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ee Meee of the nature of 0 5 16 HARD BLOWS FOR THE PROSECUTION. ‘Will call things and persons by Fight fames, 2 will a and after a full and candid dis- ef this case I will not then that I will bring down upon my- the censure of this jury. Verdict this defendant will live! o hareh when I say this you may an to attack a man of for- fi & profersfonal and social way. ‘Distriet-Attorney tas been mit It may be he ie by ambition, and ambition © ads good Judgment. Jed—pernape deceived. please. GCHERIGHED ANIMOSITY TOWARD ROSENTHAL. "Rese, as the evidence shows, cher Animosity against Rosenthal as 1 ehow. Mis feeling toward him was iter than gall. He deavised the ‘upon which Rosenthal walked. connived at Rosenthal’ etected a link had to be forged Some one higher up. The ‘Wind had been inflamed, hysteria public clamor was rampant. | j, idence shows that the District-At- they tried frstr’ asked) men of credibtt rity? He does the District-attorney |!" oi ould not convict them? T! eth oe et el TARO THE TROTIMONY, OF Bec! @ You can convict Becker you must | discrediting tat Lofty Louic, Gyp the Blood, Rosenthal. If those four men @o-the killing, the charge of ageinst Becker fale flat, for re the men he fs charged with| name. forced to Go the killing. killed Rosenthal, Becker's inno-| not even hi {a clearly proven beyond reason-| "Gh dou If) but he does not know her name, No, tha PROSECUTOR TRIES TO} was there with this woma: PROVE BECKER GUILTY. ‘Mew, how 40 they attempt to eotad- the gunmen as the murderers?—| around this courtroom every day listen- Js no contention here that Becker| ing to every conversatl @aw one of those gunmen in Ris/have that woman little bit of proot that was tm this case by that selt-con- murderer—Jacob Rose. ouch woman. do they fasten it on the gun- |" Winding up with Luban the lawyer re- mony of a| ferred to ‘im a T ask? By the t nd the other eaw another re were four shots fired, | cal of Dr, @chultse shows that|“ bes four’ bullets fired and all the same revolver. Officer File could not identity Gunmen. He was out there «| murdorer. a After thé shots were fired. Did/lage for fifteen minutes #o there can be gee anybody? Yes, lie saw them,|& full dress rehearsal of his perjurod i couldn't identity them. Althoug! ‘a8 experienced policeman. eee their other witnesse’s knew | (0%, Oh, yea! Would you expect wit- | Neve hi of such a tragedy to see muoh thelr eyes? No-they would be|risen to #0 high for their lives,” MelIntyre took up the teatimaney the watter Hecht and the manner in he identified the gunmen. CIGE6 IDENTIFICATION OF THE GUNMEN. these gunmen eaid the lawyer, Up 20 that he could identify them— ‘They Were there to be @it—four in @ row. How could identity them? Yet what did witness stand? Me said the shote were fired he could took up the testi- to the jury by the re this mant'he shout- | ¢: one admits the murder car Kile Gisbolical lie: Hi shots fired, and tha bending over the gin to his deatn| row then attacked Krause, dor employing » law- went to the District-at- WAITER FOR EM.-| even if in your mind they seom o ®entlemen of the jury, who bh guilty, as T shall @ onal; Very inception of thie onse. ‘Sullivan—Jack Rose's lawyer! van, Bam Roheppe's lawyer! Rattenn the man who told Schepps to deépy from the jurisdiction—to get You've got Sullivan, the counrel f as his lawyer, By the Case againat Becker. ‘Now, as to this waiter | 8N¥ prejudice against the defendant Weil, he wae a walter and I will tel Walters at the banquet to Prince Henr; at the Waldorf. thing? You must judge yourself, The fac: significant." Mcintyre ansalled bitterly the, teatt mony of Gtovann! ‘Staniach, the elec trical engineer, who was One of State's most flayed the moral « in scathing took up Stan by question. of that for are there—they at arac NOT HAVE SEEN. ‘This ma thundered MoIntyre, the murder, not #e* well. Yet he comer into thi | court and Identifies the men who did the shooting. But, more remarkable, he tells you one of the men bore an Automatic pistol. Rememb 2 o'clock tn the morning. in broad daylight you ¢ tinguish auch a weapon at that dis- tance, And in his testimony he says ‘the men who fired were not turned in my direction.’ Do you believe he could tell who fired, much les e nature of the pistol fred? And he mays, too, that the murder car was standing at @ spot different from that fixed by any other itnensen, jow, gentlemen, the Court will tell you that a conviction cannot be had on the uncorroborated testimony of an ace complice, nor can gn accomplice cor- roborate another accomplice, The law recognizes that there ts no limit to which an accomplice will not go when his own Neck ts neafing the alter. And @o the ys no jury may convict a man un- lesa the testimony of the conspirators is borne out by the sworn word of some nably had nothing to Why, her Hd not din- le before him with both fists, the lawyer said: “How, Vallon, Schepps, Webber—z say to you are mur. erers in this case; cold blooded tewtimeny stood alone there would ‘Be no question of fact for you to upon. w, what does the District-Attorney of this county do? Does he bring to you ity, of honesty, of intes- not. But he dove bring Morrie Luban—murieret at heart— 18-Rarat crook, a forger and a thie! LUBAN TO Pieces. Molntyre ruthlessly asseti the character testimony of Laban, and deriding every ,Ajrect made upon, wtatement he le ul e stand 1 attorney continued, “He told you," ¢hi “that he went out that sg of the murder with @ woman. went to the theatre with a woman. Who la she? He doesn t know, dosen't know her He spent the night with hei er first name, jentiemen, he lied and perjured him. self when he said he was there and he eaw the shooting! Hi id he nt And yet with all the power the District-Attorney commands, With countless dollars at his command, with detectives Iittered » he did not 0 corroborate a Why? Beca' in his heart and cohactence, the District-Attorney knows Luban Hed—he mows there was 20 o “that putrid matertal | h is called @ human thing. i you receive that as testimony culated to connect Becker with this ime? jon this distinguished oltizen, Laban, te brought here, what does the District-Attorney do? Puts this crook in tho Company of “Jack” » the He is put under Rose's tute- teatimony. Rose, the murderer, Ro: the tutor, tells him what to say, and Luban comes down here and tells labolical Hes. Who of you will be- im t* Ry this time Mr. McIntyre’s voice had Pitch: that he could be heard all over the Criminal Cou: Bullding as he shouted in sarcastic ra: been | natural Gun these members, going to thin witness Why? To get him to {dentify all these men and help make Did he have! Conaciou you that Beckor arrested two hundred @ crime? Does that mean any-|@ 00d place for him to atay. the | Attorney Hart, tolling witnesses, Ho of Btanisch Then the lawyer) ‘8 testimony, question INSIGTS THE WITNESS COULD) 4 numbered auto to Fort sending in for the victim and killing him. And they say Beco so clumay a job! want you to believe raided his own gambling hous brings me baci Har! night after the murde: first consulted his old chief, Diatrtot: was made for the arrest of Rose, Roe hae admitted he signed this aMdavit— admitted that he committed perjury. ‘would Becker should m er? to talk things o Now, gentlemen, gambling is a hard crime to detect. Wasn't Ros at thewe meetings telling Becker who the steerers and cappers were, s) the alle pet players in and thus! sebure lem mony before making big ratde? jentlemen,” ahouted McIntyre, get- ting back into his atride, ‘the State will say Recker knew of Rosc's hid ing place, There Is no evidence in thi cane Which Indicates: that Becker was that Rose had participated 2) In the murder of Roventhal, Did Pol- 1/10 tell Recker Rose had committed No. Pollok told Becker Roan y| Waa fll, #0 Hecker anid, ‘Well, that's r| re you going to kfil Recker on that! 0 story? Are you? That may seem #us- | piclous, but suspicion does not cor- «| roborate, They joing to talk to you about the v ‘ollok's home