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SAYSJAAA ROSE
looking to borrow $2 at that time,”
he said. "They didn't have any mon-
Tells of Early Fn'endsbip Between.
ey to give for any one.“ He denied
the rest. of the story categorically.
Them—Denies All of “Plea"
Clinges
Rose said thattDist'rict Attorney.
Whitman was the last man in New
York to want to see Becker convict-
d. ‘
“Gov. Whitman doesn't; need me to
u:
has gone up that Whitman was after
Becker, and here is something that
has never been told. The very man
that Whitman didn’t want was ‘Bec-
ker. _
_____ “Years ago Mr. Whitman’s father,
Whitman. lived uptown somewhere,
and Becker boarded, or took his
meals at a house next door ”‘heA
met, and the (,leigyman became much
tAMAAAAs SOUGHl
l0 BACK UP APPEAL m. ,2. ...I.$.:IOII.::.
“ iious matters, and Whitman’s father
Iomalk Man Visits “Attorneys Ill became com laced that Becker was an
‘id A-al policeman.
lien York ‘
Says Whitman Liked Becker.
“The son heard his father talk of
Becker, and when he became District
Attorney and had any. warrants to
some which required special talents
very often he would specially rednest
the Police Commissioner to assign
Becker to the work He always re'
membered the fine' policeman in
whom his father was so much inter-
ested.
T“rind I'll say this for Becker; he
While Charles Becker‘s attorneys
were. searching last night for a num
,ber of Tenderloin gamblers; who they
believe subscribed to a fund to bribe
Herman RoseAAtlAal from making his
graft and gambling revelations to
District sAttorney Whitman, Baldl
Jack Rose, chief of the witnesses:
ngainit Becker, was undergoing a
.iwo hour cross- examination at the
.hands of a group of newspaper men.
Suave and imperttn'able as ever, as first class shape.
carefullA dressed, as smooth in man- "When I gave myself up I spent
her and as unrub‘ied oveA probing the afternoon at Police Headquarters
Questions, the shiny headed ex-Iclearin'g Becker;
gambler answered all the statements‘to the District Attorney’s office. and
of Becker reflecting on'him, explain-i the first thing I said was that Booker
ed‘his motives, laid- bare his .emotions;had nothing to do with Rosenthli‘i’s
and justified his actions, all without'murder. M1. Whitman said he. has
raising his deep voice once. 0nly~very glad to hoax-that. and he said it
it Single Um? did he 1058 a Arms of sincerely. Months later I learned the
his composure, and that was when reason, and all the way through he
Bernard H..Sandler, his attorney. injwas struggling betwconIAduty and son.
whose office the interview was held timent. But when.the stuff began to
in New York, asked Jack to turn on pile in against pecker behalf to be-
tlAe electric fan to lower the tem- Aieve him guilty ‘
parature. “Becker in Ihis’etatement has seen
_ ‘i’I‘urn on “the electric switch. All to ignore the titty odd Avitnéhses
Jack," said Sandler. against him; has“ ignored the fact
Rose dropped his eyes andIclench-
ed his list. then rose quietly from his
seat, turned inrthe fan. and r’esumed
hingeven tonal! douversaifianw :3 has made‘me the issue; if it is a case
“How will yt‘ik‘ feel nah Wednes- of me or Beckie? telling the ’truth, I
day?" Rose was ‘PSkea earl in the must answer his‘state out
I,” ”III "His IstltIemeentI shd‘g)
that the Court of Appeals pointed out
that Plltt and Jimmy Marshall were
the chief witnesses in the case. He
interview. AVA-‘5 s that its is
“I'll be suffering the tortures of the full of hatred toward me, and from
damned." he 53m solemnly_ “All what i have read of it‘ i am thankful
I had the opportunity to become
witness for the State.
alone I’ll be thinking the whole thing
dyer. I feel pity for Becker, but what
can I do? I feel remorse and regrets
over the whole case: a good deal'
more, remorse and regretIs than Bec-
ker would feel if he sent me there."
“Becker will never confess." he
said in answer to another question;
“The. one person that Becker. caresl
about is Mrs. Becker, and that is.
why he can’t confess. He wants to
protect her from a knowledge of his
shame."
Gives New Details.
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defend him," said Rose, “but the cry
a clergyman, the Rev. John Seymofir.
always did his work for Whitman in;
then I was brought;
with Jerome and Hart. after the mar?
'der.‘ Think of the .TIudainke attitude
of the man; there was I, an accom-
Mice with him in the murder, at
Poilok’s twine, almost dead and suf~
of‘tbo damned.
and at that moment bewas in the
Bar Association'telling Hart and Jer-
ome that I would givesup my mother
and was plotting to throw me to the
wolves
“If he had succeeded I would hays
had no powerful friends to help me,
and the grass would be growing over
my grave now. "
Wasn’t n Stool Pigeon.
“Becker says that l was his stool
pigeoriaud not his collector. Three
years ago I would have felt hurt at
such a statement, because it would
have injured my social standing, but
now I think a stool pigeon is better
than a collector for he aids in the
enforcement of the law: But would
a stool pigeon have met Becker an
average of five times a week and
would our families have been ex-'
changing visits?
