Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-01
Detective Burns, Working for
Rich Men, Long Ago Had
Graft Evidence.
SLAYER'S PAYMASTER
TO GIVE HIMSELF UP
Information Now Being Welded
Together Wholesale Arrests
of Officials Near.

NEW YORK, Aug. For months
before Herman Rosenthal was shot
down in the heart of New York's white
light district detectives employed by
millionaires of this city had been trac-
ing police corruption. Their campaign
is still going on, and District Attorney
Whitman will soon spring a trap that
will catch high officials who have ben
Gifted from the blackmail levied upon
gamblers and other lawbreakers.
This was todays most sensational
development in the police scandal and
hunt for the murderers of Rosenthal.
The men who plotted the death of
Rosenthal knew nothing of the detec-
tives on their trail. They thought that
by removing Rosenthal before he be-
trayed their operations they would es-
cape prosecution.
Shortly after Rosenthal was killed 1t
was announced that Detective w j.
Burns had been engaged to track the
gamblers slayers. AS a matter OF fact,
1t was learned today that Burns and
his men had been at work for six
months in an investigation OF the alli-
They secured the necessary evidence,
but the confessions of Jack Rose, Louis
Weber and Harry Vallon have
strengthened the hand of the district
attorney
The evidence gathered by Burns and
that forced from the accusers of Lieu
tenant Charles A. Becker by fear Of the
electric chair is now being welded to-
gether AS soon as complete. it will be
laid before the grand jury and indict-
ments asked
Revelation of the officials actually
involved will result in the greatest po-
lice upheaval this city has ever seen,
according to attaches of the district at
torneys office
One of the connecting links in the
evidence is to be forged through the
testimony of Samuel Schepps, the sus-
pect who yesterday notified Mr.. Whit
man that he would surrender today.
Schepps is alleged to have been the
paymaster of the murder crew that as
sassinated Rosenthal.
According to Jack" Rose. $1,000 was
turned over to Schepps to pay the as
sassins. There is not a detail of the
crime with which Schepps is not per-
fectly familiar, and preparations were
made at the district attorneys office for
a long and interesting session with
him Schepps attorney arranged for
the man to come in and join the
"squeal chorus.
Schepps has more gifts in the line
of narrative and recital than any of the
other men who have confessed. It is
understood that he will get the same
sort of treatment that Mr. Whitman
gave Rose, Weber and WALTON, who
We're permitted to turn states evidence
in the murder case. Schepps was one
of the graft workers in the tenderloin
along with Rose and Weber. He coll
lected graft for the police. He was
active with Rose and Jack" Sullivan
in getting the testimony of Dora Gil
bert, Rosenthars first wife. against
Rosenthal He rode in Shapiro's muir
der automobile with Rose and WALTON.
Schepps went along to Webbers in the
| machine, after stopping uptown to see
/ Roses brother-in law. He followed the
! trail of the crime Immediately until the
last chapter. when he stood with Rose
under the shadow of The Times build
ing and paid the money to the assas-
\ sins who actually did the job.
Officials planned today for the com
*ing Of Schepps and for such action as
4 his story might suggest. one who Is
Thigh in the councils Of the district at
storney said that but few connecting
links were to be made in evidence now
hand before police officials would be
harvested for extortion.
ID Reports that Commissioner Waldo
#Nili resign grew persistent today. He
Tefused TO comment on this. saying
#ony that he welcomes any investiga-
q ton Of the department.