Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1912-08-22
is ARRAIGNED IN open COURT
OTHER ACCUSED MEN PLEAD
NOT GUILTY WITH RIGHT TO
CHANGE THEIR PLEAS.
DATE SET FOR NEXT TUESDAY
ON THAT DATE POLICE LlEUTEN.
ANT MUST ANNOUNCE
DECISION.

New York, Aug. 22.-Police Lieu
tenant Charles Becker and four oi
his alleged underworld accomplices
were arraigned in the coutr Of gen,
eral sessions today to plead to an in
dictment charging them with the mur-
der Of the gambler, Herman Rosen-
thai. Counsel for Becker said that
he was not ready to plead today and
the court set next Tuesday for the
pleading The other four prisoners
all pleaded not guilty, with permis-
sion to withdraw or change the plea
by Tuesday.
The court room was packed to sur
location when the prisoners entered.
Becker lowered above the others like
q giant. The first case called was
that Of Becker. AS the clerk read the
Indictment, charging murder in the
first degree. John F. Mcintyre, Beck
er's counsel. announced that he was
prepared g plead to the Indictment
which the grand jury handed up some
weeks ago.
but that indictment has been sup
erseded By the present one. said
Judge Mulqueen
"Then we refuse to- plead" said
Mr. Mcintyre. He then asked for a.
postponement and Tuesday, August
27, was the date set.
The case of white" Lewis was
quickly disposed Of by his plea Of
not guilty and was followed by SINH
lar pleas from 'Dago Frank" Jack
Sullivan and William Shapiro, chauf-
feur Of the so-called murder car"
Court then adjourned. The five men
arraigned today included all the pris-
ers 50 far arrested in the RosenthalI
case, but not all those indicted.
@Gyp the Blood ana Lefty Louie,
the two remaining gunmen involved
in the shooting have not been cap
tured. although they have been in
dioted. The arraignment Of Becker
was preceded by the coroner's in
quest which had been adjourned Dan
iel Frohman was foreman of the jury
which, after hearing the evidence, re-
turned a verdict that Rosenthal had
come to his deathsby means Of q bull
let wound in the brain caused by
some person or persons unknown
The jury recommended that Louis
Libby, part owner OF the gray "mur-
der car" be discharged from custody.
This will be done The inquest was
brief and perfunctory and was con
fined merely to determining the
cause Of Rosenthal's death.
Policeman William J. Files, when
criticised for his failure to capture
the assassins, testified that he was
dining in the Metropole 1T the time,
and when he heard the shots mel
pulled his gun and ran out on the
sidewalk He and other officersE
jumped into the taxicab and gave pursI
suit to an automobile going east
This automobile, he learned later,
was not the one in which the assas-
sins escaped The policeman's most
interesting bit Of testimony was a
statement that he had seen "Bridgie1
Weber in the Metropole shortly be-
fore the shooting and had seen him
again in front Of the Cadillac hotel
when Rosenthal was dead. District
Attorney Whitman gave out the in
formation this afternoon that he mad
unearthed six more bank accounts
Of Police Lieutenant Becker showing
deposits Of about $4,000. The pros
ecutor has now located sums Of mon
ey aggregating s125,OoO held on de-
posit IN several banks by the accused
police officer
An the forces Of the district at
torney's office with the aid Of squad |