Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-30
Becker to Hear
 Sentence Today
MRS. BECKER DECLARES SHE
 WILL BE PRESENT.
SHAPIRO CONFESSES
Will Take Witness Stand for Govern mont in Trials of "Gunmen" Next Week-Davidson to Plead Guilty.

New York, Oct 29-Charles Becker will be sentenced tomorrow morning to die in the electric chair at Sing Sing for the murder of Herman Rosenthal, the gambler Mrs. Becker will be present 10 hear her husbands fate pronounced by Justice Golf. T shall certainly be in ths courtroom tomor- row. Mrs. Becker said today after leaving her husband behind the bars in "murderers row. in the Tombs. T shall go on the train with my husband to, Sing Sing. I want to stay at his side as long as possible. I think it is my duty to do that and to be as brave as 1 can.i,
 "Gunmen's" Trials Begin Monday. The death house" at Sing Sing will be Becker's home beginning not latet than Sunday, the state plans. Dis trict Attorney Whitman does not want the responsibility of the exlieutenant 5 presence in this city when he places the ''gunmen" on trial. The first of them will probably be tried Monday | Sheriff Hamburger declares he will not delay Becker's removal, from the Tombs
 Will Hustle Becker to Sing Sing.
 "The fact that Becker is rather more ] prominently in the public eye than any other convicted murderer makes nC difference to me-" said the sheriff to- | day. He is simply a man who has come under my jurisdiction through | the channels of justice and will bt treated the same as all others" While states counsel is said to he willing to wait until Saturday befor taking Becker to Sing Sing, Sherif | Hamburger said he would start witt his prisoner Thursday morning, possi. ply tomorrow afternoon.
 Shapiro Reported to Have Confessed the gangsters, Lefty Louie,'' White! Lewis "Gyp the Blood'' and ''Dagt Frank was made less difficult thi! afternoon when William Shapiro, thu driver of the murder car" made Wha was purported to be a complete con fession. Shapiro was closeted will District Attorney Whitman for severa hours. For days his counsel, A. J Levy, had urged his client to tell al he knew. Shapiro feared to do so, sai, the lawyer because he believed h would be killed.
 Won't Grant Shapiro Complete I'm
 munity.
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 testimony on the stand against tn
 murder crew." all in corroboration o what the state already knows of tn movements of Rosenthals alleged slay
 CTS the morning the gambler was kill ed, District Attorney Whitman. be lieves he will have no trouble convict
 ing the gangsters about to be tried.
 If Shapiro tells story which wi
 help convict his passengers in tn
 murder car" he probably will be trie
 on some less serious charge than tha
 of murder. MT. Whitman is said to b
 willing to agree to this. but is not pre-
 pared to grant Shapiro complete i'm
 munity,
 Davidson Ready to Plead Guilty. Red Phil" Davidson, slayer of "Bi ] Jack' Zelig, is expected to plead guilt ; either to murder in the second degre
 or to manslaughter when brought | trial tomorrow morning.
 Mir. Whitman, while assured thG
 Davidson will npt force the state { try him, is ready to go on with tE
 case. Davidson's counsel, James V Osborne, it is understood, will insi!
 that his client be allowed to plea
 manslaughter, which has 20 years as s maximum penalty. If the state insis f on second degree murder as the pie ! Davidson can be sentenced to life in i prisonment.