Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-08-02
FRANK CIROFICI
 HAS KICKED IN Another Confession in New York Murder Case Com
 pletes Charge.
ATTORNEY IS IN BAD
John ". Hart Knew Murderer of Ros- enihal But kept Him in the
 Dark After Tragedy.

New York, Aug. 1-"Dago Frank" C'rGflci, described by three witnesses as one of the men who fired the shot which killed Herman RGsenthal in front O. tde NJ tropole Hotel on the nlgat of July 16, tonight broke down ana turned states evidence.
 The Fli5oner had been depending on Il alibi. He had arranged to sh9w that while the Rosenthal mur- der was being carried out, he was in saloon n Harlem trying to get funds for Rosie Harris, a woman Of the under world, who had been arrest ed. ecnmss sner Doughery and Assistant Districc Attorney Frank Morse tore Girc fici's alibi to shreds. The gun man broke down, began to cry and then burst forth :
 T was in the murder party; l was one of the men hired to kill Rosen- thai, but l d d rot fire a shot.
 The shooting he went on, was done by Lei Louis or Whitey Lewis. Four men were in the party, but one Of the two of them was the only man who pulled the trigger
 G1rofici will go to the grand jury room and there he will tell how Roserthal was surrounded and shot to death; the number of shots fired; wha fired them; how and by whom he was hired to join the murder party and how he and his eompan; ons got away.
 District Attorney Whitman looks upon the confession Of "Dago Frank" as of the utmost importance. It brings the actual commission of the murder thome to cer.ain named indi- viluals under description of par ticipeHt- ssrrxfeit cofroboFates the con- session 9f Jack Rose sand Bridgy Webber. Additional arrests. based on "Dago Franks" confession. will De mada immediately ard the District Attorney hints some of these I'll be of men who have been under sus- piciOn here tofore.
 Foll wing fas. on the confession of C;r~tici, taough no; directly coanect- d with it, J@hn w. Hart, attorney for Police Lieutenant Charles A., Becker, accused tthe murder of Rcsenthal, was brought before Judge Mulqueen and ordered to answer aus estions comp bounded to him by the D strics Attorney before the grand jury. Hart refused to answer these questions but when taken second time before the inquisitorial body talked more freely although he pre- faced almest every statement with a protest
 Hart admitted that he had visited Jack Rose, che of the men who had comics sea. while the latter was in Il ding, following the gamblers mur der. Hart went at the instigation of Lieutenant Becker. He visited Rose, h4 said, in an effort to secure an affidavit concerning the $1,500 cured from Becker on {. mortgage and another affidavit concerning Rcsentnals charge that Becker had demanded and received 20 per cent Of the profits of Rosentha's gamb- ling house. Al the time he secured these affidavits, Hart declares, he did not know that Rose was accused Of complcity in the murder.
 District Attorney Whitman declar- ed that he would seek the d sbarment of Hart on tie charge of knowing he whereabouts of a man wanted on a murder charge and keeping his knowledge secret
 Hart's testimony, combined with that of "Dago Franks. put the crux of the case directly up to the accused Becker. According to the authorities Hart's testimony showed that Becker was in constant coin- munity with Rose. who had confes- sed to have been a tcol of Becker n the murder plct, at time when the police officials should have been arrested Rose instead of parleying with him.