by Becker's chief defender broke off for | jas 125 feev away from the acene of | and he admite he does! that was| Bl State will say that because Rosenthal went to The World office and charged Becker with being his partner and ex- posed Becker for having invested $1,600 in his business there was a mo- tive for this murder. “You, gentlemen, know about Rosenthal. You know he was o bad man, o law-breaker, » man without moral sense, lawless Creature, living and wo: ia the PLOT TOO CLUMSY FOR BECKER TO HAVE MADE. jecause this sort of a man went to ‘the World Building to expose—expore, mind you—this defendant they want you to believe that the motive was established for such a horrible crim: That's the kind of a case they aro trying to make out, They want you to believe that this defendant plotted and ned the whole murder. They tay the whole clumsy plan and execution to Beoker. & more clumay ‘Job’ In your life! Think of @ pollcemal fob, Crime ts always dark! But did you ever hear of! brings here to corroborate these mur- derers. “Schepps's own testimony on the stand proves he is one of the murderets, but we went further and secured tes- | timony from witnesses in Hot Springs.” Mr. MeIntyre then read to the jury excerpts from persons who had talked to Scheppe in Hot Springs, pointing out several discrepancies between the sto- rles Schepp told there and on the wit- hess stand here. Then he read the let- ter Rose sent to Schepps in Hot Springs aeking the “lobbygow" to come back and testify against Becker. “If Rose aid not knew Scheppe wus © low-down common murder- er,” asked MoIntyre, Peto} aid he demand immunity for fo! from Whitman?” mare McIntyre was so exhausted at this! e of his argument that when h came to Schepps’ letter to Rose hi turned It over to Mr. Hatt to read for him. Scoring Schepps for a few minutes, McIntyre returnel to his attack Lawyer Sullivan, denouncing the coun- for the Stato's witnesses in even more extravagant terms than before., CALLS ON BAR ASSOCIATION To! TAKE SOME ACTION. “suitvan fs @ inan must regard with suspicion," said the dounsel, “and hie conduct In this case should be called to the attention the Grie ce mittee of the Bar Association, Harking back to the Hot Springs com- instigating so clumay a ched in th That is why the law admits umatantial evid jow! You have a man going into third strect, ir instigated “They the defendant ‘This to my associate, Mr. nd his visit to Jack Rose on the “And,” screamed MolIntyre, The Jawyer went on to dercribe how peniy Hart had gone to Marry: Pol- flat to meet Rose, how Hart had form ttorney Jerome, Molntyre’ ce died again when he got to the Rose aMdavit “Hart got for not until the day after javit was slgned that a demand “mE he commit perjury to an imoonsequential chattel mortgage, ien't it safe to way would commit perjury « thoneand times own neck ia danger? when his at Luban, TTERLY ASBAIL@ LAWYER WHO TESTIFIED FOR STATE. "The Disttict-Attorney,” went on Mo- Intyre, " does he dot He brin; ion—another felon, The office of Distriot District-Attorney ie quasi-judicial. should do ae much, to prove the Inn: gence as well as the guilt of this man. hal, You've got artich ‘That ts his duty; tha! should: exercise all his powers, all O this court. rings Hallon her Whispered | o: ‘From thi McIntyre. that ip to show his previous convictions for orim ow Hallon, before the Court of General Bessions, years ago was con- vieted and sent to State's prison for ht years, He admitted knowing some of the people I asked him about, You Know what this thief, this convict, this When liberated he aid not commit crime we find him @ felony and!’ mt to State prison a guilty and foun, fi think of that as has the ntlemen, the State is going fo talk about these meetings at the Union Square Hotel, of Becker and Jack Rose. They fixed @ tie conaid.