he wants to know if you are going to eorroborate us He says if you do. it will be all right; if you don't. you'n he indicted" "Webber said to me. the only way you 1 can get out is for you to do as Mr. Whitman says and swear that you saw 1 Becker with Jack Rose and me few hours after the murder If you do that, you'll get out like we will. after the trial. If you don't you'll be indicted and 1 spend six months in jail. Once Webber said to me, Jack. for Gods sake. say 1 you saw Becker, as we'll testify. If you want money I'll give you Sl000 now. and when you get out we'll go into the hotel business. I'll put in $25,O0O and we will divide the proths even. All you have l to do Is to lie for us If you lie, it's all right; if you don't. you'll go to jail l To all these importunities. Sullivan said he replied that he would spend six years l in Jail, if necessary, rather than swear a mans life away.
 Pitt Takes Stand
 Louis Pitt. brother Of Beekefs so- called press agent, was another witpess for the defense who was forced on the l stand by Justice Gon, after MT. McIn- l tyre had declared his case closed MT. l Mcintyre refused 10 examine Pitt and again the district attorney read Into the record evidence against the states case. Jack Rose told me Pitt 'testfned, "that l Becker didn't have anything to do with l the murder. He said: I swear 10 you on mothers grave that Becker didn't have anything to do with this. He is as in- nooent, but I've been talking too much I and I've got to testify against him l There was but witness called in l rebuttal and none in slir-rebuttaL The case was closed for both sides at o'clock and adjournment taken soon thereafter l Tomorrow will be devoted to summing up Justice Golf will charge the jury l Thursday morning.
 1 William Shapiro, driver and part owner 1 of the gray murder ear, which carried i the gunmcn to the MetrOpole and in which they made their escape after shooting l Rosenthal, was the witness in rebuttal i He added nothing to published versions of his story. except his statement that 30 or 35 seconds elapsed after the shoot ing before he was able 10 start his car with the gunmen inside. in flight.
 Becker Does Not Testify l What is said 10 have been an eleventh hour change Of mind on the part of Mir
 Mcintyre Kept Becker from the witness stand.
 | q didn't put Becker on the stand
 Mir Mcintyre said, simply because did not care to dignfg the opinion that the charge of murder had been coroborated
 by credible witnesses The law Is that there can be no conviction on the tAUss ] mony of accompllees without corroborA ton To have put Becker on the stand | would have appeared to be an acknoVo- | edgement that the testimony of Hallen and Luban amounted to credible teNgr
 mony; whereas it appeared before the jury that Hallen had served F years in states prison and Luban was brought in
 shackles from the New Jersey state prison into the court room"
 Recker said: .1 wanted to go on the
 stand but my counsel advised against 1t. don't believe any jury would convict l ,,a ,n tha tesflp4oov offered m thls case