Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-15
COUNT ON NEGRO
TOPROVE BECKER
PLOT OF MURDER
vaIIon Says Marshall Broke in
at Conference When Rosen-
thal's Death Was Planned.
DECLARE DEFENSE WILL
PRODUCE DlCTAGRAPH
Expect to Show With II That
Becker Was Framed Up
by lnformers.
Lspecial to the Evening star.l

Especial to the Evening star.I
NEW YORK, May 15.-On the word
of a negro boy apparently hangs the
life of Charles Becker, once czar of
New York's tenderloin, whose trial
thai, the gambler who "squealed,"
continued here today. James Mar
shall, colored. was brought into the
case by Harry WALTON, gambler and
informer, who, on direct testimony,
declared that Marshall was able to
prove Becker took part with Bald
Jack" Rose "Bridgie" Webber and
Vallon himself, in the meeting in
Harlem where RosenthaPs death was
finally planned.
The Court of Appeals in granting
Becker a new trial, dubbed this meet
ing as the heart of the conspiracy.
Becker was taken out of the Sing
Sing death house by the Appellate
Courts decision, because the testi-
accomplices in Rosenthals murder,
was not confirmed in the first trial
by any unsmirched witness.
vaIlon Mentions Marshall.
Marshalls name was officially
brought into the case by Vallon in
the few minutes he was ON the stand
at the close of yesterdays session.
While he, Becker, Rose and Webber
held their murder conference Vallon
said q negro boy came up and talked
to Becker, the police lieutenant. After
the boy had gone Becker Is alleged
to have said:
THAT is a little stool pigeon OF
mine. I'm going to raid a crap game
Just block from here, but he tells
me there are only two people In the
place. I've got to watt
This boy, James Marshall, has
been found, and is being held by
District Attorney Whitman as posi-
bly, his most useful witness. The
first mention of him came when Jack
Rose was on the stand. He declared
negro boy whom l suspect was
James Marshall" came once, looked
at him and went away without a
word. Rose went no further into
the incident, and even a slashing at
tack by the defense lawyers could
elicit no word from him as to why
he suspected the boy was Jim Mar
SHALL"
Under Whitman's questioning Vel.
ION cofroborated Roses story as Il
Gilbert, Rosenthars former wife. at.
tacking the character of the muir.
dered gambler.
The witness then related his visit
TO the house of ''Dago" Frank on the
night of the killing to get the gun
man. With Schepps as chauffeur, he
said, he took Cirifiro to Webber's
poker room, where Rose and the
other three gunnen waited while
Webber went out and located Rosen-
thai at the Metropole. Then, said
Vallon, he left with the gunmen. He
separated from them, he declared,
but was near enough to hear the
shots that killed the 'squealer" and
sent the four gangsters to the chair.
Vallon was under direct examina-
tion for twenty minutes and then
Martin T. Manton, counsel for Beck
er, undertook cross examination.
Manton's first questions were direct
ed to show that Vallon and Rosen-
thai, friends for years, quarrelled
bitterly about six months before the
killing. Vallon hesitated at first to
admit the quarrel but hard pressed
finally agreed.
Rosenthals Widow to Tell of Feud.
Two women, yelled, have been in
during the last two days. One OF
these, 1t was reported today, was the
widow of Rosenthal. She. it is de-
clared, lays the death of her husband
fatty at Becker's door, and is not
only ready but eager to tell a story
of the quarrel between Becker and
the dead gambler which led to her
husbands slaughter by the four gun
men on the morning of July 16, 1912.
It is not yet decided when Mrs. Ros-
enthal will tell her story, but the
statement is positively made that be-
fore the States case Is in she will
surely take the stand.
Reports current for days that
Becker will take the stand in an at
tmept to save himself from the cleo
trio chair seemed well based today.
Scores Of queries framed by Martin T,
Manton. Becker's chief counsel, indi-
GATED that his client testifying was at
least seriously contemplated. Rose
and Webber were closely questioned
on alleged conversations with Becker,
in which 1t was patent that their sto-
ries of what passed could be contro-
verted only by the prisoner himself.
It is believed the defense will ex-
haust its every device to break down
the prosecutions case otherwise and
then, II without success, they viii
place Becker himself on the stand
Should this be done. the greatest duel
New York courts ever saw is likely to
result. There is no love lost between
Becker and Whitman. In presenting
its case, the defense has practically
charged that whitman, Rose Web
ber and Vallon framed the case,
because. as one defense witness
will swear that Whitman wanted
Becker.
Hatred Between Becker and Whitman.
Manton has come perilously near
accusing the district attorney with
conspiracy to send Becker to the
chair. Every time there has been
yelled intimation Whitman's lips
have frightened and his jaws have
set ominously. There is no doubt
about the court room that if he gets
Becker on the stand. the alleged in
stigator of Rosenthars murder will
have to Withstand as savage an at
tack as has ever been hurled at any
prisoner in a New York court. Becker
will need all his iron nerve.
Reports that the defense has die
tagraph conversations in which Rose,
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