Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-19
State Rests in
 Becker Trial
WHITMAN CLOSED WITH WHAT HE CONSIDERS STAR WITNESS
ONE A STOOL PIGEON
Told of Conveying Messages from Becker to Jack Rose, After the Latter Had Been Locked Up in TombS Was Asked to Kill Bald Jaek.~

New York, May 1s-District Attor- ney whitman today completed his case against Charles Becker by placing on rne witness stand two men whom he considered his star wttnesses-Charles B. Pntt Jr. the former policeman's Friend, companion and press agent and James Marshall, negro youth. who said he saw Becker and Jack Rose talking at the Harlem conference" Whicn was declared by the court of the conspiracy to murder Herman Rosenthal" The gamblers widow and several other persons also testified be- Tore the prosecutor declared his case
 Pitt swore that Becker had ashaa him. while on board a train on the way rom New York to the death house at Sing Sing prison following hts con
 Nct1on, to Kill Jack Rose. Pitt also sno Becker had made him carry mes mars murder and after Rose was tocked up in the Tombs charged with navlng taken part in the crime.
 Marshall went fully into the de- taiis or his alleged operations as .
 stooi pigeon" for Becker. He was paced on the stand as the @disinter- ested witness" to the Harlem confer- ence" which the court of appeels said was essential legally to convict Becker as the instigator of the plot that re- suited In the killing of the gambler. Becker warned Pitt before tho mur- der to keep away from Times SQuars the night 1t occurred and also 10 es- taDLsh an atibi for both Pfftt and him. seif, according to Pitt. Until two months ago Pitt had been consIdered by Becker's counsel to be one of Beck CTS best friends and. in fact. he made several afhdavits calculated to hefp the former policeman's case. His tss- tlmony today was complete suxIrise to the defense.
 The defense will open fts ease to- morrow morning. Becker wzu not 6s the hrst witness His attorneys. after conference tonight. refused to eay dennitely whether he would be called later, although they asserted that an opportunity to speak for himssif Mrs. Becker will positively go on the stand and try to save her husband rom the electric cha1r. She is ex- pected to contradict much of the tes- timony given by witnesses for the state who swore thai Rose and her husband were very friendly. It Is understood that she will also attack Pitt
 If Becker testifies. 1t is understood he will admit that he met Rose on the relations between them were sim ply those that exist between every policeman and his "stool pigeon" which Rose admitted he was. There are about thirty witnesses under subpoena to testify in Beckers behalf.
 The case may be in the hands of the Jury by Saturday night
 Defense Will Claim Becker Was vIs- tim of Gambiers' Plot.
 After a three hour conference with Becker in the criminal courts build- ing tonight, Martin T. Manton, coun- | sel for Becker, said that a defenss will be offered which viH prove that Becker is the victim of q eam6leT plot Witnesses will be called, he said who will Hefute the testimony hrought out by the prosecution relating to the alleged Harlem conference.
 The first witness for the defsnsA. he announced. will be Fred Haw1ey, formerly reporter, who win testtfy as to BeckeTs whereabouts immediate ly after the murder of Rosenthal