New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-08-21
GRAFT EVIDENCE IS NEXT
1rand Jury Now to Consider
EXtortion End of Scandal.

WIN the murder indictments filed in
''e Hosenthal case, the grand Jury will,
turn It's attention exclusively to tho ora q
END OF the inquiry 1t will meet to-mor.
~" ior what will probably be a brief
ana VIII adjourn then. it is said.
,or ABOUT ten days, during which time
"i' whitman believes he can prepare the
evidence which he will present for indict.
mehts for eXtortion.
III the mean time the District Attorney
stdf is working along on the lines pre-
'4ousIy lndicated-lines which include in
duuition TO evidence that Becker's bank
accounts were extremely large for a man
with such modest salary, startling facts
WIN regard to the bank accounts and
questionable activities of four police in
spectors and one other official of that de-
partment
MI Whitman's men discovered yester-
DAY that on April a an account was
opened in the Bank for Savings, 22d street
and Fourth avenue, in the names of
CHARLES and Helen l.. Becker" Two
thousand dollars was deposited there on
that day. and the account stood at that
nSure until July 81, when Mrs. Becker
withdrew the entire $1,000
On April p a similar joint account was
opened in the Franklin Savings Bank, at
i2d street and Eighth avenue. and a de-
post Of 5000 was made there. which was
also withdrawn by Mrs. Becker on July 81.
The records of the Becker safe deposit
box, which was No. 366, in the Madison
Safe Deposit Company showed that II
had been rented on November a, 1911.
According TO the record kept by the COM
pany the box was visited as follows: BY
Mrs Becker. on November 9S and Decenl-
Der %: by Charles Becker. on December
~, January II, January ~. February 10,
March Is. March 70. April Il, April % and
May l6: 10y Mrs. Becker. on June II and
July 50.
In the Willamshridge branch Of the
Bronx Borough Bank IL was learned that
a safe deposit box was also held jointly
by Becker and his wife.
The investigation of these and other
Becker accounts as well as those of the
other police officials Who are now known
to he involved in the graft, will not be
carried on before the grand jury until
after that body awaits itself of the ten
day vacation which viii probably be its
only respite from work during the sum-
meT.
Along the graft line OF investigation, II
Is possible that Justice Cot sitting In
the extraordinary term OF che Supreme
Court and also as a committing maSis-
trate, with the power OF the John Doe
proceedings made possible by the Dowlins
law will be in position 10 aid the
grand jury investigation materially.
Whether such proceedings-if that line
is definitely decided upon by Justice Goff
and District Attorney Whitman-will pre-
cede or follow the trial OF Becker on the
murder Indictment IS not yet known. and
Mr.. Whitman is not even ready as yet
TO say whether he will try white
Lewis and "Dago Frank the two gun
men now in custody. before or after put
ting Becker on trial.
These points are now under discussion
and Mr.. Whitman believes that by the
end of the ten-day respite which the
grand jury will now take he will he
ready 10 outline in a general way the
order in which he will proceed.