Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1912-07-30
CONFESSIONS SHOW POLICE
SYSTEM CAUSED Death OF
GAMBLER HERMANROSENTHAL
Lieutenant Charles Becker Of New York
Force Is Placed in the Tombs
JACK ROSE ADMITS HIS PART or PLOT
Declares Policeman Informed Him the TaIave Gard Sharp Must
Be Killed and He Agreed 70 Secure Gang Of Gun Men 10 Do
the Asserts He Was Overcome With Horror Of the
Deed But Becker Told Him to Cease to Fear.


New York, July 3O. hereford Mar
shall, counsel for 's5ack Sullivan
Jacob Reich), the go-between be-
tween Lieutenant Becker and Jack
Rose, now held In the Tombs IN con-
nection with the case, announced this
morning that Sullivan was ready to
tell all he knew on the witness stand
and that his story would prove more
astounding than any yet told.
The indictment and arrest Of Police
Lieutenant Charles Becker, last night
for the murder Of the gambler, Her
man Rosenthal, followed soon after
the confessions of Bald Jack" Rose,
1Bridgie" Webber and Harry vallon,
revealed today to District Attorney
Whitman. the police system" in ALI
its hideousness. The confessions
show that the murderers we're Lefty
Louie" or Lewis Rosenzweig; Harry
Horowitz, or "Gib the Blood; Frank
Muller, or white jack Lewiss and
"Dago Frank cifoficI
Only CirofiCl has been appFehends
ed. These gun men, members Of the
notorious .Big Jack seellng gang
piled themselves with liQour and then
went out and shot Rosenthal for a
price said to be $4,000.
BALD Jack" Rose. gambler, who
says he was Becker's gambling house
collector, felt the ground slipping
from under him day by day.
"If you see to it that my wife and
children are protected I'll come
across and tell the truth he said.
Rose told District Attorney Whitman
that RosenthaI was a thorn in Beck
er's side. Becker had pressed Rosen-
thai to the wall, according to Rose,
and Rosenthal threatened publicity.
six weeks before the killing, Rose
says, Becker sent for him and said
Rosenthal must be murdered Rose
says he saw" Big Jack" seellg to
make a deal for his gun men,
A few days before the killing, Rose
says, he met Webber and Becker and
while the three were talking it over
Becker said to Weber;
"This Job has got to pc done and
Rose says they won't do it for him.
Now Bridge, you can get 1t done.
They all know you. You have got the
money and have got the power. I'll.
protect everybody"
Rose and Webber say they believed
Becker would send them away and
had the power to do it. Then the
murder plot unfolded itself quickly.
Monday night came and with it the
word for the gun men to get together.
Rose told how he got the asaassins
together and how, after the killing, he
went over % the Hotel Metropole to-
see If the job had been done
When Rosenthal lay dead upon the
sidewalk with table cloth spread
over him, Rose says he teiephoned
Lieutenant Becker, but he was so
unnerved by the shock that he could
only gasp, MY God, this Is horrible.
Becker, Rose says in his confess
sion, replied over the wire in steady
voice, @oh. don't worry. III protect
you"
OF the real murderers Rose says
These poor devils did not know what
they were doing They w-re full OF
booze They had been told to kill,
and they went out and did what they
were told"
Speaking Of Becker and his alleged
connection with gambling, Rose said:
why, Of course, / was Becker's col
lector. Everybody knew IT,
Lieutenant Becker who has been
suspended, spent quiet night in the
Tombs.
"This is an awful plight for an in