Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-08-20
landed IN new YORK
mn IMPORTANT WITNESS Is
FINALLY SAFE BEHIND
THE BARS.
He Will testify TODAY
i Expected 10 Corroboratc tho Con.
fcsslon Of Rose Before tho
Grand Jury Today.

NEW YORK, Aug. Persistent
efforts Of the police to wrest sam
Schepps from the custody Of District
Attorney Whitman and his represen-
tatiyos during the trip here from Hot
Springs, Ark, have como TO naught.
Tonight Schepps, one Of the states
most Important witnesses In the Ros-
rnihal murder case. rs a prisoner on a
technical charge IN tn West side iail,
under surveillance ~ men from the dis
tict attorneys office, who have or
dcrs to allow no one to communicate
with him without credentials from
Mr. Whitman himself.
Schepps viii go before the grand
Jury tomorrow and Is expected to cor,
roborate I'm every essential detail the
story told by his friend, Jack Rose,
NJ on which Police Lieutenant Charles
Becker was indicted for Rosenthars
assassination.
Schepps reached here today, accom-
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who joined the Schepps party at AL
bany, after journey from his sum-
mer home at Manchester, VI.
How essential II seemed to Mr..
Whitman that he should personally
protect Schepps from New York po-
lice interference appeared tonight
when he learned that Detective Thom-
as. the police officer, who with AS
sistant District Attorney Rubin.
brought Schepps from Hot Springs,
had received during the journey cast
several kilograms from Deputy Police
Commissioner Dougherty. ordering
him to bring the prisoner to police
headquarters 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..
Whitman. When the train bearing
Mr.. Whitman and the Schepps party
Twenty Fifth street station in New
York City, five headquarters detec-
tives, headed by Detective Haggerty,
boarded It and demanded Schepps as
their prisoner.
II will order the instant arrest of
any officer who attempts to take
Schepps to police headquarters, Mr..
Whitman told Haggerty. "and you can
present my compliments to your COM
missioner"
Mr. Whitman explained to the de-
tectives that as district attorney of
the county he was thoroughly familiar
with the evidence against Sohepps as
ar eleged accomplice Of the murder,
and told them that 1t was insufficient
to arrest him on such charge, this
being the one the police have made
against him.
"Schepps has come, voluntary
witness into the state, on a pledge
from me that he be protected and |
intend to protect him" declared tho
district attorney.
Schepps was arraigned and held on
a technical charge Of vasrancy. His
fellow prisoners I'm the West Side jail
are Rose, "Brdgle" Weber and Harry
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greetings in the prison today.
I'm going to stick by YOU" YELL
ed Schepps when he spied Rose today
behind a coll window across the
courtyard Of the prison.
on the trip from Albany Mr.. Whit
man had long conference with tho
witness behind statc-room doors and
obtained from him. he said tonight, a
story which materially strengthened
his evidence against Becker and
other prisoners, seven in all, who no
.Apacts the grand jury will indict
tomorrow.
ole has corrobor9ted everything in
Jack Roses story that he said 20
would said Mr. Whitman tonight,
As to who was the paymostcr OF
the murder crew, however, Schcpps,
ls far as could be learned tonight,
Toes not fully bear out Rose. The lat
Ter said that Schepps had the blood
n oney." schepps has admitted that
be- was present when the $1,000 was
urned over to "Gyp the Blood and
De three other alleged members ot
De murder crew." and says it was
earned, that he is not sure whether
{ was he or Rose who actually passed
he money.
Schepps, Mr.. whitman said tonight,
anted to go to jail TO avoid the po-
ice and had told him that he feared
n unfair third degree at police
headquarters. Deputy Commissioner
)ougherty, he added. knew Schepps
las a peoples witness, because he had
I'D him so.