New Britain herald., 1914-05-12
SHAPIRO AND ROSE ON WITNESS STAND
Chauffeur and Lecturer Testify at
 Trial Of Becker.
CROsS-ExAM|NfD BY MANTON


 Intends to Run Close to Old Defense
 and Show Rosenthal Murder Was
 Result of Gamblers Fcud.
 New York, May 12.-"Bald Jack" Rose, star witness for the first trial of Charles Becker for the murder of Herman Rosenthal, appeared in that role again today. He calmly told Of the part he played in the events lead ing up to the gamblers death. Sub stantially, it was the same story that he told at the first trial He spoke in a low tone and at times gazed direct ly at the defendant.
 Briefly, Rose recited how Becker and Rosenthal had entered into part nership in a gambling establishment; how they quarreled; how exposure for Becker as a police lieutenant was inn minent and how Rosenthals death was plotted.
 Dr. Taylor Called.
 When the trial was resumed today, District Attorney Charles $. Whitman called Dr. Dennis Taylor to the witness stand as the last of several witnesses to establish the death of Rosenthal. Dr. Taylor at the time of the murder was an ambulance surgeon, and his testimony was necessary because it was he who pronounced the gambler dead
 The cross-eXamination of some of the witnesses for the prosecution by Martin T. Manton seemed to show the line the defense will follow. It was evident that Becker's new coun- sel intends to run close to the old defense at the first trial and try to show that the murder of Rosenthal was the result of a gamblers feud, without the guiding hand of the de- fendant. The inference was drawn that the blame for the actual shoot ing, as before, would be placed on "Bridgie' Webber and Harry Vallon, instead of the four gunmen who have already been executed for yielding the revolvers.
 Shapiro on Stand.
 Shapiro followed pr. Taylor on the stand. He told of receiving a call at his stand in front of the Cafe Boule- ward late at night on July Is. He then went to Tom Sharkey's saloon where he picked up Rose, Harry Vallon and Sam Schepps.
 We went to Forty-Second street and Broadway, then to Bridgie webber's poker room at Forty ty-Second street and Sixth avenue said the witness.
 At one Hundred and Forty Fifth street and Seventh avenue we picked up another man and returned to Webber's poker rooms where the oc- cupants of the car got out. Fifteen minutes later Dago Frank, Gyp the Blood, Whitey Lewis and Lefty Louie came out and I was ordered to go to the Metropole Hotel"
 "At the Metropole," the witness continued, "Dago Frank ordered me to turn the car around so it would face toward Sixth avenue"
 Bccker's Counsel Objects.
 Becker's counsel objected to the line of questioning and was overruled,
 Il turned the car around,' Shapiro went on, "and the four men got out and went to the other side of the street l remained on the box of my machine. In fifteen minutes I heard a shot and than four more. I looked toward the Metropole and saw man fall. started my machine. I was going to get away from there. I had gone about fifty feet when the four men caught up with me and jumped on the machine"
 T heard Whitey say" continued Shapiro, Make the chauffeur turn a1 ound and wait The cops are all fixed. Everything is all right Then he said Becker has fixed 'em.'
 Returned to Cafe.
 After the murder I took the four men to One Hundred and Twenty sixth street and Lenox avenue, where they left me. I then drove back to the Cafe Boulevard
 Where were you last night?" asked the district attorney.
 "In your house." answered Shapiro
 How much money have you re- ceived from my office?'
 Fifty dollars
 On cross examination Shapiro said the $50 had been used to pay his ex- penses out of the city.
 Manton Reatls Copy.
 MT. Manton read a copy of the tes- timony Shapiro offered at the trial of the gunmen In that Shapiro said Frank said everything is all right; Becker told me so." Shapiro said he could not remember just what he had testified to at the first trial He in- sisted that the substance of the tes- timony was the same.
 The defense read an affidavit sworn | to by keeper in the Tombs quoting Shapiro as having told the keeper l that Harry vallon and Bridgie Webber | had just jumped into the murder car in front of the Metropole and threat ened to ''blow his roof off, unless he | drove away from the place. Shapiro | denied having made such statement. He denied further that while in the Tombs he had said that Vallon had hit him with a gun. He said an at- tempt had been made to get him to