The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-18
GAMBLERS AFTER HIM

up as Monumental Crater If He
Does Testify in His
Own Behalf.
| UNITED Press Leased Wire Seryice.l
| NEW YORK, Oct. 1S.-Declaring
| that if Lieutenant Becker is sworn I'M
his own defense he will show that he
! was monumental CRATER anu will
force him to produce his bank books
despite the ruling of Justice Goff, AS
sistant District Attorney Frank Moss,
when the police officers trial was re-
sumed today, got ready for hard
fight.
| Moss and his chief, Whitman, are
very angry over the activity of former
4 District Attorney Jerome on the side
OF the defense. They say that Jerome
i as an officer Of the court, was dere-
i lict in his duty when he failed to give
Jack Rose up to the police, but told
4 Attorney John W. Hart to go to the
house where Rose was hiding and
get an affidavit from him that would
4 aid Becker. They intended dwelling
I at length on this In summing up to
/ discredit Jerome with the jury If
they could.
4 Moss threat to enter into the mon
\ ey dealings OF Becker should the de-
fendant be sworn was admittedly
troubling Mcintyre. He did not want
to leave any opening for the state
yet he needed Beckers own story that
: Jack Rose had been his stool pigeon 7
! He and his assistants were carefully
3 examining the law to determine
y whether there was a way of getting
!, the Becker story before the jury and
not leaving him open to severe
,, cross examination regarding his al
! legged grating operations while head
of the strong arm squad.
Mcintyre said that he believed he
would be able to complete his case by
: the middle of next week and 1T SEEM
| ed certain when the trial was re
sumed today that Becker would know
!, his fate not later than week from
J today.
Discussing his case prior to the
: opening of court becker said that
| he greatly desired to tell his own
) story told the jury declaring that he
: was confident If he did so he could
$ easily clear his name. But he said
) he would do whatever his counsel
8 wanted him to do.
i 81 can show my innocence easily
: he said, "and can also show to the
. Jury that Rose was really my stool
: pigeon. had to use a man like him
t to do my duty as head of the vice
. SQUAD He was invaluable TO me In
t getting line on gambling conditions
and also on keeping my own men
y from getting too friendly with the
e gamblers against whom we were pro-
0 ceeding.
g 81 used Rose widely and he was al
ways coming to me with st lies that
! he was afraid the gamblers would gel
/ wise. Consequently | had to take ex
& traordinary precautions to protect his
I into the murder. Now l always sus
pected him but did not believe he
a would be able to double cross me in
d this manner. If can tell my story
d on the stand. can show the jury
! what tissue of lies he and his fel
}, lows have woven.
t ''The best evidence that was moi
n profiting by my place as head of the
J, gambling raiding squad and was mo-
k plotting to murder any one SO that
d could keep my job, is the very fac
that every week I asked Commission
r er Waldo to remove me. ] knew the
} gamblers were trying to get me GNe
t also knew that no man had evel
e been strong enough to hold ou
e against them so was anxious to bt
d relieved Every man who had preced
d ed me in this work had gone to thu
: wall and was not anxious to shar,
y their fate.
r "My story Of my connection will
a Rose does not require any murde
y plot to support it. 1t will show 70
itself that it is the natural, reason
n able, truthful explanation of every
y thing that ever occurred between u.s.
8, Mcintyre announced that he woul'
il probably call at least thirty witnesse
for the defense.
Y Just before the trial was resumed
e Thomas Coupe, the clerk at the Elk
# club who was an eyewitness to th
killing of Rosenthal, was brought I,
s the courtroom by Assistant Distric
e Attorney Deford who had brough