The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-12
MURDER GAR
 DRIVER AND
 ROSE TESTIFY Shapiro Declares Gunnan Said Becker Has
 Fixed 'Emo HE CoNTRADICTs STORIES OF JAILERs tsBa1d Jack' Eyes Becker Composed1y As He An
 swers Questions

| l of Charles Becker for the murder of Herman Rosenthal was resumed today, District Attorney Whitman called Dr.. Dennis Taylor to the witness stand as the last of several witnesses to establish the death of Rosenthal Dr. Taylor, at the time of the murder, was an ambulance surgeon and his testimony was necessary because it was he who pronounced the gambler dead. Following Taylor the district at l torney was prepared to call his two. star witnesses. Jack Rose and Will lie Shapiro, the chauffeur of the car l in which the gunTnen are said to have escaped from the scene of the mur- der.
 Cross ex amipa of some of the witnesses for the prosecution by Mar l tin T. Manton scanned to show the line the defense will follow. It was evident that Beckers new counsel; intends to l run close to the old defense at the first trial and try to show that the
 murder Of Rosenthal was the result l of a gamblers feud, without the guid- ling hand of the defendant. Shipiro followed Dr. Taylor on the
 stand. He told of receiving call at his stand in front of the cafe Boulevard late at night on July 15. He then went to Tom Sharkey's saloon where he picked up Rose, Harry Val lon and Sam Schepps. PICKED UP GUNNFEN.
 i've went to 42nd street and Broad l way. then to Bridgie Webber's poker
 room at 12nd street and sixth avenue" " and Seventh avenue we picked up am ot her man and returned to Webberss poker rooms Where the occupants or Ithe car got out. Fifteen minutes later Dago Frank, Gyp the Blood, Whitey F r -, ~.- q r eLz- A[s.m-. .l. was ordered to go to the Metropole Hotel
 "At the Metropole, Dagp Frank or dered me to turn the car around so | it would face toward Sixth avenue Becker's counsel objected to the line of questioning and was overruled T turned the car around,s Shapiro
 went on, ssand the four men got out and went to the other side of the street I remained son the box of my
 machine. In Is minutes I heard a shot and then four more. I looked toward the Metropole and saw a man fall. I started my machine. I was going to get away from there. I had gone about fifty feet when the four
 men caught up with me and Jumped on the machine.
 tBECK ER HAS FIXED yENI.. CT heard Whitey say,'' continued Shapiro. :. Make the Chauffeur turn
 
 fixed. Everything is all right Then he said,, Becker has fixed 'en.' After the murder. I took the four men to 126th street and Le1ox avenue, where they left me. then drove back to the Cafe Boulevard
 Where were you last night?' asked the district attorney.
 Tn your house. answered Shapiro. How much money have you re- ceived from my office ?''
 Fifty dollars"
 On cross examination. Shapiro said the $50 had been used to pay his ex- penses out of the city
 Mr.. Manton read copy Of the testf- mony Shapiro offered at the trial of the gunmen.. In that Shapiro said Frank said everything is all right; Becker told me so.''
 Shapiro said he could not remember just what he had testified to at the first trial. He insisted that the sI1b- stance of the testimony was the same. to by a keeper in the Tonnbs quoting to by a keep in the Tonbs quoting
 Shapiro as having told the keeper that Harry Val1on and Bridgie Webber had just Jumped into the murder car in front of the Metropo1e and threatened to ssBIow his roof off'' unless he drove away from the place. Shapiro denied having made such a. statement. He denied further that while in the sIOfnDS lie ndo sSa1d that Va11On had hit him with a gun. He said an at tempt had been made to get him to swear that Webber and Val1on were in the car but he had refused JACK BOSE TAKES STAND. Jack Rose took the stand He gave
 his occupation a lecturer and writer. Under questioning by the dis trict attorney he told how he first met Becker when he was head of the | strong arm squad.'' He appeared en- tirely composed and spoke without hesitation, even letting his eyes rest directly on Becker. Neither man changed expression.
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