The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-14
PUTS STERN
GUARD OVER TONGUE
Alleged Paymaster of Gun
men Declares He Has Moth
ing TO Confess; Trail
"Gyp, the Blood"
BY International News Service,

At EW YORK, Aug, lG,-New evf-
nj dence which turned the finger
u of accusation on high officials
and other men we'll known in
public life, heretofore unsupported. was
laid before the grand jury today at
its inquiry into the murder Of Her
man Rosenthal, and its subsequent and
alliance between police and gamblers.
After eighteen witnesses had been
examined by the grand jury today the
information came from the district at
torDey's office that among the new
names obtained and which will prob
ablv figure in early arrests are those
of the proprietor Of one Of New York s
leading hotels, a man known the coun-
try over and in Europe, and who is
powerful in politics; one of the best
known inspectors in tho police depart
ment and politician of prom
inence.
Seven Indictments Likely.
Five, and possibly seven indictments,
are expected as a result Of the grand
jury session.
1t is declared that evidence was pre-.
sented to the grand jnry today to
show that it was Booker 8 money that
paid the assassins Of Rosenthal, al
though the money ostensibly was fur
nishcd by "Bridgy' Webber.
Inspectors Are Frightened.
Also inadvertently the news brought
out today that five police inspectors.
sceuting indictments, had offered a
100000 retainer TO prominent law
firm to prepare their defense in al
vance. The inquiry which threatens
these indictments is said to have shown
that at least three have accumulated
fortunes of more than half a million
each
That Lieutenant Becker, now held
as the instigator of the murder of
Rosenthal. and who is said to be one
of a half dozen chiefs of the police
grafters. deposited $4,000 with the Lin
coin Trust company during May, and
that he rented safety deposit box
from the Madison Safe Deposit
company on November "a last and
visited it fourteen times before July
| II last was the information given the
grand jury by Manager Griffin of the
Madison company and an official in
the Lincoln Trust company, Becker Is
salary was S2250 a year.
Becker "Saved His Money"
District Attorney Whitman discov'
cred today that Becker, who has been
nsaving his money" has on deposit
in four banks $5s,s45,
Mr.. Whitman confidently expects to
prove that Becker's deposits hold IN
other banks will make his frugal saw
ines reach 100000, Evidence has al
ready been adduced to indicate that
additional deposits arc held in at least
five institutions not yet investigated.
Falls Into Burns's Trap.
Important in the evidence submitted
TODAY by William j. Burns as q result
of his several weeks investigation Of
tho graft situation was the story of
how one of his operatives opened uI
a. gambling room uptown, paid heavily
for protection and finally bought a
crooked roulette wheei from police
officer aHer his straight wheel had
failed to win anything, The wheel
furnished by the police official had
been taken by the police in raid.
The alibi Of "Dago Frank - Cirofic
was completely shattered today by
Rose Harris, in whose apartment h
was arrested. Wanted as one of the
siayers Of RosenthaI, Cirofici said he
was at n certain police station offer
ing bail for Rose Harris Mt the time
OF the Rosenthal murder. This the
Harris woman denied.