The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-05
BECKER NOTES TELL
OF HARLEM MEETING
Famous Conference" lie As
serts in Death House, Was
Based on q Raid.
ROSE WENT WITH HIM

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Of notes he has prepared In the death
house that there was a raid In Harlem
one night; tina ne made the raid on a
tip from James Marshall. the negro boy
who testified to the Harlem conference
which had so much to do with X
convection. and that on the night Of the
aid Jack Rose was present.
But. says Becker In his notes. Webber.
WALTON and Schepps were not present,
as they swore they were and there was
no talk of numbering Rosenthal. Rose.
says Becker now, wanted merely TO see
the raid. so Becker say he invited him
along.
T%hereupon. 30 Becker was quoted
yesterday by an authority whose word
is not to be questioned. Rose made
mental notes Of the vacant lot, the
negro boy. Marshall, the looks OF the
neighborhood and other details OF the
raid. Then when Rose, Weber. Val
lon and Schepps were all locked up
together later In the West Gid court
prison Rose, says Becker. was able TO
school the three other inforners n
! thus enabled them all to tell a SEEM
ingly true story Of what had happened
that night.
Things he Might Have Said.
The memoranda In which Becker ad-
mits that he saw Rose at the Harlem
raid are not a connected story. but a
series Of disconnected matters which
| Becker describes as the things ] would
have testified 20 had | been permitted
to take the stand In my own defence
when I was ,ried for murder"
In these notes also II was learned
from the same source Of information
"A source which has proved absolutely
reliable oil many occasions IN the past
Becker says that Rose swore truth
fully on the stand about some other
happenings. but that he so twisted the
truth that the effect OF his words was
entirely false.
There was a conversation between
! Rose and myself also Becker was
quoted as saying IN his notes. about
the inadvisability Of going into partner
ship with Herman Rosenthai In the
gambling business, but again by 'ex-
| changing personalities while testifying
to that conversation Rose swore falsely.
Rose swore on the stand that he
had advised me not to go into partner
ship with Rosenthal in the gambling
business because Rosenthal was a
trimmer and would do me out OF my
share. A conversation exactly like that
did happen. The great difference. how
ever. is that | told Rose not to go into
partnership with Rosenthal for the rea-
sons stated. In other words, Rose in
this and other instances Just changed
our personalities about so that the guilt
would fall upon me instead Of on HIM
self"
on the very day that Martin T. Man
ton. Of counsel for Charles Becker. went
to Albany TO confer with Gov. Whitman
on Becker's case Just after the Governor
returned from California a few weeks
ago w. Bourke Cochran. Mr.. Manton's
legal associate. visited Becker In the
death house at Sing Sing 10 learn from
the condemned man the nature OF the
story Becker would tell. provided Gov
whitman granted Mr.. Manton a. request
and appointed a commission OF three tc
hear Becker's story.
Becker's reply to Mr.. Cochran. II wa
learned yesterday. was of a very DIFF
ferept nature from the statement issueC
last Friday by Mr.. Manton for Becke
In which Mr.. Manton said that Becke
had commissioned him to tell Coz Whit
man the names OF men with whom
Becker shared his graft money.
Refused TO Mention Names.
"Tn tell fully what I know Of graf
| operations, Itthtr WAS ulVN'b as Say
ing to Cochran In the death house. '1'!
tell where I collected graft, how I go
the money and what ! did with II. But
and here Is the contradiction to MI
Manton's outline of the nature o
Becker's eXposures-"I will not undo
any circumstances mention any othe
name but my own"
Mr.. Cochran. II was said yesterday
has been actively engaged on Becker
-na, snr thA mat strAA vrsAALa
Warden Thomas Mott Osborne visite
Becker yesterday in the death house t
deliver a message he considered OF i'm
portance 10 the prisoner. II was IN
FIRST time Mr.. Osborne had talked wit
Becker since the day after Becker
second conviction.
The reason for Mr.. Osborne's visi
was that a lawyer--the warden woul
, not give the ~name-called him on tn
telephone to tell him of a legal pro
cedure which so far had seemingly bee
overlooked and which might, n take
advantage OF by Becker. he of muc
benefit to him in his efforts to escap
: the electric chair. Becker thanked Wai
I. den Osborne for the information an
n said he would consult with his couns,
5 on the value OF the legal hint offered b
the unknown lawyer,
e Mrs. Becker. after a visit to her hu,
band yesterday, insisted again tina
d Becker was not preparing a story :
n graft exposures for the reason that h
a was not the arafter he was accused {
beihg and therefore had nothing to Tel
Mrs. Becker Calls story Untrue.
She denounced as untrue that part {
an interview attributed to her yestel
! day in which she was made to say thu
h even II Becker did prepare r statemeI
for the Governor or any one else ST
would do all she could to prevent III
prepared graft expose reaching Alhan,
"All | said" was Mrs. Rockers con
ment, was that II my husband, who ht
always confded trustfully with me, wei
preparing such Al expose | would kno
of II, and he has never spoken to II
4 about making n confession for the vcI
good reason that he has nothing to coi
fess."
The immense Importance of a STATE
q men, from a reliable source that Beck,
has admitted in the death house that |
did talk with Jack Rose at "A Harlel
1 raid previous to the murder of Rose,
e thai, even though Becker insists thu
p Rose was merely there out OF curiosii
n and not to confer about putting Rosei
thai out Of the way. caused reporte
n last night to try to get In touch wit
y Mr.. Manton last night at his SUNNI,
home at Sayville.
II was aid AT Mr.. Manton's hou,
hat the lawyer had gone on an aut'
mobile trip Of several days through Nc
England and would not return to tow
until Tuesday at the earliest.
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