Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-14
Find That Becker Began Deposits
Shortly After Heading Strong.
Arm Squad :. SChepp Talks
To The Newspapers.
ScHEPPS' STATEMENT.

Hot Springs, Ark, Aug. 13.-Sam
Sehepps, held here as material wit
ness in the Rosenthal murder case.
has been hidden by the federal Off
GERS tG whom he was given into GUS
tody, this evening. After holding him
three DAYS. the time limit of the law,
the police turned him over TO Fred
johnson, postmaster and deputy Unit
ed States marshal. and johnson de-
elines to say where schepps has been
taken
Schepps is allowed what the Hot
Springs police term every reasonable
liberty and he expresses his opinion
of their treatment of him insthe high
est terms.
1t was after Sehepps had read sew
eral accounts of his. case in many
newspaperssthat he agreed to give out
what he termed the true status of his
affairs to Phe Associated Press.
He laughed at the report that he
was broke and mentioned that he had
told his friends to cease wiring him
money, as he had plenty of it at pres
ent.
Officers here are anxious to turn
Schepps over to representatives of the
New York district attorneys office.
but owing to a peculiar status of the
case they fear possession of him
might be obtained through court tech
nicalities by other officers
A local newspaper. today published
an article stating that representatives
of the New York police department
had secretly arrived here.
Schepps, today. authorized the fol-
lowing statement for The Associated
Press.
Il want to say that every sensa-
tional story that has been sent out
from Hot Springs. no matter by whom,
and quotes me directly or Indirectly
as having made any confession of any
connection as regards police graft,
.white slave traffic, and SO on. / brand
as maliciously false, made out of
whole cloth and manufactured from
garbled reports gotten up by / know
not whom.
Il want the newspapers to- Know for
certain fact that this interview.
which l am willing TO sign and swear
TO, is the first and only statement by
me to the representative of any news
service whatever. AS regards the
made no confession. / have nothing
to confess. Mr.. Whitman knows this.
The newspaper men who have asked
me for some statement know it, but /
think some of them nave wanted to
make little money out of mis-state-
ments.
when I was taken in custody Post
master Johnson took from me a letter
l received from Jack Rose and re-
ply | had written to him. He had
promised to seal them in an envelope
and mold them subject to District At
torney Whitman's orders. l, fearing
some sentence in those letters might
be misconstrued by those not know
ing everything connected with the
Resenthal case, requested that they
be returned to me or given in the
care of Police Captain George Novel;
or Police Chief Leonard. This was
not done. | was powerless, not know
ng whether any charges had been
made against me. / understand these
letters have been used. | want to say
that their use was in my opinion lille
gal and libellous. My attorney will
examine this feature when 1 return
to New York.
81 fear no persons or agent in New
York, but since IL seems to be legal
that Mr. Whitman has a right to de-
mand that | be given into his custody
as a witness. | have demanded my
right as detained witness. against
whom no charge of crime mas or can
be made. to be given into the custody
OF none except Mr.. Whitman's au-
thoriZed representatives
Il want to repeat that this is the
only authorized statement l have
made for the representative of any
newspaper or press association.
(Signed) "SAM SCHEPPS'