Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-08-09
BECKER ORDERED It
ROSE AND WEBER FURIHen
,mpltcATE POLICE LlEUTEN-
ANT IN MURDER.
THUGS WEAKENED ONCE.
This Enraged Becker, VINO Sa"eo
Ganasters cowards.-Names OF
Two Of the Hired Assassins
Given to Whitman.

New 1Ofk, n. 1. oiiNS
ant Charles Becker. head OF the
strong arm" squad of gambling raid
ers. who is charged with instigatlng
the murder of Herman Rosenthai, was
further implicated in the plot to get
rid of the gambler. when Bald JACK
Rose and Bridge" Weber addeo
another chapter to their damaging al
legations. They told District Attorn-
ney Whitman that Rosenthal was to
have been killed by Becker's orders
10 days before he actually met MS
fate. and that the plot failed because
the underworld thugs. selected to 40
the murder. lost their nerve at the
last moment
The district attorney spent the
greater part of the afternoon with
Rose and Weber in their cells al
the West Side police station and I'M
der the promise of leniency, which
the prosecutor has given them, they
talked freely They gave little addi-
tional information regarding the 81
400, 900 fund which they alleged i'll
resorts paid for police protection in
the city every year but their story
of Becker's determination to put
Rosenthal out of the way because OF
his threatened exposures, was ampll-
fed to the district attorney and in
the prosecutors opinion he strength
ened his evidence against Becker.
The plan which failed was to have
been brought to its climax at the Gar
den retaurant on Fifty-first street on
Saturday night, July 6, when Rosen-
thai and his wife were dining there,
according to the account told by Rose
to the district attorney. as spokesman
for the two gamblers. With Rosen-
thai and his wife at the time was
Jack Sullivan. the newsboy now I'M
der arrest for alleged completely in
the murder
Rose, himself, engineered the Job"
and brought to the restaurant "a fleet
of thugs who were to do the actual
shooting, according to Rose. Two Of
the hired assassins were Clip the
Blood" and Lefty" Louie, who are
wanted by the police as two of the
men who actually shot Rosenthal 10
days later in front of the Hotel Met
ropole. Becker at that time was
Rose said, waiting for the
murder plot to be consummated.
Becker had talked with me every
day." Rose said. He kept saying to
me. why don't you kill this fellow
off?" Rosenthal would have been
killed off that night if the bunch had
MT lost their nerve. They got the
notion after they reached the restau-
rant that a detective was on to them.
After giving up the assassination We
went to -Bridgie' Webber's place and
there We met Becker. He denounced
US all up and down.
You are all lot of cowards,' he
said. I'll have to do it myself
Rosenthal, it was recalled by the
district attorney, when he heard the
story, had but few days before this
made his first complaint against Beck
er, charging that the police lieuten-
ant was a partner in his gambling
house.
Although Becker, still in the Tombs,
has thus far refused to make any
statement other than that he is limo.
cent, and that his plight is the result
Of a ''frame-up" on the part of his
enemies in the gambling fraternity,
Rose predicted to the district attor-
ney that the police lieutenant would
eventually break down and tell all he
knew.
Bridge Weber told the district at
-orney that his own payment to Beck
sr for police protection of his gam
bling house was $500 a month, but
hat this rate was a small one COM
pared with the sums levied on larger
Shortly after the murder he said
Becker met Rose and Weber in front
Of the Murray Hill baths and said:
Now Bridge, You will have to give
,hese boys some money to get out of
own. I'll fix it up with you later"
Weber said that he then handed
81 900 in large bills to Rose. who
alter transferred it to Sam Schepps
md on that afternoon Schepps cave
t to "Gyp the Blood" and Lefty J.ou;o