Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-09-12
BECKER CALLED
TO TRIAL TO-DAY
Is is Believed That the Trial
Will Proceed Without
Further Delay
WILL FIGHT TO LIMIT
TRiAL Is EXPECTED To EXPOSE
UNDERWORLD OF GOTHAM
SHOWING THINGS UNDREAM-
OF by THE UNINITIATED

OF BY THE CNINiTlATED
New York, Sept. 1l.-Ten o'clock
tomorrow morning, before Justice
John W Goff presiding over an eX-
traordinary term of the criminal
branch of the supreme court, Is the
time fixed for Police Lieutenant
Charles A. Becker TO face the bar on
a charge of numbering Gambler Her
man Rosenthal. The general belief
Is that the trial will proceed with
out further delay, thought 1t is a
certainty that Becker's counsel will
fight 10 the limit for postponement.
Failing in an attempt to delay the
trial, counsel for the accused will ask
for change OF venue.
The trial of Becker, which is eX-
pected to unfold tales of the New
York underworld hitherto undream-
ed OF by the general public, though
familiar enough perhaps, to the
Tenderloin habitues. has put every
resident OF the metropolis on the tip
toe Of expectation. The MolineuN
case. the Nan Patterson case, even
-.he Thaw case might be recalled In
vain to find anything approaching a.
parallel to the amount and depth
OF the public interest that now cen
ters in the case OF the accused police
lieutenant.
The cause for this extraordinary
display of public interest is not diff
ficult TO find Back of the murder
are believed to lie crimes of an even
more serious character, crimes that
affect directly or indirectly every citi-
zen OF New York II Is In this phase
OF the case that public interest cen
tcrs-the possibility, or probability
that the trial of Rosenthal's alleged
murderers will reveal the secrets Of
police extortion and lead to a more
complete exposure of the so-callod
y "sytem" than ever could have been
brought about by the testimony that
Rosenthal threatened to lay before
the grand jury.
Events have moved swiftly since
Herman Rosenthal, one OF the best
known Of New York gamblers, was
riddled with bullets and left TO die
on the sidewalk In front of the Me-
tropole Hotel in the early morning
hours OF July l6. Within five hours
after the murder the grand jury
bean an Investigation OF charges
that Police Lieutenant Becker was a
partner OF Rosenthal in the gamb-
ling business one of the s,rst TO
testify before the grand jury was
Mrs Rosenthal, widow OF the mur-
dered gambler who stated that 70
her personal knowledge Becker had
collected money from her husband.
Two days after the killing OF Ros-
enthal Becker was relieved from ac-
tive duty and on July 29 he was ar
rested on charge of murder Mean
while the detectives from the district
attorneys office had been busy un-
earthing the details OF the murder
conspiracy. With little difficulty
they succeeded In finding the 'mur-
der car" the big gray automobile IN
which the gunner" had gone tc
the Metropole and in which they
fled after the murder.
One OF the first men to be taken
into custody In connection with TIA,
crime was Bald Jack Rose. a noted
~ X,rL ga,.hlor .pd a f,rua,
partner OF Rosenthal. Rose, in tn,
language OF the Tenderloin, lost nc
time In getting from under II,
was promptly taken before the grand
jury and is said to have made a
confession duplicating Becker In th,
murder plot and also revealing de-
tails that Indicated appalling cor
ruption in the police department Ac
cording 10 his reported utterances
Rose acted as a collector for Beck
er. whom be- accused OF being one o.
a small ring OF high police official
who divided among themselves th.
enormous sum Of $4,000. 900 as an
ural tribute for the protection o
gambling and disorderly resorts.
with the Information supplied b.
Rose the district attorney was en-
abled 70 lay hands on nearly all o
the "gunmen accused OF the murde
of Rosenthal Several we're found II
hiding IN this city After their ar
rest they are said 10 have mad
confessions that supported the mail
facts as told By Rose Another o
;he gang was captured IN the Adj
roudacks and still another wa
found On Hot Springs. Ark. and re-