The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-03-09
NEW ELEMENTS In
The TANGLED CASE
Whitman Will Take the Stand and
Accused Man Promises to s'TelI
AR'-Aetors in Play
Get Religion"
BY cARLrIN TEN svck.

N"i'esen ioI the United Pdess.
New York, March s.-rAe trar ol
the serpent goes on, its daily slime
oefouling all 1t touches. New York
seems destined never to forget the
sensational murder Of Gambler Her
man Rosenthal. Shortly after mid
night on a July morning two years
ago, shots rang out on the stIu air
or Forty-third street in the Upper Ten.
derloin and their echo has reverber.
ated throughout the Greater City ever
since. On that fateful morning the
assassination, for it was nothing less.
OF Rosenthal in front of the Hotel Me-
tropole. electrified contiguous Broad
way and its ripples have spread until
they ruffled the surface of every por.
tion of New York, from center 70 out
ermost perimeter And the echoes
and the ripples ere not done.
They were given fresh impetus the
other day when the court of appeals
Of the state Of New York. sitting st
Albany, ON purely technical grounds.
reversed the conviction OF Former 10
lice Lieutenant Charles Becker, In
Sing Sing awaiting death in the cleo
trio chair for the murder of Rosaa
thai, and ordered new trial for him.
The courts order revived the case in
all its startling features and the
newspapers of New York repeated all
the sordid and ghastly details of the
actual murder and the year of inves-
LEGATIONS and trials that it brought
on.
Becker added fuel TO the flame by
beginning to talk as soon as he was
taken from the death house on the
life side Of the little green door and
he has continued to talk volubly ever
since. He began by reiteratIng that
he is innocent of the gamblers muir
der and and knew all the time that
he would get justice Then he said
that he knew who did kill Rosenthal
and promised that when he is free
not if but 'when'-he will devote his
life to running down the murderer and
bringing him to justices
He openly accused Harry ValIon.
one of the notorious "squealers. of
being the actual murderer of Rosen-
thai Then Becker declared his firm
belief that the four eunmen, Gyr the
Glood, Lefty Louie. Whitley Lewis and
Dago Frank. now undre sentence Of
death for the murder, were not guilty
at all. but the victims of frame up.
Becker, in his interviews. injected
handful of new elements into the al
ready tangled case. and thereby gave
the impression to an unbiased observ-
er that he was simply trying to ''muss
up the trial" and so becloud the issue
that there would be an entirely new
lineup when he is tried again.
The accused policeman's friends
took occasion at the outset to state
their belief that there would be no
real trial Of Becker, that the court
OF appeals had not left District Attor-
ney Whitman leg to stand on and
that the second hearing would be only
perfunctory one. resulting in Beck
er's complete vindication.
Whitman nailed that story to the
cross by the prompt announcement
that Becker would be trieS again. and
that with all possible speed. The dis
trict attorney said there would be no
let-up on the part Of the prosecution
and expressed the confident belief
that the adverse decision Of the high
er court had left more than enough
ammunition to blow the ex-lieutenant
back into Sing Sing and the death
house.
Whitman himself injected a new
element into the case by declaring
that he would be a witness for the
prosecution and Becker's counsel
countered with the declaration that
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