The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-22
BECkER'S DEFENSE CLOSES
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 of them failed to stand up under the Ire of cross-exanlfnation by the dis
 When the trial re-opened, the read ing of the cross examinations in con nection with the dispositions secured at Schepps' story was resumed by Dis trict Attorney Whitman.
 Attorney Mcintyre said that he and the question of whether Becker should take the stand.
 T find that have enough witness more thoroughly into the matter. I do not believe it necessary to call Becker. But we will settle the mat ter some time today.''
 Becker seemed more hopeful as he entered the courtroom than at any time since the trial was begun. He with his counsel. Asked what his said:
 'I am willing and anxious to take would elarify the testimony to date and also put the finishing touches on the lies these gamblers have told against me. I am very sorry that Justice Golf ruled out as evidence the letter Assistant District Attorney Moss sent to Jack Sullivan in prison. If there would have been no question of the verdict in my favor
 Police Officer John J. Dougherty, who participated in the raid on the Rosentlnal gambling house, said that he saw Louis Margolis in front of the place when the raid was made. This was blow to the defense who had claimed Margo1is, who was a state witness, was not there.
 Mcintyre then succeeded in getting into the records the facts of the con- v1ction for forgery of Morris Lubin, one of the states witnesses, who swore he heard Becker tell Rose in the lafayette baths that ''Rosenthal
 John D. Mahey, theatrical man ager, said he dined with Becker on July and that Rose was not there. dined together on that date. The de- fense failed in an attempt to show by Policeman Charles D.. Fogel that Mrs Rosenthal told him last Febru-- threatened to kill her husband. The witness then related conversation he said he had with Harry VaIlon First avenue and 29th street at o'clock in the morning.
 Rose said to me- the witness friend of Rosenthaps. I told him was. Then he said to me: You tell him he had better keep his mouth shut or I will shut it for him so that 1t will stay shut 2
 The witness said he had not told the district attorney of this threat b0SdOS0 He DSuSV0Q WAlCman was trying to give the impression that the whole force was crooked. He said that~ Becker called him down, last February for being a friend of Rosen- thal- The witness said he told Becker then that his wife was hairdresser and Mrs. Rosentha1 was one of her customers and that was the only rela- tfonship between them.
 Becker told me to be careful he said, or our relations might cause gossip
 Half a dozen businessmen then testified as character witnesses. Moss asked each one of them if they had ever heard stories affecting Becker's Integrity and that he had arrested a decent woman on an improper charge and had her locked up all night. All replied in the negative
 Michael N. DeLoge, who defended Charles Pitt, the Becker press agent. who was tried for murder, swore that Becker did not provide the funds for the defense. He said all he received was the regular fee provided for by the state in such cases
 Both sides rested at 3:15 this after noon, the prosecution contenting itself with the calling of but one witness, in ref11If,ta1