Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-30
New Indictments Are
Expected by Dis
trict Attorney.
PRISONERS SAY BECKER
HAD ASSASSINS HIRED
Quoted as Declaring THAT Dog
(RosenthaI) Has Made Too
Much Trouble"

Der. This job has got to be done
and Rose says they won't do 1t for
him. Now. .Bridgie.' you can get 1t
done. They all know you. You have
got the money and I have got the
power. I'll protect everybody"
Then Becker, according to Roses
confession, shook his fist in their
faces and exclaimed: IF you don't
do this I'll put on every
4 one of you. I'll send you up for
seven wears. I'll show you what
YOUR get"
SAYS Becker Threatened Them
Rose and Webber say they believed
that Becker would send them away,
and had the power to do it. Then
the murder plot unfolded itself Quick
iy. Monday night came, and with it
the word for The gunner to get to-
xether. Rose told how ne got the
assassins together, and how, AFTER
the killing, he went over to the Hote
Metropoie TO see how the job a
been done.
Rosenthal lay dead upon the side
walk with Z tablecloth spread over
his body. Rose says he went 10 a
telephone booth and called up Lieu
tenant Becker. but he was so I'M
nerved by the shock he could only
gasp:
my God. this is horrible
Becker.s Rose says in his confession,
replied over the wire in a steady
says sIayers Did as Told.
sob, don't worry. I'll protect you,
Wait a few minutes and I'll be right
down. Where will you be-"
An appointment was made to meet
at Forty second street. within a short
distance of the scene of the murder.
There. Rose says, he met Weber and
Becker. Weber c~orroborated the
Rose statement.
They talked over what was the best
thing to do, under the circumstances,
and parted after Becker had assured
them that everything would Abe all
right.
The chase for the slayers became
not. ana H1Hd1yt says
advised. him over the telephone to
surrender, but that everything would
come out all right. OF the real mur
! derers, Rose says in hts confession:
THOSE poor devils didn't know
what they were doing. They were
full Of booze They had been told to
kill, and they went out and did what
they were told"
"Awful Plight" Says Becker.
weber and Vallon,e in. their confess
.sions, Supplied many missing links in
the confession of Rose. Speaking of
Becker and his alleged connection
with gamblinA Rose said:
N"Why, of course, L was Becker's
collector. Everybody knew It." Web
her himself says that his protection
payments for his gambling house to
Becker were $125 a month,
Lieutenant Becker, ~who has been
suspended. spent a quiet night in the
Tonbs. This is an awful plight for
' an innocent man to find himself in"
said Becker this morning.
Rose, Webber and Vallon were still
= In a state, of terror today, although
locked in a room in the dictrict attor-
ney's Office and guarded by a squad
of detectives. Weber was hysterical,
and wept frequently during the night.
Police Department Agitated.
The confession of Rose and the ar
rest and indictment of Becker
created "a sensation in the police de-
partment, and officials and patrol
men alike wondered who next would
be involved in the disclosures OF the
relations between the police and the
gamblers. That an investigation will
be undertaken by the city into the
police department appeared to be a
foregOne conclusion:
II am well pleased with the prog
ress we have made District Attor-
ney Whitman said. II am not in a
position to talk about the grand jury
proceedings, but the statements
made to me we're startling in the ex-
IRENE, and 1 am bound to say that
each of them SCENE amply corrobo-
rated. I think this is the beginning.
hope to clean up the whole affair"
Tells why Rose Confessed.
James NJ. Sullivan. counsel for
Rose, makes the statement: Il took
up the matter of a confession by
Rose with Mr.. whitman early last
week. and Friday afternoon / came
to a practical understanding with
him that my client would tell all he
knew If promised immunity. l feel
that a great step has been taken in
the furtherance of Justice. L. want
to say that Rose was not a 'squealer'
I'm the ordinary sense of the term.
He held out and refused to entertain
any proposition for a confession until
the men who should have stuck to
him deserted him. When he found
himself without friends, without
money, he decided that he should not
be, made the goat of the situation,
sbut that. those who had brought him
into it must suffer their share If they
swould not help hirs out of 1t. Rose
was an old friend of mine years ago
In Waterbury, Conn"
HEREFORD Marshall, counsel for
ssJack Sullivan Jacob REICH, al
geged go-between for Lieutenant
Becker and Jack Rose, now held
jim the Tombs in connection with the
case, announced this morning that
sullivan is ready to tell all HI knows
,on the witness stand, n that his
story would prove more astounding
than any yet told. Sullivan, he said.
would not talk to the police or the
district attorney.
Humor of Another Arrest.
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