The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-07
ROSE WRITES OUT
LONG STATEMENT
Describes Alleged Methods
of Lieutenant Becker
INSTANCES ARE GIVEN
Rose Declares He Was "Stool Pigeon
for Becker and Collected About
$4,000 Month From the
Different Resorts

New York. August s.---"Bald Jack"
Rose. the gambler. upon whose testi-
mony was chiefly based the lndict-
ment OF Police Lieut.. Charles Becker
on the charge of instigating the mur-
der of Herman Rosentha1. today fur
nished District Attorney Whitman with
written statement disclosing In de-
tail the history of his relations with
Becker as one OF the police officers
alleged graft collectors.
Rose in his confession, as the dis
trict attorney terms 1t, gives conf
plete table of his collections from
to Becker.
These collections. according to the
confession" averaged from $4,000 TO
$4,000 month and came from a
dozen or more gambling houses. The
names OF about 10 of them Rose gave
to the district attorney.
Becker, the self-accused gambler
wrote, was continually bounding him
for more money. telling him, he said
that "the bunch downtown isn't getting
enough"
Roses statement was several thous-
and words long. The gambler had been
working on 1t in his cell ever since, on
the promise of leniency. District At
torney Whitman got him week ago
to make his first confession. Rose de-
clared that he had always turned his
collections over to Becker In cash, re-
auently at Roses home and that his
wife and servants had seen the money
pass and could testify to the truth of
his statement.
Becker's Methods
Beckers method of bringing the
gamblers TO terms was TO raid them
first. Rose said This was the officers
way, he explained, of getting ac
quainted.
After the raid he would offer TO
"fx" the case before the grand jury
Rose charged, provided the unfortu-
nate gambler would ''come across To
further impress .ihe gambler Becker
would procure further warrants threat
ening to continue his raids as long as
the gambler refused to pay blackmail
Rose detailed two specific instances OF
Beckers alleged methods. One was that
of Brooklyn poolroom keeper named
Dorsey agai whom one of Becker's
"strong arm men. Foy got evidence.
Rose wrote Becker's men raided the
place and the next day Dorsey came
to see Becker and Rose. Becker. Rose
declared, showed the poolroom keeper
three or four warrants and told him
that for 5000. he would tear them up
and the case would be dropped. The
police officer, Roses story runs, gave
him from Friday until Monday to get
the money, which Dorsey did
The other instance described by Rose
was that Of a gambling place known as
the Sans Souci i'm which Sam Paul, the
East side gang leader was said to be in
tcrested Becker, Rose asserted. never
got real evidence.
Describing his own relations with the
police lieutenant, Rose said that his ac-
auaintance began when Becker raided his
gambling house on the East side. Rose
said he then became stool pigeon for
Becker in his raidng activities and later
his collector.
More Evidence Received
Rose substantiates all that Rosenthal
had charged as to Becker being his part
ner in the Rosenthal gambling house. He
asserted that Becker got S2iz per cent OF
the play" 20 per cent on his own ac-
count and one half of Roses share
which was % per cent.
In addition to Roses statement the dis
trict attorney, 1t was learned tonight OBJ
tained telephone records substantiating
Roses story that a few minutes after
the murder of Rosentha Rose called
Becker on the telephone and asked MIN
to come down town at once and that he
communicated by telephone with Becker
several times that day.
The prosecution also had discovered the
whereabouts of Pollock, at whose home
(Continusd on Psge Eighty