The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1912-10-18
PLANNED WITH
DELIBERATION
ROSanthaI's Life Was Taken
at BGheSt Of Becker
ROSE TELLS STORY TO JURY

Police Lieutenant Wanted Gambler
Put "Where He Would Never Wor-
ry Anybody Ese'-"BaId Jack"
Engineered Crime and Paid Gum
men $1,000 For Their Work
New York, Oct. 14.-Long hours Of
cross examination by supperless law
yers before a supperless court and
jury failed to make BALD Jack" Rose
vary his story of the part he played
and the part he says police Leuten-
ant Becker played in the murder of
Herman Rosenthal, the gambler.
Becker told me-" he said, that he
wanted Rosenthal murdered, shot,
croaked, or dynamited. At his bid
ding, got the gunner to kill Rosen-
than. l hid after the murder. | saw
Becker that morning and later talked
with him over the telephone. l paid
the gunner $1,000 for Becker, and
told them he said not to worry, but
to lay low.
Il gave myself up and became a
states witness because Becker de-
serted me like dirty dog, and was
getting ready to throw me to the
wolves"
Becker, cool and stoical, leaned on
the table at which he sat, his chin in
his hand, his elbow on the table, dur
ing the long cross examination.
Bald Jack" Rose, thick Tipped,
wide-ea and without a hair on his
glistening head, was unrufHed by the
ordeal. Once he faltered when Beck
er's lawyer hurled question after
question at him, each ending land
when you said that you lied, didn't
yCu?"
Once he leaned forward, buried his
face in his hands and tottered on the
stand. He seemed about to faint and
the court quickly ordered a pause in
the proceedings and windows were
lowered to revive him. Within a few
minutes he was refreshed and the
cross examination was continued.
Rose admitted, time after time,
that he had lied, had perjured him
self, had been a gambler and had
been engaged twenty years in illegiti-
mate business. He admitted that he
was testifying to save his own life,
but said he was telling the truth now.
He said he had concluded to become
states witness only when the electric
chair stared him in the face and add
ed that he was not ashamed of his
determination.
Without emotion, in a slow, de-
liberate drawl, he said he had DELHI
erately planned, at Becker'sl behest,
to put Rosenthal where he would
never worry anybody else" He knew,
he added, that it was a terrible deed
to plan.
Where was you conscience?" thun-
dered Becker's lawyer.
Il never consult my conscience"
he replied slowly and evenly, with
out tremor or a break in his voice.
Have you got conscience?" de-
manded the lawyer.
Il don't know" he said, measuring
his words and facing the lawyer
squarely. Il never saw it..
do you now intend to lead re-
spectacle life?"
Yes, but not in this community.
l value my life too much and
wouldn't be free man here"
With words tumbling over each 9TH
er in their haste, Rose declared that
he had been a true friend" to Sam
Schepps and Harry Vallon and had
for them with the district
Throughout, Rose declared that he
had no motive of his own for killing
but had acted solely at
Becker's direction. Time and again
Mr.. Mcintyre, Becker's lawyer, quot
ed alleged conversations between Rose
and men of the underworld, apparent
Iy in an attempt to prove that Rose
himself desired the gamblers death.
NO such conversations ever oc-
CURED" was his stock reply to these
questions.
But you were Becker's graft col
ector-so you say?"
Il was"
Not once during the day, however,
we're Roses methods Of collecting al
eyed graft the subject Of a question.