The Alaska citizen., 1912-09-02

hut i'oSe' Nuo ulu tue ColleCtlng for Becker. does not think that Becker or any other individual pock. eted such a sum in one year, but says that Becker and his connections were distributing agents and that the six hundred thousand that each received was subdivided Becker's salary is s3,0O0 per year It has been proved that Becker deposited s6O,000 in a bank two days before the crime was committed Jack Rose further swore that Becker had forced Webber to pay the thousand dollars for the committing of the crime of murdering Rosenthal. A few minutes after Rosenthal was done away with. Webber, threatened 1 by Becker, gave Rose thousand dollars in large bills Rose turned the money over to Sam Schepps. and Schepps handed it to "Gyp the | Blood" and Lefty" Louis on the Seventh avenue side of the Times building, not a block from the scene of the murder. on the afternoon of the crime.
 To go into full details as to the hugeness of the police graft in the big city is impossible. Every house no matter how small paid it's tax to the police regularly, according to 1 the testimony. District Attorney | Whitman has won the respect and admiration of every man and woman in the country who opposes licensed crime" He has fearlessly started the greatest cleaning out that New York has known, and that he will finish it is assured, Equally as great as the praise afforded Whitman has been the censure dealt to Gaynor The present mayor of New York was responsible for the resignation of General Bingham, one of the ablest and most fearless police commis sioners N W York ever had He is ! likewise responsible for the appoint ment of Baker. weak. puny mo- body who was simply tool in the hands of the man who wanted to be police commissioner as well as may or. Under Baker the force was completely demoraliZed all the good work of Bingham set at naught, and until the present commissioner. Rhinelander Waldo, was appointed no man of force has been given the position. Waldo has done as well as can be expected with the mater ial he has had, and the cleaning out that was essential to get fair force To District Attorney Whitman be- longs naught but the greatest cred 1t, and to the mayor naught but abuse and discredit.
 That the progress of the cases and the probing of the graft charges will be speedy is the wish of all. Sensational things will be exposed if Becker tells all he knows The latest news of the case follows:
 NEW YORK, Aug 2G. - With his lawyers and friends wailing that the indicted police lieutenant is the vic tim of conspiracy of the gamblers, and the police lieutenant himself moaning that he is not given a square deal, Becker will go before Judge Mulqueen, in the court of special sessions tomorrow, and plead ! Not guilty" to the charge of en- sineering the brutal murder of Ros, enthal. Through former Assistant District Attorney Hart, who has been the indicted mans lawyer since three days before the murder of the gambler. Becker hopes to clip the wings of justice and win his case. At the present time John w. Hart, George w. Whiteside, and Lloyd Stryker. all former assistant district attorneys under William Travers Jerome, are conducting the case of the accused man.
 NEW YORK, Aug. 27 District Attorney Whitman today made the astounding discovery that the owner of house of prostitution in this city and a man whose every move is controlled by the crooked police of this city, was sitting on the grand jury. This made necessary the sum- moning of a new jury. At the same time 1t was decided that this jury would sit through the entire month of September, the greater part Of which will be given over to the re. turning of indictments against the men who are brought prominently into the tremendous scandal through the testimony of Sam Schepps, Harry Vallon, "Bridgie" Webber, and Bald" Jack Rose, all of whom turn ed states evidence.
 NEW YORK, Aug. 12. - The New York police scandal may pass into the hands of the federal authorities An unexpected turn in the Rosen-