The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-08-16
STATEMENT MADE
BY ONE PRISONER.
JACK ROSE MAKES CONFESSION,
TELLING OF LIEUTENANT's RE.
LIEF AT GAMBLERS DEATH
"HIGHER-UPS' THREAT ENED
Webber and XaIIon Told to Throw
Becker to the WoIves", But Shield
Other Three Men = Threats Made
Against "SqueaIers."


sion Of Bald Jack" Rose, as prepared
by the gambler for District Attorney
Whitman and printed this morning.
with Roses own spelling and pune
tuation, Rose declares that Becker
himself had decided to kill Rosenthal
if others had not done the work. After
the killing, Rose says, he met Becker
by appointment near the murder
scene. In his written confession Rose
says: AIM
81 opened the conversation by say
ing: My God, Charlie, this is horri-
BILE. There will be - to pay He
said: What is the matter? Don't you
worry, leave all that to me- l asked,
Have you seen him and he said, 4
saw the squalling-I would have liked
to have taken my knife out and cut
a piece of his tongue out and hang
it on the - building as a warning
to possible future squealers.' He said,
We'll / was saved the trouble doing
it myself He said, L became tired
waiting for you fellows to get the
gang to do it, so decided tonight to
do it myself
Becker Was Going to Kill RosenthaI.
81 asked him how. Well he said,
after l left Jack Sullivan l instruct
ed Otto to drive by the Metropole and
to slow down without stopping.
intended, if Rosenthal was thvre, to
take out my gun and blaze away at
him, and then tell Otto to keep going,
but he wasn't there l said, Well,
what about these fellows?' He said,
I will take good care of everybody
concerned. To Webber he said, See
that these fellows get enough money
to get out of town, say about thou
sand dollars between them,' which
Webber said he would, which makes
fifteen hundred from Weber,"
The grand jury was prepared to re-
sumo it's investigation into the Ros-
enthal case today. District Attorney
Whitmans assistants are making an
investigation of real estate transac-
tions. information having come to the
district attorney that within the last
year one police inspector had invest
ed over 100000 in choise uptown
lots.
Threatened With Death.
Threatened with death if they re-
veal information regarding the three
men higher up" in the gambling
graft scandal Bridge" Weber and
Harry Vallon, two of the associates
of Rose, may prove to be recalcitrant
witnesses. The two prisoners are
confronted on the other hand by pos
sible indictments charging them with
the murder of the gambler, Herman
Rosenthal, unless they tell the entire
truth. The two prisoners tried to
determine today what course to pur-
sue.
Webber and Vallon have been
reached and told, according to Val
Ions counsel, to throw Lieutenant
Becker to the wolves, but to shield
the names of three men now regard
ed by the states attorney by the
states attorney as directors of the
graft system.
Indictments Depend on Them.
District Attorney Whitman is let
ting the two prisoners decide them
selves what attitude they will take.
Their indictments depend largely upon
the testimony they give Rose in
sists that he will go through with the
case to the end and that pressure OF
threats viii not swerve him from tell.
ing the secrets OF the gambling and
police system. ~
James NJ. Sullivan, vallon's lawyer.
says that for some time messengers
from these ''higher1up" and from GER
tain police inspectors have surrep-
titiously visited vallon and Webber
n their cells and told them that they
might tell what they pleased about
Lieutenant Becker, but that IL they
Informed on the big fellows they
might as well make away with them
selves, as they would meet death