The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-18
KEITH SWEARS HE WAS OFFERED STEP FOR SMALL FORTUNE Under Sheriff Denies Offer- ing to Secure Promotion
 for Money
M'INTYRE OUTLINES
 BROKERS DEFENSE
Declares Gunmen Had Personal Guar rel With Gambler-Huff Busy in Hot Springs Investigation.
 No Developments

New York, September 17.-A summary oi what purports to be the S10.000 affidavit was made public. John Keith is the police captain said to have made oath that he was offered promotion from lieutenant to captain for the small fortune mentioned The summary asserts that Keith swears he was informed by an under sheriff that the people who had the power to pro- mote him wanted this sum. This was prior to Mayor Gaynor's administration Keith was subsequently, promoted to a captaincy when Waldo became commits sioner and his affidavit is sad to contain statement that his promotion did not cost him one copper.
 Alfred G. Johnson, the former under sheriff named in the summary, declared tonight that he never offered to get Keith promoted. He said the police officer had come 10 him several times. and wanted to know if there was not some one who could have him promoted for the payment of s1o,0oo or s15,Ooo.
 T told him straight off that he was a fool to think that money eould help him, he added
 Mir. Johnson declared the affidavit whicl has been asked for by the alderman, committee had been brought to light tt oiscredit him as a possible witness or police corruption. He asserted he hao information of the existence of a branch office for the collection of police graft al 115 Broadway which he investigated last December. His detective, he said, hao traced the man who maintained the office to the home of a high civil employe of the police department. The fact that he had made this investigation was known, he declared to high police officials.
 It is expected the aldermanic commit tee will begin an investigation of the charges made in the affidavit tomorrow.
 Former Magistrate Wahle, counsel fol the two gunmen, said today the defense of his clients would be an alibi which they would have no difficulty in proving.
 The first authoritative outline of what Police Lieutenant Charles Beckers de- fense will be at his trial on the charge of instigating the murder of Herman Rosenthal was drawn tonight by John k Mcintyre, Becker's counsel. MT. Me- lntyre declared he would prove the gun men under indictment as well as others charged with complicity in the crime, had "a very lively quarrel of their own with Rosenthal' because the gambler was "a poacher of their women and girls.
 He won their shameful wage earners away from them declared the attorney. Becker did not hire these men to kill Rosenthal. The gangsters had their own personal reasons for desiring the death of Rosenthal and Becker had neither part nor knowledge in their conspiracy"
 Attorney Mcintyre also announced that discovery of important evidence winch will favor Becker had caused him to abandon his proposed trip to Hot Springs, Ark, to take dispositions which would tend to prove that Sam Schepps had declared Becker was not instgator of the Rosen- thai killing. Mcintyre will send lawyer J. w. Hart to Hot Springs in his place.
 "The new evidence. said attorney Me- Intyre tonight. .wil sweepingly exoror- ate my client
 Hot Springs, Ark, September 17.-Spe- ciaI Commissioner r. C. Huff was engaged today making preparations for the hear ing of testimony of citizens who talked with Sam Schapps while the latter was under detention here, in connection with the Herman Rosenthal murder case in New York. District Attorney Whitman of New York said he would probably talk with these witnesses. He seeks deposi- tons before the hearing. There were no developments out of the ordinary.