The evening world. Newspaper, August 9, 1912, Page 2

aap THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1912. BECKER’S ALLEGED GRAFT HOARD TRACED TO jiitle army of detectives out looking for tlh sidheaded gambler. A confession from Becker {s among yeaidiities, It is @ fact that the ‘Attorney has been approached tatively—and eounded out on his 1 in respect of taking a confes- * from the indleted Lieutenant. Mr. Whitman willing to accept the ald of Ne ker only on condition that Recker will tell all he knows and that his as- tletance will bring to tieht the men Dinher up the now established pay- f graft by gamblers to members te Police Department. On’ three or four different occasions M Whitman has expressed his views to Becker's standing. Summarized, ete is th position of the Distric. Atwocuey WHITMAN “HOPES” BECKER WILL TELL ALL. cher is charged with inetigatin the murder of Herman Rosenthal. Ie is accused of superintending the erm- plo) vent of the yur des ate vung Tho. oifense charged against Becker fs of Abe most serious nat 1 could not sa. hand, that 1 could con tides offering him immunity, even t fh he should volunteer to ald th ¥ 1 have pes that Becker will find tha: tt ds to his interest the whole truth, 1 he shou h aiention to m ! it thik over the situation. ‘Murder ls a crime more Diackmall. But in this case more bivokunall is involved, We @ in & post tion, 1 think, to break up ke treachétouy and demorallz jance hetwoen certain men in the Police De- ent and lawbreakers At to the community of the of suc an alllance would out the infliction of the unishment Dp) law (upon a tourde’ If Be 1 aid ¢ in baring the conne the ¢ Department and the conduct g houses and places of evil + pute 1 might ask some clemency for fim, for he would undoubtedly do the jeople of New York a great and lasting | ¢ ebrvice. At the thme of Becker's arrest, The Evening World said that Jolin W. Hart, counsel for the acused policeman, had maile vetled overtures to the District> Attorney concerning the possibitity that ‘Becker might be of aid to the pros ten in un _preliminary wtage. M'INTYRE, SHARP BARGAINER, TWICE SEES WHITMAN. John F, Melntyre, the recently re- tained counsel in chief for Becker, has had two conferences with Mr. Whitman, Mr. McIntyre is a veteran in the prac- fice of criminal law. He is @ sharp) dargainer, and it might be that Mr. McIntyre would consider turning his _glient over to the District-Attorney In return’ Or @ promise of some definite punishment in the way of a term of jm- prisonment. } After the Grand Jury adjourned yes: ferday Mr. Whitman learned that {Beckers wife, during the month of 1912, made four deposits in the Side Savings Bank amounting to $3,000, the Umit allowed by savings | banks on an individual deposit, He also learned that $12,000 additional was de Posited at about the same time to Becker's credit in four other savings banks in this city. Mr. Whitman also has information of eposits made by Beeker, under an alas, in savings banks in New Jersey and Connecticut, Arrangements have ‘been made for securing a record of all these deposits. And savings banks, not | Deing numerous enough to hold all of Becker's pickings, the Heutenant car- vied an account In a brokerage office, ‘ccording to reports made to Mr. Whit unt will soon Mf. Whitman has evidence that the tide of Becker's prosperity was | ick in March, April and May of this ear, Money came to him so fast he as hard put to dispose of it, That Cleaned up close to $90,000 in graft | @uring these montis is not considered uniikely, OF GRAFT MONEY. The revelations concernlug Becker ank deposits are confirmatory of Her- man Rosenthal's statements, Kowenthi told the District-Attorney how Becker's | collections climbed as the winter of J/ughes, 194, waned and spring of Wi set in, 1t is not known whether Mr, Whitman | has the information, but Rosenthal, fow dpys before he was kil ments of from $00 to $00 at a time. Jt Was not until Rosenthal needed 81, Rosenth Forty-fifth street gambling hous: bank accounts of two police insp whose names have been mentioned tr connection with the Ito The records of the ac taken, ang It ts not fidence tg say that they show most amazing, prosperity the part of the two pollce oMciais. The time ts not | ripe for bringing out this evidence wever, as other bank vestigated. LOOKED FoR. ntly expected in the I coffee that the next bi Te ie cont trtet-\ttorney’ 1 from Jacob Reich, alias Ja an, Who was transferred to the Sido Prison yesterday from th bs, New and important eviden directly cunnocting Heich with the mur- der has been discovered. Giovani Stanich, a witness produced unexpectedly before the Grand Jury y terday, who saw ihe murder of Rosen thal, Js prepared to swear that was. the first per to touch Unal's body afte on jhe midewain was in the L and the natu Vevyed wo