Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-21
|nformers Will
 Leave New York
ARE LIKELY TO BE RELEASED
 THIS AFTERNOON.
TO ESCAPE REPRISALS
Hurried Trip to Be Made from tn, Metropolis-Had Hoped to Be Re- leased Under Cover of Darkness.

New York, Nov. 2O-It will be in broad daylight and not under cover of darkness, as they had anxiously hoped. that Bald Jack Rose, "Brid- gie" Webber and Harry Vallon will be set at liberty, according to the pro- gramme for the release of the three tnformers against Charles Becker and his four gunmen tools, so far as it could be learned tonight. Mid after noon tomorrow is the time tentatively set. The underworld has been await ing with interest an tntimation as to the time when they were to go free, for the feeling has prevailed there that the friends of the four gangsters about to be sentenced to death for the mur- der of Herman Rosenthal were only awaiting the liberation of Rose, Web Der and Vallon to take revenge upon the trio.
 Will Be Released by Coroner.
 The three men will be brought at two o'clock tomorrow before Coroner Feinberg, who signed the orders of commitment on which they were held originally, according to the plan out lined. District Attorney Whitman wtl1 present to the coroner, it is said, stip- ulations signed by him with counsel for the witnesses. If MT. Whitman VIII uCCldlS lldL lIl6 luTe0 HdNe kcpL faith with the state in giving relevant testimony, the coroner then will re- lease them from commitment. | Will Quash Shapiro's Indictment. l Sam Schepps, fourth of the states valuable witnesses against Becker and ! the gunmen, likewise will probably be released during daylight tomorrow. | The vagrancy charge upon which he | has been held from week to week since his arrest will come up again tomor- row and it is not believed further ad- l journment will be asked "Suspended sentence appears to be Schepps' fate. William Shapiro, driver of he "mur- der car." will also go free shortly. Mir. Whitman will move to have the in- dlctment against Shapiro quashed in return for his testimony for the state.
 All Will Leave Town.
 Rose, Vallon, Schepps. Webber and Shapiro spent today fin packing their effects, anticipating release tonight. Schepps announced he would return to Hot Springs, Ark, whence he fled from this city after RosenthaPs mur- der. The other witnesses did not talk of their immediate future but their friends are expected to hurry them from town to escape peril of re- prisals by followers of RosanthaI's s1ayers.
 Becker as a Witness.
 An attempt will be made to bring Becker from Sing Sing prison to thiI city tomorrow or Friday to testify in
 the trial of Fabian B. McKinhev. z
 negro charged with bribery, accord ing to Harold Spieloerg, attorney for Mckinney. Spielberg said he intend i ed to institute habeas corpus pro. ceedings for Becker's presence as 6 witness.
 Tried to 6ribe Detective.
 Mckinney, who is from Waterbury : Conn, was arrested on February 2; ] ] last, charged with attempting to brib, Detective Carmack of sformer Police
 Lieutenant Becker's strong arm squad. The alleged bribe was in re.
 latlon to charge of carrying con.
 cealed weapons made against anoths, negro arrested by Becker's squad in [ t gambling raid last February.