New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-12

motion ct the time for leave to in
spect the minutes Of the grand Jury
which indicted Becker
| Moss Opposed Further Delay.
Frank Moss Assistant District At
torney, opposed the motion before JUS
tice Bischoff, on the grounds princi-
pally that it was designed to delay the
| trial of Becker. Mr.. Mcintyre de-
CARED that the motion was brought in
good faith and not merely to delay the
| trial.
, This application is made in the IN
! terest Of justice and in the interest OF
| the defendant. whose life stands in the
| said. We are asked to go to trial in
| all this clamor / don't know whether
| The District Attorney is responsible for
! II or not. but some one in the District
! Attorneys office is disclosing grand
jury room secrets every day. and the
public mind has been incensed by what
are diabolical and Infamous state
ments, and we must have all the evil
dence we can get in order properly TO
! defend the accused. All We ask is that
! stay be granted until the first Mon
day in October, and am prepared to
assure your honor that in three weeks
time the commission will he returned
TO the clerk Of this court
Mr.. Moss suggested that the motion
| ought TO he heard before Justice Gorr
in the extraordinary term of the SUI
! preme Court, where Becker's case had
been set for trial. Mr.. Moss said that
would be the orderly practice. Justice
Bischoff said that il was not ques-
ton OF convenience OF any judge. but
matter Of justice TO the nc used man.
is the accused man 10 be deprived
ity?' the court asked. Il think not. 4
becomes my duty to decide this case
and | will give speedy decision"
The motion was granted soon after
II was made.
Mr.. Mcintyre reviewed the Rosenthal
case i'll arguing his motion and desig-
mated the parts which Bald Jack"
Rose, Bridge" Weber and Harry Va
linsky are supposed 10 have taken in
the murder plot.
Hoped to ExouIpste Themselves"
These men confessed themselves 20
be the assassins and the murderers o,
Herman Rosenthal," said Mr. McIn-
tyre. and when they were apprehcnd-
ed for the commission Of that crime
aud began TO fee the halter drawn
about their necks then they deemed il
prudent 70 involve some one else. in The
hope that they might exculpate them
selves Now. the fact is shat they did
not say thai Becker Counselled. ed
vised, suggested and commanded the
commission Of the offence.
Subsequently another man was ac-
cused Of having participated in the CT
fence, and that man has been charac-
terizeG and indicated by the press and
others as the murder paymaste
other words. the man who took $1,000
and distributed that sum 70 the per-
sons who committed the actual, physi-
cal act Of murder. When he found
that the District Attorney and the DO
li3e were seeking him ont he fled from
one place to another and he was found
in Hot Springs, Ark.
1T has been said in the public prints
OF this city, by the District Attorney
and some Of his associates. that
Schepps corroborates Rose in every DC
tail Now, upon the testimony Of Val
Ion. and OF Rose and Of Weber they
being self-cCnfessed asssssins an1
hence accomplices. there could be no
conviction. But with this constructive
innocence that tho District Attorney
has seen 1T TO build around this man
Schepps they hope 10 corroborate Rose.
Weber and WALTON out Ct the mouth Of
Schepps, who has since testified before
the grand jury"
Hot Springs, Ark, Sept u-G. ID.
Burns. representing counsel for Police
Lieutenant Becker, has been in Hot
Springs. IL became known today, for the
last week, trying to get affidavlts from,
persons to whom Sam" Schepps talked.
While Burns will not make any state
ment. It is understood he has been en-
desvoring 10 get affldavts that Schepps
expressed the belief that Becker wa. the
Victim II conspiracy.