Reich. torday. pdeibes M, Sullivan, gounsel fo; irene at the District-Attorney’s office, Sullivan was bubbling over with excites “T have good news from the hove something big to break b; “Harry Vailon and Jack Sullivan had Vallon sought to Impress on Sullivan the importance _ While Sullivan did not admit ments, he undoubtedly was.” WHITMAN HAS EVIDENCE ro | CHARGE RGICH WITH MURDER. , antcly and Louis | “ District-attorney | Whitman is In positon to ask the rder in the firat de the killing of and Sullivan, n who have al- | |SOME KEPT A RECORD. cooped up with three m y for thought before that time. van hal he eked the pubtishe! Chairman of the Committee né that Harry given damaging yes were clear orve WAS apparently as strong “L want It to be understood once and . for the simple reason i to confess, That proven very clearly at the proj when I have my day In court. © than now, and anyone ° privilege of entering the! nbs and seeing me will realize that.” » Harry Grimth, | oenaed to ADp- she had brought too nuch notoriety on the place. a witness for and a men supposed to have been Recker in con- nce on the sidewalk of Forty-second near the restaurant, more than an hour after Rosenthal w Her testimony ts important, in that {t confirms Tor vering police graft, These | negotiations did note extend beyond. the | asertion tha: hurried downtown from his home when notified of the killing, mot Rose and Webber in Forty-second street and ordered W derers $1,000 | was before Becker went to the West Forty-sevefth street ation, it ia as . Immediately {1 calling on Griffith to appear before the Grand Jury on Tuesday. the first report that has reached the District-Attorney's office of apparent attempts to intimidate witnesses for the people in the Becker case. Because of his experience with the Lexow and Mazet ed @ subpoena, This is not investigations, of the present proceeding in ite relation to police graft ts of tn- He regards the Rosenthal case at last, to @ disclosure in the Police Depart- PROVED METHODS. “The Lexow and Mazet investigators,” “undertook « culean task, They were badly handl- This proceeding, on the con- Here wo are not trary, ts very simple. afraid of any writs of hadeas corpus, "The System,’ as rev rent investigation js about the same as ’ as revealed by the Lexow I mean by that that the body i# there, but the heads, however, Jed in the cure investigation. “Of course, with the progress of timo there have been |The fake raids, In the Lexow da improvements, for instance, are new, they hadn't thought of framing up evidence for @ rald and | then bringing the gamble: —>—_ ENTHAL TOLD OF STREAM | INSPECTOR HUGHES IN CRITICAL CONDITION, RECOVERY 1S DOUBTED |again. That in of Inspector Edward the Detective aun at Headquarters und now con-| Of the investigation as lesal ad fined at his home, No, 400 Fourth atr Hines contracted dur- | his search in the Catskills for the | told @ fwlead that Necker was so fush tn thé bewinning of the year that ho loaned him (Rosenthal $000 tn inetal- indlontions of pleuro-pasumonia , and the disease was by a weakening of the ch functions. the Inspector's Fawards and Dr, the latter a police surgeon, | head | Widow sick man all | one loan that Becker, according to took @ mortgage on the ne District-Attorney has located the tors surgeon of the Pollce Department, worked over the thal case, | The fatling heart action and ve been ® grave fears for the In- y conditions were slightly three physicians sata cunts are} oo BR KDOWN BY SULLIVAN 18 DECIDES $5,000 ENOUGH FOR NEW HILLTOP PITCHER. pment in the ease will be a con- vier fell dead ya hands hin evidence was con- from holding a iy “Jack Rose, after a visit (his client at the West Wide Frisun this morning, called id for move than $5,000, | GAMBLERS OFFER PROOF OF GRAFT. | = TO THE ALDERMEN, Couldn’t ty Extortionate| Rates and Were Driven Out of Business. Says Special Counsel Will Be Selected Next Week. Gambier who have been driven o could not or would not submit to police graft or who offended police powers have volun- ecause the | tecrad to become witnentes before the| | Aldermanic committee which ts to Ine! vestigate police graft. These offers have been made in letters to members of the | committee, who transferred them to} jChairman [f. 1 Curran. Similar offers GIRL LOSES HER JOB FOR TESTI-| fran, FYING, SHE DECLARES. District-Attorney Moss wan fied to-day by Flarriet Lund that | had been discharged from the pow + of Drake's restau: | former keepers of disorderly houses who had dealings with the Police have alsa been received, The committeemen refused to-day to make public the names of the writers) of the letters, but called upon to t said he was a could not afford to pay the police the id they would be high amount of protection money de- | manded, and was subsequently driven | out of business, wrote