The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-08-23
FIGHT FOR SCHLEPPS
DISTRICT ATTORNEY THWARrd
ATTEMPT OF POLICE TO
SECURE PRISONER.
ROSE IS C-ORROBORATED
Material Witness Tells Same Story
Dc Not Know Whether He Gave
Money to "Murder
Crew."

NSN 4 Si ~ Ci
forts OF the police to wrest Sam
Schepps from the custody of Assistant
District Attorney Rubin during his
trip from Hot Springs have come to
naught. Schepps is now a prisoner
on a technical charge in the West Side
Jail under surveillance of men from
the district attorneys office, who have
orders to allow no one to communi.
cate with him without credentials
from Mr.. Whitman himself.
Schepps will go before the grand
jury Immediately and is expected to
c~orroborate in every essential detail
the story told by his friend, Jack Rose.
upon which Police Lieutenant Chas.
Becker was indicted for Rosenthal's
assassination.
Schepps reached here accompanied
by District Attorney Whitman. who
Joined the Schepps party at Albany
after a journey from his summer
home at Manchester, VT.
How essential 1t seemed to Mr..
Whitman that he should personally
protect Schepps from New York po-
lice interference appeared when 1t was
learned that Detective AL Thomas, the
police officer who, with Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Rubin, brought Schepps
from Hot Springs, had received dur
ing the journey east several tele.
from Deputy Police Commits
sioner Dougherty, ordering him to
bring the prisoner to police headquar-
ters directly upon his arrival.
Thomas, who though a police detec-
tive, is attached to the district attor-
ney's ONCE, did not nswer the tele-
grams until he had wired to Mr.. Whit
man. who was then in Manchester.
Thomas Wired D%ougherty.
From Buffalo, on Saturday, Thomas
sent a night letter to Dougherty, say
ing:
Leave Buffalo 1905 a. m, Aug. 10;
due 9:25 a. m, via New York Central.
At Hot Springs Schepps consented to
waive extradition provided he be TAX
en- direct to Whitman. This agree
ment entered into with Schepps by
Whitman and Rubin. Schepps now &C.
companied by his own counsel. Ber-
nard Sander. Under these conditions
what will l do? Please answer"
This Dougherty did not answer, nor
did the deputy commissioner answer
a similar message sent by Thomas
the next day.
But when the train bearing Mr..
Whitman ~nA thu Cnbanno }, ~ , ~
rived at the 125th street station in
New York City, five headquarters de-
tectives, headed by Detective Hagger-
ty, boarded it and demanded Schepps
as their prisoner.
Il will order the instant arrest Of
any officer who attempts to take
Schepps to police headquarters Mr..
Whitman told Haggerty, and you can
present my compliments to your com
missioner
Whitman Holds Schepps.
Mr.. Whitman explained to the de-
tectives that as district attorney Of
the county he vas thoroughly familiar
with the evidence against Schepps as
an alleged accompiice of the murder
and told them that il was insufficient
to arrest him on such a charge, this
being the n the police have made
against him
"Schepps has come a voluntary wit
ness into the state on a pledge from
mt that he be protected and | intend
TO protect him declared the district
attorney.
Schepps was %arraigned and held on
a technical charge of vagrancy. His>
fellow prisoners in the West Side jail'
are Rose, "Bridgie' Weber and
Harry WALTON, with whom he exchang-
ed greetings in the prison.
I'm going to stick by you" yelled
Schepps when he spied Rose behind
a cell window across the court yard
of the prison.
On the trip from Albany, Mr.. Whit
mar had a long conference with the
witness behind stateroom doors and
obtained from him. he said, a story
which materially strengthened his evil
dence against Becker and other pris-
oners, seven in all. whom be expects
the grand jury will indict.
He has corroborated everything in
Jack Roses story that Rose said he
would" said Mr.. Whitman.