Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-07-31
NEW YORK POLICE
 PANIC STRICKEN Roses Damaging Confession duplicates Three Inspect
 ors and Civilian. WAS CLEARING BODY Received Graft For Men Higher In ill Administration
 Amounted to S2,4eO,0G0.
WAS CLEARING BODY

New York, July 30-JaaK Rose, who confessed he was ordered by Police Lieutenan: Char,as A. 5e,xer to have Gambler Herns,4 R.3stn, ,la
 Killed sWore in an amp.ified sJate-
 ment made today to Dislr.ct Attorney
 Whitman that as coiiecT5t for Beck
 CT 'l' guessed the alnaa: protection l luna divided among members of the police department, to be not less than $2,400,000. Not only gamblers
 but keepers Of dyes and disorlarly houses of all kinds cent ;bu.ed to this fund.
 Rose mentioned by nae.e .hree po- lice inspectors lnd one Civilian en- pioyed who s-anGs next 9 Ccmm:s- sioner Waldo is the men who acted
 as the clearing committee .er men still higher in the cl;y adminis,ra-
 tion. Becker. hoW2etf, ; alleged to
 have declared to Rose n;l several occasions that he expected to retain for himself at least half ni,loi. dollars this year from the total fund
 In standardization of this state-
 ment' partial evidence has been pre- sented to MT. Whitman, indicating that the personal fortune Of Becker i who is now in the Tombs charged
 with murder in the first degree, amounts to more than $1,000,O00. There is still additional evidence i slowing that Becker had grown 80 to able to his order for protection.
 MI. Whitman, it is intimated, has secured some of these checks, cor
 roberating the testimony of Rose. The fact that Rose had made his
 statement which involved several
 men in the department, travelled like
 wlidfire through the police circles
 At hea'c uarters almost a state of panic prevailed throughout the day.
 District Attoraey Whitman made the positive assertion tonight that in his opinion the confession of Rose, Webber and Vallon which placed the
 respGnsibil ty of Rosenthal directly on Lieutenant Becker was sufficient to send the former head of ne strong arm" squads to the electric chair,
 New York, July 30--An investiga- tion which premises most sensational revelations of corruption ;n the New York police department is we'll un- ler way tonight as the result of the confessions of Jack Rose, 'lBridgy'
 Webber and Harry Vallen. whose amazing stories cleared up the mys-- tery of the actual murder of Herman
 Roseathal, gambler, to the stage where all tha remains is to arrest
 the three assassins still at large
 sWhitey" Lewis. Lefty Louis and
 Bib the Blood.
 Lieutenant Becker, commander of one of the three strong arm squads,
 now in the Tombs under indictment
 on charge of first degree murder
 so far has maintained solid silence but tonight it is declared that un- i publ she'd parts of the confession oi l the Rose, Webber and Vallon Will show tha. Becker himself was only
 'ssmall fry" in the system that is al leged to have enabled gambling
 houses to. flourish by police connl- vance bought with. graft money
 Three inspectors, next highest in
 grade to the commissioners, gre i'm l pl cated and a former high city or l ficial not connected with the police as we'll, .s.
 Jack Ross told District Attorney l Whitman this afternoon that he had 1 collected $600,0 from itenderloln l gamblers in one year and turned all 1 of it over to Lieutenant Becker.
 Rose said he worked on commls- sion. He sad he did not know
 where it went after it reached Beck CT but the latter told him 1t was split up. at headquarters among flve
 men in the police department lnclud- l ing himself and one outsider. l Mayer Gaynor, after asserting ana i reiterating his belief as late as last evening that gamblers could not
 buy protection from the police today agreed to the petition Of fifteen al
 derman and called a special meeiins of the board to look into the poiioe
 and gambling situation ,a, L. Meantime the arrest of the aeta@, ',
 assass'ns is expected hourly. Al Al are without mon ey except what ID I .furnishSd them by tleir pals. Ihey
 were not. paid my large amounts ol money for their crime. They we.e inspired of Iou-der entirely, It IS
 said, by the fear of what BecKer could do tt, them if they failed. 10
 obey orders a''
 Big Jack SeeligN gang leader, wno, according to Jack Rose, ' assempiea sRosenthai's assassins,a is ready to
 give hiInselsiup.s a .al8s
 \ Surivam x who spent the Mgh. flreceding ths murder, riding about town gMitlf tlfnIsieutenant Becker, pAomT