The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1912-08-03
BECKERS ORDERS
T0LDBY GAMBLERS
ROSE AND WEBER FURTHER
IMPLicATE POLICE LlEUTEN.
ANT IN MURDER.
THUGS WEAKENED ONCE.
This Enraged Becker Who Called
Gangsters Cowards.-Names Of
Two Of tho Hired Assassins
Given to Whitman.

New York, Aug. 1.-Police Lieuten
ant Charles Becker, head of the
strong arm" squad of gambling raid.
ers, who Is charged with tnstigating
the murder of Herman Rosenthal, was
further implicated in the plot to get
rid Of the gambler. when BALD ack"
Rose and "Bridgie" Weber added
another chapter to their damaging al
legations. They told District Attorn.
ney Whitman that Rosenthal was to
have been killed by Becker's orders
10 days before he actually met his
fate and that the plot failed because
the underworld thugs, selected to do
the murder. lost their nerve at the
last moment.
The district attorney spent the
greater part of the afternoon with
Rose and Weber in their cells ut
the West Side police station and un.
der the promise of lcniency. which
the prosecutor has given them. they
talked freely. They gave little addi
tional information regarding the ST.,
100000 fund which they alleged i'll
resorts paid for police protection In
the city every year but their story
Of Bccker's determination to put
Rosenthal out of tho way because OF
his threatened exposures, was ampli
fled to the district attorney and in
the prosecutors opinion he strength.
ened his evidence against Becker.
The plan which failed was to have
been brought to its climax at the Gar
den retaurant on Fifty-first street on
Saturday night, July 6, when Rosen,
thai and his wife were dining there,
according to the account told by Rose
to the district attorney, as spokesman
for the two gamblers. With Rosen.
thai and his wife Mt the time was
Jack Sullivan, the newsboy now I'm.
der arrest for alleged completely in
the murder.
Rose. himself. engineered the lob"
and brought to the restaurant "a fleet
Of thugs" who were to do the actual
shooting, according to Rose. Two OF
the hired assassins were Clip the
Blood" and Lefty" Louie, who are
wanted by the police as two of the
men who actually shot Rosenthnl 10
days later in front Of the Hotel Met.
ropole. Becker at that time WAS
downtown, Rose said, waiting for the
murder plot to be contaminated.
Becker had talked with me every
day." Rose said HE kept saying to
me. why don't you kill this fellow
OFF," Rosenthal would have been
killed off that night il the bunch had.
MT lost their nerve. They got the
notion after they reached the restau-
rant that detective was on to them.
After giving up the assassination we
went to 'Bridgie' Webber's place and
there we met Becker. He denounced
us all up and down.
"'You are all lot Of cowards,' he
said. I'll have to do it myself"
Rosenthal, 1t was recalled by the
district attorney, when he heard the
story had but few days before this
made his first complaint against Beck
err charging that the police lieuten-
ant was partner In his gambling
house.
Although Becker. still in the Tombs.
has thus far refused to make any
statement other than that he is inno-
cent, and that his plight Is the result
of "frame-up" on the part of his
enemies in the gambling fraternity.
Rose predicted to the district attor.
ney that the police lieutenant would
eventually break down and tell all he
| knew.
Bridge Weber told the district at.
torney that his own payment to Beck
er for police protection of his gam.
bling house was 5000 month, but
that this rate was small one com.
: pared With the sums levied on larger
/ establishments.
Shortly after the murder he said
Becker met Rose and Weber in front
of the Murray Hill baths and said:
"Now Bridge, you will have to give
these boys some money to get out of
town. I'll fix 1t up with you later"
! Weber said that he then handed
! $1,000 in large bills to Rose, who
later transferred it to Sam Schepps
and on that afternoon Schepps gave
| It to "Gyp the Blood" and Lefty Louie