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2 Shifting of Old Method of Handling Gamblers From Ward Leaders to‘ Strong Arm Squad’ Perfected ‘ System’ HOW BECKER, LOW POLICE OFFICER, GOT HIS GREAT POWER - n~ 1 ... reg -—• e 7 ' <■>■■■■ vi o i <i if J.a» ~ ■■ ' - ~~ - = h ■JU. W iKI Rll 1 iMMWI JS! PHSI r||W W’ ®H H JMI Him IQ Wife xi -ft fr MMMI Ft! "S ’ wMI--- j j =i=> 'n - -- ' = . ■— I—u U-J u_u ■- U_J LJ] _ .I, ' ; siili'iice of Herman Kosenthal at H>4 West l-'orthy-fifth street. New York, from which ho was lured to the Hotel Metropoh lor 1 y ilii la I aml Broadway; at right, where he was slain ; center, the murder car, with William HRS. GRACE ■ OiJITE ILL M Tur CllfipK I Hl unUUft Mrs. Ulrich Declares It Was Power of Prayer That Saved Her Daughter. Continued From Page One. case forever these have absorbed the mind of ni: Atlanta foi five days. And now. vindicated by a jury of her peers, tin woman in the ease goes back to Philadelphia to join the sad faeed little mother who came to stand by her daughtei in distress and to d< - vote the remainder of her shattered life to the little blind son who loves her. The spotlight is spluttering Into dimness, the th..He Is darkening, the crowds passing out Into the fresh air to discus.* the plot and the players. The Anti! curtain has fallen upon the strange tragi dy of West Eleventh street and the star has gone into re tirement. Grace Prepares to Ask Divorce NEWNAN. GA. Aug ;i. Declaring that his wife's acquittal is an ■'abso lutely rotti n miscarriage of justh-v," Eugene Gra. < . lying helpless at his ; parents' home here, today asserted that he will get a divorce from Daisy Opie Grace just soon as his lawyer can procure it. "She knows she is as guilty as you g< ntlemi i sitting upon those steps know it," h .a -I.aimed. angrily. "The Verdict makes no difference to me so far as getting a divorce is concerned. As soon as I si- <ll have lived in Georgia n year that will be November I will rue her upon the same charges I have already made and other charges be- Sidesjand the court will give me a ’decree, 1 pray God may give mo power to walk just 2 I hours. 1 w ill set myself right in the ey < of the public. Attacks Lawyers. "That woman - hi -trionb ability on the stand was . ..tillable is her lying ability bit .ie that. She was coached on it four or live months." continued Grave. 'Hi r !:• yers km i from the, first what her t '.milt was going to i b-. although they ay that th< y did not All her three law vers wcie as black as I they could bl nd they could not look ' me in the fa. • at the trial, "She may b< Irmin aat in tie eyes of i men. but s o is guiltv in the eyes of God. This hurts it hurts badly. If | I could have In . n fighting for my coun- | try or horn, or honor. 1 could hare ac cepted the result like a man. Hut to be ; shot down in cold blood is hard to | bear." "God knew -. 1 kaint that in her heart she is •• guilty a- guilty can be; and on top of it shi tried to put a stain on my name It will be a cinch for me to g> t a divorce." Grace declared that his wife en- , tered into a conspiracy with a Phila delphia physician to give a death cer- 1 tificate upon the death of her former I husband. Opie. He said the bruises on Opie's arm would not have killed a child. Grace Indi ated his belief that it would be necessary to name a <o- ' respondent H<- .id s'u- has awratefi , marital infelicity. "Daisy n. ver bought me a suit of clottres in her life,” hi continued. "The statement that she gave me s6,o<)<) is an insolent lie. 1 swa.ar to God. and it is sat red to me, I never drew a gun on her or slapped her in my life. I old not push her out of an auto or otherwise try to fake her life. 1 never .asked her for a nickel in my life Siu gave I me only small amounts out of goodness of her heart. If they will paove I ever flirted with another woman pin ■ my marriage, with two men as judges- and not th. kind that s ■ on the present ca t —l will rake together $5,000 tn .some way, and give it to them. I was as true to her as any man could be. 1 reit erate my former statements. They are absolutely true. I stand by them, and have had only one story' to tell. "All three lawyers for Mrs Grace ire as black tis van be. They could not look me in the face, but turn ed their heads away. Luther Ros ser told Lamar Hill shortly before the trial that she was guilty. But the court turned