| ¢ erably before the murder, a “Those ineetings ate as consistent with) f innocence as thoy are with guilt, and| mu to acquit, the home of ‘Attor-| men, that Rose,. Webber, Vallon and Rey te @ great office, The office of the| scheppe are not indicted for this murs der, fa the moral! ment Itke « bargain and salé in which obligation of Nis great office. He knows| the parties of the first bart are munier. Mt, but dove he do 41? You must judge.| ere all—all, every one of them. reat forces and energies to bring] which the preamble 1s & confession of ruth tn 0 murder and which the party of the seo- ie immemorial the! into the street If they swear Hecker courts have held that you can impeach| into the electric chair, Yet the Dis- & man and one of the best ways to do! trict-Attorney bargains to turn them out into the highways to cominilt more murders, SCHEPPS, Whitman or Mo Was Not @ Party to the crime. James Mark Sullivan, the lawyer Rose, When Schepps came back talked to Tutor Hose, and then he manded and a mission, McIntyre read the testithony in which Schepps was made to suy that Rosenthal was engaged tn the “white slave traMe, and that he had enraged Jack Rose by “stealing his girl “A fan,” sed Mr. McIntyre, “who would steop to the dreadful crime of luring young sirle, pure and innocent young girls from to plunge them into a life of ehame and degrada- tion did not deserve to live; such a man tilion times periury a mi when he sow cy the standing shadow of the chaiz? You xaow it is, gentlemen. recognizes that EAL WITH INFORM with Hose, Vailon, Webber and Beheppa| Noe. > SAMene here, can be no conviction, and what BARGAIN AND BALE. “You will notice in this case, gentiey 4 every one of those men partici- ated in the assassination of Herman of agree- fart reminded hie ehtef of counsel that it wae 1 o'clock and only an hour remained. “T will hurry, then,” responded the wilted and sweating attorne: “Now, gentlemen,” he — resumed, “Schepps told Hotchkiss that he did not mention Becker in the Rosenthal case. To Bergholz, he said, ‘Why, Miki have no tdea’' what a dirty dog he turned out to be But he's dead, and 5 don't want to be talking about him.’ To Johnaon, he said his devotion to Rose was constant, “Now, In Hot Springs he was reement in “You've got articles nd part agregs to turn these murderers “and wy this bargain and article of agreement the District-Attor- ed wants you to look upom this | Wehepps, as @unday | representative and @ church worker. The District- Attoruey wants you to look upon iim as an innocent, untainted per- @on who had nothing to do with the urder, Yes, they will tell you bre) Gamuel Sokepps is innocent, onemiro! other conspiracies he did not t want to be a conspira- told you that he called up Recker trom the Times Bulldi had twitchboard, from @_ public HE SAYS, FELL LOVE WITH HIS VOICE. “Mark you well what I have just said! will tell you Bohepps And yet who was impu- jent to me and to every one else, who fell in love with hie own voice, fied nie juriadlotion at "the tnetanse of lor his crafty Bchepps, celved immunity for “Are there twelve good Americans. loving home and the flag, willing to believe that story? To say he ts guilty takes him from home and wife and sends him to the death chair. “dn the name of Justice, in the name 4 Americaa le\id after the murder that he Would like] of American manhood an it the slain gambler’s tongue] institutions that we all respect—in the name of Justice and in the name of denounced as too preposterous to 6! God, may I ask you gentlemen ven a. moment's a Other | jury, in this last word, to say in your statements attributed to the policeman | conscious by hia arch-accuset were characeriaed | Recker 1s not guilty of murder in |in similar terms. Toward the close of hi rough the teatimony o direct testimony which did not appear fit his written confession and Rose's testimony confiicted in several natandes with statements contained in ‘McIntyre as He Appeared Before the Jury, and the Prisoner for Whose Life He Pleaded statement that Becker had to cut out the and hang It on the Times Building, address, Mc-| you in your deliberations and may I be permitted before which he had sWoOr) four hours pass over our heads again to