Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-26
BECKER'S PHOTO
TO Be TAKEN FOR
ROGUES' GALLERY
Convicted Murderer
Will Again Go to
Headquarters.
WHITMAN EXPECTS TO
SEND GUNMEN TO CHAIR
Shapiro, Owner of Death Car,
Said to Be Ready to Iden-
tify Them.

NEW YORK, Oct. 26.--Charles
Becker, automa tically dropped from
the police rolls by his conviction for
murder and no longer lieutenant in
that department, will pay one more
visit to police headquarter" before he
goes to Sing Sing prison to await
action of the Court of Appeals. He
will be taken from the Tombs to the
Bureau Of Identification to be pho
tographed and measured for the
rogues' gallery.
The legal work necessary to get
Becker's case before the Court of
] Appeals will begin Immediately after
the sentence is pronounced by JUS
tice Goff on Wednesday next. No
tice of appeal will be FLED forthwith
and this will operate as a stay OF
execution, The case is not likely to
be set for argument for several
months. and decision on the appeal
is not expected for year or more
although the action will be expedited
by Mr.. Whitman in every way pos
sible.
In the event of reversal of the
verdict. Becker would be remanded
to the Tombs again without bail to
await a new trial. Because the trial
just ended was in "A SPECIAL term of
court ordered by Governor Dix all of
the records on appeal will go to the
Governor. and all the costs of appeal
will be paid by the State. This fol-
lows the precedent set in the Moll-
neaux case, in which Justice Con-
! was reversed by the Court of Ap-
peals after delay Of two years.
Mofineaux was acquitted on his sec
ond trial
! Although Becker was be sentenced
on Wednesday, October 80, he will
not so to Sing Sing until about No
vember ., ten days being generally
allowed for consultations with coun-
/ sell
District Attorney Whitman has to-
day practically completed bis case
against the four gunner, 'Gyp the
Blood" Lefty Louis, Whitley
/ Lewis and "Dago Frank" Cirotici and
! will move the triai of one of them
ON November Z. William Shapiro.
driver of the automobile IN which The
men fed after the murder of Her
man Rosenthal, has promised, il IS
/ reported, to Identify positively all
four of the men as the slaNers Of
! Roaenthal
Before these eGnnen SO To trial
Red Phil" Davidson will be put en
trial for the murder Of jack IehS.
| This will begin next "Wednesday, the
day on which Justice Golf will SELL
tence Charles Becker to die in the
/ electric chair
Police circles We're upset last night bs
the report that Commissioner Waldo
/ had resigned as sequel To the con
viction of Becker and that Mayor
Gaynor would announce the name of
! his successor either tomorrow or
Monday. Politicians close TO the adj
mlnistration said that as matter
of fact WHldo's resignation has been
In the Mayors hands for the last
two weeks aud that Mayor Gaynor
did not believe it discreet to take
cognizance of it unail after the trial
of Becker
Report That Waldo Quit.
one report had it that Fire Com
missioner Johnson had been asked to
head the police department
Inc TtNtldllDuS VI WV hlp'i
committee exposing the way Com
missioner Waldo opened the gates 10
! host of confessed perjurers, bur
glars thieves and gangsters how the
commissioner reinstated DISMISSED
policemen. and how he took summary
vengeance upon Lieutenant Stanton
because Stanton testified against his
superior, have worried the Mayor ex-
ceedingly. Those in the Mayors con-
fidence admitted today that unless a
new executive took hold of the police
department and began Immediately a
thorough housekeeping the Gaynor
administration might be overthrown
before the end of it's elected time of
office.
The brave little woman, who for
three weeks SAT IN a corner of the
courtroom and listened to the mass
of damaging testimony that was
heaped against her husband, seemed
Continued on Second PaEe.)
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