The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-08-08
BECKER TALKS
OF HIS ARREST
Police Commissioners Waldo and
Daugherty Are Both Asked to
Explain Their knowledge of
New York Police Graft
and Corruption.

nigh Officials ifau OCcn named TO
District Attorney Whitman as
participants i'm the graft system
that resulted i'm the assassination
of Herman ROScnthaI and the in
dictncnt of Lieutenant Charles
n. Becker.
Eight men, occupying high DO
sitiOnS. were involved I'm the case
by the confessions of Jack
Rose, Louis Wcbber and Harry
WALTON, according TO reports cur
rent about MIR. Whitnan's office.
The District Attorney refuses
60 give out these names. The
very newspaper man who saw the
District Attorney was later be-
sicScd 10y various police officials
for any information he might
have secured.
Deputy Commissioner Dough-
crty seemed unrufflcd 10y the
threat OF sensational revelations,
involving executive Officers OF his
department. lie promised more
arrests i'm the case, saying: We
have several lines out and expect
additional arrests before night"
NEW YORK, July SO.-MayOr
GaynOr today announced that he
would call a special meeting of
the Board OF Aldermen to begin
an investigation of the Police
Department. Police Commissioners
Waldo was with the Mayor when
the announcement was made.
NEW YORK. July 3O.-Com-
plete exposure of n graft system
i'm which the police have black
mailed gamblers and other law
breakers and have protected them
i'm turn was promised today as a
result of the indictment and ar
rest of Lieutenant Charles n.
Becker on the charge of planning
and ordering the murder of Her
man ROscnthaI, the informer,
who was killed two weeks ago in
front of the MctrOpOle Hotel.
District Attorney Whitman is
confident that he will DC able to
fix the Cri neon Becker as n result
OF confessions made 10y Jack
Rose, who admitted that he had
been Becker's collector Louis
Wcbbcr. the gambler. and Harry
WALTON, the Eastside gang leader.
They named Harry HOrOwitz,
Frank Muttcr, alias Whitley
Jack" Louis ROscnzweig, alias
Lefty Louis and "Dago Frank
Circohci as the actual murdcrcrs.
The last named is the only one i'm
custody.
Becker is I'm the TOmbs on n
charge of number i'm the first
degree, while every possible effort
Is being made TO trace the other
three men accused of firing the
shots that killed RosenthaI.
ROSenthal was aSSaSSinatcd just
i'm time TO prevent him testifying
before the grand jury concerning
the alliance between the gamblers
and the police and concerning the
a..I oil NJ
and RoSenthal in one gambling
house.
In their confessions Rose. Web
Der and WALTON declared Becker
set the stage for the murder and
personally managed its details.
Each sworc he acted at the re-
peated direction of Becker, and
that ecker, both before and after
the crime, assured them of pro-
lection.
These men gave TO District At
tonncy Whitman the complete
chain of facts leading up TO the
assassination.
MEN HIGHER UP.
In doing so these witnesses
paved the way to the most re-
markable exposition of graft that
has ever been known. All the
statements told OF men higher in
the official scale than Becker.
This caused District Attorney
Whitman TO assert that he is no
longer concerned for the little
fish, but is determined to get the
bigger men who were responsible
for the direction OF Becker.
The three men who confessed
told the District Attorney how
Becker decided that ROsenthaI
must die, and how, I'm detail, Rose
became the manager of the
crime, Weber acting as the man
with the bankroll. They told how
the services of Big Jack Zelig's
red-handed murder band had
been called in to carry out the
sentence of death and how the
whole startling crime had been
committed, under the threat
from Becker that if the gam
bIcrs did not kill ROsenthaI Beck
err would send them to prison I'M
der framed-up charges.
For the telling of the murder
story Rose, Weber and WALTON
will get immunity. They were
called as witnesses and testified
before the grand jury, which was
called in extraordinary session
last night TO indict Becker.
WELL GUARDED.
All night long Rose, Weber
and WALTON camped in the office
of Hugh Byrne, secretary to Dis
trict Attorney Whitman. Detec-
tives Leigh and Russo, with Pro-
cess Servers King and linn, took
turns guarding them.
There was no sleep for Web
Der. Intensely nervous by ma
ture, the man sat in IA chair and
smoked cigarette after cigarette,
alternated by weeping, hopping
his forehead with a hinge hand
kerchief, and staring Nacantly
into space.
At that he said it was the
first good night ne had passed in
weeks.
II am glad the whole thing is
over. 1t has been the first good
night 1 have spent in many
moons. L am glad because of
myself and 1 am glad because
my wife wanted it," said Weber.
1t Is known that Mrs. Weber
was largely interested in getting
the gambler to make a full con-
feSsion. She is reported to have
urged him time after time to-
come to the front with the full
story, and to have urged upon
him the fact that he had no bus
mess carrying the whole weight
of "a job he did for others.
Rose showed little feeling to-
day.
HIS LAWFUL PLIGHT"
Becker passed "a sIeepIess night
fin cell No. I2O, at the TOmbs. He
satdi "T'his In an awful plight for
an Innocent man TO be ina. can't
say anything more now"
The delicate health OF his wife
and the expected arrival of an heir
TO such property as the police bus
mess II said TO have produced