that he had | dealings with a certain Inspector now on the force and that he has in his) possession memoranda in book form, showing just how much was asked for protection. This book was kept for the satisfaction of a partner, who is said to be willing, to corroborate the statements of the writer. BELIEVE THE CHARGES OF GRAFT ARE TRU The members of the committ oay they have no reason to believe the accusations are not true, as the letter bears many marks or truthfuln Monday or Tuesday at the latest the members of the investigating committee will have a conference. All the nine members have mised to name of the special counsel to the com- mittee will be decided upon and made known, The conference will be secret, but other meetings of the committee— when witnesses are called to the stand —wit be held in public. The first attend, At the conferende ¢! testimony will be taken on Aug. 20, when the Mayor, Police Commiasioner Waldo and other official called to the witness chair. Alderman Curran, Chairman of the committee, sald to-day that while scor of names of eminent lawyers had been presented, the list had now been re- duced to about twelve, He declined to ive the names, but it is known that among them are Samuel Untermyer John Purroy Mitchel, James W, Os- borne, Magistrate Corrigan, who {s still at dagger-points with Mayor Gaynor; George Gordon Battle and ex-Gov, Frank Black, NO OUTSIDE INFLUENCE WILL BE TOLERATED. “We propose to make @ selection of counsel without the slighte: Suiside influence," said C! do not want—nor w! will be We tolerate—any guch influence either in the beginning or during the Investigation. The Lexow investigation uncovered @ sink of in- fquity, but the cover was put back gation did not rem- edy things. We intend to find out just how wraft payments are mad nd where these payments go eventually. We are going to probe deeply. Then we are going to remove the canker. It 1s a big task, Much will depend upon the character of counsel to be retained, for we must have @ man whe will do @ good and thorough job.” Corporation Counsel Watson is pre- paring his forces that he may take hold the Hoard of Aldermen. He will | two of his assistants to be at his elbow and tn consultation with him through: out the investigation, Mr. Watson sald y he Was going to conduct an ag- ive investigation from the outset | and would call to the witness stand any | man who js able to give information or who may be accused, ——— |RUBBER GAS TUBES BRING DEATH TO TWO. Attires Herself in Mourn. ing Garb; Tailor Found Lying on Cutting Table. Two Willlamsburg people, a man and] |a woman, ted rubber tubes in mouths before turning on the & bie oh el | make sure of death, Both succaeded, n& Very dangerous) Mrs, Kate Muelhauser, aged Afty-four, ‘one by the death of all her near relatives within the past few months, attired herself yesterday in her widow's garb and went to the Lutheran Ceme- tery, where she placed flowers on the left graves of those for whom she mourned returned to her home at No, 2 rod street, Williamsbur and weated Nerself in a rocking chair, Then whe tied @ rubber tube from a near-b, gas jet int mouth and tur ny was found to by Pati bch ‘of the Hawoury ea not marry, Tf the antiemuptial avenue station, Who was sumooned by | S&reement could be broken or the will nelghborw. f Knocked out, then Mps, Astor David Greensverg, aged fortyefve, a | Would et one-third of the Astor estate, coat presser in the ng estab! which ix Vurlously estimated at from | ment of Louis Landisinan, at No, 8 | $109,000,000 to §150,000,000, Throop avenue. hid himself in the | Aw the will stands the bulk of Col the night watchman, Samuel Be Vinvent Aste found Greensbers’s body lyin cutting (Able, @ Bas tube ted into mouth and the gas turned on full, DMINK EL-BART DRY i ‘ “Weed as eval as 8 cucumber,’ } { tify. One man, who| mbler and declared he | jm | was a mt Inspector in Charge of Detectives Reported Dying of Pneumonia Pra: ooo WH COL. ASTOR WIDOW MAY FIGHT WILL AFTERHERSBATH, NBROIKLYN HOME (Continued from First Pi: my opinion that under no circumstances @nd under no conditions will there be any contest for it has so far never en- tered my daughter's lead to start such proceedings, There, now, I have been as frank as I can possibly be, “If ever there was a woman who tried to avold notoriety !t has been Mrs, Astor, Her conduct has been magnif- cent. The crowds around the house up- town are only an evidence of the out-! Tageous conditions which exist in this city, The police say that they can | drive the curious persons away from) only that portion of the sidewalk in front of the Astor mansion, We simply have to bear with conditions as they are.” CONSULTS WITH CLERK OF DAUGHTER'S ATTORNEY. Mr. Force was in conference to-day with Ralph ©, Willgus, confidential clerk to Judge Gildersieeve, It was belleved