Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-02

moral indictment against his depart
ment.'
"Dago Franks" Confession.
1t is extremely improbable that
Commissioner Waldo will be called
before the Grand Jury. All the force
of William j. Burns's band of detec-
tives has been turned into the case
In behalf of the district attorney, and
this is ia zen to show how much con-
6dence Mr.. Whitman has in the
ability or willingness of the police
department to bring the murderers
and the grafters to Justice.
''Dago Frank Cirofici, who has
confessed, has decided to go to the
Grand Jury room and tell how
Rosenthai was surrounded and shot
to death; the number of shots fired;
who fired them; how and by whom
he was hired to join the murder
party. and how he and his compan-
ions got away.
Cirofici had been identified posi-
lively by three witnesses as one of
the men who fred the shots which
killed Rosenthal. Then he broke
down.
II was in the murder parity he
cried. Il was one of the men hired to
kill Rosenthal, but l did not fire a
shot,
The shooting" he went on. was
done either by Lefty Louie or by
Whitley Lewis. -Four men were in
the party. but one or the other of
these two was the only man who
pulled a trigger"
District Attorney Whitman looks
upon the confession of "Dago Frank"
as of the utmost importance. 1t
brings the actual commission of u
der home to certain persons named
by a participant, and it corroborates
the confessions of Jack Rose and
"Bridgey" Weber.
Saw Rose In Becker's Behalf.
Following fast on the confession of
Cirof1ci, although not directly con
nected with it, John w. Hart, attor-
ney for Lieutenant Charles A. Becker.
accused of the murder of Rosenthal.
was taken before Judge Mulqueen and
ordered to answer questions pro-
pounded to him before the Grand Jury
by the district attorney.
He admitted hat he visited Jack
IAQSCt oltG vi Lax - hao IVA
fessed, while Rose was in hiding fol-
lowing Rosenthaps murder. Hart
went as the messenger of Lieutenant
Becker. He visited Rose, he said, in
an effort to get an affidavit concern
ing the 1850 Rosenthal claimed he
had obtained from Becker on a mort
gage, and another affidavit concern
ing Rosenthars charge that Becker
had demanded and received 20 per
cent. of the profits of Rosenthal's
gambling house. At the time he got
these affidavits, Hart declares, he did
know Rose was accused of com I
in the murder.
May Ask Disbarment
District Attorney Whitman de-
,lared he would seek the disbarment
Of Hart on the charge of knowing the
of a man wanted on a
charge and keep his knowl-
secret.
Harris testimony. combined with
of "Dago Frank" puts the crux
up to the accused Becker.
According to the authorities, Harris
testimony showed that Becker was in
communication with Rose,
who has confessed to having been a
.ool of Becker in the murder plot, at
, time the police official should have
,een arresting Rose instead of par
eying with him.
"Dago Franks" testimony explicitly
that the money for the killing
vas paid over by Sam Schepps, who
s the man named by Jack Rose
"Bridgey' Weber as Becker's
igent in the matter. The links of
he chain fit as If forged and they
are binding the accused police office
closer and closer. Harris admissions
are especially convincing of Becker's
guilty knowledge of the conspiracy
the resulting assassination.
Currsn Doubts Watson.
An interesting incident was Harris
statement thai he had conferred fire.
as Becker's attorney with
William Travers Jerome, former dis
.rict attorney. The Grand Jury now
wants to know if Jerome is the real
attorney for Becker and Hart only a
blind.
Corporation Counsel Watson has is
sued a statement for the public in
which he said he will not be deprived
his right to conduct the graft
probe proposed by the Board of AL
p
Alderman Curran. who forced the
to call a meeting of the alder
men to start the Investigation, replied
saying, I'VE might as well send
bucket of whitewash to police head
quarters as to have Watson conduct
investigation"
Inspectors have been stationed Ill
'front.' of gambling houses. and Com
Waldo has practically
the police department into a
Russian secret service by forbiddins
he men to talk to reporters and by
the reporters from the police
department except on business. when
hey must o loiter in the hall or
ialk to the men on duty.
Seek Vengeance on Woman
Gangsters of the Tenderloin have
-ried to kill Mrs. Mary Bassi. a white
investigator who claims to have
been the wife of George w. Pullman,
of the founder. of the Pull
man Palace Car Company. After
death she converted ami
married Spanish Louis Bassi, a
" hite slave traffieker. in an effort to
reform him.
He would stay reformed. how
ever, and now Mrs. Bassi is in New
York TO tell the district attorney
she knows of the police graft
from the women of the underworld.
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