“It is easy to write a statement and(
send it out, but I had to submit tol
three crossexaminations on my story,
and Becker never even had a public!
direct examination. I wish some
legal proceeding could be brought
that would take me and Becker and‘
eAerybody connected with the case,
land question us to find outgwheAe isP
lthe frameup and where is the truth.
I would welcome that more than any
ithlng else on earth, because it would
allay all this suspicion and doubt "
Bald Jack said that Becker met. Big
Tim Sullivan the Sunday night before
[the murder just about as Harry Apol-
baum has told it. Rose had been to
the Sam Paul outing: when he re-
turned he called up Becker and told
him that he had notAtound any senti-
ment among the gamblers at-the out~
ing to back up Rosenthal’s forthcomI-
lng revelations. Later Jack metgApol-
beam in Luchow's restaurant; apol-
bnum said he must see Becker at
once. So Rose. after telephoning to
Becker. went with Apelbsum to-Beou
ker‘s house, got Becker, and drove
back to Big Tim's onion. Rose and
Apelbaum waited in the automobile
while Becker and Big-Tim talked
things over. Rose denied he had geld
than that Rosent‘hat "ought to be
“crooked." But he did say that he
hoped Big ’l‘im would straighten mat
tors out.
IIi‘o toltl again how he had collected
$50,000 for Becker In nine months
from gambling houses. At first Rose
did this on a 25 per cent. basis.,but
later he said, “Becker got so cheap he
wanted" to do the collecting himself
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l
.and Big Tim said that Rosenthal was
Beers Meat and Provision
' Company
Norwalk Darien
He asserted truth ofall his testi-
mony, and added other Incidents
which have never been told.
The search for the gamblers in the
last minute attempts to save Becker’s
life was the result of a conference
in the 031cc of W. Bourke Cockran
chief or Becker's counsel, at which
the. participants were Mr Cochran,
Father Curry, Becker’s priest: John
and Jackson Becker, Becker's broth~
eke; Clark L. Jordan, an attorney who
shares an office with Harry Apel-
bium. Big Tim Sullivan’s former
secretary, and Van O'Farrell a pri- .
-vaIte detective.
They were there to discuss the pos-
sibllity of getting Fat Al Levy, Denny
zwyfox, known as Denny Siyfox, -
John Langerman, known as Dollar,
John; Fat Moe Brown and ra’ man-
known as Slots, who was formerly
emploA ed in Beansy Rosenfeld’s gam-
bling house, to aid Becker.“ ' ' A
This is the story it is hoped they,
will corroborate. Big Tim Sullivan.’
in his worry over Rosenthal’s prom-,-
ised reAelations, told Jack Rose it
would be a good thing if ~Rosenthai
could be induced to go to Paris until
the whole thing was forgotten. and
Rose, a shrewd business mat}. sawm
chance to make some money -out of"
the situation So he went around
among the gamblers to raise a $10,000
inn the public the
Shoulder Steak
Hamburg Steak
Pot Roast I
Round Steak,
1293 of lsiunb’
- an Lamb Chm
Ioin rams Chops
Shoulderoi lamb ..
Veal Chops
Veal Citilets
Beet liver.
'i"
He raised $5, 000 among “the gum-
Innis oil’ork ..
bar contributed another $1,000.01;
Monday night four hours before the
murder, Rose met Rosenthal in front
of the Hippodrome. and offered him
. M36000 Rosenthal remsed to so
(Away for less than $15, 000, which was
,.-..-e1'
. uc lb.
-- - lie lb.
Sperry & ma sonnets
Extra Specials
pron SATURDAY
I We are able to duplicate many of our
prices oi a week ”ago, and We are give.
benefit
'ue‘tbl”
oi
more than Rose could get. Then Rose
went over to Webber’s I tiling“
house and consummated txejiinnrder
{thief-paying \the gunmen upooxrdr'
their work and putting 16,000 . in' bi!
prices. 45?
All kinds oinative vegetables I?
. all; T“ Ms»
Rose kept Big Tim out it the can
because seamendly feeling for Iihn, '
he said, and because there was" no
occasion to bring him in. He repeat-
ed that Rofntgnl had met Becker
two months before the Elks ball on ‘
q, and said that alter- ~
ward 30mm had offered Booker . .
Niéw Year’s EA
one-quarter interest in his gambling
housefor 35;,600. Becker told Rose of
meeting Big Tim Sullivan, he said,
his friend and any favor that Becker
could do would be regarded as a per
sonal faAor by Big Tim,
to see. Waldo the night“ that Becker
met him “to boost" Becker to Waldo.
pecker assigned one of his detectives
to trail Big Tim that night to‘ s‘é’e‘fif
Big Tim did call on Waldo. The visit
was made at W'aldos home in
Carlton Apartments.
This is Rese's version of the first
time he met Becker:
"Becker had raided a gambling
house in Which I was interested, and
the next morning I went to him out-
side court introduced myself, and be-
gan to talk shop " I
“What do you mean by that?"
was asked.
