Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-14
MANTON CHARGES
WHITMAN WITH
COACHING ROSE
Sensational Turn at Becker
Trial as Accused's Lawyer
Turns on Prosecutor.
JUSTICE SEABURY CALLS
BECKER COUNSEL TO ORDER
States Star Witness Angers'
Manton as He Closes Gaps
in Testimony.

NEW YORK, May 14,-with every
breach in his story of the Rosenthal
murder prepared, and his whole mar
rative of how Charles Becker insti-
gated the gamblers death untouched,
Bald jack Rose today ended his
ordeal as star witness for the State.
Led by District Attorney Whitman
In redirect examination Rose cleared
up every apparent discrepancy which
the skilful questioning of Martin T.
Manton, Becker's chief counsel, had
apparently shown in his version of
how the four gunner killed Rosen-
thai.
Msnton Accuses whitman.
Hot tilts between Whitman and
Manton marked the last few mo-
ments of Roses testimony. AS he
saw his labor wasted by Roses re-
plies, the defense counsel grey angry
and practically accused Whitman of
coaching the witness last night. Then
Justice Seabury broke in. He sharply
called Monton to order, and Beck
er's counsel, apparently disheartened,
ceased his tactics.
Whether or not Becker's counsel
succeeded in tearing down Jack
Roses story of implication in the
Srilling cross examination of yester-
day no one but the twelve men in
the jury box can say. Mr.. Manton
is confident that he guided the eyes
of the jurors to the puzzle picture
in Roses guilt hidden in the maze
of accusations against Becker.
Mr.. Whitman is equally confident
that Roses testimony about every
essential point of Becker's connection
ha n md
that Mr.. Manton was able to get be-
fore the jury only such things as the
prosecution would have conceded,
that Rose was a gambler, perjurer
a blackmailer and murderer. Had
he not been all of these things, says
Whitman, Rose could not have done
Becker's work.
Rose Never Faltered.
1t cannot be said that Rose fall
tered or broke under Mr.. Mantons
attack. In not dozens, but in scores
of particulars the Cross examtGas
brought QUIT variances from the tes-
tiInony in the former trial, but Roses
reply was always ready-he was CIV
ing the substance, not the details Of
his former story.
In two important matters he con-
tradicted himself fatty, saying in one
the time of the raid on Rosenthal's
gambling house, when he had testi
fled in 1912 that he watched the raid
with Rosenthal; and In the second, |
that Becker had given money to Web |
ber at the famous Harlem conference, |
when in 1912 he testified that he gave
the money. Mr. Whitman expects
to show today, however, that Rose
was in Chicago in April, 1911, and
thought he was saying so, and that
as regards the money he first gave
graft collections to Becker, who in
turn handed part of the graft to
Webber.
Rose maintained his composure
even under Manton's merciless analy-
sis of his past life. Certainly few
witnesses ever were subjected to such
humiliation.
Admitted Life of Shame.
Men of less hardihood than Rose
would have collapsed from very
shame; but this extraordinary being
met Manton's glance fully and with
out blush or a grimace endured
Manton's indictment that he had done
about all of the rotten things a man
could do. When he was cornered
about his lies, lies that were proved
singly or in clusters about everything
of importance save the main issues
in the case against Becker, he ad-
mitted them without hesitating. A
hundred times his deep voice rolled
out: ''Yes, that was lie," but when
it came to getting such admissions
about his Becker story Manton had
no success.
Reiterating that his only purpose
was to tell the truth because his
conscience hurt him, Rose swore that
Becker ordered the murder and that
he and his friends, Webber, Vallon
and Schepps were telling not a manu-
facturde story but the absolute truth.
AS always, Rose was alert. crafty,
resourceful. For example, he took
advantage of a slip by Manton and
got into his testimony like a flash,
the statement that he had sent sam
Schepps to Becker's house the night
after the murder. All of Manton's
objections and protests couldn't get
that out of the record once Rose had
said it, and the district attorney
exulted because he hadn't known for
the life of him how he was going to
get that testimony in by the prosecu-
ton.