The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-08-08
HOW HIGHER UPS"
BLED UNDERDOGS
BALD JACK ROSE MAKES WRIT
TEN CONFESSION AND TELLS
WHOLE STORY.


Rose, the gambler upon whose tes-
,imony was chiefly based the in
dicment Of Police Lieutenant Becker
on the charge of instigating the muir
der of Herman Rosenthal today fur
uisAod District Attorney Whitman
with a written statement disclosing
in detail t.e story of his relations
with Becker as one Of the police
officers alleged graft collectors.
Rose in his confession, as the dis
trict attorney terms it, gives a COM
plete table of his collections from
gamblers which he said, he turned
over to Becker.
These collections, according to the
confession averaged from $4,000
to $1,000 month and came from
dozen or more gambling houses
| The names of about ten of them
Rose gave to the district attorney.
Becker, the self accused gambler
wrote, was continually bounding him
for more money telling him he said,
that " the bunch down town ism
getting enough"
Roses statement was several thu
sand words long The gambler had
been working on it in his cell ever
Of
District Attorney Whitman got HIM
a week ago to make his first con
fession. Rose declared that he had
always turned his collections over to
Becker in cash, frequently at Rose 5
had seen the money pass and could
testify to the truth of his statement.
After the raid he would offer to
fix the case before the grand jury,
Rose charged, provided the unfor
To further impress the gambler,
Becker would procure further war
ldHIS, luledItHIHS W SoiIIluc IIo
raids as long as the gambler refused
to pay blackmail. Rose detailed two
specific instances of Becker's alleged
methods. One was that of Brook
lyn pool room keeper named Dorsey,
Foy, got evidence, Rose wrote. Beck
er's men raided the place and the
next day Dorsey came to Sc Becker
and Rose. Becker, Rose declared,
showed the pool room keeper three
or four warrants and told him that
for $500 he would tear them up and
the case would be dropped. The
police officer, Rose says, gave him
from Friday until Monday to get the
money, which Dorsey did.
Describing his own relations with
the police lieutenant, Rose said that
his acquaintance began when Becker
raded his gambling house on the
east side. Rose said he then became
stool pigeon" for Becker in his
raiding activities and later his col
lector.
Rose substantiates all that Rosen
thai had charged as to Becker be-
ing his partner in the Rosenthal |
gambling house. He asserted that
Becker got 80 1.2 per cent of the !
play 20 per cent on his own ac
count ana one-half Of Roses share,
which was % per cent.
In addition to Roses statement, the |
district attorney, it was learned to-
night, obtained telephone records
substantiating Roses story that a
few minutes after the murder of Ro- |
senthal, Rose called Becker on the
telephone and asked him to come
down at once and that he commune
Gated by telephone with Becker sew
eral times that day. -
Becker saw newspaper men in his
cell today when he was asked if it
was true that the system was col
lectiTg a $4,000 fund to defend him.
He replied, Il nave engaged John
f. McIntire to conduct my case by
advice of my counsel, John w. Hart,
30 system will suggest my counsel.
am master of my own case
The search of both the police and
he district attorneys detectives for
'Gyp the Blood and 'Leftie Louie,
wanted as Rosenthal's actual mur-
ierers. this Tar. has proven fruitless.