The Sentinel=record., 1912-08-01
DISTRICT ATTORNEY WHITMAN WORKING HARD ON RoSEN-
 THAI MURDER CASE.
MORE DETAILS GIVEN BY ROSE
Original Plot Was to Murder Rosen-- thai While He Was Dining With Wife-nerve of Assassins
 Failed at Last Minute.

New York, July 31,--Police Lieuten- ant Charles Becker, head of the "strong arm" squad of gambling raiders, who is charged with insti- gating the murder of Herman Rosen- thai was tonight further implicated in the plot to get rid of the gambler, when Bald Jack Rose and "Briigie' Webber added another chapter to their already amazing allegations.
 They told District Attorney Whit man that Rosenthal was to have been killed at the instigation of Becker ten days before he actually met his fate. and that the plot failed because the underworld thugs selected to do the murder lost their nerve at the last moment
 The district attorney spent the greater part of this afternoon with Rose and Webber in their cells at the West Side Police Station and under the promise of leniency, which the prosecutor has given them, they talk ed freely. They gave little additional information regarding the $2,400,000 fund which they alleged illegal resorts paid for police protection in the city every year, but their story of the al legged anxiety of Lieutenant Becker, because of gambler Rosenthal's threat ened exposures was amplified to the district attorney, and, in the prose cutor's opinion, he strengthened his evidence against Becker.
 The plot that failed" was to have been drought to it's climax at the
 
 on Saturday nieht. Jnly (. when Rosen- thai and his wife were dining there, according to the account that Rose.
 Two of the hired assassins were "Gyp the Blood and Lefty" Louie, who are wanted by the police as two of the men who actually shot Rosen- thai ten days later in front of the Hotel Metropole
 Becker at Ire time was downtown, Rose said, wa ting for the murder plot to be consumated
 Becker had talked with me every day He kept saying to me Why don't you kill this fellow off?" Rosenthal would have been killed off that night if the bunch hadn't lost their nerve. They got the notion after they reach ed the restaurant that a detective was onto them. After giving up the as sassination, We went to "Bridgie" webber's place and there we met Becker He denounced us all up and down
 You're all lot of cowards,Y he said. ''I'll have to do it myself"
 Rosenthal. it was recalled by the district attorney when he heard the ctr hnf hut fAv Isaxrc l.,~F Iafe made his first complaint against Becker charging that the police lieu tenant was a partner in his gambling house.
 Although Becker, still in the Tombs, has thus far refused to make any statement other than he is innocent and that his plight is the result of Frame up" on the part of his enemies in the gambling fraternity, Rose pre- dicted to the district attorney today that the police lieutenant eventually would break down.
 The district attorney expressed con fidence tonight that if Becker would talk frankly, his evidence would open the door to the larger phrase of the Rosenthal casq namely the general extent of the police graft system, in which Rose had declared several high police officials are involved. So far, Mir. Whitman has obtained little real evidence against the men mentioned by Rose as heads of the -four graft bureaus" through which Rose alleged , that about $600.000 each was collected as vice protection money and dis tributed. The district attorney is not rol vi CT ialR tes e.ff T0 expects to call before the grand jury scores of witnesses who may have knowledge of graft relations between the gamblers and the police.
 "Bridgie' Webber told the district attorney today that his own payment to Becker for police protection of his gambling house was $200 a month, but that this rate was a small one com pared with the sums levied on larger ! establishments.
 He and Rose both said that in Man haitian alone, there were probably a hunderd gambinb houses paying tribute to the police and that the total of $2 2,400,000 paid annually was con. serVative figure.
 Webber incidentally said today that Becker was present when the money was produced to pay the hired thugs to kill RosenthaL Soon after the murder he said, Becker met Rose and Webber in front of the Murray Hin Baths and said:
 Now Brldgic. you'll have to give thes boys some money to get out of town. I'll fix 1t up with you later. Wehber said then he handed $1 ,00o