The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-22
WHITMAN DEAF TO
BECKER'S LAST PLEA
Absolutely No New Light
Thrown on ROscnthal Mur-
der, Says Governor.
STATEMENT BY APELBAUM
New Trial to Be Asked on Cor
roboratiOn by Big Tins
Secretary.

ALBANY, July 2i-"There Ia abso.
luteIy nothing at all to throw any Iisht
upon the murder Of Herman Rosentha,
In Becker's statement. In fact II goes
20 corroborate the testimony Of Rose
that Becker. a uniformed police lieu.
tenant. was urging him to keep quiet.
Becker says Alfred Henry Lewis had
told him that he was heinz framed
up Becker should have called Mr..
Lewis. He would have made ma.
teriai witness for the defence"
| Gov. whitman thus dispclled tonight
whatever ray OF hope counsel for
Charles Becker saw in the statement
submitted to-day. The Governors COM
ment on Becker's statement indicated
that he has no intention OF interfering
with the fulilment OF the order Of ex-
ecution upon anything that Becker has
so far said.
His statement followed a careful
study Of its contents and came at the
close Of the day long after his usual
hour for seeing the newspaper repre-
sentativcs.
The Governor regards the statement.
II was said, In a sense as a corrobora-
tion Of Roses testimony that Becker Mt
the time of the murder kept sending to
Rose injunctions against saying any
thing. That these requests for silence
on the part Of Rose were designed to
protect the reputation Of Big Tim Sulli-
van. as Becker explains them. did not
,mnr.ss m. rx.c,,,v.
p.,,,. Co,, n.s MAJ.
The fact that the only new points In
the statement-new TO the Governor
IN. ors -.,a,,r. 20 u,,,,,,. ~. o,,..
w WIG o"e.
10 aired Henry Lewis. concern dead
n,en Iurtner operates 10 snake me GOV
e.nors creoehce IN VIVA, Seeker mas
put on paper testimony sucn as becker
Gays MT Lewis would nave been abie TO
he on the outcome OF the nrst Becker
| Whitman. The fact that 1, ~ brou,h,
| % Nrht now that Mr Levin had "A.
yised Rerker that ne vrus YJe,rr s.frareai
up." long time after Mr.. Lewis's
death, does not contribute TO the
strength OF Beckers plea. the Governor
holds
sought to explain that the conference
| held by sullivan. Recker and Rose or tho
Sunday night preceding tho murder ~
Rosenthal has been known TO Gov whit.
man for a long time Accordingly /, is
not believed n will have any efyec, nnon
his mind. even though Becker declares
that the pIrnose Of the corfsr.nre u,os
to devise Some way Of spiritinx Rosen.
thai out of town in ordar ,n closa hi,
mouth before the Grand Jury
Rerusai of .paia Iao,,,. po.o 80
change his testimony-and Gov Whit.
man learned to-day from RernarJ
Sahu, ,t, .ou,s1, ior rose ana sam
points another factor which tends to
seal the fate OF Becker all the more
tightly. Mr. Sander had a long talk
with the Governor. during which he said
that Rose under no circumstances could
be prevailed upon to alter what he had
said at the trials OF Becker
Discredtts ApelbRum's .Tixing."
S,atements cred,,.a % ,Ioru,, A.,
baum. secre,arv for ..pig Tir,,, S,,i,,,ar
thai he had II "axsdr ,ba, pns.,,ha, va. ,.'a !.
to leave town am, moi ,.S,ifv h.,ors
the Grand Jury did no, ;unress ,ho c.
ernor, who as District At,ornev tn.u
that Rosenthal and his wife wers nrs.
pared to 90 before the Grand Jury as,a,
the time that Apelbaum osser,s tbe ma
ter had been "fxed" The Governor i.
not inclined to believe thar anvthine
Apelbaum could say at the present time
could help to exculpate Becker. II was
said at the Capitol tonight.
1t was with an air of fnality tha,
; Gov, Whitman. after his study OF the
document submitted to him by Becker's
counsel. said
There Is absolutely nothing new in
all this