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j bi Circulation Books by The Preas Publishing ‘New York World), PRIOE ONE CENT. ar eae = = HOW ROSE CONFESSED — TOLD IN GRAPHIC STORY BY GAMBLER'S COUNSEL 4o———__—-- Open to All. 7 | NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY “30, FOSDIGK QUITS. AS CITY'S CHIEF | BY SEA RACING: GRAFT HUNTER} —ISMAY ABSOLVED a Tells Gaynor He Has a Fine Chance to Go Into Private Belief He Had Been ‘Framed’ and Deserted by Business, Friends With Thought of Wife and Babies Made Him Resolve Not to Be Goat. MAYOR — REGRETS _ IT. The extraordinary haste of Becker's indictment and tmprisonment last Might was inspired by the fears of District-Attorney Whitman that the Gleutenant might either do haem to himself of flee when he became fully Cognizant of the details of the confessions of Rose, Webber and Vallon. This information was strengthened by Rose's judgment of what Becker fight do when driven to the wall. ‘The entry of Max D. Fmt the Bp Rove, on the wlike ot ihe wind, James| LAWYER WHO CAUSED ‘M, Sullivan, Rose's friend of years and ROSE TO TELL STORY OF ROSENTHAL’S KILLING. bis only confidant since his arrest, had @xpected just such a turn, Since last Friday he had held Rose ready to make @ clean breast to the District-Attornay. | He and M Whitman only awalted a favorable turn to wheel Rose into ac- |. The news of Stcuer's engagement dehalf of Webber and Vallon pointed jo one thing in Sullivan's mind and that was that Rose wan to be made the “wo: | Without hesitancy Sultvan demanded) that Rore be herrd at once. The Dis-| tricteAttorney hhd Mr, Steuer and his cilents apprised of Rosé’s intentions. | Then came a scramble to get from! under. Webber und Vallon hurriedly ent word th Mayor's off Commnise! letter of jen the office, opting Mr the Mayor fon of t Vosd: sed him to help hi himself for the duttes van had saved hin thought was fe etated by Mr. est beltef in Mr, Whitman's clemency. MEN IN HIGH PLACES UNEASY, HE SAYS. “Z am not disposed to discuss the far-reaching charnoter of Jack Rose's testimony,” said Mr. Sulll- van te-dey “I think that Mr. ‘Whitman is the man who to indioate what he expects ao- complish with the material he has. 3 am free to say, however, that more than one gentleman in the Polfce Department in high places are bearing their honors extreme- ning. that am g with @ great deal warly in view of time to certain ¢ ing |THESUEEIVAN hav MAYOROK'S WALDD = SES NO REASON TO CONDE HIM. Not to Be Wondered At That : ‘ tioned by losures brings e courts will be buey."* reveal the | mes of the three inspectors and one civilian attache of the Commistioner's gffice who are alleged to have shared ‘im tho graft, He declined to do #0, nay> ME that v0 far the “identity of these gentlemen rests in the relations be- tween counsei and client.” Their names, Rie oaid, have not been oMcially sub- mitted to the Grand Jury, neither are nde i ne they incorporated in the confessions #0 One Under Him Has far made by Rose, Webber and Vailon. aceive j confessions, by the way, Mr, Deceived Him. stated, are oral. | | ‘The lawyer would not pretend to say | Sa ff the names of the four men, whom | fe characterized as ‘The Big Four,” end the mame of another man formeriy Bolding @ distinguished office in the city would be officially given to the Grand Bury to-dey. He declared that the rami- Jul GAYNOR ACCEPTS HIS RESIG- NATION WITH REGRET, The De Mayor wrote roMr i na the Gaynor | ewer to a question de the following statement {sb hereto thing will that all of those concerned im tie murder will be convieted. “Mo, str, do not condemn mr. ‘Waldo. He has done faitifnl ana good work in office, and will con- (Continued on vows | Page) NATIONAL LEAGUE. insugurated, w? cont | Outgoing Official Has Just Reported How Police Door- man Paid for Legislation. Right on top of the amazing revela- tions that have followed in the wake of the Rosenthal murder came the an- nouncement this afternon that Commis. sioner of Accounts Raymond B, Fosdice 1 ent his resignation to the Mayor {and that it had been accepted, Rumors were rife that the Mayor had recently expressed a desire for Mr. Foss dick's resignation, but every one in the ¢ and In the Departmsnt of the Commissioners of Accounts jared that there was no truth {n tt rary, the exisied vetween the stated in