The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-19
Whitman, Today, Has Long Conference With Libby and Shapiro, the Chauf- feurs of Car That Contain ed Slayers.
Waldo Refuses to Suspend Police Lieutenant Becker Until z Some Sufficient Charge Is Made Against Him.

New York, July 1e-The bitter feel ing between the police and District Attorney Whitman as the result of | the murder of Gambler Herman. Ro- senthal and the developments in the gambling situation was further inten- sified today when Whitman took is- sue with the police regarding Jack
 Rose. now in the Tombs on honi- eide charge When the prosecutors attention was called to the declaration of the police that they had turned
 Rose up''. he said:
 \ Yes, when I made it very plain that they had to get this man they sent word to him to come to head quarters. But they did not tell him a
 murder charge would be lodged against him. I do not believe Rose was actually present at the killing. He has been collector of police graft and is familiar with the situation" Whitman admitted that private de- tectives are aiding him in getting to
 the bottom of the situation. He said that he was to have an interview with
 the head of the agency engaEed, this aftefnoen and that he was going out of town tonights
 Whitman positively refused to say where he was going. but it was believ- ed that his trip was in connection with mysterious conference he had. late last night, at his home with an individual said to be one of the best known gamblers in the United States. This man, it, was reported, told Whitman where he could get into touch with others of the fraternity now outside of New York's jufisdic- tion who could give him real .informa- | tion regarding the relations between &H ~S@1A l The direct declaration that Police Lieutenant Becker will not be sus- pended from duty unless District Att torney Whitman will make at least l one charge against him that will hold", was made by Police Commis- I sioner Waldo this afternoon. 1T shall keep Becker right here In l headquarters in direct charge of his squad said the commissioner, as l long as there is no actual charge that will hold against him. Here I can | get him at once should it be necessary, while if he were suspended from duty he would only have to report once a day..
 Waldo stated that, up to the present. no trace had been found of the men who were in the murder car.
 That District Attorney Whitman had agreed with Libby and Shapiro to tell him all they know with the under | l immunity, was indicated when the
 pair were secretly taken from the
 Ton1bs and smuggled into the district attorneys office through rear en- l trance.
 Previously, their counsel, Aaron J. l Levy, was closeted with them in the
 Tonabs for nearly three hours. He went directly from there to the dis
 trict attorney and was locked in the | Iatter's private office for more than an
 hour. Whitman then sent for five of 1 the private detectives who have been
 employed to aid him. and for his offi-
 cial stenographer. A few minutes later, the two prisoners were smuggled | into the office.
 There was general air of expect ancy about the district attorney's s
 Headquarters, and officials declared i that startling disclosures were expect ed.
 After the conference, Shapiro and
 Libby were taken back to the Tombs. | Their counsel, Aaron J. Levy, stated | that he had promised the district att I torney to make no statement, but de-
 clared the result of the session had been very satisfactory.
 l District Attorney Whitman said that
 he had received some valuable infor- nation from the two men and that he \ was we'll satisfied with the outlook. He said that he believed he would be l in full possession of the facts in the
 gambling situation very soon and thai
 all of the efforts of the gamblers and
 their police allies to balk his investi-
 gation would fail.
 l New York, July 19-A circumstantial
 report that one of the biggest gam
 blers in New York city, under a prom | ise of complete immunity for himself
 and his immediate circle of pals, had | made a. full confession to District At torney Whitman of the exact status
 of the gambling situation, to whom l tribute was paid, by whom and just what protection was secured for the money, created a sensation at police headquarters today 1 The name of this man. was not re- vealed but 1t was said he was famil- I far with every~detail of the. situation 1 and that he had acted when he be-
 came convinced that the private de- tectiye agency retained by the district ]. attorney would eventually get posses sion of all of the secrets. z.
 T There was no confirmation of the re- port. District Attorney Whitman ad- ! mitted that a mysterious stranger
 had been closeted with him for more than three hours, last night, and that he had seen him again today He refused to indicate the identity Of thls
 visitor although he admitted that the
 pamblino situation was discussed.