Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1912-08-19
HE is A. Bit NERVOUS
BUT DECLARES He WILL MAKE
KNOWN ALL He KNOWS or
RosENTHAL CASE.
POLICE GRAFT NOT new
NEW YORK DISTRICT ATTORNEY
HAS BEEN. INVESTIGATING
il FoR SOME TIME.

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New 4orA, aug. l9. .nam ScneppI
came back 10 Roadway touay with &
statement on his nps coroDorating THE
Confession OF bald Jack" Rose
cnarging rollce Lieutenant Becker
with lnstigating the murder OF the
! gambler, Herman Rosenthal. For two
hours Schepps and District Attorney
Whitman we're in conference on a
train, speeding south from Albany.
When they reached New York, Mr..
Whitman said: Sohepps has done
all that we expected Of him. He las
corroborated the most important parts
Of Jack Roses confession. You must
not ask me for details"
Opposing interests ofthe district at
torney's Office and the police again
were in evidence when Schepps arriy-
ed, Two detectives from headquarters,
saying they were acting on orders,
attempted to seize him, but Mr.. Whit
man announced that his officer was
in command and his detectives took
scheppa tq IL West side police court.
on a technical charge of vagrancy, as
a material witness. Schepps himself
refused to say a word about his con-
ference with Mr.. Whitman.
Of the authorities Mr.. Whitman
alone knows what part Schepps play
ed in the Rosenthal affair. TO ali
others, including Assistant District
Attorney Rubin, who accompanied
him from Hot Springs. schepps turn
ed a deaf ear.
Say he would burst out when
urged to tell of his underworld asso-
ciates do you think I'm going to
squeal on pal?"
When asked if he had told all he
knew concerning the Rosenthal case
to the district attorney Schepps grin
ned and replied: I'VE didn't discuss
like that We just had a
nice chat" It is known, however,
that Schepps substantially corrobor-
atOt Bald Jack" Roses story.
The receipt Of news that sam
Schepps, the long-sought witness
in the Rosenthal murder case, would
be here this morning and that while
on the train he was given an exami-
nation by District Attorney Whit
man, who joined Schepps and his
guard at Albany, served to incite the
hope that missing links in the story
which Bald jack Rose told implt-
eating Police Lieutenant Becker in
the murder of Herman Rosenthal
would be supplied
Rose has said repeatedly that il
Schepps would tell the truth his
(Rose's) story would be corroborat-
ed. Information came from the pub
lie prosecutors office today that ere
ated unusual interest at police head.
quarters It was learned that for sew
eral months prior to the shooting ofl
officers Of the district at
torney have been quietly investigat-
Ing graft in the police department.
The big grafters, it is said, have been
constantly shadowed for four months
and the Rosenthal shooting simply
hurried matters.
From members Of the district at
torney's staff it was learned that
well known civilian and two, and pos
sibly four, police inspectors are
caught in the tolls The district at
borney has obtained information that
i collector for one man high III po-
lice circles had accumulated no less
than $4,000 as his commission on
IN the last seven months.
The Investigation into police graft
started when Lieutenant Becker
through Rose, it is reported, attempt-
ID to get $3.50 from private poker
,lub. His demand was turned down II