his yesterday rived by the “May or tonne) that opportunity prompted him to ck's resignation, et of » the M my prem uctan ich ft Ist dealing teh Th Honor = follow ally Lu of e < in process of over the and asked GIVES UP OFFICE WITH “MUCH RELUCTANCE, ayor was to say ent work partic- a successful ructive plans, will take ration to to our fficlency with va- ope to be before the ¢]the suse TITANIC SUNK eee ‘PAGES __ PRICE ONE ONE ORNT. : MORE THAN H HALF MILLION | YEARLY GRAFT TO BECKER Capt. Smith Not Fetieed by Jack Rose Declares His Own Collections Were $600,000 a Year and Were Shared by Five Higher Up Than the Raider, In- Orders and Speed of the Liner Was Too Great. BRITISH BOARD FINDS. White Star Line Head Was Not Bound to Stick to Steamer Californian Blamed. LONDON, July %.—The judgment of the British Board of Trade Court of In- auiry into the disaster to the White Star liner Titantc which sank tn mid- ocean with 1,517 souls after collision with an iceberg on April 14, was pro- nounced to-day by Lord Mersey, the presiding judge, twfore a large aydience. The Court finds that the collision of th 'Y “Uc with the iceberg was due to. exe ‘ve specd at which the ship was navigated. The report also says tHat & proper watch wan not kept, that the ship's boats were properly lowered, but thet arrangements for manning them wero insuMficient, that the Leyland liner Call- fornia might have reached the Titanic if she had attempted to do so, that the track followed was reasonably safe with proper vigilance, and that there was no discrimination against third<class passengers in the saving of life. ‘The Gourt of Inquiry exonerates J. Bruce Ismay, Chairman and Managin: Director of the White @ter Line, and Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, one of the passengers, from any charges of im- proper conduct. Lord Mersey said it was not the business of the Court to inquire int attack on the monal conduot of $+ Cosmo Duff-Gordon and J. Brace Is- may, but silence on the part of the Court might be misunderstood, He continued: “The ve! ross charge againet Sir, Cosmo Du Jon that he bribed the boatman to row away from drowning people is untoun 1 do not believe the men in t at were deterred from making nm attemp to rescue otners by any of Sir Cosmo Duff- ame time, L think raged the men to return Titanic had founded they would have mai an effort to de so, und could have saved som lives. ISMAY UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO REMAIN ABOARD. “The attack on Ismay," con- eluded the ved itself inte upying the pos! of the line, pa nd Jing the Wireless despatoh re roard Titanio giving the e was in the vicinity # master of a ment and dicted as Director of the Murder of Gambler Rosenthal—_Names Three Uniformed Police, a Civilian and a Man Powerful With Administration. GIVES LIST OF GAMBLERS WHO PAID TRIBUTE, IN HIS SUPPLEMENTARY CONFESSION Gunmen Who Murdered Rosenthal Got No Pay, but Feared Betker’s Power to Sent“Ftteni ‘to Prison for Other Crimes— Sullivan Volunteers Confession That His Lawyer Says Will Be Startling. Graft collected from gamblers and turned over to Lieut. Charles Becker amounted to $600,- 000 a year, according to the confession of ‘Jack Rose” to District-Attorney Whitman. Rose says he was Becker's collector of tribute from gambling houses in fhe Tenderloin and in other parts of the city. This immense sum of money, Rose said, he turned over to Becker. He worked on commission. Where the money went after Becker got his hands on it Rose professes not to know, but he has told that Becker said it went to four others in Headquarters and one outsider. Rose is now engaged, with the assistance of memoranda which has been procured from his home by the District-Attorney's detectives, in tabulating a list of his collections as he made them month after month for Becker. The tabulation is to be detailed, giving the names of contributors and the location of their places of business. The District-Attorney was staggered when he heard the figures mentioned by Rose, but the baldheaded gambler assured him that the estimate was not exaggerated. Rose announced this afternoon before his transfer to the West Side prison that he would be able to prepare a statement establishing his figures as correct. Confession of the Gamblers Leads to Officials Higher Up The assassination