Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-07-25
HOT
ON The TRAIL
Will Ask Him Regarding
Grand Jury Activities.

NcW AOkAs July NV
ney Whitman intends to 80 after Lieu
tenant Charles Becker In the RosAn-
thai murder case. He wants to know
why Becker y % much interested In
the grand tuyy proceedings. The grand
jury Il going not merely into the accu,
satiops that Becker wal a CRATER, but
II considering also the testimony OF
Herman Rosenthsl's relatives and
friends that the gambler believed the
police would kill him.
Otto Aversi. the chauffeur who has
been wheeling Becker around town
for more than a year, admitted that
he went straight to the lieutenant at
police headquarters on Monday after
o after telling the grand jury that
Becker had coached him about what
to say. II Becker Is willing to appear
before the grand jury he will be asked
about this conference, and Aversi will
be requestioned.
The statement that Aversi rushed to
Becker from the grand jury oom was
made by Joseph zimmerman, a brother
Of Mrs. Rosenthal, who told the grand
Jury that Ros,nthal had told him that
he was afraid Of Becker and had de
scrlbed the relations that existed, he
said, between thu Lieutenant of po-
lice and the gambler.
Witness Scared b.. Gun Mon.
No apparent progress was made In
locating the men who are wanted for
the actual killing Of Rosenthal or In
tracing the plot back to the policemen
that the district attorney and Deputy
Commissioner Dougherty believe had
most at stake In the murder. John
Reisler, "sohn the Barber" As he n
called by his Tenderloin associates-
gamOlsrs, actors and sporting men
was arrested and held without bail on
4 charge Of perjury. Reisler told the
district attorney, that ofncial sayA, that
he saw BRIDGE" Weber running
away from the Aetropols Just after
Rosenthal had been shot But John
the Barber" before Coroner Feinberg
in the hearing a. to whether "BF1dgie'
was to be held for murder in the nrst
degree, looked over the courtroom
crowded with gangstsrs and gun man.
an array that had been smiling, and,
signaling to Sam Paul ana BRIDGE"
Weber, then denied that he had said
anything Of the sort. After Assistant
District Attorney Frank Moss had
corroborated the district attorneys
statements Reisler was arrested.
The district attorney. who has thrown
aside all other business, leaving Assist
ant District Attorney Mott In charge as
acting district attorney, and who is
giving all Of his attention to the muir
der plot and the investigation as to
police partnership with gamblers. be-
lieves with Commissioner Dougherty
that one or two Of the men now held
for murder will break down and tell
the whole story. They are ~concentrat-
ing on Jack Rose, who Is regarded as
having been the general manager of
the Rosenthsl killing. and William Sha,
piro, who has been telling all sorts Of
stories in order to convince the author
tiles that he is worth bargaining with.
But the district attorney has been told
that Rose believes that police influence
will protect him and that he halts at
turning informer.
Burns Men Working on Case.
Rose himself tells for the first time
Of his relations with Rosenthal and
with Becker. He denies that he had
any knowledge even that Rosenthal
was to be killed. and he says that his
activities in obtaining the afldavit
from Dora Gilbert were as much on his
own account al on Becker's. Rossn-
thai had attacked him as well a. Beck.
ar In the affidavit. and he was Just a.
sensitive about aspersions on his char
acter as Becker was.
The Burns detective agency informed
the district attorney that their men
have gone to work on the Rosenthal
case and that every bit Of r~esourceful-
ness and energy they possess will be
directed toward getting at the truth.
1t was said that twenty-three Burns
mel have already been detailed for the
work and that Mr.. Burns himself when
he returns to New York In a day or
two will devote his entire time to the
Investigation. A hint of the probable
expense Of the investigation was OBJ
tanned. 1t Is expected that the services
Of Burns. fees and expenses, will ap-
proximate $4,000. william j.. Schief'
lin and others, who have guaranteed