The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-05-16
whitman Said to Have Missing
Link Which Will Seal Blue
coats Doom
YOUNG NEGRO WILL TESTIFY
He Was Present, II Is Claimed,
at Conspiracy Conference Of
Alleged Plotters

New York, May l6.-On the word Of
n negro boy apparently hangs the lie
of Charles Becker, once czar of New
Works. tenderloin. on trial here for the
murder of Herman Rosenthal, the
gambler who "squealed." James Mar
shall colored. was brought into the
case of Harry Vallon, gambler and m
former who. on direct testimony, de-
clared that Marshall was able to prove
Becker took part with Bald Jack"
Rose "Bridgie" Webber and WALTON
himself in meeting in Harlem where
Rosenthals death was finally planned.
The Court of Appeals i'm granting
Becker new trial, dubbed this meet
ing the heart of the conspiracy.
Becker was taken out or the Sing Sing
death house by the Appellate courts de-
cision because the testimony Of Rose,
Webber and Nallon, accomplices In
Rosenthal's murder, was not confirmed
i'm the first trial by any unsmirched
witness.
Marshalrs name was officially
brought into the case/by Vallon in the
few minutes he was on the stand at the
close of Thursdays session. While he,
Rose and Becker and Wcbber held
their murder conference, Vallon said q
negro boy came up and talked to
Becker. The police lieutenant, after
the boy had gone, is alleged TO have
said
That's a little stoolpigeon Of mine.
I'm going to raid a crap game just a
block from here, but he tells me there
are only two people in the place. I've
got to wait"
This boy. James Marshall. has been
found and is being held by District At
iorncy Whitman as possibly his most
vital witness. The first mention OF him
came when Jack Rose was on the stand
lie declared negro boy whom sus-
pcct was Jim Marshall" came once,
looked at him and went away without
% word. Rose went no further into the
incident and even slashlng attack by
the defense lawyers could elicit no
word from him as To why he suspect
ed the boy was Jim Marshall"
Gunman's Widow on Stand.
Mrs. Lillian Rosenberg. the young
widow of Lefty Louie" one of the
four gun men executed last month for
the part they played in the murder of
Herman Rosenthal late yesterday, WAS
n witness for the state at the trial OF
Charles Becker, charged with being the
instgator of the plot her husband
helped to carry out.
Heard Rose Urge Killing.
In swearing she heard Jack Rose
urge her husband and his three COM
panions to kill Rosenthal because
Becker wanted them to and that sue
saw the quartet dividing the money
they received in payment for the crime
the pretty widow directly contradictcd
the testimony she gave at his trial ana
furnished what District Attorney
Whitman declared to be proof beyond
all doubt that the witness for the state
have told the truth"
ON cross examination she was ask
ed why she had not testified at the
trial of the gun men as she did yes
terday.
With tears i'm her eyes, the girl an
swered; II lied then because | wantcJ
to save the man loved from the cleo
trio chair"
Mrs. Rosenberg's statement discounts
tho confession alleged to have been
made by "Dago Frank" just before tho
gun men were clcctrocutcd. In the con
fesson he was quoted as saying II,
nevcr heard the name of Becker men
toned i'm connection with the murder
plot.