The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-07-31
PAID FOR KILLING
SAYS JACK ROSE
MAYOR GAYNOR WILL CALL SPE-
CiAL MEETING ALDERMEN TO
INVESTIGATE DEPARTMENT.
BECKER CLAIMS INNOCENCE
Rose Says Order Was Rosenthal Must
Be Made Away With Protection
Promised and No Trouble in Get
ting Gunmen.

New York, July 30.-The sensation
al developments in the Rosenthal
murder case during the past twenty
four hours, led Mayor Gaynor to an
nounce today that he Immediately
would call special meeting Of the
board of aldermen to begin a search
inS investigation of the entire New
York police department.
Police Commission Rhinelander
Waldo, summoned to the mayors of
fee, would make no public statement.
Charles Becker, police lieutenant,iA-
dicted for the murder of the gamb-
le', PACED his cell in the Tombs to-
day loudly protesting his innocence.
Further than this, however, he would
nor be drawn into a discussion of
tn? case.
District Attorney Whitman an
nounced late today he had as yet abb
solutely no evidence involving any
mar higher up than Becker in the
police department. Meanwhile the in
vcstigation of the affair is moving
channels.
Dramatic Developments.
Dramatic developments eddying up
in the wake of Lieutenant Beck
er's indictment for the murder of
Gambler Rosenthal and the confess
sions of Jack Rose, "Bridgie" Web
ber and Harry Vallon, revealed today
to the district attorney the hideous
side of New York's police system"
Prosecutor Whitman, following the
traI of the three confessions, hoped
to run down men "higher up than
Becker and additional indictments
against police officials were EXPECT
ed.
Becker has been arrested. Before
ceii doors had closed on him the
scandal in the police department had
been barred in part, but District A.
torpey Whitman believes that less
than half the narrative of shame has
been told
Z was Bald jack who first broke
down under the prosecutors grill
ins. Rose confessed that Becker
came to him and, fairly desperate
over Rosenthals intention of telling
all he knew of his relations with the
police lieutenant, said:
"Rosenthal has lived too long. H
has got to be put out of the way"
Rose told the public prosecutor and
the grand jury how the murder band
was hired at the instigation of Becker
and that, after the killing, Becker
met Weber and himself and prom
ise1 complete police protection.
The Murderers.
The confessions show that the
of Rosenthal were Lefty
Louie" or Louis Rosenweig; Harry
Harcwitz, or "Gib the Blood; Frank
Muller, or white Jack Lewis and
"pago Frank Cirofici. Only Cirofici
has been apprehended. These gun
men, members of the notorious Big
Jack" Zelig gang, filled themselves
with liquor and then went out and
shot Rosenthal for a price said to be
$1,000.
Fear Police Yet.
Terror stricken Rose, Webber and
Vallon spent last night in the public
prosecutors office, fearing that they
would be murdered if they were
taken to the Tombs prison. Dis
trict Attorney Whitman believes that
his case against Lieutenant Becker is
without a flaw; that the confessions,
taken separately, dove-t tailed and
confirmed with each other, and that
from the testimony of the other wit
nesses the case against Becker can
not be broken down
BALD Jack" Rose, gambler, who
says he was Becker's gambling house
collector felt the ground slipping
from under him day by day. With
out money or friends, he realized that
he was being made to bear the weight
Of the crime alone. His counsel ad-