away my best witnesses. I was not allowed any hance. Mrs. Grace bought that ring she told of herself in Savan nah.” He was very excited as he declared this. "They might as well put dyna mite under every court house and jail in Georgia and blow them up. There is no justice in them," he continued. Grace Case Georgia’s Most Famous Trial No criminal case since the trial of W ill Myers for the murder of Forrest Grow'ley. in 1894. has compared with that of the State vs. Daisy E. Grave in popular interest, in the insatiate curiosity of the crowds, in the wealth of "human interest", involved in its cir cumstances. it had all the element* which go to make what newspaper men call a "great story." The Will Myers case had lingered in the memory of Atlantans as Fulton ounty’s greatest criminal drama. It wu> replete with strange circumstan tial evidence; it dragged through sev eral trials to repeated convictions. It was marked by masterpieces of oratory by Solicitor Charles D. Hill and it made famous the principal 'counsel for the defense. Colonel W. T. Moyers. Its lag ging interest was freshened by the es cape from the Tower of the convicted man. who never was captured. But it .. as a sordid crime a murder. It lacked the one great element which makes the "big story" and sots the telegraph wires humming from coast to coast —the woman in the case. But the Grace case had everything which goes to make up a gripping melodrama in real life. There was the woman, the very heart of the dram.''.; the wounded husband, facing her in the court room and swearing to the public that she was "guilty as hell;" there was the strangest circumstance in the history of circumstantial evidence—a man found wounded by a bullet and not actually knowing who shot him ■ ven had he boon permitted to tell his story; there was the woman's own sto ry of her infatuation for a husband who several time,s attempted her life: there was the strange evidence of the “alibi letters," and the secret which locked a woman's lips while she lay under accusation for elements which would have given a Poe or a Gaborleu inspiration for a masterpiece. Loss a Fortune of War. No less wonderful than the strange threads in the evidence was the weaving of those same threads into two sep arate webs by the rival counsel. It was oneeded by friends and foes alike that Hugh Dorsey and his associates had taken the fragments they had found and woven them Into a fabric truly j marvelous in Ils sequence, pitilessly < onvinelng to the listeners. Rut there were tin,.ids missing in the warp and woof of the fabric, threads not all the [detectives and , ."msel could discover, and it was these missing strands which igave the jury that "reasonable doubt" ■which left no alternative to acquittal. ■ 1 he state had done Its best with the I material at Its hand; it had made a I ■ tight which will go down Into Atlanta I annals as worthy the noted criminal ’av. yers of the days when the great i minds of the profession found their re , ward in the court room and not within ' t ■ ottiees of giant corporations. That '.heir tight was lost was the fortune of I w ar. \nd if the state were skillful Ini 1 weaving its own web of evidence, no I .s- istute was tin defense in taking ; 'hi state's own threads and twisting! them into a fabric to serve opposite | .cm - Hardly a circumstance painstak- | ' ingly brought forward by tin state but . was caught up instantly by the defense | and us' d to prove a point in favor of , the defendant. The very words the I-tat* brought oat to damn the woman I were repeated by the defense to save I her. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, AUGUST 3. 1912. Accused Policeman W ielded Influence Greater in Many Ways Than That Held by the Official Heads of Greatest Department in America. NEW YORK, Aug 3.