The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-13
HAIR RAISING
STORY rs TOLD
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s STORY is TOLL
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When this is over, do you expec
to go free upon these streets and be
i gin again, do your
! Not these Streets" answered Rose
4 with a nervous shudder.
\ IF value my life, won't go GU,
on these streets. I'll go some place
i else"
Then that's why you're testifying
against Becker?'
q am testifying to the truth,
Rose replied, In an angry tone.
Answer me: Is that why you're
testifying against this MANI and Nc
Intyre pointed to the burly defendant,
who was knocking carelessly against
his teeth with pencil For a mo-
ment Rose gazed toward Becker, then
he turned away and snarled:
Pm testifying against him because
he was getting ready to throw me to
the wolves"
Il hope by my testimony to save
myself from the fate Becker mapped
out for me- the witness replied, his
voice breaking.
Are you prompted to testify the
way you have to save yourself from
the just punishment for your crime?"
Rose remained silent until Justice
Golf ordered him to answer.
%nn
fully yoicing each word, ''for two rea-
sons-to establish the truth and to
get consideration from the district at
torney."
Every Man For HImself.
Then you are telling this story to
save your own life?''
It's every man for himself shout
ed the harried witness. HE would
have thrown me to the wolves. am
doing this to protect myself
"Ah, that's the reason, Is TT"
Yes it is. It's every man for him
self now, and has been ever since
this miserable conspiracy began"
and Rose, with a melodramatic air,
settled back in his chair
Conspiracy, bah!'' sneered McIn.
tyre, Il have had enough of this dra.
matte attitude by the witness. Please
drop that word conspiracy
Rose calmly detailed again the
preparations he had made for Rosen-
that's murder. rehearsing the story
he had told early in the day.
He admitted that he had engineer
ed the deal, and told how BRIDGE"
Weber had gone out to locate Ros-
enthal few minutes before the MUIR
der. from his gambling parlor, where
the assassins waited. When he came
back with the information that the
victim was at the Metropole, he
quartette OF gun-men sailed out and
committed the crime. Rose said he
stayed behind
Every effort of Mcintyre to force
the Witness to incriminate Sam
Schepps in the murder failed. He
identified the letter he had written
Schepps at Hot Springs, Ark. urging
him TO come back and gain immunity
by confession, but declared he had
written 1t because he had innocently
mixed schepps in the crime.
At $50 O'Clock Mcintyre, trembling
from exhaustion, his face twitching,
begged again for recess.
There will be none until the cross
examination is completed" Justice
Golf again snapped
Lawyer Almost Exhausted.
Then for Heavens sake open a
window" begged Mcintyre
The courtroom was packed. All day
the windows had been closed to in
sure quiet and the air was foul and
sitting.
The windows will remain shut"
Golf declared. Proceed"
With a helpless gesture, Mcintyre
again took up the weary examination.
Court reporters and jurors dropped,
the witness lost his voice at times,
and Mcintyre sloughed forward
against his table bur Justice Golf,
his thin face haloed in ring of white
hair, sat rigid in his black robes, ap-
parently as fresh as when he had
convened court.
Rose readily admitted that he hao
lied when first arrested. He admit
ted that the story he told Commits
sioner Dougherty about Becker being
an honest official, so far as he knew,
was false.
"Of course l lied,' he said "He
took no statement and he didn't give
ME a square deal"
Here Mcintyre tried to get into the
records newspaper reports OF the orig
inal confession Rose made when he
first confessed, but on an objection
by District Attorney Whitman, Goff
ruled 1t out.
Mcintyre then sought to predicate
questions on the facts in the confes-
sion, but he was again stopped by
Goff.
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