The Alaska citizen., 1912-09-02
DOLCE GRAFT EXPOSED: ! ROSENTHAL MURDER CASE

the know, and no one was going to get into trouble"
 Needless to say the whole city was aroused by the boldness of the crime. The papers throughout the state demanded a thorough investiga ton of the police force. and quick interception of the men responsible for the deed and the perpetrators thereof. The gangsters realized that they had been too bold. and that even their stand in" with the police could not save them. once they were in the tolls. Everyone who could throw any light on the case was either sent away or as securely hid den as was possible. Even Jack Sullivan, newsboy. we'll known to all who hang around Forty-second street and Broadway. was approach ed by the gangsters and shipped to Saratoga. where he was caught by the police. He saw the whole deed but remains silent Louis Krese. a waiter in the Metropole. positively identified Sullivan and Webber as the two men he had seen in front was shot. krese now fears for his life which has been threatened by the gangsters.
 Bald Jack" Rose. John Reisler. known as John the Barber" Louis "Bridgie" Webber, Harry Nallon and Jack Sullivan, were arrested in the state shortly after the murder, The district attorneys office located and took into custody in Hot Springs, Arkansas. on August 12, Sam l Schepps, one of the men who was | in the automobile that took away | the supposed murderers.
 ! Since the day of the crime. Com missioner Waldo has had Mrs. Isa- i bella Goodwin, known throughout po- lice circles as Mrs Nick Carter, the woman who probed the big taxi cab bank robbery to the bottom re gently, and brought the perpetrators | to justice, working on the case. and through her he hopes to find out l the whereabouts Of Lefty" Lewis, and "Gyp the Blood" otherwise liar | nlI Jorrnu-Itu at cd in connection with the crime. It has been reported that "Gyp the Blood was arrested near Lackawanna, Pa. l The district attorneys office placed five thousand dollar reward on his l head
 Dissatisfied with the actions of the police in this case, the citizens of l New York held a mass meeting in 1 Cooper Union and subscribed suffi- cient money to defray the charges that would be made by William Burns if he could be persuaded to take up the case. Burns has taken the matter up, and his men are now following clues. Both Commission CT Waldo and Deputy Commissioner Dougherty are doing all they can to bring to justice the men who committed this deed, and to thor oughly expose the rottenness of the New York police force, but they are | m arl n seems
 The members of the New York police force have subscribed the sum of fifty thousand dollars to be used in the defence of Becker. At first it was suggested that the ac- cused lieutenant secure the services of former District Attorney William Travers Jerome. Becker objected to Jerome on the grounds that when he held office, the former district at torney had been crossed by Becker. It was then decided that Congress man Martin w. Littleton, one of the ablest lawyers in the state be secured, and Becker likewise ob- jected to him. His friends say that they will insist on Littleton if the congressman will act.
 Becker's only visitor in the tombs aside from his lawyers has been his brother, who is also police lieuton- ant.
 On the first of August, throug | information furnished by Mrs. Good win, "Whitey" Lewis was captured in a lonely railroad station at Fleisn man, N Y., as he was awaiting the arrival ol a train that would take him out of the state.
 Becker was arrested on the charge of murder on the twenty ninth oi July. He was on duty at the Bath gate avenue station in the Bronx when he was taken. Later thl grand jury indicted him, and the DO lice lieutenant is now in the Tombs held without bail. He denies tha, he is responsible for the killing O; Rosenthal, and seeks to lay the blame on Harry Vallon. According to Becker the plan was to kidnap and according to Becker had a grudge against Rosenthal and shot the gam hlor