Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-11-29
.EARLY BADNESS LED
JACK ROSE TO CRIME
Reformed Gambler Also Told
Audience Correctional Schools
Make Boy Criminals.

Declaring that correctional schools
for boys are responsible for many
criminals In later life, Jack Rose,
former gambler and prominently con-
nected with the Becker murder case,
spoke yesterday afternoon to more
than thousand people at a meeting
In the Centenary Methodist Church.
held under the auspices of the Mems
Bible Class of that church.
In substantiation of this assertion
he said that seven of the nine per-
| sons arrested in the Becker murder
case were graduates of correctional
schools in their youth, and he recited
| incidents occurring in the reforma-
| tory in which he was confined for
playing hockey from school to show
that the treatment accorded by the
officials oftentimes had made the in
mate a hardened criminal instead of
| having beneficial results.
According to Rose, his badness was
the cause of him starting on a career
of crime. when l was four years
of age" he said, Il suffered an ILL
ness by reason of which I lost my
hair and a few years later, when I
started to school, the boys taunted me
because of my bald head. L was
modest, and rather than endure the
| taunts of my schoolmates / became
truant, and as a result was arrest
ed and confined in a reformatory.
| The treatment accorded me there
failed to have the desired effect, al
though when l was released I tried
to work out nay own salvation, as
none of my former Acduaintances
would associate with me. / soon
found myself drifting, and l finally
| took up gambling in the underworld
In the last twenty years" con-
tinued Rose, II have seen many peo-
pie pay the price for their folly, some
early in life and others later, but
eventually everyone in the under
world will have to reap what they
have sown. That affair you read
about in New York was brought
about through gambling, and no one
who was innocent suffered"
Rose never mentioned the Becker
murder case" but always alluded to
It as that horrible affair." or that
affair you read about in New York. .
Although / was considered a fair
ly successful gambler / was not only
penniless but friendless when I
reached the height of my gambling
career. When | was in the Tombs
prison | thought my many influential
friends would secure my release, but
| soon found that / had no friends
Friendship cannot exist in q gam
bling den or a saloon. Everybody in
the prison was scrambling to get to
the district attorneys office first. like
rats from sinking vessel
After the affair was all over.
tried 10 take I'D the broken thread OF
life in a Connecticut town. but So
e1ety was ready TO send me back to
that he'll from which had just come. .
His Conversion.
Rose then told of a visit to his home
or Rev. DR.. Brown, an Episcopal
clergyman, of Norwalk, Conn, his
conversion and of the following Sun.
day evening when for the first time
he told of his connection with the
Becker murder case.
The preceding Sunday there were
less than fifty communicates at the
services, he said, but that evening thu
church was crowded. He promised
Rev. Brown that he would tell hi.
10 assist in preventing other younI
men from having a similar experience
The method of prison reform
adopted by Warden Osborne, of SIM
Sing, he thought would not be o
much benefit to the inmates. as thei
greatest need was after they had beeI
released and turned out into the worl,
4 to begin life anew. He told OF a mai
who. after serving a term In Stat
tprison in New York for burglary. has
through friends secured a responsible
position in a factory in New jersey
The man had determined to max
good. he said, and after several year
] OF service he was promoted to a re