Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-07-30

on suspicion, and the next day Jack
Rose, who mad been "laying low, was
taken.
Rose admitted he had hired the ear
and collected the fodr gunner, "Gyp
the Blood" LEFTY Louie, "Dago
Frank and "Whitey Lewis, mem.
bers of "'Big Jack" zelig's East Side
gang
Gunmen Rounded Up.
Then began the roundup of the gun
men. "Dago Frank was the first
arrested, and on August Whitley
Lewis was found hiding in the Cats.
kill mountains "Gyp the Blood and
Lefty Louie" were not arrested until
late in September.
In the meantime, Becker had been in.
dicted for murder, due to the confes-
sions of Bald Jack Z" Rose. "Gridgie y
Weber and Harry Vallon, who also had
been taken for his value as witness.
II was not until n month after Becker
was indicted that murder indictments
were returned against "Gyp the
Blood, y Lefty Louie, 'DagO
Frank, " "Whitey Lewis, "Jack
Sullivan and Willie Shapiro. The last
two got out Of the muss because Of
their work in aiding the state, and be.
cause they were not directly implicated
in the killing Of Rosenthnl.
With all the principals safely lodged
behind the bars District Attorney
Whitman began gathering the mass Of
evidence. Sleuths were put on Beck.
er's past and his whole life war barred
in the first murder trial. The inves.
tigators fulnd money in various New
York banks in Beckcr's name, aggre.
eating in all 10 between $4,000 and
100000 This was one Of the strongest
links in the district attorneys chain,
as it tended 10 corrObOrate Rose =
graft revelations Becker attempted
TO explain the money by saying il was
the accumulation Of years at saving
by he and hii wife, but the agents dis.
covered that Becker had been divorced.
disproying his story
Jack Zelig Killed.
On October 9, the day before Becker
was put on trial, Big Jack % Zelig,
famous East Side gunman, and "boss
OF the four that murdered Rosenthal,
was shot 10 death in Second avenue by
q gangster
Becker went ia trial the next day
before Justice Goff In three weeks, on
October "a, the jury returned verdict
" guilty in the first degree
Becker was convicted mainly on the
testimony Of Jack Rose, about the now
famous Harlem Conference. lu
that conference. Rose swOre be- met
Becker AZ l2lth street and Seventh
avenue, on the night OF June p. and
Becker promised him and biz pals im
munity u they would put Rosen,ha ou,
~ the way The testimony Of Weber
and Nallon r0frobOuicd Roses state
meats IL was further corrobofated hy
q negro named Marshall, iu n0 way ctn
ncgtei with the ease. who said he saW
Rose and Becker ~lking on that cor
Ref that night
After bis conviction, which be- tool
with remarkable forttude, Becker wa
sentenced 10 die December " An np
peal saved him. however. o. II arte,
a. a stay VI execution.
on November ~, Gyp the k.Oul.
D.. Whitley Lywi3.' Dago Frank uu,
'' LeftN Louie were found guilty 0
murder Boz the fret degree and wer
sentenced 10 be- cleetrocuted
Little Of importance occurred in ,h,
lease. during 1913 There wey sporadic
outbufsis Of activity. boz nothing def
bite developed
Becker spent aIl fhi. time in thi
death house a. Sing Sing near wherD
the fanr yuumcn were awaiting death
his iron nerve bpseI fnltefel Neithe
iid those 0f bis fgur hifeiaas
lt pas February 20 before a riff ID
TIE clouds revealed tO the congiete,
police lieutenant chance 70 essaps th
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