New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-01
BECKER GUILTY
AS HE'LL ROSES
ANSWER TO WIFE
Ex-Gambler Gives Lie to
Story He Promised Her
He'd Aid Husband.
TELLS OF MEETING
IN SCHEPPS'S STORE
Never Proffered His lntercession
with Governor by Telephone
or Otherwise. He Says.

DENYING that, as newspapers yester-
dav afternoon printed. he had sought
o,t Mrs. Charles Becker last week TO
oFer aid 20 her husband, Jack Rose,
rriDeipal witness against Becker and
the four gunmen. asserted last night
that Mrs. Becker appealed 70 him last
Sunday morning TO help the condemned
man and that she told him she had
message for him from Becker.
a told her couldn't do anything.
Rose said, because Becker is as guilty
o. hell"
Rose was informed of the newspaper
stories late Yesterday afternoon by
his attorney, Bernard Sander, who ar
ranged the interview last night with
Rose. which was held in the home Of
Reginald Wright Kaufman. the author,
nj llg East Thirty-hrst Street.
81 sm rot correcting this absolutely
false report" Rose said. "for the pur-
pose OF hurting the man in Sing Sing,
for Il one word from ne would empty
the death houses in Sing Sing and
every other prison l would utter it.
But wan. the public to have the truth
and am going 20 give it 20 them.
Denies lie Telephoned.
q "In the stories printed to-day. it is
sad ! teleuhoncd 70 Mrs Becker during
the latter par; OF last week, when
Governor Whitman was in town. tell
ing her tha. had something important
to communicate TO her. The stories
say further that she said she had no
reason 10 see me. but. after | had in
sisted. she met in in Sam Schepps
jewelry store that night and I told
her ! would 20 to the Governor in
Becker's behalf and that thought
BecAers sentence would be commuted.
"An o. that and all Of the rest Of
he story has no basis in fact. | did
~ot reach this city until last Saturday
ornng. For the FIVE weeks previous
was in Medford, Mass. continuously.
came down here 20 attend a receivers
hearing.
"So0n after arrived here two agents
from the Becker camp came to me. l
won't tell you who they were or what
was discussed, for the latter feature is
Unimportaut.
about II o'clock Sunday morning,
when / was az the Hotel Maryland 7
received telephone call from Sam
Schepps. He told me he wanted 20 see
ne az once at his jewelry store.
hurried over. With Schepps were two
Becker agents.
81 had ny elbow resting on the show
case, and was talking about the Becker
ease with Schepps when the two Becker
agents suddenly looked toward the
doorway. turned. Mrs. Becker was
standing there.
"She walked up to ne and said, Mr.
Rose, / want TO talk with you about my
husband. l want you to help him
AS Guilty as He'll"
can't do anything to help him.
said
"'Yes, you can, she replied, for
you know he is innocent.
Mrs. Becker / answered, when
you say know Becker is innocent you
accuse me Of sitting in the witness
chair a three trials and swearing away
the lives Of five accused men. That
forces me 70 say TO you something
that ] would not say under other cir
eumstances. You force me to tell you
that Becker is as guilty as hell
Mrs. Becker cried. Then she said
She would like TO talk with me in the
open or at her home. She said she
had message foI me from Charlie
told her | wou.c talk with her IN the
open but ! would not 90 TO her home
Then she asked me 70 telephone her
said ] would. ] considered the matter
seriously for TWO days. Tuesday night
told Mr. Fink, secretary Of the com
pany which | am interested. 20 call
up the number Mrs. Becker had given
me but ] didn't tell Fink who it was)
and tell the person who answered the
call that The party who said he would
telephone has decided not to
Fink came back and said a woman
had answered the phone. lie said she
had asked him 10 repeat the message,
and 1t was done.
Cannot Help Becker.
That is the whole story. can do
nothing TO help Becker. | have gone
70 nobody in Becker's behalf ! have
seen none of the authorities, nor have
tried 20. II the District Attorney or
The Governor wants to see me / shall
be az their service during the week |
eXnect 70 remain here"
The alleged conversation between
Rose and Mrs. Becker. quoted in the
evening papers. embraced this:
What good is your word?' asked
Mrs. Becker You'll be a self-con-
fessed murderer and perjurer. Nobody
VIII believe you, no matter what you
say
"'Thet's the only trouble answered
Rose. 'Icop.e will say I'm responsible
Tor the deaths Of Rosenthal and the
Tour gunner
b." Everybody knows you are respon-
sible for them Mrs. Becker replied.
Well, I'd rather be responsible for
i've than SIX returned Rose. We'll,
I'm going to see Whitman anyway to-
morrow and III phone you again"
Mrs. Becker's Version.
Mrs. Becker gave her version of the
conversation with Jack Rose, late last
night. II was a colorless version, and
contained no hint of what that appeal
cost her.
."I saw Jack Rose in Sam Schepps's
store last Sunday" she said. That
he was there was none of my doing.
II was in no sense a 'put-up job l
happened TO hear that he was there
and ! went. He didn't know ! was
coming.
Il asked Rose to tell the truth-and
he and | know it,
"He said he couldn't afford to do
that. He had consulted the best legal
advisers in the country, he said, and
ne couldn't change his story.
There was some more conversation
- would rather not repeat it all. l
told him various things he had done.
Finally he said he'd go to Whitman