Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-16

he was electrocuted. Jack Rose came to my house many times. On one occasion about a week before the mur- der of Rosenthal he came in and saw the boys, Louie, Harry Horowitz, Whitey Lewis and Frank. He said to my husband, Becker is sore at Rosen- thal and he is sore at you boys. too. He is also sore at Jack Zellig. The best thing you fellows can do is to stick Inside the house. The first time you poke your heads outside the door he will get you for carrying guns Then my husband said But we don't carry any guns To that Rose replied, But he'll frame you up: he'll put guns
 in your pockets. We'll said Louie, but we don't want to be framed. What can we do?' Then Rose told Louie, You four fellows kill Rosenthal for Becker and everything will be all right
 four boys were ir my apartments. saw them dividing a roll of money. I think there was $1,000 in the roll" On cross examination Mrs. Rosen- berg was read a copy. of her testimony at. the trial of the gunmen. in which she denied that Rose had ever been in her house or that she had ever seen the gunmen dividing the pay they got for murdering Rosenthal.
 Did you lie then, or are you lying now ?" asked Mr. Maton.
 T lied then,'' replied the widow of | the gunman, two big tears rolling down her cheeks, because I wanted to save l the man l loved from the electric 1 chair"
 Mary Storer, formerly a domestic i In Jack Roses house. told of the many | times both Becker and Mrs. Becker had
 visited the bald gambler. Otto Kaver- i si, formerly 6, chauffeur, told of driv- ing Becker to his home shortly after midnight on the morning of the mur- dere. On cross examination. Manton 1 driven Becker through Forty third | street while cRosenthafs body was ly- ing in front, of the .sMetrcpole hotel IKaversis denied this. An afi1davit made l by a prospective witness for the pros- | ecution, read previously by the de- i fense to prepare the ground for other evidence, said that Otto had told the afhant he had driven Becker to For 1 ty-third street at that time. and that the lieutenant upon seeing the body, I had said: If there weren't so many people around I'd stand the body up l and shoot 1t down again."
 l Otto admitted in reply to repeated 1; questions by MT. Manton thot Assist I ant District Attorney Kroell had threatened to indict him for something ] he had done if he didn't swear on the bwitness stand that he had driven Beck | the lieutenant made the remark to him about shooting the body down.
 i T haven't been indicted yet" said Otto, "but I won't swear to lie" John $. Carney, operator of a tele- phone switchboard identified call slips
 showing that on the morning of the
 murder less than an hour after 1t oc. cured, two calls had gone from i1ii
 station, near the scene of the crime
 to Becker's home. Louis Haywood, 2
 colored telephone boy in the apartment
 in which Becker lived, testified to re.
 ceiving the calls.
 Winfield R. Sheehan, secretary tt
 Former Police Commissioner Waldo
 identified number of anonymoul
 complaints that had come into polict
 headquarters about RosenthaPs gam
 blin~ house in West 45th street. II
 these letters Becker was named as {
 "grafter." This evidence also wa.
 ruled out at the former trial
 Court was adjourned at that poin
 until Monday morning in order tt
 give the attorneys time to gather addi
 tional witnesses. The district atterne. stated that the states case would un doubedly be completed before the clos of the proceedings on Monday.