the subject under discussion was the ro cent crash into the Astor mansion of the Fifth avenue bus, which was wit nessed from an upper window by Mrs. Astor herself, Mra, Astor will have a claim for damages against the company as the owner of the Astor mansion, Judge Gildersleeve is sald to be on a vacation in New Hampshire. If the Astor will can t ox 1 hetr will receive more, instead of the $3,000,000 Col, Astor provided for posthumous heir, It js reported that should action bé | taken to contest the will Judge Gilder- sleeve will dave associated with him Congressman Martin W, Littleton and Judge Morgan J. O'Brien. Judges Gildersiceve. = and = Judge O'Brien have offices on the same floor at No, 2 Rector street, while Mr. Lit tleton, recently a member of the O'Brien firm, has moved to No. 140 Broadway, Both Mr, Littleton and Judge O'Brien are out of the elty, the former fishing up-State and the latter week-ending at Good Ground, L. I. When the will was probated, May 22, MWersleeve fled this memoran- broken the with the court and that he deems the rights of his ward require him to state In her behalf that nothing jherein shail be taken as an avceptance by or for her of the provisions made for her in the sald will." Under the antl-nuptiat Jo tn behalf of Mrs. Astor when sh esttate In Meu of a cash settlement of; nearly $2,000,00, Under the will she re- colves the Interest on $5,000,000 and use of the Astor vsion as lon she « _——— ACTIVE SECURITIES. Lillian? Speak; if you don’t answi shall shoot.’ I heard no reply, and sure there was a burglar at the door, I fired, Oh, my God! Then I found it w wife, KNEW HE HAD SHOT WIFE, om or | or by her father vhe ts said to have Waived her dower rights in the | an Nuited, Statpe, Steed, 48 590 share nes 11.800 S3ales, qgud Covey "Backtey 26, 8009 | <3 Senta th te = Pe ) WAR a ca (MERCHANT SHOOTS HIS WIFEIN DARK (Continued from First Page.) doctors at the hospital believe that un- less complications set in Mrs, O'Calla- ghan will recover. In the flat after the shooting the po-| Neemen found O'Callaghan in bed, A heavy callbre automatic pistol lay be- aide bim, When told to get up and dress the cotton merchant s1 out of bed and the policemen | was very drunk, When asked what had happened he said: “Oh, this is awful! I thought it was @ burglar, 1 heard @ noise. I got out of bed and got my gun. I heard @ nolse the hall. I shouted ‘Is that you, 1 my WENT BACK TO BED. “I didn't know what to do, so I went back to bed. “My wife and I have never had any trouble, 80 why should I shoot her?” ‘The cotton merchant's son-in-law, Walter Hutchinson, who ts in the banknote busin top floor of the house, told the police that his father-in-law had married his second wife ai extremely fond of her. He had never heard, he sald, that there had been the slightest friction between them on any occasion and they always pe that only once before had he known of his father-in-law to get drunk. On the floor of the room the police | found more thgn a dozen empty beer bottles. Mr, Hutchinson thught his | father-in-law must have sat on drink- ing alone after he left. and lving on the years ago and was D- jd very happy together. He said On the way to the Grand avenue po- Nee etation Mr. O'Callaghan had to be isted by the police. He was #0 much under the influence of drink he could! hardly walk, He was sudsequently arraigned before Magistrate McGuire in the Gates Ave. nue Court of his wife's injuries. ‘The doctors they were probing for the bullets and/ thought the woman hed @ chance of re- | covery. nd held pendtn; he outcom Se SES Boy K by Auto. An unidentified boy about five years old, was run over to-day by an auto- mobile truck, at First avenue and Fifty- fourth street. Hospital wh He was taken to Flower he dled, For Garden Parties | it is as popular when iced as punch or lemonade, Costs less. 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The convict had told Buckner Yates waa the brains of the scheme; that after the robbery they tad fled to Colorado and California, where they disposed of the bonds hen Ross had been sworn, the first to him was, "Do you know Buckner pointing to Yates “I nev + saw him t 6." answered ny, white, eyes narrowed and he braced himself for to tell shaved head. di his lps tensed this defend was the one who eng’! d the sale of the bonds sub- the witness answered stolidly. for a ‘squealer’?"’ Again the man wish the shaven pate denied. Buckner ordered him from the stand in disgust and he was locked up in im the Tombs. “Didn't you tell me last nigit that two squealers were nearly killed in Sing Sing witn a pair of scissors, and avy iron plate a7" was another dropped on his hi question ¥*. Buchner asked Noss, “I don't . call that,” sald Ross. eepaenaceeelipiociaiad Brothers Hurt in Auto. 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