The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-01
Gambler Tells How Last
Message From "Charlie"
Never Was Delivered.
'0NFRONTED BY HER
IN SCHEPPS'S STORE
,cked Nerve Later Even to
all the Doomed Mans
Wife on Phone.

III word from me would free Becker
. from the death house I would say that
word gladly" said Jack Rose. the bald
ex-gsmbler and informer. as he sat last
night in the home OF Reginald Wright
Kaufman. the playwright. and denied
with all the force Of his unique person.
ality that Becker's conviction was the
result OF n "frameup"
81 testified at three trials and I told
The truth" Rose said. leaning forward
and emphasizing his words with levelled
orehnger. 81 told the truth and I say
again. Becker instigated the murder
{ Rosenthal. I am sorry for him. sorry
l am for any man In the death
Puse. and II could help him / would.
rsecutor, neither am l his liberator.
merely have told the TRUTH
\ Their the desire to answer all the
ttacks that have been made on him
mring the last stages OF the fight to
ave Becker's life broke down the bar
ier ,of reserve that Rose has main
.alned so long and he poured forth
ale that held the writer of fiction silent
In admiration of its climaxes.
Rose told OF the weeks in which mes
enger after messenger from Beckers
friends came to him with appeals to do
omething to aid the man he had helped
4 nd to the chair his emotions as he
fused them because he felt he could
Y nothing without committing perjury
4 d finally Of last Sunday when Mrs.
= ge from Charlie message which
n IS never delivered.
Tells About Meeting.
N Rose was moved to reveal this because
4 the publication in an evening paper
'sterday Of a story that he had met
RS. Becker and promised to 60 to Gov
hitman in an attempt to get Glenn
cy for her husband. Rose charac-
srized the story as preposterous the
lay 1t was printed. and then made his
4 wn explanation OF the meeting with
Lidrs Becker.
Il had not been in New York for five
weeks until last Saturday" he said.
n having spent all my time In Medford.
Mass, and Boston. working In connec-
ton with my moving picture business
But all this time agents and messengers
from the Becker camp have come to me
4 skiing me to help Becker. They never
ook the attitude that he was not morally
guilty, but that a way out could be
Hound for him through legal technical
lty. They seemed to think that might
X now what 1t was
n 1T was not in my agreement with the
district Attorney that should have any
Jnnection with the case after / finished
"stfying that l should be Becker's per-
-,utor. that ] should help in carrying
{, the order of the court Time heals
ii wounds and l would gladly help
i iecker, BIZ, / was forced to tell them
| hat I could 40 nothing.
"Then last Saturday ! came here on
business and J was met that afternoon
another agent OF Becker's. | cannot
II who he was except to the District
ttorney. ! will tell him IL he wishes to
know. The next day. Sunday. Sam
Schepps called me UP at my hotel and
asked me to come over to his jewelry
ttore in Seventh avenue. I went over
and there found him talking with an
pther man. another one from the Becker
ramp.
ng on the counter. my back to the door.
nd then noticed that the men stopped
liking and turned toward the door,
His Voice Breaks.
Roses voice. which Is deep and res
nant, and which had been swinging
\ long in the cadences that make him
ne TO whom II Is a pleasure to listen.
roke and he gulped a moment.
81 turned around .and there In the
doorway saw Mrs. Becker" he went on.
["You can imagine how I felt. II was
the first time / had seen her since the
trial. | stood there facing her, unable
10 talk. | don't know how long IL was
nut 1t seemed ages. Finally I spoke to
.ner and she came forward and began to
ry.
81 wanted to see you,' she said and
he asked me to do something for
'ecker. ! told he~ as | told all the
theirs that l could do nothing. But YOU
now my husband is innocent she said
| believed that-you know how |
as'lIcd three timcs-yCu know II would
lake me out to be a perjurer,' | tod
'er,
"'I have admired YOU for your loyalty.
n your love for your husband, said
her. as every one has admired you
nd respected you But this meeting
as nOnc or my en- ohlnH, ana now you
lust stand for the consequences, | said.
You know that Becker Is guilty as
ell | added.
"'You must have a dictograph in here
. talk like that she said. and told
er that l didn't have a dctograph. that
| ,'"'' even know that / was coming
I'll Schepps called me. and that
idea OF seeing her. After a
| X said 4 want to talk to you.
Y up AT my house. ! can't
4 asked her why. and she
ward and whispered. 4 have
\ from Charlie"
/ i time Kaufman was leaning
orgetting to smoke, listening
b ,is miP'' Rose was perched
on II dge of his seat, his
4 tre' ling and broken. He
nder tho stress of emotion and
uld hear was the beating OF the
do. Rose heard 1t too and lis
a moment then Strengthened
went on
lemen, ] am human and there
ne situations that are almost too