The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-10-26
POLICE LIEUTENANT DID NOT
FLINCA WHEN VERDICT
WAS READ.
FIRST 0F.SEvEN TO Be TRIED
Four "Gunmen" to Go on Trial Early
in NoVember-Have No Desire for
Personal Liberty as They Feel
Safer in Jail.

New York, Oct. %. We find the
defendant guilty as charged in the
Indictment"
With these words uttered in the
solemnness of midnight, the foreman
of the jury having in charge the ac-
quittal or conviction of Lieutenant
Charles Becker, indicted for murder.
in that he instigated the killing or
Herman Rosenthal one hundred days
ago, declared that twelve men had
found Becker guilty of murder in the
first degree, the penaltyffor which is
electrocution.
Becker did not finch when the ver-
dict was rendered.
The jury was then polled, and each
answered that the verdict given was
his individual verdict.
John f. Mcintyre, Becker's chief
counsel then asked that all further
proceedings be stayed for one week,
that he might prepare the proper
motion for an appeal, and Justice Goff
announced that he would defer SEN
tence until October 80, and remanded
the prisoner until that date. An ap-
peal from the verdict goes directly to
the court of appeals at Albany, and
acts, OF couEse, as stay of execu
ton.
District Attorney Whitman said
this afternoon that the four gunner
will go on trial in the early part of
November. Then the informers, Val
Ion, Rose, Webber and Schepps, will
be brought into court once more to
repeat their story. Mr.. Whitman
pointed out that while counsel for the
informers had the right to appear
before Justice Goff and demand their
release on bail, they had no desire
for liberty.
What they want now," he said
grimly is not heavy bail, but heav-
ier doors on the west side court
prison. They would rather be on the
inside looking out than on the out
side looking in"
The twelve men refused today to
discuss their deliberations, ending at
two minutes after 12 o'clock this
morning in verdict Of first Gegree
against Becker.
Preparing Appeal.
Exhausted by the ordeal of the
trial, John F. Mcintyre, chief coun-
sci for the defense, nevertheless be-
gan today the preliminary steps look
ing to an appeal and stay of exc
cution for his client The case will
be fought to the court of appeals,
and Becker, pacing the cell in the
Tombs, expresses hope of the out
come. At the same time he denounc-
es what he styles the rigorous par
tiality of Justice Golf in his charge
to the jury and his conduct of the
trial
Mrs. Becker, who tainted in the
corridors of the criminal courts
building when breathless messenger,
sprinting for telephone shouted
Guilty. is under the care of rela-
tives at her home in the Bronx. Like
her husband, she never dreamed of
a first degree verdict, but rather
counted on a disagreement of the jur-
ors.
One of the first places to which
news of the verdict was taken was
the West Side prison, where are quar-.
tered the informers, Jack Rose, Sam
Sleeps, Bridge Webber and HarrJ
Vallon. The four apparently expect
ed disagreement, however, for they
were all asleep with the exception
of Schepps. He was at first suspic-
ious when told that first degree
verdict had been returned, then re-
marked:
"Mr. Whitman is a smart man"
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