The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-05-09
District Attorney Whitman
Denounced Accused Man
as Instigator of Murder
STATEMENT SIMILAR
TO ONE OF FIRST TRIAL
Testimony Will Not Be TAX
en- Until Early Next
Week


New York, May 9.-For the second
time, Charles Becker, on trial for the
murder of Rosenthal, to-day heard him
self denounced by the district attorney
as the instigator of the plot for assassi-
nation of the gambler. District Attor-
ney Whitman deyiated but little from
his opening statement in the first trial.
Whitman told of the breaking of the
alleged gambling combination between
Rosenthal and Becker. who had charge
of gambling raids. He charged that
Becker suddenly desired to be rid OF his
former associate and hired the gunmen
to murder the gambler.
Although the jury was completed last
night, Justice Seabury ordered the 20
men remaining on the panel to report
to-day. The presentation of the testi.
mony will not be begun until Monday.
| The jury was completion with the
selection of Gilbert Shaul, manufac-
tuFer. Directly after the completion of
the jury, Justice Seabury retired to his
chambers and there he called before him
District Attorney Whitman and Martin
| T.. Manton Of Becker's counsel
The jury was completed with the
| ference. which lasted about Is minutes,
was not revealed, but when the district
attorney and Mr.. Manton emerged IRON
the chambers. jurors selected as Nos.
and s., A. V. Farleye and w. K. Smith.
we're called in. Soon after Justice Sea-
bury returned to the bench and an
nounced that the two jurors had been
excused on their own application. No
reelection, said the court, was to be cast
upon either of the men.
The work OF examining talesmen was
again resumed and Ephraim Plummer,
a retired salesman, was quickly selected.
Wilbur F. Rawlins salesman, was
picked few minutes before the time
set for closing. The jury was taken TO
an uptown hotel to spend the night.
No mention was made during the day
of the reported move to have w. Bourke
Cochran, of counsel for Becker. adjudged
guilty of contempt of court for a re-
mark attributed to him. He had been
quoted in the newspapers as saying,
This is not a trial; it is an assassi-
nation"
Several alfidavits from newspaper
men who swore they heard Cochran say
this are in the hands of the district
attorney. 1t was ntimated at the dis
trict attorneys Office, however, that the
affidavits. which, it is said, were coll
lected at the direction of Justice Sea-
bury, would be presented to the court
Cochran has not been in court since he
made the alleged remark. He added at
the time that he was through with tho
case" it is said
Both Attorney Manton, for the de-
fense. and District Attorney Whitman
expressed themselves as satisfied with
the makeup OF the jury
An effort was made last night to dis
prove the charge made by Katharine
b. Davis, commissioner of corrections
that Becker was implicated in plot
revealed Thursday to diseredit the city
administration by means of a petition
circulated among the Tombs prisoners.
1t was declared by friends of the for
mer police lieutenant that there had
been another Charles Becker in the
Tombs up to April IS and that his
name bad been confused with that of
the prisoner now on trial in the un-
covering of the alleged plot Miss Da-
Wis. however. insists she has proof that
it was ex-Lieutenant Becker who signed
the original petition, used, it is declared,
to mislead the other prisoners.