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Headuua rters. was in charge Of the picnic.
Second Deputy Commissioners Dough
the crowd was heard TO say:
II guess we'd better get that fellow '"
Doughcrty Tracking Becker.
Tho Deputy Commissi oner did not
hesitate to say yesterday that he is inves-
tigating the movements of Lieut.. Charles
Becker. Rosenthals enemy and Roee's
friend. as closely as he IN going into the
movements of Baid Jack.
Becker has been questioned and re.
questioned. Yesterday he was deprived
Of his authority ar head of the strong
arm squad. Eight OF his men were taken
away from him and transferred to Lieut.
CostiEan's squad.
Becker is tied to Headquarters and kept
at clerical work. lie has no more to- do
with gambling conditions. Costigan and
Lieut.. Reilly Were az the head OF their
own raiding squads and were units of
Commissioner Waldo's special system OF
dealing with the gambling situation.
Deputy Commissioner Dougherty has
learned more about Jack Roses activities
last Monday night on behalf Of Rose =
friend Becker. Dougherty described the
detective methods employed To get from
men who were in the gray car.
He got a name or two and q description
or two from Shapiro and he mixed these
up with a mass Of names and descript ions
Of East Side gamblers and gangsters
that were known to Rose and Paul and
he led both men to identify ont of this
list the men described by Shapiro.
Roses Little Job for Becker.
no,~h~.,r .hs ;o,I c-o,v, y..,, H.. a,
frank statement that he was working for
Becker early on Monday night. Rose
told this story to Dougherty:
Sure. I'M friend OF Beckers. l went
to the house of Dora Gilbert. Rosenthal's =
divorced wife. on Monday night because
i knew she was going to make an affidavit
that Becker wanted. an affidavit against
Rosenthal.
II hired car from the Imperial Garage
in Second street and used it TO 60 to
Dora Gilbert = and in taking the affidavit
to the Office OF newspaper. About
II o'clock that night tire OF this auto
mobile. a red car. blew up and no tele-
a car ! had used often-Libby's and sha-
"All right. What did you do them
asked the Deputy Commissioner.
Il took a ride with some friends of
mine. said Eose. We went up town 10
West 1i5th street and got back TO Forty
second street a little before . A. Nj. The
whole crowd got out Of the car. We
separated. ] went 10 Bridge Webber's :
poker room. STAYED there while and then
went over TO Jacks. heard that Rosen-
thai had been killed and ] wasn't STIR
prised. There has been talk that he
would get 1t because he talked too much
Later on in the morning | went to Harry
Pollok's house and stayed there until I
found that the detectives wanted to see
me. Nobody was sent after me. Just
read that my name had been brought int o
the case.
Murder Didnt Excite Becker.
Dougherty questioned Lieut.. Becker
about his relations with Rose. Becker
denied that he put Rose in Rosenthal' Z
gambling house a. IL: West Forty-fifth
street to collect 80 per cent. Of the profits.
He denied that he saw Rose al all on
Monday or Monday nigh.
He said that on Monday afternoon he
received telephone call from the l.afa-
ye;te Baths and that the man on the phone.
who said his name WAS Harry Brown. told
him ha could get an affidavit against
Rosenthal b. applying to Rosenthal's
former wife. So he sent Charles X. Pitt.
who had done work for him AT various
times TO the house of the Gilbert woman.
and Pitt got the affidavit.
ibcCkeT ruppllcU alsO an account OF ntA
movements on Monday night. He wen.
TO pri2eigh az Madison Square Garden,
took an automobile ride and went home.
ihen he was told over the phone that
Rosenthal had been killed. He took II
bath, dressed le;surely and went first 20
the M.tropole. which he found 70 be dark
and deserted, and then 10 the West Forty
seventh street station.
Dougherty. replying to questions as to
what line he had taken in quest ionin q
Lieut. Becker. said
"The line of getting at the truth.
Charges and accusations. es vet unsub-
stantiated. have been made against Lieut..
Becker. and he is part of this invcstiga-
ton.
waldo Wants Evidence to Act.
Commissioners Waldo made this state
men;
The momen, any evidence ia produced
against Lieut.. Becker he will be suspended
from the force.
Every accusation and all information
connecting Becker with the Eosenthal
case is being looked into. All OF the
machinery of the department is being
used"
Doughertv is investigating story
tina, fund WAS collected for the purpose
of rowarding ROsnnthal's nurdcrers
Whoever killed koSenthal got paid
for it, said IN" Deputy Commissioner
Il can't reveal what we are doing in that
direction.
The amount mentioned. s.. COO. isproba
bly, exaggerated, as most stories about
gamblers are"
Looking for BiR Jack ZcliR.
He admitted also tina, he is looking for
Big Jack SeliC, tn" story that reached
him is that Jack Rose. who saw Zelg last
Monday. told I"lig that there wa, u
chance for getting rid Of an indictment
hanging over him if he would join in !;
job planned for that night.
SO far the Investigation has not shown
that Zelig was in the automobile tina; went
Ia the Metropole, /elig has lett town
but Dougherty expects to have him at
Headquarters by Monday.
James NJ. Sullivan of ~ Park row. C oun
sel for Rose said yesterday that the Burns
detectives already had dictagraph at
work in the Tombs.
when went there to-day TO have n
found that he had been put in the same
inkling that the Burns dictAgraph was
working.
at won I make any difference II it was
Rose had no hand in the killing, but !
am inclined TO think that the District
Attorney and the Burns men hoped to
pick up some Information 10y putting
the three in the same cell
II don't like the methods used bv the
police in handling my client. Rose tele-
phoned ma yesterday that he had read
i'm the papprR that he yns uaptaI ,uI