The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-08-20
LIEUT.. BECKER ATTEMPTED SEW
ERAL MONTHS AGO TO HOLD
UP PRIVATE POKER CLUB.
SIX CAUGHT IN The Tolls
One Laid Away $4,000 Commissions
On Graft Collections in Seven
Months-sehepp Not Afraid of the
System"


back to Broadway today, ready with
statement corroborating the con-
fession ci ''Eald jack Rose, ch1rSing
Police Lieutenant Becker with insti-
eating the murder of the ga lbler,
Herman RCsenthal. For two hours
Schepps and District Attorney Whit
man were in conference ON a New
York Central train, speeding south
from Albany; and when the train
reached New York, Mr.. Whitman de-
clared:
"Schepps has done all that We ex-
pected of him. He has corrooorated
the most important part OF Jack
Roses, confession.
Authorities Clash.
New York's peace authorities, wacn
Schepps arrived, were present Two
detectives from police headquarters
declared they were acting on orders,
attempting to seize Schepps bef1re he
left the train, but Mr.. Whitman was
quick to announce that his office was
in command, and the police were
held off. m
Schepps was taken to the West Side
station by detective from the dis
trict attorneys opice, and there held
as a prisoner on a technical charge of
vagrancy, as a material witness along
with Rose, Vallon and Webber.
Schepps himself refused to say a
word about the conference with Mr..
Whitman. To all inquiries he gave
a grinning response that they Just
had a sociable chat" AS for fear
the systems" vengeance, he grinned
again, and tilted back his straw hat
as indicative of his unconcern.
Of the authorities, Mr.. Whitman
alone knows what part Schepps play
ed in the Rosenthal case. To all 9TH
ers, including Assistant District Attor-
ney Rubin, who accompanied him from
Hot Springs, Schepps turned deaf
ear.
Say" he would burst out, when
urged to tell of his underworld asso-
Citations. do you think I'm going to-
squeal on pal?"
Bernard Sander, counsel for
Schepps, issued this statement:
Why schepps Came.
Sam Schepps is not criminal. He
has come here on my advice to rem
der whatever aid he can in prosecut-
ing the murderers of Rosenthal. While
he does not represent the highest type
of citizenship, yet he is man of no
mean intellectual attainments, and he
appreciates that in coming to New
York as he has, without legal process,
he did so of his own free WILL when
he could at any time have seriously
embarrassed the district attorney oy
recourse to a writ of habeas corpus
Or other legal steps,"
Lieutenant Becker made a brief ap-
pearance in court today to plead to
the indictment charging murder in the
first degree. At the request of coun-
sci, the pleading was adjourned until
Wednesday. Becker appeared cheer
full.
The train bearing Schepps reached
Albany at 4.40 this morning. Mr.
Whitman, in the meantime, was wait
ing at an Albany hotel. Schepps was
taken from the train. Then Mr..
Whitman suddenly decided to leave
for New York Immediately, and dash
was made for the station to get the
sos train.
Notwithstanding the early hour, a
curious crowd followed Schepps
through the streets. 1t was after mid
night when Schepps retired on the
train last night, but he was one of
the first up when Albany was reached. |
He ate hearty breakfast and today
evinced none of the fear of the 'sys-
TENS" vengeance that has been at
tributed to him heretofore. He was
dressed modestly, wore eye glasses
and looked on the whole very much
like a quiet little travelling salesman
of studious bent
When the party reached New
York Schepps was taken first to the
West Side prison, where Rose, Val
Ion and Weber are held, and tomor-
row probably he will go before the
grand jury.