The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-10-18

ago that Becker's raid on Rosenthal's g
gambling house was frameup on Rosen-
thai and that Becker had tried to soothe
the angry Mrs. Rosenthal He was ques-
toned by MIR. Moss.
Q. What was your business' A. A
tipst er.
Q. How long have you known Lieut..
Becker? A. Five months.
Q. How often have you seen him? A.
Quite a number of times.
@. What was going on when you met
him? A. Raids.
Q. And at that timeSwhat was your bust
ness? A. I was working for the New York
Press as a tipster and free lance for news
papers.
q. And your business was 10 GO where
Lieut.. Becker was making raids and report
the fact TO the newspapers? A. Yes. sir.
Q. And that was why you were at Iol
West Forty-fifth street on April IS? A. Yes.
sir
Q. What was going on there? A. A raid.
q. Had you met Becker prior to that
raid? A. Yes. the day before.
Q. Who was there? A. There we're men
from the Central ONCE squad.
q. Was there any conversation? A. Yes.
Becker told me TO go to Rosenthal and get
q description of the fixtures. so IL I was
wanted I could swear out a warrant
Q. We're you ever in the house before
that time? A. No. sir.
Describes RosenthaI Raid.
Mr.. Mcintyre did his best to keep Mar
golis from describing the raid but Justice
Goff overruled all objections. Margolis
testified that Becker without any legal
evidence sent Shepard. one of his men,
to get warrants for a raid on Rosenthal
90 xh, lata L.. T.
terror Of the gambling house, Margolis
testified:
Becker said to Shepard: Before you
enter the house you will haveyto enter the
basement. There you will see an iron door
way, and you will be asked questions by a
number OF attendants; then II you are let
inside you will be- taken upstairs through
the basement to the first floor. There you
will find roulette wheel. but you do not
want that. You will go upstairs, where
you will find roulette wheel and two faro
banks" lie then told them to go and
get warrants to raid the place.
Mr.. Moss led Margolis along to tell the
| story OF how Becker led a squad in the
raid and of how he Margolis) saw and
heard most OF what happened. Margolis
was answering all questions despite MIR.
McIntyre's loud objections.
"You wait, sir!" shouted Mr.. Mcintyre.
"You seem 80 anxious TO get this story
out of your system that you don't give
me chance"
After Margolis had testified about Sec
ing Mrs. Rosenthal with Becker the tes-
timony was:
O. Did You hear Mrs Rosenthal say any.
| thing? A. Yes. She said. why, Charlie
/ what are you DOING" Then Becker raisec
his hand and said. "Sshh" Then they wcnI
toward the rear Of the house and talked fol
several moments
y. Did YOU hear what was said? A. No.
.. Then when You went upstairs di,
Becker follow? A. No, ! loft him down
stairs with Mrs, Rosenthal.
| Tries to show Him II PcrJurcr.
+ Mr.. Mcintyre strove to show the i,Iry
that Morgolis was pcrjurcr and a man
of generally bad character. Some of the
Testimony follows:
@. You were charged with stealing
money? A. was not, That Is n lio
! q, You know Mr spencer? \. Ne.. sir
lie is the chief of the railroad police
! q. lie discharged you, didn't he? 4. No
sir.
q. For whom were you tipstcr; A. For
every paper in the city.