—The probers into the assassination of Herman Ros- the gambler-squealer, and the workings of the "system” which decreed his dtath, stood aghast today at the marvelous power of the police strong arm squad by which Becker, a mete lieutenant, wielded an authority great er in many respects than properly be longs to the chiefs of the force. Slow ly but surely the methods of the sys tem are being brought to light. The probers have shown that Becker, now in jail for complicity In the plot against. Rosenthal, who had "squealed” tn the strojlg arm's graft levy, could not only Collect, hundreds of thousands of doMars of graft money every year, but summoned murderers at his bid ding as though he had been the head of a giant organization instead of a man only two degrees removed from a mere patrolman on beat. The Investigation furnishes a start ling answer to this situation. It shows that with the shifting of police given power from the old time ward leaders and captains the head of the "strong arm squad” Is now the man the crook is obliged to "see." Th« old famed power of the ward man has been trans ferred in the Waldo administration to the man who had authoiity to raid gambling houses over the heads of captains and inspectors. And the whole fearsome situation is epitomized by Becker himself in th statement he made to the gambler po lice go-between. Rose, when the latter asked him why he did not go out for a big job in the department: "I'm right where I want t<j be,” Js Recker's quoted reply. "After J have a coilpie years more of tTiis I'll get any old job 1 want." Why Becker Was Powerful. The immediate explanation of Beck er’s might in the department was the Wei] meant, if somewhat benighted, attempt of the commissioner to con trol the gambling situation, by set ting one man to watch another, and it is in some such way that "the Sys tem" will eventually vanish, if that monster is ever to be slain at all. By this move Commissioner Waldo did not break up the system. He did not even seriously .embarrass it,. He sini|dy forced it to alter its methods. It became more centralized, and, in tne last count, the forced alteration of the machinery expedited the collection and distribution of tribute money. Changes such as these, even the con viction of one, or a dozen, or a hundred men will never wipe out the system. It is imbedded in the soil of the de partment. an 1 it flourishes in the shade ABDUL HAMID’S CLAN SEEKING TO RESTORE ‘BUTCHER’ TO THRONE PHILIPPOPOLIS, BULGARIA, Aug 3.—Dispatches that escaped the Turk ish censorship today tell of an effort being made to replace Abdul Hamid, "the butcher." upon the throne in Con stantinople. The Albanian rebels, victorious in every battle, have offered their aid in this movement. A number of deputies caused a riot in the Turkish chamber in an attempt to frustrate dissolution, except by rev olutionary methods, on the part of the government The ring leaders of the riot were arrested. MAN ARRESTED AFTER A 2,000-MILE CHASE CALGARY. ALBERTA. Aug. 3. , Pursued for four months through the ; i wilds of northern Canada by members ! |of the Northwest mounted police. Willi i Ropp. said by the authorities to be the j | most notorious horse rustler and cattle I thief in the Western country, has been ; ipprehended and is in the barracks here ; today awaiting trial. The chase cov ered nearly 2,000 miles and was re markable for the persistency with w hich the police followed the trail of the fugitive through the trackless north country . Ropp. tired of being hunted. > ■ finally gave ur Shapiro, one of its owners, at the wheel, and seated in it are “Gyp the Blood," “Dago" Frank. “Lefty l.onie and “Whitey Lewis." the four gun men charged with the actual slaying of Rosenthal. of two sturdy trees of evil fruit—-the secrecy of police records and the twisted notion of loyalty to "the force" among the thousands of honest police men who make up the great mass of the city’s protectors. Hundreds of honest policemen who would not take a rent of graft under any circum stances. will not bear testimony against a known and merciless crook because he is a member of the force. No one believes that any one of the half dozen or more uniformed men in the vicinity of the Hotel Metropole knew anything of the murder of Rosenthal. Yet. as District Attorney Whitman says, the efforts of the police to run down the assassins would not fool a child. Secrecy of Records Helpful. Rut it is the secrecy of the records of the department that is the greatest shelter of the system. It is this that, gives comfort to those whom pub licity would quickly destroy. It is this that at once fosters and conceals the alliance between the lawless in the department and the lawless outside, it is this that permits the system to make and unmake law, by enforcing or not enforcing It, and to hold in absolute bondage the denizens of the underworld. And it is this that makes ‘it possible for a lieutenant of police