Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-10-24
FATE
IN JURY HANDS.
Retire to Deliberate Follow
ing Judges Char.s.

New York, Oct. 24.-Following Jus.
tice Gon's charge. the jury which Is to
decide the fate Of Lieutenant Becker,
charged with the murder Of Herman
Rosenthal, retired to deliberate shortly
after moo today.
The best and the worst for Lisuten'
ant Becker has been said. The Jurors
went to their hotel last night to sleep
over Nj. A%cIntyre's furious denuncia.
ton of the informers and Of District
Attorney Whitman and over Assistant
District Attorney Frank Moss calm
analysis OF the dsfense's own evidence
as proof that Becker's WIS the reckless
and indomitabie will behind the MUIR
der.
On the eve of this decision Becker
himself professed to be confident that
mo New York jury would send u man
to the chair on the lies of q lot OF
crooks" His awyers. MIR. Mcintyre in
particular. said hat they would not
accept a verdict of murder In the sec
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or complete innocence. The jury can
return q verdict OF any degree of mur-
der 1t pleases.
Look For Disagreement.
The opinions Of intelligent and
thoughtful men who were a part Of
the audience which listened to Mr..
M%cIntyre's summing up In the morning
and Mr.. Moss review In the after
noon were Interesting In that there
was practically a unanimous belief
that the best the defense could hope
for was a disagreement
Mr.. Mcintyre. d master OF invecttve
and of insinuation. adept In befoggtng
bad points and Illuminating good ones.
given to sentimentality and appeals to
the emotions. spent most of his force
attacking Becker's and Of at
%tributtng to them motives Of the most
villainous sort. He laid Becker's
prosecution to the c~ravenness Of
frightened murderers and to the am
bilious designs of the district attor
ney. whom he charged with fathering
a conspiracy. He pictured the &C
cused lieutenant as a brave and noble
police officer In peril Of a shiny crew.
Often be Inverted or abbreviated testi
mony 80 as to put before the jury only
such parts as appeared to favor the
defendant. His analysis Of testimony
was largely a charge that the main
state witnesses were %perjurers.
Nv N.H ,,I~--
like that Of a Sunday school superin
tendent addressing his class. but whose
address was that OF a well trained and
able lawyer, was at all times restrained
courteous and fair For the most part
his summing up was a calm condensa
ton OF the main evidence produced by
the state and a shrewd dissection Of
the weakness of the d~efense's evidence
Defends Mr.. Whitman.
R%ebukins MIR Mcintyre for the insin
uations that the district attorney was.
too, a conspirator for ambitions sake.
MIR. Moss told the jury that II Rose and
Weber and WALTON had not been nc.
cepted as states witnesses ten murder
ers instead Of three would have gone
unpublished. II the character Of the
witnesses against Becker was bad 1t
must be remembered that Becker was
a man OF bad associations and that
Becker must stand or fall by the sto
ries Of such men. Mr.. Moss. taking up
the testimony bit by bit. argued that
the state. by direct and circumstantial
evidence. had shown that the motive
for the murder was Becker's fear that
his grating and dishonor as a police
ma would be exposed by Rosenthal
He analysed the testimony for the de-
Tense and told the jury that Becker's
main witnesses had convicted them
selves out Of their own mouths Of ly
Ing. And he closed by telling the jury
that their duty PA to protect civtliza.
ton against such men as Becker.
No sub crowd had stormed the cor
r1dors of the criminal courts building
as strove and fought for entrance to
the trial Men and came armed
with all kinds Of personal cards and
passes issued by this and that person
age, but few, however great their in
tuence, were admitted unless they had
business In the courtroom or had the
permission Of the justice. the district
attorney or counsel for the defense
Some Of those who had seats were
Judge and Mrs. F. Fl Curry. Magistrate
and Mrs. C%orrigan. Lewis Nixon aud
several justices Of the supreme court.