The Sentinel=record., 1912-08-11
SAM SCHEPPS, WANTED IN NEW
 YORK ROSENTHAk MURDER CASE.
 IS HELD HERE FOR DETECTIVE

However, Jack, my name is SAM and l don't go back on a pal such as you. If you had trusted me with more Of your condolences this terrible state oi affairs never may have come to pass. But what is done cant be undone. l haye no right to preach to you. and | shant. l am at present in poor health, having taken salversan, also other treatment, and am all broke up with worry and sickness. However, if you decide to state truthfully the en- tire state of affairs and what part you had in same, l will come, gladly. for you Jack, because you know what I think of you. Yes. l have been, and am very sorry for it, as now to prove my loyalty to you l must become a so ElAI FER Still am willing, even at that cost, on these conditions: That you will only expect me to tell the truth and nothing but the truth, or else to write, word for word what you expect of me. Also. | will not be ready 10 see Mir w (dstrict attor- ney) representatives until after the 18th of August If the foregoing is satisfactory, l will come but you must send me a wire to this effect before the 19th, then will be ready to meet the man and go with him to New York. HE WON'T FIND ME IF 1 DON'T GET THIS WIRE. l SHALL CHANGE MY ADDRESS TO-DAY. BUT IF ALL IS o. K I WILL MEET ON THE 18th at the Arlington hotel the man he will send. Let me know his name in advance. l am sick of Il f,, 1 the papers. My best wishes to you and may God help us all. sam Frank ! lin'
 1 The letter which Jack Rose had written here to Schepps read as fol lows:
 Dear sam: I don't know what you ! have heard of read, but it has got 1 down to a stage where the electric chair stared us in the face. The first man to try and get from under was Becker. There was many people wih, saw everything that night, and the
 next day district attorney knew wha' | part everybody played in the thing and nobody could have got away lwas deserted like a dog by Becker When I saw what the situation was l l opened up negotiations with the dis
 trict attorney who offered me a sort or cover that I cannot go into details /; by writing. ! insisted that the same protection given me be extended to | Harry Bridgie and you, to which he ! finally agreed. We are all pleased with the arrangement, and our worry has been to get you to come in, to get l the same benefits We got, before it Is too late. My advice is to let me send representative of the district attor- ney to bring you back here. That would prevent the police getting you and putting you through a third de gree. Don't say a word to anyone. You know, Sam, that you have been too loyal and dear a friend of mine | for me to ask you to do this if wasn't positive that you haven't got a chance otherwise. Immediately on receipt of this, wire me to Louis house, what you want to do. Jack. D T am the keynote to the whole sit nation in New York" confessed Schepps late tonight If 1 start to telling things it will reach q long ways. l can't make up my mind that am going to tell it all Why Jack Rose, my best pal, seems to have told things not necessary, and I don't see why l ever was brought in.
 The graft situation in New York is so far reaching that this inyesti- gation will last we'll into next year. | They cant get through with it. Whit man seems determined to go through with his work, and he is too honest to stop now. He wants to be goyer- nor, and then it is only a step to the white house.
 The moral of the whole is tha; there is nothing in the illegitimate life. Murder will out is an old say. ing. There seems to be a certain pressure that finds a weak spot in the fabric of wrong doing, and then it is all over. They all wind up that way
 T was the go-between for many a friend who wouldn't be ill the front for me The trouble with the whole thing is that men cant trust each | other. To pull off anything very wrong there must be several that know, and they must trust each other Some time one or the other drops a word and the story is out. Then they all fall together.
 q want to go back to New York
 and l don't want to go for there is nothing Left for me to do that will
 help me. l will ponder over all of il
 on the train going back, and think i
 all over, and by the time l get to New l York | will probably know. what to do
 The first step towards the capture ! of Schepps was taken at midnight Friday night, when c. P. J. Mooney
 managing editor of the Commercial Appeal telephoned the Sentinel-Rec
 ord asking Mir Hotchlliss if he would
 undertake some very confidentia
 work for the New York American
 Mir. Mooney stated he had been re
 quested by telephone from New Yorl
 to recommend some one here wht
 could be trusted.
 So secretly was the matter handled
 that no mtimatiop of what the worl was. passed to Mir Hotchkiss. Mir