New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-28
Will Not Appeal to Gov.
ernor, and Relatives
Give Up All Hope.
SWEARS TO WARDEN
THAT HE'S INNOCENT
Recovering Nerve, Prisoner
Reads Papers, Plays Handball
and Eats All His Meals.

tween now and July u, the date set
for his execution, there will not come
from him gratuitously or n return for
clemency any disclosures Of the con
nection % other men with Tenderloin
graft.
This comes from member % the
Becker family who saw the doomed
man I'm the death house in Sing sing
yesterday afternoon. Charaoteriz'ne
as "rot" r story printed in q morning
paper Yesterday that Becker would
omen up 20 save his life, this person
SAID:
Charlie will not turn up anybody
or anything. BE positively IS not go
ing 10 squeal. he Will not frame UP
anybody just because he was framed
up. lie won't buy s commutation OF
sentence through the sacrifice OF
others"
Becker was visited by his wife, bis
attorney, Martin T Msnton; his broth
or. John, and his sister. His relatives
are without hope; they see no sdvan-
tAee in sn appeal 70 the United States
Supreme Court. They believe that
plea 10 Governor Whitman would be
Intellectual. They see Q possibility only
in the very faint prospect that, IS the
time for Becker's death moves nearer,
public opinion will swing so strongly
TO the mans side that the Governor
Will feel himself pressed TO spare the
slsyer's life
Mr.. Manton said he contemplated
making no appeal 10 Mr.: Whitman. p,
"The only question before Us now,
he added, "is OF the KIND OF legal pro-
shall
and II YOU make no legal move
"Tre- Will be the end of Il all
Confession Would Be Vain.
district Attorney Perkins, speaking
If the Becker revelation story, called
it ridiculous. ... -
+be rossihintv Of Becker escaping
death by disclosing the guilt Of other
persons in minor crimes Mr.. Perkins
said. should be settled now for all
time. No confess on, duplicating hlgh
citv officials or so-called prominent
men in private walks Of life for giving
or taking bride money, would warrant
an application for an appeal 70 the
Governor 20 grant clemency 20 becher'
"He has been convicted Of murder IN
the first degree. and II Is more lmpor-
tant that q person guilty Of the hlgnes'
crime should be punished than lesser
offender. when the question Shapes up
g. 3 choice.
FTobaply the mos 5o,ais 10,
which Becker could give deta!s no.
known 10 the prosecutors once is tha'
Of bribery. The statute Of limitations
on bribery is FIVE years. The murGer
OF Eosenthal was committed on July
16. nearly three years ago.
corspiracv charge cannot be proSecut-
ed after the expiration Of two years.
As for making out a conviction case
against pol!ce officials for bribery on
ANYTHING Becker could tell, the odds
arc discourag;ngly against i. Trans
fers Of money in such matters are Gus
+ocoeriIv elected between the brOer
"a +ba br.ba ,akcr only. Were Becker
ana Inv 80. - 90 dfec1ose what he
70 DC ',...,,.,..io, and record would
49, - ~ .es,iroor,, and leave his
lhNal'u"'V .,'S or...J ht, The necessary
stoT! ulO9I . 49,
Ciea''- manu- c,,.
Becker Denies uuii''
Becker Yesterday spent very gooo
dsv an things considered. As on the
a. sf,sr he received the fateful news,
he plsvet handbaN for time. lie ate
ali his meals. he has assumed the at
titude that. as he Us not gulI'y' ne
viii try 90 90 along bravery anu
regularly untl the execution ~
Becker stoutly denies ms gQIIt' nc
sid 20 Deputy warden 'oHiso" "
week OF so ago. III chou.
suppose lou nav. ~ 'o, nov,
ny case bu' ! wan ~ t ;,1occTt he.
M ytVl.'ii'S 49, 80 ms crime. They
ICrc GoG ana no 'i bnt u can an stand before
ni"' -, '.'., VA ssv the same thing"
|rte s,s,crcnt was entirely volun-
- %o question had been put TO
R"cter on the subject. Since that
time he has talked with Mr.. johnson
On various aspects of the case, and
has always made the same denial. lie
la .fvavs held he lad no police in