to command murder at will. The last report of the police de partment showed twenty-five hundred eirrests for felony and only' six hun dred convictions. It is in this vast field of nineteen hundred men arrested and never convicted that the system works. Practically all of the police owe their appointments to politicians. If the crook is “in right,” some one whom the policeman knows is very close to the man who is his—the policeman’s—- sponsor “approaches him.” He sug gests to the policeman that while no body wants him to do anything crook ed or swear falsely, yet, if his memory should prove a little hazy on these two points, it would be pleasing to several important personages. And a man is likely to forget a lot of things in three or four months. Possibly the police man's superior drops a hint to the ef fect that discretion should ever walk hand in hand with a good memory. He Forgets "the Details.” And so when the policeman takes the stand he tells a -perfectly honest story, but in the interval his memory has dropped one or two details that he could not be expected to hold as essential. And the case falls down. Now. whether the memory of the po liceman tails or not depends entirely on HE DIES AFTER GETTING FREE TO MARRY GIRL SACRAMENTO, CAL., Aug. 3.—A shattered romance, in which Miss Isa belle Garwood, of New York, reputed to be worth $2,000,000, and Dr. R. A. Ramos, a physician of Brooklyn, played , the leading roles, has been brought to light by a' civil suit filed in Sutter county by Miss Garwood against Schreiber Bros, to cancel the sale of 600 acres of land valued at $96,000. According to Miss Garwood, she and Dr. Ramos were engaged to marry. Ramos left his home in Brooklyn and went to Reno to take up residence for the purpose of securing a divorce. Just after getting the divorce Ramos died. Miss Garwood says she learned he had been paid sl,i>oo for inducing her to buy the land. ROOSTER DOWNS A BOY AND NEARLY KILLS HIM DULUTH. MINN . Alic. 3. - Lloyd Burley, aged two years, was nearly I killed by a rooster. The child was so i seriously injured that it is feared that he will lose his eyesight. The rooster I had the little fellow on bis back and I was furiously attacking him with its ' spurs when discovered. SHE REFUSED HIS TREAT. HE SHOOTS HER EAR OFF M< iNTICELLt >. N Y , Aug 3. B< - cause she refused to eat ice cream at his expense, trbin Barber last night I shot Mrs. Fred Miller. The bullet took away her left ear. the crook’s usefulness —potential or im mediate—to "the system." He must not fail in his duty to the system while he is out on ball, and even after his ease has been dismissed, he is marked as being under obligation. It is easy to "get” him if he rebels—and it strikes greater terror in the underworld to send a man to Sing Sing for something he did not d 6 than for something he did. Previous dispatches to The Georgian referred to a quarrel of Chick Tricker and Zelig over the affections of "Won der” Murphy. Zelig was preying, with out letters of marque, on the sinister traffic of Chinatown and the East Side, and that he was. therefore, one too many in a district that was framed by Jack Sirrocco, Chick Tricker and Jim my Kelly. Row Starts at Coney Island. One night not long ago Zelig and several of his henchmen went to Coney' Island and sought diversion and re freshment at a music hall. There one of the singers accused a henchman of Zelig’s of robbing him on a previous occasion, and Zelig broke a glass in his face. The party returned to New York. This incident has no bearing on sub sequent events save as it fanned the war lust in Zelig’s bosom. He ordered the auto to drive past a saloon where Chick Tricker rested from his labors, and he and his friends emptied their revolvers in at the door. This was no very knightly feat, and Zelig was ar rested on a charge of carrying con cealed weapons. There is no sympathy for a gang leader who shoots and flees like a Chinaman. He must stand and aim. He was arrested by two of Beck er’s aids. Zelig faced a term of seven years in Sing Sing, but he was released on bail. The other leaders whose activities he had attempted to curtail decided that he would be better off in the grave than in Sing Sing. He would be much better off in the grave than loose around Chinatown under indictment with Becker's aids as complainants. So one Torti was assigned to kill him. He did his best. He waylaid Zelig in broad daylight in front of the Criminal Courts building, just as he was leaving after pleading to the in dictment, and shot him through the head. But the bullet went an eighth of an inch astray and the head-hard ened gangster was merely discommod ed for a few days. Torti is serving ten years. So Zelig was loose under indictment, and this was the situation when gun men were needed to "bump off" Ro senthal.’ THERE IS MONEY IN SELLING PEACHES; CAR NETS 52 CENTS DALTON. GA.. Aug. 3.—That there is money in peaches has been proven by Colonel S. P. Maddox, a prominent local attorney, who possesses a big orchard. Colonel Maddox received a check for a carload of fruit shipped by him. and after paying allv xpenses the car netted him exactly $1.62. So great was hi' joy over clearing money, he told his ft lends of his good fortune, and after being highly congratulated, he insisted on his friends letting him pay for the crinks (soft ones). When the treating was finished, he had exactly 52 cents of his profits intact in his pocket and a broad smile mi his face. PLANS FOR EATONTON’S LIGHT PLANT DRAWN The city of Eatonton, Ga.. has employed the Solomon-Norcross Company, consult ing engineers, to design a municipal elec tric light and power plant. The engi neers now are making necessary surveys, estimates and plans for the plant. <1 It. Solomon, the senior member of the firm, is at Eatonton in charge of the work MARITIME STRIKE ENDS. PARIS. Aug. 3.—The maritime strike, which lias lasted 54 days, was declared off today by the strike leaders. The men were ordered to return to work at once. NEGROES DOOMED FDR BIG SIEH New Party Committee. Making Up Convention Roil, Eliminate South's Black Men. CHICAGO, Aug. 3.—Elimination of the Southern political negro from the new Progressive party was on the slate for this afternoon. The limination was expected to begin when the provisional national committee assembled at the Congress hotel to hear delegate con tests from three Southern states. The contestants in most eases are negroes, and it was unofficially stated before the newest steam roller began its work that the negroes would go away with out recognition. Officially, it was said that "regularity” was to be the test by which the delegates would find their way into their seats. The action of the committee, however, has already been forecast in the case of South Car olina, the only state that will not be represented in the national convention that meets Monday. In South Caro lina a set of negro delegates were named without the authority’ of the Roosevelt manager. They have been repudiated by the national committee. Big Convention Roll. The absence of the South Carolina delegation will not be missed in the national convention of the new party. Far from it. The national committee has more delegates than it knows what to do with. The really big task that confronts it before its meeting today was the making up of the temporary roll call of the convention. The cal! provides that here shall be 534 dele gates. As a matter of fact, the com mittee will have to give seats to ap proximately 1,200 delegates—posKibly more. The final count is not in y et. Many states have lected double dele gations. Some have elected three times the number provided for in the call. Connecticut, enthusiastic pver the idea of the Bull Moose party, entitled to seven delegates as the call was sent out, elected 49. They will be seated,' of course, and will be allowed one-sev enth of a vote each, which would make the work of the tellers pretty hard, pro vided there (happened to be a hot fight for a nomination. Then there are the alternates to dis pose of. There are not quite as many alternates as there are delegates, but there are more than the call asked for, and they, too, will be given chairs on the convention floor. Big Demand For Seats. This unexpected demand for seats from the delegates has made the work of the arrangements committee diffi cult. And there has been an unprece dented demand for seats from specta tors. Senator Dixon, chairman of the na tional committee, going over details today before the committee session, easting his eye over the voluminous roll and listening to the wail of the ar rangements committee that demanded more seats, smiled. “We are going to have one of the biggest national conventions that was ever held," he