The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-08-12
SULLIVAN
TELLS OF
N. Y. GRAF 7
SIXTH MEMBER OF MURDER
GANG CONFESSES; THREE
YET AT LARGE

New York, Aug. 12-'Jack" Sulli
Ivan. who is under arrest in connee
tlon with the murder of Herman RIOS
lonthal. promised he would tell Mon
day all he knew of Police Lieutenant
Reckers alleged connection with tht
murder Sullivan made this state
lment TO Assistant Attorney Smith
He was unwilling to tell his full story
until he had seen MIR. Whitman. who
lis out OF town over Sunday Sullivan
said 10 Mr. Smith, but he said he had
seen Becker in conversation with
l"Jack' Rose and Bridge" Webber a
few hours after the murder.
This corroborates stories of other
witnesses indicating close relations
between Becker and the men inyoly-
eG In the murder plot Sullivan de
lahout the plans TO Kill Rosenthal and
also denied that he had driven away
|! in the gray automobile in which the
lmurderers escaped.
He was on the scene shortly after
the killing and went from the Hote
Netropole to Bridge" Webber's
eSmhling house on Forty-Second
street. He saw Becker and Rose con
ersiug on the sidewalk, he said
Later they were joined by "Bridgie'
land the three had a low-toned conYer
lsation in which he was not permitted
to join.
Sixth "SqueaIer"
Sullivan makes the sixth of the
i ne men under arrest for the murdei
who have "squealed' and the effect
the addition OF another recruit up
on Lieutenant Becker. who still main
talus that he had nothing to confess
VIII be watched with interest by tbs
prosecution. Efforts OF Assistant Dis
lrict Attorney Smith TO Investigate
Becker's bank deposits resulted il
The find OF five more banks in when
d. Dosits were carried in the name o.
Becker and his wife, representing al
together DEPOSITS OF more than s25
0l9 All the deposits were made, it il
said. within the last eight months. IL
one bank Becker was credited witt
$4,000 1t was also learned by the
that TWO police inspect
crs had made recent deposits tctaling
s15.V00 Evidence VI graft agansg
one OF these inspectors Is In the hand
oi the district attorney who viii seek
ais Indictment when the graft fea
ture of the case is taken Up.
s15. 900 a Month To Becker
Information to the effect thai
kecHer turned over 10 those higher
pDr more Of his alleged graft collec
lions than he kept was obtained bs
A torney Smith today. Becker's re
ceipts, according % this evidence
amounted 10 about $4,000 a month
but o. rhis 1000 vent 10 the so
tailed system
Jack Rose, Il was learned today
has received absolute immunity. al
became known that when Rose con
fessed before the grand jury a stfp
Jlation granting him his freedom
as soon az he has completed III
testimony at the trial was signed by
the district attorney and Judge 3lul
lueen with the approval Of the grana
,ury
Rose rs now in a penltent mood, ac
o0rding TO his lawyers and is anxi
ns 10 reform He plans az soon as
be- Is released 10 leave the country
with his wife and their two child
zen and begin life over.
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