“i asked him how much it would
cost to turn my men out. " said Rose.
‘Becker told me he wasn't taking
money from every Tom, Dick and
Harry,
body. I knew Billv Funston at P0-
liee Headquarters, although I neveri'“
he
said yes, and Becker told me he‘
would turn my men out for 8200. I
gave it to him in a saloon opposite
court"
Rose. said he had suggested to
Becker tliat RosenIflAal wouldostop his
squealing for money. "
"Give that guy any of my money,"
exclaimed Becker in high scorn. “and
then have others follow his example!
'1‘th only way. with him is Ito croak
him and let every one know we
croaked hitn, and there'll be no more
squealing on me." I
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QUICK RESPONSE.
ller Fathcr~You've been calling on
my danghter 'for some
..man “’lAy don't you comc'down to
business? .I
Sailor—73ft!” well!
you Isolnglto leave her?
How much are
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NEEDS PROMPT LY.
to the city.
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_:I«jree Douay. ..
the A
and asked me if I knew my I I
had any dealings with him. He had ‘
met me years before when l was run- ~_
him: a baseball team. So Decker ask-I . ,
ed I‘unston if he knew me; Funstoni . ,
time, young :1
. llgion. " ..
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transmitters. _
‘7 Shoulder Steak
Rose said that-Tim had promised. .,
Fore Quarter Lamb
I Hamburg Steak 14¢ lb.
Round Steak 24¢ 1b.
Sirloin Steak 26¢ lb.
Portcrhouse Steak 28¢ lb.
Rib Lamb Chops 20¢ lb.
Native Fowl. 23c lb.
Beef~ Liver . .
Pork Roast ...... 16¢ lb.
Loin Lamb fChops 25¢lb
Lamb Stcw . . . . . 10¢ lb.
10¢ lbe
Rib Roast Beef
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14¢ to 22¢ lb.
Pot Roast Beef
Rump Corned Beef 16¢ lb
Smoked Shoulders 13¢ lb.
10¢ to 20¢ Ab ;;
atc Corned Beef 10¢;lII
Sweet Corn 25c doz.
Carrots . ...... . . 4c bunch
Plums 10c doz.
, Squash ac lb.
New Potatoes 18c pk.
Green Onions . . .. 4c bunch
ala'p’n'- -’-'-'-’a/' a'a
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‘Tomatoes ......I...
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lIZIIuSkPMeIOIIS .. I766, Busch Beets 4c1b
gg lant .. 12c 15¢ each . . - ‘- .
Lettuce ........I..5cbcad £63:IICSI'I""'2qm .
Peppers zoo dos. IabAage 5c, 12:: h , -
\Vatermelons .... 40c Pmcs ----- 1°C «dim
roc‘ lb.
DANBURY MAN ASKS FOR Dl-
VORCE; WANTS CHILD ALSO
James S. Richards of Danbury, to-
day filed a suit for divorce in the
Civil Superior Court against Julia M.
Richard's, of Katonah, N. Y., alleging
desertion on July 7, 1912. The defend-
ant’s maiden name was Shack, and
she married the petitioner on June
27, 1904. The father asks for the Cut!-
tody of an eight-year-old child.
NEGRO PHILOSOPHY.
An old colored mm remarked with
sigh the other day as he was real-
ing up his line; “Ev'buddy dst goes
.tishln' don't ketch fish no And’ din
ev'buddy dot goes to Eburch sits rc-
., So. Norwalk
it: is llnI-I
in the best qualities.
Hie mink-cs regular trws
Phone 1345,‘
In huying'our ham our pa.
fir’ons stake no mistake. They
get the best the market affords
*etthoiowestngnm.
All“: with handouts
good
New his when bought km.
. Oenuine Sjr'mg Lamb.
mtmamoups;
69 No. Main Sf.
Freshliillodllroilers
[Choice young native Fowls
. Milk Fed Roasting Chickens
a’jltoast native veal
Breast Veal
; Lens of Veal
is Fore Quarter sauna lamb
Spring Lamb Chops, Shoulder
Lamb for slewing
Legs of genuine spring
Blade kib‘ Roast beet
Hamburg Steak
Lj: beau plate corned beef
Full Lure of Groceries,’ II ,
' Ward’s Bread and Cake
In 1; A s»:
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IFancv New*Potat:oes A. . . a; .'
Califorrfi‘a; Melons . . . ‘. . . , I.II'.‘ .
Hot H‘ol’xéc Tomatoes, Cuc ' ‘ '
”.Etirn.
Grape Fruity Oranges}; Berries
Native- Calves Liver.
Home Dressed Veal
Sweetbreads.
Native Chickens, Fowls and
Broilers.
Pressed Corn Beef
Strictly Fresh Eggs I3Ioc ,.
. . i 10c l
lamb
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Corn Fed ~ BIIeef.
All Kinds of CannedIIMe
G. M. Butter
Everything in - r'F
Vegetables. ,.
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