The sun., 1912-08-10
BECKER WAS WITH HART
Hired Notary and Took Him
With Lawyer to Roses
Hiding Place.
AN INSPECTORS PROFITS
Known to Have Got $62, 900 a
Year From Gambling and
Disorderly Houses.

The ~. q. Cullom" who deposited
s., 900 in a Newark bank last Juno was
Lieut.. Charles Becker.
The III. c. Kennedy" who put $4,000
in an Elizabeth bank at about the same
time was Lieut.. Becker.
| The District Attorney has learned
also that Becker had at least five other
bank accounts. including the deposit In
the West Side Savings Bank.
The Rosenthal murder investigation
had to do yesterday almost entirely
with the lieutenant. who Is accused OF
numbering a gambler because OF the
fear that his profitable blackmailing
would be exposed.
A new discovery of the District At
;orney Is that 1t was Becker himself
who took Lawyer John w. Hart and
Notary Public Richard G. Barter to call
on Jack Rose at Harry Pollok's house
on the Wednesday night after the mur-
der.
1t was Becker who hired the notary.
1t was Becker who gave instructions as
to affidavits to be secured not only from
Rose but from Harry Pollok.
Pollok at Becker's request. was to
have backed up Roses statement that
Becker was not a CRATER, but Pollok.
suspecting that Becker and Rose were
implicated in worse crime than graft
ing, kept away from home that night.
Stanich Saw II All.
tau .cr'a
bank accounts and Becker's communi-
cations with Rose after the murder MIR.
Whitman found time also to question
Giovanni Stanich. All Austrian business
man. who was in front Of the Metropole
when Rosenthal was shot down.
Stanich is the new witness whose
story in some detail was printed in THE
Sun a week ago last Sunday, but whose
name was withheld at the request of
the District Attorney. He not only iden-
titles Jack Sullivan as the man who
stood with the group of murderers
when the shots were fired but as the
man who walked leisurely with the
pistolmen to the gray car. And he de-
scribes the slothfulness of the police
Immediately after the killing.
Save only for the discovery that
Becker took his lawyer. John w. Hart.
to the fugitive Rose the District Attor-
ney was most interested in the In
formation as to where a policeman
whose salary was $3.50 year had been
putting many thousands out OF the
reach of the moths.
Several days ago when q suggestion
from Jack Rose led Mr.. Whitman TO
the West Side Savings Bank MIR. Whit
man began an inquiry as to whether
Becker had been banking elsewhere.
The District Attorneys detectives found
that $4,000 had been deposited In
Newark bank in June. 1912. The de-
post was entered under the name or
j. q. Cuilom. But 1t was learned that
Cullom was really Becker and that the
lieutenant had been using several names
10 cloak his Identity.
700 Found.
The inquiry led Mr. Whitman's men
To Elizabeth. The officials of a savings
bank in that city said that $4,000 had
been deposited there by H. e. Kennedy,
who, ii was understood. was really
Charles Becker The deposit Of $3OUv
in the West Side Savings Bank here
was made in May Of this year. Similar
deposits were made In at least four
other Manhattan savings banks. the
District Attorney said yesterday, but
he declined to say what banks. because
the officials of those institutions will
be called before the Grand Jury.
On the basis Of the information al,
ready acquired Mr.. Whitman did some
figuring. 1t appears that Lieut. Becker
made deposits here and there. in this
city and elsewhere, OF at least $4,000
month But there Is reason to be-
lieve. the District Attorney says, that in
some months there were several such
deposits. Already there are traces o.
about $4,000 having been banked in
Manhattan and Jersey towns. There Is
also information. as yet uncorroborated.
that Lieut.. Becker had bank account
In Rochester under a name that was
not his own. Mr.. Whitman sent one OF
his assistants to Rochester yesterday to
investigate that story.
Inspectors' Fat PIckiugs.
While on the matter of bank accounts
and while running down Lieut.. Beckcrs
financial operations the District Attor-
ney investigated the bank accounts of
two inspectors Of police. Tho state
ments Of gamblers and other witnesses
NJ To the glcanings of one of these in
spectors. very active policeman of
the old school and who was In charge
of tempting field. say they amounted
to sG2 900 In less than a year.
This inspector appears TO hav" sent
collectors to seventy-fNe disordcrIy
houses and sixty-hve gambling houses.
The District Attorney has an idea that
he divided his profits with another in
spector with whom he had working
agreement At any rate 'he bank ne
counts Of these officials seem li'tle
too plethorlc for their salaries or Tor
,be,r p,,,hah,c savings according !" IN"
District Attorney
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