The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-07-30
NOW AFTER
OFFICIALS
Higher UP"
Police Lieutenant Becker PIac-
ed Under Arrest
Following Confession Of Rose,
Vallon and Weber
Three Men Who ''COughed Up"
New In Terror Of Lives

New York, July 30.--The indictment
and arrest Of Police Lieut. Chas.
Becker, for the murder Of gambler
Herman Rosentahl, soon after confess
sions Of Bald jack Rose, Bridge"
Webber and Harry vallon, revealed
today to District Attorney Whitman.
the police system" in all it's hideous-
ness.
The public prosecutor, following the
trial of the three concessions contin-
ued to search for evidence that would
implicate those higher UP than Becker.
and more indictments OF the police
officials are expected by the district
attorney.
The arrest OF Becker lays bare a
scandal in the police department that
threatens to shake 1t to its founda-
tions, for Whitman believes the story
Of police graft has only been half
told
Bald Jac1' Rose confessed that
Becker came to him and, fairly des-
perate over Rosenthaps intention OF
telling all he knew OF his relations
with the police lieutenant, said
"Rosenthal has lived too long. He
has got to be put out Of the way"
Rose told the public prosecutor and
the grand jury how the murder band
was hired at the ins1gation Of Becker
and said that after the killing Becker
met with Webber and himself and
promised complete police projections.
Terror stricken, Rose, WeDber and
Vallon spent the night In the public
prosecutors office, fearing they would
be murdered 1T taken to the Tombs
prison. Whitman believes his case
against Becker is without flaw, that
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dove tailed, and that from the testi-
mony Of other witnesses, the case
against Becker cannot be broken
down.
Rose, who says he was Becker's
gambling house collector, felt the
ground slipping from under him, day
by day Without money or friends,
he realized he was being made to bear
the weight of the crime. His counsel
advised him to confess
Rose became completely terrified
To his counsel he said:
IF you see to 1t that my wife and
children are protected. I'll come across
and tell the truth about it. I'm afraid
this viii be the end OF me. No cell
on earth will be strong enough to keep
life In the man who gives up about
this killing"
Intimations were made to Rose that
an indictment might be expected
against him, and then he confessed.
Counsel for Webber and Wallon,
catching the drift of things, also adj
vised their clients to tell all the truth
and become immune.
Geo. s. Dougherty, second deputy
police commissioner. said today: 'I've
never had any supervision over Lieu
tenant Becker.
He said he and his work were out
side my jurisdiction.
Rose said i was afraid Dougherty
was Becker's friend and did not want
to take and chances Becker was evil
IDENTIFY telling Rose he, Becker, could
even square Dougherty, everybody.
even the district attorney all of which
are lies, as far as ] know"
"Jack Sullivan" Jacob Reich), a
go between for Becker and Jack Rose.
now held in the Tombs, in connection
with the case, announced this mornig
that Sullivan Is ready to tell all ne
knows on the witness stand and that
his story would prove more astound-
ing than any yet told. Sullivan, he
said, would not talk either to the po-
lice or the district attorney.