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Ol)e3effersonian
Vol. 12, No. 31
A Gentile Put to Death on the Evidence of a Negro for Killing a Jew
THE Becker case and the Frank case
should be considered together; they were
cotemporaneous in point of time, and they
illustrate the difference between New York
and Georgia : also, the difference between an
honest Governor and a rotten one.
As all the world knows, Police Lieutenant
Becker had been a power in New York; and
lie was accused of procuring the assassina
tion of a Jew gambler, Rosenthal, to prevent
the exposure of systematized connivance at
crime, on the part of Becker.
Rosenthal was shot on the street, and his
slayers made oft' in an automobile; but they
were afterwards traced, identified, arrested,
tried, and executed.
They were Jews, but of no aristocratic
connection, no B’nai B’rith influence, and no
Haas Finance Committee resources. Rich
Jews did not concern themselves in the case,
and the virtuous activities of the Burna De
tective Agency were not enlisted. Besides,
the man they had murdered was a Jew.
Becker came to trial in due course, and
the fatal link in the chain of evidence against
him was supplied by a negro witness, Janies
Marshall.
Did Mr. Adolph Ochs, of the New York
Times, express any horror at the idea of
putting Becker to death on the testimony of
a negro?
No. ’
Did the New York World? '~ s ' -
No.
Did the Hearst papers go into agonies
over Becker, the victim of negro testimony ?
No.
Did Doctors Charles H. Parkhurst, New
ton Dwight Hillis, &c., remonstrate with the
Governor of New York, and denounce the
jury which convicted Becker ?
No.
Did any Chicago delegation descend upon
the Governor of New York, and demand
that he set aside the verdict of the jury, and
the judgment of the Supreme Court?
No.
Did millionaire Jewish bankers insist that
the Governor of Minnesota tell the Governor
of New York what to do?
No.
Did Becker committees establish offices in
Neiv Orleans, New York, Chicago, and other
cities, to systematize chain-letters, and peti
tions in favor of the Gentile who hired some
poor Jews to shoot a rich one?
No.
Yet Becker’s conviction rested principally
upon the evidence of a negro barber; and
the Supreme Court so stated.
Where was Mary Delaney Fisher, in this
case ?
Where was Vice-President Thomas Mar
shall?
Is he opposed to capital punishment in
those cases, only, where rich Jew' bankers
and newspapers get to work?
Where was Dr. Wilmer, and Dr. White,
and Rabbi Marx, and Jane Addams, and
John Burroughs, and C. P. Connolly, and A.
B. Macdonald, and Arthur Brisbane, and
Clarence Shearn, and Nathan Straus?
Thomson, Ga., Thursday, August 5, 1915
A Jew Virtually Pardoned, After
Conviction on Evidence of White
- Witnesses ofi hilling a Beau
tiful Girl.
Why didn't outsiders try to dictate to New
York, as they did to Georgia?
Becker, also, had a wife, and Becker's wife
declares that Charles was innocent ; and she
stuck to him, from the first.
She did not shrink away from him for
three weeks after his arrest, as Prank's wife
did.
There was no cook in the Becker home
who made affidavit, in her lawyer's presence,
to a confession made by Becker to his wife—
as there was in Frank's ease.
Becker's lawyers and detectives were not
caught bribing witnesses, as Frank's .were.
Becker's lawyers did not produce a forged
letter, as Frank's lawyers did.
Sig Montag is the une'e of Leo Frank, and he threat
ens to prosecute me for defending the honor of cur
courts and our people.
Isaac Haas is the brother of the man who is Chair
man of the Haas Finance Committee, which has vilified
Georgia from sea to sea.
These two rich Jews have put a written demand on
Hugh Dorsey, \that he become my prosecutor.
It is not the duty of a Solicitor to became anybody’s
prosecutor.
Let Montag and Haas come into the open, and swear
out a warrant against me, or have their names signed as
Pro ecu tors io a bill to go before the Grand Jury.
These rich Jews have used Gentile against Gentile
long enough.
LET THE RICH JEWS WHO HAVE THREAT
ENED TO CRUSH ME TAKE THE RESPONSI
BILITY OF THE A TTA CK.
Peih tps it will clear up the atmosphere if the Frank
case is re-opened, its putrid spots laid bare, and its hor
rible secrets fold from the house-tops.
