The Sentinel=record., 1912-11-22
NO WELCOME HERE
 !iFOR SAM SCHEPPS
HIS COMING TAKEN AS FORE RUNNER FOR OTHERS FROM
 ExPuRGATEp GOTHAM.
Leputy Prosecutor Wilmington and Mayor Water5 are Both Decisive as to What Action Will
 Be Taken.

The wide spread publicity given the announcement from New York that sam Shepps, one of the witnes- ses in the Becker case in New York. was coming to Hot Springs to make his future nome, as a maven from the revenge of the other eastsiders who may want to murder him because he turned informer in the Rosenthal case, is causing some feeling locally that may result in Schepps being turned back on his arrival.
 Neither Mayor Waters or Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Wilmington be- 'ieve that the atmosphere of Hot Springs will be helped any by Schepps coming. They take it that lndesirables being run out of New York by the Whitman crusade, will ollow the example, and scurTy here. And they are going to see to it that nothing like that happens here.
 Just what can be done in the mat ter is hinted at by Deputy Whiting ton, when he calls attention to the vagrancy charge on which District Attorney Whitman held Schepps with out effort for so long.
 In speaking of the matter Mir. Whit. tington said:
 T take if that the announcement that Sam Schepps. one of the in formers in the Becker trial. is mak- ng for Hot Springs, means that gun men and others not desired in New York will expect to find a haven in Hot Springs. Such is not the case. Hot Springs has its quota of undesir- ables without being made the dump ng ground for the element that finds 1t too hot for them in New York.
 T am glad Mir. Whitman has been able to break up the corrupt system m New York, and l congratulate him on his work, but will take good care that the element run out of New York does not light in Hot Springs.
 Does this mean that Schepps will not be permitted to remain here If he comes?" the prosecutor was ask. ed
 T am not sure what steps will be taken, but 1 would regard Schepps as an undesirable. I notice that NJ. Whitman was able to detain him for some time as vagrant. In the tes. timony l did not observe where he had ever worked at an honest voca. tlon. If he is vagrant in the city or New York, and merely given i'm munity for a good turn he did for the state in helping to reveal other crimes, he would still be a vagrant. D
 Mayor W. w. Waters, who was ab- sent from the city when Shepps was under detention here. acquiesced in the spirit of the statement of the prosecutors office, and said that he had no idea of permitting Hot Springs to be made a dumping ground for New York's clean up, and that he had so informed MT. Whitman in com munication on this subject. The mayor said that he would exact spec lal vigilance from his police depart ment in the. matter of keeping un- desirables off the streets of Hot Springs in the future.
 Acting in accord with the above. Mayor Waters yesterday gave Schepps official notification that he would find no welcome here. in the
  following personal message, address ed to Schepps, and sent in care of District Attorney Whitman, so it would be delivered before the release of Schepps:
 Having read in newspaper dispatch es from New York that you contemp- late returning to Hot Springs immed ately after your release from jail in New York 1 desire to notify you as Mayor of Hot Springs, represent ing the best interests of the city, your presence here is not desired.
 Hot Springs, by your former visit, gained undesired notoriety. There fore, l request you to stay away from Hot Springs. you and any of your as- sociates, and that if you persist in 7oming here. l, in my official capacity as mayor will not permit you to re- main.
 W. w. WATERS,
 Mayor Hot Springs