said. The committee was 'scheduled to meet at 2 o’clock this afternoon. In addition to the contests and the roll, a number of minor tasks confronted it. Final arrangements had to be gone over and approved. The list of tem porary officers, already prepared and announced, was to be submitted to the committeemen for formal approval. For Party Vote Rule. It is pretty generally believed among the delegates and leaders so far assem bled that the negro question in the South will bo solved by the method fre quently suggested in Republican na tional conventions. A rule will be adopted basing th,' representation at the conventions on the vote cast for the party. This, it is pointed out, would effectually end negro domina tion. because the vote of the negro in the South is negligible. There w ill be a number of negro del egates in the convention, but they will all be from the Northern states, whert Mr. Roosevelt has made- the strongest showing at the primaries. The question of the permanent chair manship has not yet been definitely de cided. It was at first suggested that s Southern Democrat be given the honor of presiding over the convention. There is a general movement, however, to make the temporary chairman perma nent. This, it is pointed out. would save time. The address to be deliv ered by Roosevelt, after ex-Senator Beveridge, as temporary chairman, makes his keynote speech, would take • the place of the speech usually deliv ' ered by the permanent chairman. There will be more women delegates at the convention than ever took part in a similar gathering. According to the estimates made before the temporary roll was made up. thirty women will be recognized as having a voice in party affairs. Illinois will contribute two—■ . Miss Jane Addams and Mrs. Anna H. > Wilmarth. CAR MEN OF CHICAGO VOTE FOR A STRIKE IF PEACE EFFORT FAILS CHICAGO, Aug. 3.—Voting of the street ear employees of Chicago on the I strike question ended at 4 o’clock this morning . The official vote will not be • known until tomorrow, but it. was t stated unofficially today that the check - on the vote kept by the officials of (he . unions involved and the early work of . the tellers showed beyond doubt that i the strike had carried by an over whelming vote. - It is generally- believed, however, that ■ an attempt to effect a peaceful settle i ment will be made. A conference between the elevated railroad employees and the companies was held yesterday, and now the em- ■ ployers will hold a confernece and draft . a proposition to submit to the men. ■ Two of the smaller street ear com . panies have made plans for the strike. They will make no effort to operate • their lines. CAN NOT SELL NOR TRADE YOUR WIFE FOR REAL ESTATE CLEVELAND. WASH.. Aug. .3.—A man can not sell his wife or even trade ' her. This dictum was established by the courts here which set aside a deal whereby James M. Davis disposed of . his wife. Ida. for two lots in Tacoma. Going a step further, the court de cided that a man who regarded his wife as a chattel wasn't entitled to have one. so Mrs. Davis was granted a divorce. In her bill she alleged she had suffer ed great mental anguish because her husband had traded her to "Doe” Far row and the whole town knew about it. Mrs. Davis said she didn’t think much of Farrow. She blocked the deal, even though her husband bad received a deed tor the lots having agreed to part with his wife in lieu of cash. BLACKBEARD ISLAND TO BECOME GAME PRESERVE SAVANNAH. GA.. .\ U g. 3.—Black- ■ heard island, off the coast of Georgia at the entrance to Sopels sound, will be leased by the government for five y ears as a game preserve. Bids will be received until August 24 by the treasury department for this privilege. The island, together with the buildings there, will be leased with hunting and fishing privileges. The is land is now the site of the South At lantic quarantine station. ANTS TIE UP TROLLEY LINE TO EAT GREASE VALPARAISO. IND Aug. 3.-An army of ants attracted by grease and oil attacked a transmitter at the Good rum power house and grounded the current tying up traffic on the Valpa raiso and Northern electric intcrurbcn lines for five hours. OUT FOR 13 YEARS ON PAROLE. HE'S ARRESTED LOUISVILLE. KY Aug. 3—After being at large thirteen years. James Pierce, charged with violating his pa role at the Indiana reformatory, has been arrested at Sullivan, Ind.