The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-12

home. l62 West 1J1st street.
IL. FRED c. HARRIET, SIR. Sc |
years old married: consulting engi- |
neer: home. 1855 East Elghty-fourth |
street.
the acceptance Of Fred c. Barrett. a con-
sulting engineer. whose home is at 1856
East Eighty fourth street. Mr. Barrett
is So years of age and is married. He is
person with sharp eyes.
whitman Opens Address.
AS soon as the jury box was filled Mr..
Manton made the customary motion for q
| dismissal Of the indictment. The motion
| was promptly denied. District Attorney
| Whitman bowed to the Justice faced the
jury and spoke the first words OF his
opening address. The District Attorney
| outlined his case without Theatres. with
| out paving the air. without an attempt
| at Powered oratory. He spoke In an or
| binary conversational tone. much AS II
he were debating to a stenographer.
on account Of the Globes hasty publ!ca-
ton on Saturday OF his prepared address
| he varied his statement somewhat from
the former outline. but the essentials re-
manned the same, He recited the whole
story OF the murder and OF the circum-
: stances leading to the murder and he as
serted that he would prove every charge
made In his address. He declared that
Becker and Rosenthal were partners In
gambling house. that there came a
break In their relations and that Rosen-
thai, angry and revengeful. had come to
him. the District Attorney. with damag-
ing information against Becker.
'Rosenthal had already given a portion
of his information respecting the defend
ant TO the District Attorney" continued
Mr.. Whitman. ''He had an engageme n,
to supply further information at S A. NJ
on July Is, 1912. At o'clock upon tina,
morning he was murdered"
Describes Scene Of Murder.
The prosecutor gave a word picture OF
brilliantly lighted Forty-third street az
the hour of the murder. He described
the murder itself and the flight OF the gun.
men In the gray car. OF Rose, WALTON
and Weber he said:
There Is no proof that Rosenthal could
inture these three men and there is moth
ing to show that they themselves coult
profit by his DEATH he said. They were
the agents. the immediate enlissaries, tn
middlemen. the brokers In human life
who obtained for the one man who hat
real murder In his heart the four villain
Gus creatures who were able to carry gu
the fiendish work which he and he alon'
conceived and compelled"
After asserting that Becker got tn,
gunner by securing and furnishing bal
, money for their imprisoned chief. Jacl
Zelig. thereby winning Zelig's consent 4
the job that Becker was near the Metro
pole shortly before the killing and that tn
crime was carried out as Becker had or
Q dered. Mr.. Whitman connected Becke
: even more directly with the murder.
I'VE shall show you" he said. that i'm
nediately after the escape OF the murder
ers Rose notified Becker at his home 4
the Belleclaire Court at Edgecombe ave
I nue. and Sixty-fifth street that. to use hi
5 own expression, The Job has been done
that he, Rose. was much worried. "
q shall show you that Becker respo lied tina
. II was all right; not to worry that h
would come right down.
e Tells Of Meeting After Murder.
}. I'VE shall show you that Becker wer
y to Forty-second street, where he met Ros
/, and Webber. both of them on the verg
:, OF collapse from fright and fear of dis
y covery that he treasured them---that
= Weber and Rose that he roid them thar
y was nothing whatever to fear. that Il
would protect them. that Rosenthal ougf
j. to have been killed long ago and that ii
only important thing was to get those fol
men out OF the way for a little while"
Now. gentlemen" he concluded II b,
lieve we can prove that the directing wi
and the power behind this assa ssina tic
Il was the defendant at the bar; and this
"a while the others were as truly instrumen
as were the pistols from which the fat;
bullets new the man who really accom-
he plished the murder OF Herman Rosenth
% was Charles Becker, lieutenant OF pol ,
II OF the city OF New York. ! have to
you the facts OF what is to my mind II
worst crime ever committed in New 70.
D. city"
r. Mr.. Whitman began his address
pr :o5 7. NJ. lie finished at :lb p.
= The court -oom was crowded. This emo,
=, =, the morning session.
~ The first witness who was also the flr
y witness at the first trial. was Polioems
Id John J. Brady, who was near Broadws
and Forty-third street at I:57 A. NJ.
July Is. 1912 when Rosenthal was sh
" down. Assistant District Attorney Del
st hanty conducted the examination. Brat
m described the sound OF the pistol shootiI
he as "flve shots that came like this Bang
bang. Bang! Bang. Bang!" He ran
"a the Metropole, saw a dead man on d
lie sidewalk and met Lieut. Frye. from who
~ he took orders. Mr.. Delehanty was car
es full to bring out that the street W
?, brightly lighted. There was no eros
examination
~ Lieut.. Frye. telling much The sar
story, escept that he said he heard on
tn four shots. Iescribed the pursuit of q