take him out of this court room, a up" and that he (Sullivan) had been tree maf, exonerated and acquitted of Jack Sullivan a yvietim of a “frame- ‘You have evidence, Webber, Vallon, others hated R | jring to him as a man who ought to he (Continued on spleen, when the public became inflamed, n ft was said the District-Attorney | then this slimy per- out to frame Becker. e) was taken to Commisstoner swore Recker had known nbs he swore by the grave of his ended you'll find these assassins on Broneway, walking as free as you and I, SHALL BECKER BE PUNISHED AND OTHERS SET FREE? “Are you going to let these murderers go and send this man to |are you going to let this man go and demand of the District-Attorney that he | send these bloody murderers to |ehair? Are you golng to convict an in- jMocent man and turn out # parcel of villains and murderers? jing to say their testimony has been corroborated as the law contemplates? have one of | solemn ‘duttes to perform. 7" | life ts in your hands, life of death. This charge ts murder— not gtaft or extortion, Are you will- This verdict is : Oculists’ Opticians Half a Century in Business, Forty With Her Glasses on—Sixty Without Them —they relieve her eyestrain and banish wrinkle: from glasses being a Ve of old age—they actually make her look younger. Eyes Examined Without Charge When tho time But differentiate between mur- t. Look only at the evidence connect him with the crime “In @ moment I cloae, that will be the defendant's fast word in his own behalf. We havo done the best we could. if there be shortcomings in his defense, biame hin not—biame his counsel. “Remember that to say he is guilty is to say he must die. There is no m{d-way. Ger, or it is nothing, Remember it is the filth of the earth that ac- wretched rats who would rather tear down Gestroy than to apbuild and crea “Suppore you were sitting there as prisoner, gentlemen of the jury, and we were sitting hefe in Judgment would you expect us to believe the testimony of such creatures—such perfurers, quarreling, mean and Perfect Fitting Glasses, 82.50 to $18 With Fat & Near Lenses, 350 6th Av., 22d St. 17 West 42d—New York St.. Cor. Bond St.. Brooklyn. AHOME $ horrible things You must wetgh this evi- dence and you must wetgh it solemnly. We are now showin, snewest FALL STYLES there would be a record of It. superintendent of the Becker apartment has told you he had given orders not to If Rose was en intimate with Becker why did he not know Beck- rivate telephone number; Hawley cracked and feeble voice, as follow! “Rose—he is the hell of the juggler hell of the assa robbers who boil and kill men; the In- fernal tool of the deceitful; the revengeful, that monster com A magnetizer, ani hy ins; the hell of call up Becker, y to hiv associates thought of his | to his fellow-mur- ECTING THE 8TORY TOLD BY JACK ROSE, he met Becker in Forty and that “Jac Novelties tn CRAVENETTE High Button and Lace Shoes ‘J. GLASSBERG 2 STORES 8324Ay3 35,,%" econd street later, Sullivan, Webber, Vailon and Schepps k Sullivan swore hej ‘ Only Rose and Web- ber, the accomplices, say Becker was That testimony, therefore, wi not corroborated and you must. dis. regard it entirely. Rowe said he told Becker—and this ts important testimony in this Well, I have another plan, Char- I will wend a couple of gangsters to Rosenthal and tell him if he does not let up on you something will happen That was before Becker sald | anything about offere’ to seid a couple of fellows to beat Rogenthal up, and, if that Was not suffictent, to threaten him Was not there, ruth, why have they spent months tryin, to come here to corrobo: “I was remarking about the meeting p) te their lies? !ps came those words, But I don't want him Sau. FISHE COLUMBUS AVE. BET. 103 & 104 ST 109 “STL STATION *" CORNER FURNITURE ON®LIBERAL- TERMS CREDIT he was not thera, that Sullivan says The jury gazed sharply at Mr, him to commit n to add that Rose ““But 1 den't w him beaten up—I want ‘im croaked. 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