Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-10-31
HAD A SMALL
BANK ACCOUNT
Convicted Police Officer Of
New York Reveals FiDaD.
CiaI Secrets
He Bitterly Regretted That
He was Not Called to
Witness Stand

Becker. standing behind the tier gate
of the first floor of the Tombs prison
for an hour before .eaving for Sing
sing with the bearing and in tones OF
a broken man, told his interviewers
that he could not understand the
unanimous condemnation II him by
the press. He appealed for what he
called a square DEAL" and there was
no spirit of anger in his words. He
is crushed and just beginning to re.
alize the full import of the verdict OF
Thursday night, when he was found
guilty of murder in the first degree
the shooting of Herman Rosenthal.
Becker gave his explanation of his
possession OF considerable sums of
money, which he said he was anxious
to give upon the witness stand, and
he went into detail in describing his
conduct in the several instances
wherein Jack Rose had accused him
OF furthering the plot to cause the
Staying OF ROsenthal. But he contin.
ually reverted to his sense Of wrong
in the public acceptance of the stories
OF such men AS Rose, Weber and
Schepps against him.
His Bank Accounts Explained.
"All that talk about my bank &C
counts did not worry me-" he said,
Il a easily explain them. In the
first place my sister, Laura, before
She died, gave me $4,000, and in her
will she left me nothing, dividing her
estate among the others Of the fam
lily. When l got that money l took it
home and gave it to my wife and told
her to put it with her other cash. |
knew she had $4,000 of her own when
we were married, which she had saw
ed from her salary as a school teach
er. She got $3.50 a month and was at
no expense for her living, as she al.
ways lived at home and paid no board.
Her father gave her $ $500 when we
were married.
when l told her to put the money
! gave her with the other cash l dis
covered for the first time that, like
her father, She kept all her money in
a tin box In u home. She had it all
then in that box in the bottom of her
trunk. OF course, l saw the danger of
that sort of thing and showed her
how foolish it was. That was how
several bank accounts were opened by
either or both of us in savings banks,
because most of them will not take a
deposit of more than $4,000 from any
one depositor.
"Rnf tho inncf c1INpuicin~ @l:~~ I
learned was that John F. Einnegan,
who had been brought up by the par
ents of my wife and regarded her as
a sister, had given to her considerable
sums of money at various times, all
OF which she had saved. There was
$4,000 or $4,000 Of that money in
the tin box. Mr.. Finnegan suffered
from heart disease and he fell dead
in a street car the day after my ar
rest and the indictment July 29.'
His Relations With Rose.
:" never gave Rose a cent and often
| wondered why he did not ask me for
money for the work he was doing for
me as a stool pigeon. At last began
to believe it was because he was by
nature a stool pigeon, that he liked
the work of a spy and informer SO
much that he would rather work hard
over it for nothing than not do it at
all. When ! had just about decided
this was the sort of character he was
he came to me and told me that he
had bought an interest in a gambling
house with Herman Rosenthal, and
he asked me in consideration Of the
work he had done for me if l would
not be easy on his. gambling house.
! told him l would not make any spe.
cial effort to get him, but If there was
a complaint of his place referred to
me | would have to go after him just |
as | had to go after any other gam |
bier.
THAT was early last winter, and
the next thing l heard from him
about his gambling house was that
Rosenthal had 'double-crossed' him..
Rose said that they :tarted out ali
right together, and about a week af-
ter they opened the house in West
45th street they had a winning OF
$1,000 from n nan
Receives Orders From Waldo.
There were complaints against Ro-
senthaps place and Commissioner
Waldo told me to close 1t. l got Rose
and he told me that there were three
ways to get anyone into Rosenthars;
one was to get an introduction from
jim Hawk, who is we'll known around
the Metropole; another was to get
a card from n of the Metropolis
walters, whom Rosenthal supplied
with cards, on which he had written
his autograph, and a third was
through an employe in the cigar stand
at the Cadillac hotel"
Becker went on to tell how he had
informed the men of hi5 squad and
they obtained entrance 20 Rosen.
did those men get honest evidence
Rosenthal?" he was asked.
"Just as. sure as there is a Coo and
l am conyiced of murder in the first
degree he replied.
"The Stronger Claim Henry w.
Savage's new production, is booked
for q long tour through the South
and the middle West.
Margaret Anglin has decided to
shelve Egypt" The author, Edward