The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-28
BECKER WRITING
POST MORTEM TO
DENY HIS GUILT
Is Preparing Statement in
Death Housc--TO Be Pub
lie After Execution.
ATTACK on WHITMAN
FEATURES DOCUMENT

psftSisg. july IL haTieS SScFet
waited eagerly In the death house all
day for his wife TO come to him with.
a. he put It. good news" The news
he was looking for evidently was hts
wife's word for II that Justice Ford
had granted him a new trial.
After - very long day-Becker arose
this morning an hour after sunrise-Mrs.
Becker did arrive at the prison. but not
with the word her husband had been
booking for. She drove Up 10 Sing Sing
at 9 O'Clock this evening In one Of the
station automobiles and greeted news
paper men she knew pleasantly. After
only A few minutes OF delay she was
conducted back through the prison to
the death house, where she talked with
Becker until IL vas time to return TO
Manhattan on a train leaving here at
s:32 O'Clock.
She carried no legal documents with
her. as she did last night. but merely
brought the evening papers to Becker
and then had a long tain with him about
his case. Before leaving Manhattan
STS BH|NtT nhb tpNltIItN wan tS
counsel at their Offices.
II 10 the opinion Of people close TO
Becker that II he escapes the chair
mex Friday morning he will go on then
steadily In a fght for freedom, a fight
which for persistence will be likened
only to that which was waged - sue
cessfully by Albert 7. Patrick. But at
the present stage OF the proceedings,
Becker. so IL ~ said oy those VINO talk
to him. seems to be making a mental
fght with himself against placing too
much stock upon any Dit OF encouraging
news that may be brought to him. over
confidence during the next two days, he
realizes. would only make the blow all
the harder II he were to learn at the
last moment that his eleventh hour fight
had been unsuccessful.
Preparing n Post-Mortem Denial.
In the meantime telegraph managers
we're busy experimenting the install
ment OF instruments. 'nough TO keep
ten extra operators and a chief operator
busy. on the second floor OF the liit!e
hose house across the road from the
main entrance TO the PRISON. The IN
are for the Use OF the news
paper men who are to witness the exc
cution II 1t takes place Friday morning.
DESPITE whatever denials that may be
forthcoming. IL may be said authortta-
lively that Becker Is preparing "a state
ment which IL TO be made public In
the event Of his death. Also II may
be said on excellent authority that the
statement will be an OF In
nocence Of any connection with the
murder OF RosenthaI.
He realizes now. i is said on the same
good authority, t4nt his d savowa! Of
any guilt Of grating IN tao long state
ment he issued early last week. weak
ened the statement in the minds Of
countless people who are morally GER
tain that he mad obtained vast sums in
a short time wAile head OF the strong
arm raid ng squad. Nevertheless in the
statement ne j. now working on ne will
not admit that ne took money illegally
from gamblers. HIS death hour state
ment Will. In a word. be a defence OF
himself as a martyr" sent to the cleo
trio chair by a District Attorney anxious
to make political capital out Of ais con-
viction and death sentence.
Shortly after the Court OF Appeals re-
fused to give Becker a third trial one OF
his friends urged him 20 begin a cam
paign OF publicity VITA u statement in
which he was 20 deny that he was guilty
Of murder but admit the graft charges.
BE frank and open to the public,
Charley the friend pleaded wit him.
Tel d clear. clean cut story Of your
operations IN the Tender.oln, now much
money you got, where you got IL and
what you did with L.. know that such
a Statement Will be o~orroborated. Any
corroboration sets the public to thinking
and talking and mucn might result In
your favor"