of Herman Rosenthal, the gambler, characterized; by Mayor Gaynor as a “miserable outlaw,” bids fair to serve as the opening wedge to a sensational revelation of corruption in the Police “Jack Rose,” “Bridgie” Webber and Department. The confession of -| Harry Vallon clears up the aciual murder to the stage where all that remains is to arrest the three assassins still at large—Whitey” Lewis, “Lefty Louie” and “Gyp the Blood.” Now comes the task of delving into the assertions made by Rose and his fellow conspirators that gam- \)pling houses flourished by police connivance bought wiih graft money, 41 From the statements they have made to the District-Attorney suspicion officials the blackmail collected by Becker from gambling houses, The im formation on this score, reached Rose, Webber and Vallon through Becker. But the three informants of the District-Attorney gave the names of men who, they said, would be able to deliver addi- tional evidence in that connection, tron SEEK “ HiGHER UPS” THAT NERVED BECKER. Becker's authority over gamblers and gang men appears to have been absolute, By representing that he was in position to cover up anything at Headquarters through his connections with high otticials he inspired in the underworld in his power and fear of his however, mtidence at NEW Vi YORK. tinue to do so, That ome under directs itself to three of the Police Department who wear the hy thal led 7 ' = aim him . . [Streng hat led even to the commission o1 urder, CAGO— hae despived him is Sothing to gold insignia of high rank, another man not connected with the uni- ane . ot Gh MEE ong oo 0130 condemn Bim for, What has sftes 1 : : As the case unwinds its folds it will be found, if the statements of Dappened to others and will con- formed force, and an outsider who was formerly connected with the A 2 is ‘ iy 100 tinue to happen.” | Gayn { TBE Rose and Webber stand up, that the four men who killed Rosenthal After repeatedly refusing to discuss WS tne | Gaynor aaministravios a = ; 5 * ae ——— the latest developments in the rather than The association of the men mentiened|by the gamblers in the plot were not paid any large amount of money for the crime, The tale that AT BROOKLYN, thal case Police Commissioner W F naan tare 7 f 2 ; + as much as $2,000 was paid is denied by the men who are alleged to Ginnie 1 ae re consented to make o statement this eer Praeeee to kill Rosenthal is not directly charged. They put the instigation of ) aid it. Th flelta of gangster bs dt di READE Oe Sony ONe ‘ fat ,. {have ‘ e quartette of gangsters moved to m inspi pee HBL i-t Re ee ll deeastaeat ie a } not the murder plan directly up to Becker. But the District-Attorney is " 4 . ly ; he ka i k id rm er were inspired - nm une . nos entirely, it is said, by fear of what Becker o i 001021 - vestigated the more confdencs the have woe We tot has in trying to find out how much these alleged associates of Becker knew sath med > eee ecker could do to them if they pre public will har its efficiency . nae jfailed to obey orders, Each of them had blood on his hands and each aud honesty. It cannot ansnme the fe an caus ha about the murder conspiracy Wn determination to id . pat . . AMERICAN LEAGUE. REL TEA EA ALAN Y es to the bottom in his investigation has made of Police Headqua tere Hitt been engaged in the commission of crimes for which no punishment onLaNDiRs= ls, axe are Avautth a most uncomforlable plice tor seriain “police officials, While the had been meted out. SRF mas ana ie 4 w-The Britis ; ‘ (yao rary r) rs ‘ t—s Amiuith, denied +A names of the five mentioned by Rose and Webber and Vallon have! All they got, if the information given the District-Attorney is correct, : 1, LOUIS~ i Feet niet i Wort Travel Hulee sella eta ee yhoom not been made public they are common property in police circles. was a few handouts, as it were, of five, ten or twenty dollar bills, This r 2 hae BS Bi i tains ot Path) (Continued on Second Page) a measure dor a single tax on ‘aad | According to the story told by the gamblers, these tive shared in| was partly “booze money” and partly “getaway money.” The fu, ‘ ees ’ ‘ J cere an oniemmen ae @owcgset ree 8 hong seeder sfeereown > ether a teers noe pene kote eprom . cin —napnetnheange-inipnnis ee es ce a a nee Pas 4 ~~ + - - - a t meng i ' oo er mm noe ammeienate ae : 25!