New-York tribune., 1922-12-11
10000 Crowd
Funeral Path
OF Mrs. Becker
Bronx Pit Murder Victim
Taken To the Cemetery
Through Great ThrOng,
Moaning and Shrieking
Husband ON Trial To-day
Prosecutor Refuses to Tell
Result of Examination of
Alleged Slayer's Sanity

Mere than $1,000 persons, Il s
estimated. saw the body Of Mrs. Jennie
Becker, victim OF the i murder in the
Bronx. carried yesterday from the
orphan asylum on the lower East Side,
Of which her two daughters are in
mates, TO her former home In the
Bronx and across the city 10 the Edge
water ferry 20 New Jersey. Al times
IN spite Of the presence OF police re-
serves, they surged into thes trset and
impeded the progress Of che eortege.
Ten thousand persons attended the
open air funeral services for Mrs.
Becker, which we're held in the morn
ing AZ the Israel Orphan Asylum, 2so
Second Street, where the dead woman's
twin daughters. who are three years
old. have been cared for since AuguEt.
Long before the hour for the services
the crowds began TO gather. Before
the arrival Of the corteRe from fun
erai chapel the crowd was 80 large that
Captain Peter Tighe, Of the Fifth
Street station, ordered out forty pa
trolmen 70 handle Il With the open
inr hymn police lines were established,
herding FIVE thousand persons on Sec
ond Street. between Avenues and D,
and another FIVE thousand jammed the
adjoining avenues.
Pause At Home for Prayer
Leaving the lower East Side st the
conclusion Of the service, a. which
Rabbi Louis Finkelstein. Of the Keai-
lath Israel Congregation. presided, the
funeral procession Of a dozen limou-
sines drove 70 the former residence OF
fhc Beckcrs at SO East l50th Street.
u paused here for few minutes while
a praper was said and then proceeded
70 Riverside Cemetery at HaekenSack,
". J.. where the burial took place.
Streets in the Bronx we're thronged
with persons eager 70 obtain a view OF
The passing hearsc. The eurbs we're
lined By the crowds, and watchers
perched on housetops, window sills and
FIRE escapes. As the motor cars pro-
ceeded along Southern Boulevard after
outdoor services at the synagogue OF
the Congregation Dikin Cholim, near
Mrs. Becker's former home, men and
women pushed forward into the street,
moaning and shrieking. and pressed 20
closely about the hearse and automo-
biles as almost 20 bring them TO halt.
Abraham Becker, indicted on q
charge Of numbering his wife. Is 70 be
brought 20 trial this morning before
Judge Gibbs, in Bronx County Court.
II Is believed that IN bringing the case
20 trial just thirteen days after the
discovery Of tho victims body, District
Attorney Edward Glennon and his as
sistant, Albert Cohn, have established
a record.
For four hours yesterday afternoon
Becker was examined by Or. Menas S.
Gregory, representing the prosecution,
and DR.. Max Sehlapp. for the defenbe.
70 determine his sanity. Both physi-
clans are noted alienists.
Although neither Of the physicians
would make any statement as TO his
conclusions, Mr.. Cohn clearly indi-
Gated that. Or. Gregory believed the
man sane.
No Halt In Trial Plans
we are going 70 trial tomorrow
and you can draw your own conclu-
sions from that" he remarked, when
he was asked whether the alienists had
discovered anything that might change
his plans FOR bringing the case TO a
spcedy conclusion