The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-08-01
District Attorney Trying TO Cor.
roborate Gamblers Statement
IN THE ALLEGED GRATING
Satisfactory Progress Is Being Made To-
day Toward Supplying the Missing
Links in the Confessions of Rose,
Z Webber and Vallon.

New York, Aug. l.--Steps toward cor
roboration of the confessions implicatin.
Ipolice Lieut. Becker in the murder o
/ Herman Rosenthal, the gambler, are t,
be taken carefully and slowly that, al
District Attorney Whitman says, 9TH,
| whole truth of the relations between
the gamblers and the police may come
cut"
"Dago Frank" Cirofci and Shapiro tht
chauffeur OF the murder ear" were con.
fronted to-day by three witnesses who
positively identified them as participants
in the murder-Sh Shapiro as driver of the
car and Cirofei as one of the gun men
Shapiro has already confessed his part
! in the affair."
Satisfactory progress is being made by
Whitman in supplying the missing links
in the confessions of Jack Rose. "Bridgie'
| Webber and Harry Nallon. The district
attorney says he has obtained some i'm
portant testimony confirming parts OF
Roses and Webber's story that they
met Becker by appointment after the
murder.
Lieut.. Becker was further implicated
last night. when Rose and Webber added
another chapter to their already amazing
allegations. They told District Attorney
Whitman that Rosenthal was TO have
been killed at the lnstigation Of Becker
10 days before he actually met his fate,
and that the plot failed because the un-
derworld thugs selected to do the murder
lost their nerve at the last moment
The district attorney spent the great
er part Of the afternoon with Rose and
Webber in their cells at the west side
police station and under the promise OF
leniency which the prosecutor has given
them they talked freely They gave
little additional information regarding
the S2,400,000 fund which they alleged
illegal resorts paid for police protection
in the city every year, but their story
of the alleged anxiety of Lieutenant
Becker because of Rosenthals threatened
exposures was amplified to the district
attorney and in the prosecutors opinion
he strengthened his evidence against
Becker.
The "plot that failed was to have
been brought to its climax at the garden
restaurant on 5lst street on Saturday
night, July q, when Rosenthal and his
wife We're dining there, according to the
account told by Rose to Mr.. Whitman as
spokesman for the two gamblers. With
Rosenthal and his wife at the time was
Jack Sullivan, the newshoy, now under
arrest for alleged completely in the mur-
der. Rose himself engineered the lob
and brought TO the restaurant fleet OF
thugs" who were to do the actual shoot
ing, according to Rose. Two of the hired
assassins We're "Gyp the Blood" and
Lefty Louie, who are wanted by the
police as two OF the men who actually
shot Rosenthal 10 days later in front OF
the hotel Metropole Becker at that
time was downtown, Rose said. waiting
for the murder plot to be consummated.
Becker had talked with me every
day." Rose said. HE kept saying to
me, Why don't you kill this fellow off 2
Rosenthal would have been killed off
that night if the bunch hadn't lost their |
nerve. They got the notion after they |
reached the restaurant that detective |
was onto them. After giving up the |
assassination, we went to 'Bridgie' Web
ber's place and there we met Becker. |
He denounced us all up and down.
"'You are all lot of cowards,' he
said. Pll have to do it myself