Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-10-23
BECKER SOON
KNOW HIS FATE
Counsel Summing Up the
Famous Murder Trial.

Special BIZ United Press Wire.
speech to the Jury In the Becker trial
Attorney Mcintyre, for the defense,
denounced Weber, Rose, Valon and
Schepps, accusers Of his client; de-
elared that Becker was the victim Of
a conspiracy and that the prosecu-
ton had failed to prove It's case.
II I'm defending an American, not
a murderer. His are vile,"
said Mcintyre. This trial had its
birth in the heart of four murderers,
Weber, Rose, Valon and Schepps,
self-confessed %assassins, and when 1t
is over they will go Free"
Mcintyre reviewed the entire evil
dence In the case and said that the
prosecutions failed to prove that the
four gunner brought into court
were the real assassins of Rosenthal
and hat on that point alone the
case against Becker was shattered.
The prosecution will make it's
closing address to the jury this at
ternoon and Justice Con will deliver
his charge tomorrow. The case Is
expected to be in the hands of the
twelve jurors by tomorrow noon.
These arrangements were ordered by
the court yesterday afternoon after the
defense had rested its case without
calling Becker as q witness and after
brief testimony in rsbuttal and SURE
buttal. 30 that the remarkable record
was made In this TRIAL Of presenting in
only ten working days all Of the tsst1-
mony for and against the defendant
Counting the four days It took to get .
jury and the sessSoas ~ closing 3D.
dresses today. one Of the most notable
and complex Of criminal trials viii
have been finished within oftesn days.
WhltmaR's Final ohs&.
The case Of the defense sageed to an
snd At noon yesterday after thsif last
witnesses had made admissions hustful
to Lieutenant BscksFs cause and dts
courag1ng to his lawyer And thsa the
district attorney. - q ANAL blow. hurled
against them the testimony Of Willie
Shapiro. the chauffeur Of the murder
car. who. bending to the persua SONS Of
his lawyer. Aaron J. Levy. broke away
from the gunner. who Cursed him ~
he left them in the Tombs and eorobo-
rated on the witness stand everything
that Jack Rose had testified to about
the rounding mp Of the murdersrs and
about their departure from Webbsr's
gambling house to kill Rosenthal.
Shapiro's decision at the last moment
to let the gunner, Jack Sullivan and
Becker shift for themselves was a
shocking blow to the defense. They
had tried to get Shapiro to testify for
Becker. In the Tombs the chauffeur
had been urged to keep his mouth shut
Mt least. But Levy. his lawyer. advised
him that II he hoped to save himself
from the electric chair he had better
volunteer to tell the truth. So Shapiro
made an AFFIDAVIT covering his nne
ton with the murder. 1t was not only
mony of Rose and Of the other inform
ers as to the movements Of the murder
ers, but Of their. accusation that Becker
was the director Of the murder.
Shapiro Exonsratss WALTON.
Shapiro was permitted to testify to
practically everything contained in the
afidavit except as to what he had
heard one Of the gunner say to an
other about Lieutenant Becker and e1
cept A. to Jack Sullivan"s efforts to
get him to say that he had driven Val
lon and schepps from the murder. But
he was allowed to testify that he had
not seen vallon or schspps after he
left them with Rose and "Dago Frank"
at Webber's poker room. Herein lay
the keenest disa appointment to the de-
Tense. With one word Shapiro dc
| stroyed the impression that Becker's
lawyers had sought to create that Val
lon and Schepps were the actual MUIR
derers.
Lieutenant Becker spoke somewhat
bitterly over the refusal Of his lawyers
to let him take the stand and do the
best he could for himself. At tho close
Of court and just before he was taken
back to the Tombs he was asked why
be hadn't been called and what he
thought about his case.
IL wanted to testify" he said. "but
whenever the matter came up for dis
cussion there was always a difference
Of opinion. They couldn't agree"