The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-08-01
THAT'S JUST UPTOWN
Some One Else Collected
Below 14th Street and
in Brooklyn.
81. 900 PAID FOR CRIME
Gamblers Say Becker Made
Wcbbrr Give That Sum
10 Rose.

.Ia,l, Rose and webber am Nallon,
the gamblers gave more Information 10
the District Attorney yesterday about
the immense graft gleanings OF the po-
lice I'm Manhattan. about Beckers sue
cess a. the representative of small
ring of officials and about the part the
lieutenant played in ordering and pay
ing for the murder of Rosenthal.
The informers agreed there was no
way To figure just how much Becker
and others got annually In their general
blackmailing operations. Rose said the
cash that went to Becker w only
part uf the police rakeof and that
Becker distributed between s2.50oO0O and
SO, 0OO, 900 a year among his particular
backers-two inspectors and minor
official not in uniform.
Rose d.! his best to convince the Dis
trict Attorney that the total profits OF
the graft game in the whole city would
astonish anybody II the figures could
be obtained He insisted that most OF
the money Becker rakcd in came from
above Fourteenth street in Manhattan
alone and that the cleanup from all the
horoug CHS would run into many millions.
| There were other hard handed crooks
! than Becker. said Rose.
Convinced that all hope of assistance
from policemen or politicians had van
ished, the three whose CONCESSIONS
brought about the indictment ana I'M
prisonment of Lieut.. Becker Tor murder
told the District Attorney that the heu-
tenant not only drove them 10 tne
crime bu, that he forced Bridyie WEBB
Der to pay for II.
4 few minutes after Rosenthal was
killed Webher threatened by Becker.
gave Rose 1000 in large bills. they
said. Rose turned the blood money
over To sam Schcpps. And Schepps
handed it to Harry Horowitz and Louis
Rosenberg on the Seventh avenue side
Of tn. Times Building ON the Tuesday
afternoon after the killing
Tried Before to KIN Ros~nthnl.
The three gamblers revealed also a
story which had never been limited at.
, Ten days before the murder an attempt
was made to Kill Herman Rosenthal
while he sat nj dinner with his wife
in the Garden restaurant, at Seventh
+ aycnu. and Fifticth street.
But thos. making IL lost their nerve
because one of the thugs with them
: said he had seen "A Burns innn followin.
them. So they sncaked back to Becker
; and told him that the job had failed.
. Becker, say Rose and Webber
damned thom for cowardly rats. ant
said he would have To do the job alone
The District Attorney has obtained
o partial Corroboration of the confes
sions that trapped Becker. lie ha
found two witnesses who saw Bccke
: talking to Rose and Webber outside %
% the Murray Hill Baths shortly afte
q Rosenthal was shot down. Mr.. Whit,
q man has found other witnesses whom
p he will use to strengthen the stories toll
4 by the three accomplices.
. Perhaps the most distinct advanc
v that was made yesterday was Sau
a Schepps's offer to surrender to the Dis
n trct Attorney and to tell the trut
|. about the murder. Mr.. Whitman ex
poets Schepps this afternoon. He mad
a no bargain with Schepps's lawyer. II
% said merely that he was buying nothin
,. in advance and that Schepps woul
IA have to take his chances with the res
n of them.
II Schepps's story rings true and
OF material advantage Mr. Whitman wi
do what he can for him. The value ,
Schepps will he In corroborating III
n accusations against Lieut.. Becker.
sullivan brought into Murder PIo
,e The long interview that Mr.. Whitma
III had with Rose, Webber and Nallon
8 the West Side court prison Introduce
a. significantly the name of Jack Sulliva
40 the -newsboy. who IL one of tho'
now held for murder. Mr. Whitma
re learned that Sullivan had been soir
ne about uptown and down telling gan
blcrs and policemen that the Dlstri
Attorney "was In on the graft" II
informers still further involved Sullivs
in the new details they furnished as
n. the arrangements for killing Rosenth;
Mr.. Whitman went to the West Si'
court prison and sat down for lor
III chat with the three prisoners for u
he particular purpose Of getting more eN
en dencc about the murder plot and
ms consummation. Most Of the question
So hc put to Rose, Nallon and Wcbb
cd G., ncerncd their conferences with lh'l
as l,rckcr. The District Attorney want'
nd to gc, all of the murder evidence po
he siblc before going into tn" ln\oN'
p matter of police graft
~ Uc found the three very cheerful al
of willing 10 talk Rose furnished mo
~ the Information. Mr. whitman ".
or surprlscd al the apparently far ftacl
,r,, and accurate mcmory "f Rose II
,nId mar was seldom ai loss Il
to n.urca and dates and times
k occasionally he got into spuaDb