The Sentinel=record., 1912-08-13
Both District Attorney and Police Department Want the Man Who Knows" More Than
 Anyone Else About the Rosenthal Murder.
Schepps, Meantime, Waits and Watches---Local Officers Will Hold Him for Whitman's Men
 Tells of New York Graft System.

disposition is that District Attorney Whitman shall have the prisoner, and with these all agreed, there is no question about his disposal.
 Schepps continues a stout denial that he had any associates with him on the trip here, or that any of his friends are here.
 Schepps spends more of his time in silent meditation now than when first placed under arrest. He is less tafIa- tive, and with the flood of newspaper men that have arrived, constantly making inquiries as to this or that point in the charges against him in New York, Schepps only shakes his head. He gives no confirmation, neither does he give denial. He just refuses to talk.
 There was some consolation for Schepps last night when word came from New York that Schepps was not to be held, on arrival there, as an accomplice but as a material wit ness. He will not be formally ar raigned for murder. He will be desig- mated as witness to be held to help the state prove that Rosenthal was murdered at the instance of Lieuten- ant Becker, who was the head of a system of municipal graft
 Schepps has already confirmed the states contention in general way, and District Attorney Whitman now wants the detail Schepps has sta,ed that the greed of the grafters among police and official ranks was the cause of the downfall of them all That fact is also stated in confessions by Webber, Vallon and Jack Rose. iSchepp's story will confirm what he others have said, and will reach fur ther. in that Schepps will be able to bring hundreds of names into the pub lie eye that have never been hinted at in former confessions.
 On the whole yesterday was a dull day of waiting for the officers who have Schepps, as well as the principal himself. Sohepps is held in .he Mar quette Hotel, which is operated by Acting Mayor Tom J. Petit Captain George Howell and Assistant Mosher are on constant vigil. Chief Leonard makes occasional visits and has a general supervision of the situation, but has absolute confidence in his lieutenants.
 Schepps has talked much, and while he refuses to reveal his direct part in the Rosenthal murder plot, or confess that he paid money for the assassins to get away, or tell where he got the money to pay them, he is silent.
 And l won't have much to say enroute to New York" said Schepps. '1t is a long think for me on that trip. If the district attorney man thinks he will have a whole lot of stuff to report to his chef when he gets there with me he is mistaken. The officer I travel with is going to play solitaire with me on the whole of the trip, and that is cinch Whatever l tell or whatever have to tell that has direct bearing on this case, l want to be told straight, and I want to tell it myself if it is told, so the district attorney will not misunderstand"
 Speaking of how murder will out, Schepps said This mistake was a small one It is always the little things that are overlooked. In this case it was the number on the auto mobile. Some people saw that mum Der, knew they saw it, knew they we're not mistaken. and when they told the district attorney he knew that they saw the number and knew that they were not lying or mistaken So that was a pretty good initial cue. and It is what made things stick against the gang, when other influences were sup posed to be squaring things. The num-