Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-08-07
Jack Rose Gives
Graft Details
TABLE OF COLLECTIONS WHICH
YIELDED OVER 100000
FROM DOZEN GAMBLERS
5eeI<er's Raids Made Gamblers "Come
Across"-Rese Substantiates What
ROsenthaI Had Charged.

New York, Aug. 6.-"Bald Jack"
Rose, the gambler upon whose testi-
mony was chiefly based the Indictment
Of Police Lieutenant Charles Becker
on the charge Of instigating the MUIR
der of Herman Rosenthal. today fur
nished District Attorney Whitman
with written statement disclosing in
detail the history of his relations with
Becker as one of the police officers
alleged graft collectors.
Rose in his confession, as the dis
trict attorney terms it, reiterates his
previous allegations that Becker was
one of four high police officers who
collected between $2000,000 and So
100000 yearly from illegal resorts, and
gives complete table of his collec-
tions from gamblers which he says he
turned over to Becker. These came
from a dozen or more gambling
houses.
Rose has been working on the state
ment in his cell since District Attor-
ney Whitman, on the promise Of len
iency, got him a week ago to make his
first confession of his part in the plot
to assassinate Herman Rosenthal.
Payments Before Witnesses.
Rose declared he had always turned
his collections over to Becker in cash,
frequently at Roses home, and that
his wife and servants had seen the
money pass and could testify to the
truth of his statement.
Becker's method of bringing the
gamblers to terms was to raid them
first, Rose said. This was the police
officers way, he explained, of getting
acquainted"
After the raid he would offer to
"fix'' the case before the grand jury,
Rose charged. provided the gambler
would come across" If he did, then
Becker's men, he said, would give
harmless evidence before the jury OF
forget what they had told in the po-
lice court. To further impress the
gambler that his case was hopeless,
Becker would procure extra warrants
for his arrest and threaten to raid
again and again as long as the gam
bier refused to pay his blacl1mail.
Describing his own relations with
the police lieutenant, Rose said his
acquaintance began when Becker raid
ed his gambling house on the East
Side. The outcome was, Rose said,
that he became a stool pigeon for
Becker in his raiding activities and
then his collector, with others whom
Becker employed for the same pur-
pose
Supsrantiates Rosenthal.
Rose substantiated in his statement
all that Rosenthal had charged as to
Becker being his partner in the Rosen-
thai gambling house. He asserted that
Becker got 80 IL per cent. of the
play; 20 per cent. on his own ac-
count and one half of Roses share
which was 25 per cent. In addition
to Roses statement the district at
tcrney, It was learned tonight, Sc
cured telephone records substantiating
Roses story that a few minutes after
the murder Of Rosenthal, Rose called
Becker up and asked him to come
downtown at once and that he COM
municated by telephone with Becker
several times that day.
Another Link In The Chain.
The prosecution has also discover
ed the whereabouts of Pollock, whose
room Rose stayed at before he gave
himself up and has subpoaned him
and his wife. Their evidence, Mr.
Whitman expects, will substantiate
Roses story that he was in cOmmuni-
cation with Becker while hiding there