The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-12
NEW WITNESSES EXAMINED
BEFORE JUSTICE GOFF

brother OF Charles Becker, about his story.
That was last Monday, he said. He was
not able to get into touch with Becker
afterward He went TO see Mr.. Wahle
on Friday and told him the story.
why didn't you go 20 the District
Attorney with III" demanded Mr.. Whit
man.
III had It would have been the finish
OF me-" said Dresner. I'd have been
killed on the steps OF the District Attor-
ney's Office by Roses friends"
Policemen Confront Burwell.
Burwell. who until after his appearance
was thought to be Wahle's star witness,
was then called. He described himself as
an exhibition billiard player. He loafed
around Times Square the night OF the
murder. he said. and then. at / AS. started
through Forty-thlrd street to go TO the
Lynwood Hotel. He crossed from the
stage entrance Of Cohan's Theatre over
toward the engine room OF the Cadillac.
he said. As he reached the middle OF the
street a man about feet inches. fifteen
feet ahead OF him, fired two shots and ran
toward a gray automobile which stood
with Its engine racing In front OF the
stage entrance OF the theatre. The man,
who wore gray felt hat. hoped into
the automobile, which rushed eastward.
Then two more shots were fired from the
whether an occupant of the machine or
some one the street had fred them. lie
saw the man with the soft hat distinctly
and could recognize him easily. he said.
None Of the pictures OF the four gunner,
he added. was "a picture OF the man he
saw shoot.
Mr.. Whitman ordered five police SER
geants from Waterbury. Burwells home
town to stand up.
"Do YOU know these mem" he asked
| Rurweli admitted mat ne knew them all
"We-s you arrested on June ., 1907,
for breach Of the peace?' asked Mr..
Whitman.
81 don't recall it, said the witness
Were YOU sentenced to sixty days on
June H. 1902"
YES"
Reads List of Convictions.
Whitman then read long list OF
arrests and convictions. Burwell admitted
that he had been arrested on March g.
| 1911. for drugging IA girl in a
hotel and stealing diamond ring, but
| said he was never tried. In February,
| 1913, he was sentenced for violating his
parole on the charge of not supporting
his wife. He was convicted again of a
| crime against scventeen-year-o girl
In August. 1912, he was convicted for
| stealing a plume from a millinery shop
In Bridgeport. Although Burwell con-
| fessed TO this record he said he had not
committed the crime.
| lie Is known in billiard circles AS the
st. Louis Kid, but not In police circles,
| he said lie denied that he was what Is
| commonly known as IA pool shark
Justice Con then got the witness TO
| describe as fully as he could the man
| who fired the two shots. lie said the man
| had a dark complexion and a thin face,
Another witness OF the shooting pro-
duced by Mr.. Wahle was Sam kalminson
of Buffalo. He was on the street the night
Of the shooting. he said and was standing
east Of the Hote. Metropole.
He distinctly saw n man on the running
board Of the automobile. The man had a
gun in his hand. A few days after the
shooting ne saw some newspaper pictures
OF the four informers and one Of them
was a picture OF Harry Nallon
kalmlnson swore that the man he saw
on the runnnrboard OF the Automobile
was Harry WALTON. lie said that he had
identified pictures of WALTON without a
hat, with a soft hat and with a straw hat
Also Admits Police Record.
Kalminson admitted to District Attorney
! Whitman that he was once convicted fol
petit larceny. lie said he stolo somt
. matches from his employer. was convicted
and paroled lie said the matter was
considered so trivial by his employer thn
I he was taken back to work after HI,
, conviction by the same man. kulmlnsoI
. also admitted that he had been sent Il
the George Junior Republic but said THU
!, was not because OF any crime. but be