Let Montag & Haas employ Rosser, Arnold & Sla
ton to prosecute me. I will act as my own lawyer; and
when I get ihrough with he Frank case, the people will
understand it.
lhe rich Jews of Bos o.i, New York and Atlanta have
long m ide their threats, and I have been expecting the
attack.
Let it come, but let the Jews be brave enough to
make it, over their own name.
We have had enough of Cat’s-paw work.
Attack me yourself, Mr. Sig Montag.
ATTACK ME YOURSELF, MR. ISAAC HAAS!
In the Becker case, Judge John Ford de
nied a re-hearing and a re-trial, saving that
there was no law for it. He said he would
have to usurp authortiy, before he could go
behind the verdict of the jury, and the judg
ment of the highest court.
In the Frank case, the Prison Commission
of Georgia deliberately usurped the author
ity which Judge John Ford refused to usurp,
in New York; and T. F. Patterson voted to
set aside the verdict of the Georgia jury,
and the judgment of the highest court in
Georgia.
In the Becker case, Governor Whitman
sternly refused to re-try the issues which had
already been passed upon by the regular
judicial tribunals; and as no new evidence—
unknown before the trial and the final de
cision of the highest court —could be pro
duced. bp declared that Becker's guilt had
been judicially ascertained, and that the
Governor had no authority to interfere.
That is exactly what Governor John AL
Slaton said, before Mary Phagan was killed,
and before he had become a partner of the
lawyer employed to defend her murderer.
In the Wilburn. Cantrell, and I in ph ivy
cases. Governor Slaton held tiie law to ba
just what Governor Whitman holds it to
be; but after he became, by legal partnership
with Rosser, one of Frank's lawyers, lie in
vested himself with the previously unheard
of power to the case, listen to, speeches
on the same farts that the jury had weighed,
and rei'crse the Supreme Court of Georgia.
THUS. ONE OF Fl'ANh'N LA WYE IIS
NULLIFIED THE /LAWS’. TO SAVE
THE GUILTY CLIENT OF THE FILM!
Was Becker innocent ?
Was Becker a God-fearing man. who could
talk in a most pious manner ?
Did he win the heart of his spiritual ad
viser, and did that sympathetic soul make
affidavit in behalf of Becker?
Becker he was innocent: Becker's wife
sincerely believed him innocent: and if Beck
ers priest did not share this belief, he de
liberately sought to mislead the Governor.
The following is the account of his last
night on earth:
His Dying Statement.
During the night Becker penciled on a piece of
paper what he captioned “My Dying Declaration.”
It was taken to the Warden’s office, where two
copies were typewritten, which Becker signed in
a bold hand with his fountain pen. To Deputy
Warden Johnsen, who had charge of the execu
tion, in place of Warden Thdftias Mott Osborne,
who-does not believe in the death penalty, toe
one-time Police Lieutenant gave his fountain pen
as a gift.
“It is the last thing that I have to give away,
and I want you to have it. I want you to give
this statement to the newspaper men.”
Becker’s message read:
“Gentlemen: I stand before you in my full
senses, knowing that no power on earth can save
me from the grave that is to reecive me. In the
face of that, in the teeth of those who condemned
me, and in the presence of my God and your God,
I proclaim my absolute innocence of the f nil
crime for which I must die.
Tribute to Wife.
“You are now about to witness my destruction
by the State, which is organized to protect the
lives of the innocent. May Almighty God pardon
every one who has contributed in any degree to
my untimely death.
“And now, on the brink of my grave, I declare
to the world that I am proud to have been the
husband of the purest* noblest woman that ever
lived —Helen Becker. This acknowledgement is
the only legacy I can leave her. I bid you all
good-bye. Father, I am ready to go. Amen.
(Signed.) “CHARLES BECKER.
In his letter to the Governor, he said:
“To these charges and to all others, I answer,
by repeating solemnly on the brink of the world
to which you are sending me before my time,
what was my constant answer while in the world:
I am innocent as you of having murdered Her
man Rosenthal, or of having counselled, procured
or aided his murder, or having any knowledge of
that dreadful crime.”
“Mark well, sir. these words of mine,” the let
ter concluded, “when your power passes, then the
truth of Rosenthal’s murder will become known.
But not while your nominees remain district
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