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BECKER WEEPS IN CELL; IS NEAR COLLAPSE Overtures for Immunity for Confession' Said to Have Been Refused. NEW YORK, Aug. 9.—Chief in terest today in the police graft scandal centered upon the condi tion of Lieutenant Charles A. Becker, the police official under fndictmtnt for Rosenthal’s murder. According to some reports. Becker is on the verge of col lapse in the Tombs and is ready to make a complete confession of the con nection between the police "system” and the under world. In support of the reports that Beck er is weakening is a report that John E. Mclntyre, chief counsel for the ac cused official, called upon District At torney Whitman and made overtures to ascertain if Recker could get a sentence of less degree for telling all he knew of the police connection with the crime. Upon Mclntyre’s return to the Tombs it was said that Becker collapsed and wept bitterly. This was taken to Indicate that Becker had received an unfavorable answer to any message which he may have conveyed to the district attorney through his lawyer. "Nothing to Confess,” Says Becker. Lieutenant Becker was seen in his cell by newspaper men to whom he said that he had nothing to confess. I want to be understood once and for all that I have no confession to make for the simple reason that I have nothing to confess," said Pecker. "That will be proven clearly and to the satis faction of all at the proper time when I have my day in court." "Bald Jack” Rose has astonished even the district attorney by his reve lations of huge profits Recker is alleged to have received in tribute. It is said that Becker deposited $12,000 through his wife in a single month and during the same period banked $3,000 in his own name. It was said at the criminal courts building today ’hat not only’ had Beck er banked $15,000 in one month, but that in a period of three months he had put away sums estimated at between $200,000 and $300,000. These sums are said to have beep, put away in five New York saving banks and in banks in Rochester, Phil adelphia and cities in New Jersey. As-* distant District Attorney Rubin Is said to have found that Becker had banked money in Rochester. Collected SB-0,000 in Single Month. Jack Rose is said to have told the district attorney that he personally collected SBO,OOO from gambling house operators for Becker in a single month. When the grand jury convenes next Tuesday it is expected that seven in dictments will be voted. But the police are „ not confining thernselw's exclusively to this section Police posters conta'u'ng pictures and descriptions of the three men are being mailed to all sections of the country. A shakeup of the New York police force, beginning at the top and extending all the way down the line, is imminent as a result of the graft exposures following the as sassination of the gambler, Herman Rosenthal, according to insistent re ports in political circles and about po lice headquarters today. A prominent Tammany Halit politician is quoted as saying that Police Commissioner Wal do's days of officialdom are numbered, and that "New York would have a new commissioner within three weeks.” LAMB BRINGS RALEIGH RAILROADER TO A.. B. & A. RALEIGH. N. ('., Aug. 9.—Dixon V. Conn. gene.al agent of the Norfolk Southern railroad, with headquarters here, has resigned and will soon leave Jtaleigb to accept a position with, the Atlanta. Birmingham and Atlantic, of "which E. T. Lamb, former head of the Southern, was recently elected president. M . Conn is a native of Raleigh and bas served the Norfolk and Southern as general agent for several years. He will be succeeded by Charles V. Up church, his chief clerk MACON BUSINESS MEN TO URGE ROAD IMPROVEMENT MACON, GA.. Aug. 9. —The project of good roads, or at least, better roads, for this part of the state, will be taken up this afternoon at a mass meeting of Ma con citizens called by the chamber of commerce It is proposed to raise funds for the improvement of the highways be tween Crawford county towns and Macon and between Macon and Milledgeville, via Grays and Haddocks. It is believed that more than $5,000 will be raised for this purpose. INGLE COLLECTOR AT NATCHEZ. WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—The presi dent nominated Cyrus G. Ingle, of Mis sissippi. to be collector of customs at Natchez, Miss. DEATHS AND FUNERALS" Lizzie Ruth Astin. The funeral of Lizzie Ruth Astin. little daughter of \V R Astin, who died at Ben Hill late yesterday, was held at the : residence this afternoon. Interment was in Wesley chapel. Mn. Carrie Landmon. The body of Mrs. < ’arrie who died at 433 Fraser street, late yesterday, was taken to Pallas, Ga.. today for fu-i neral and interment. Her came' after a short illness Her Atlanta rela- I lives are Mrs Mollie l-andmon. 1. B. and I George Landmon. Mrs. W. B. Irby. * Amazing Tale of HowN.Y. Gangs Work FEE FOR KILLING A MAN, $lO - —— ; WSI «B<>, WM Wk ■ ' *8 HF k ■ 1 K * SK Wjjl lEL \WIOiiR j , -Jlb . __. Wbbßmßhhß. X ' Try. -v?iig'-’f-y DC’nW.KAUXOKAM’C^ 2 SLHVICL. Si-eiio ,n Coroner L(•inhere s court room, Xew York, at the arraignment of the men actually charged with the slaving ot Herman Rosenthal, the gambler. Xo. 1. “Whitey Lewis;" Xo. 2, ‘.Jack Sullivan ’Reichert ; Xo. !. “Dago Frank" (’icoeci; Xo. 4. William Shapiro. Lewis and Cir occi are held for actually tiring the shots. Sullivan is said to have been in the slaving gang. Shapiro was the chauffeur and one of the owners of the auto which carried the gang to and from the scene of the killing, which took place within a half blockof the Great White Way. Many Policemen Members of Desperado Bands or Entirely Under Their Power. NEW YORK, Aug. 9.—You can have your enemy killed for $lO, if you hire a New York gunman. That’s the low est price, and it ranges up to SSOO, in the schedule of crime brought out since the Rosenthal murder has turned the searchlight on the "Attaches of New- York.” The system by which police officers and the gangmen carry out their work, the remuneration and pro tection, the plotting and execution have all been shown. No dime novel author would have dared to weave such a plot and expect even youthful readers to be lieve It. There are many gangs on the East Side, sometimes enemies, sometimes working for a common end; but they live by crime and their livelihood is made possible by the protection given them by the police. They pay the debt by crooked repeating in elec tions, frightening away honest voters, swinging precincts for ward leaders. The system has strange ramifica tions. A clew found In the crookedest alley of the East Side, if followed through blind twists and turns, will lead up to a man high in the counsels of the police department. Policemen and Gangs. How the gunmen of New York have become a powerful adjunct of the gam blers who are in league with the police system was revealed by the Rosenthal murder. How some of the policemen w hom Commissioner Waldo is daily de fending in statements have not only developed the gunmen, but assisted in organizing them into murderous bands, is a story that will amaze the reader. The Rosenthal murder has shown that nothing is too small and no crime too great to stand in the way of the "system.” Murder is ordered, or bought and paid for. as any commod ity, whenever It is necessary, and the murderers are taken care of by certain corrupt political leaders and police of ficials in the district until they are needed again. To the credit of the politicians and the police it must be said that the number who would con done a murder is very small. A fair estimate of the union rates charged bv the gunmen of New York for executing the orders of their em ployers follows: Slash on the cheek (as a favor), up to $lO Shot in the leg $1 to $25 Shot in the arm $5 to $35 Throw ing a bomb $5 to SSO Murder $lO to SSOO A few of the gunmen make murder a THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY. AUGUST 9, 19iz. I profession, and it is known that in at least one case a gunman killed a man in cold blood on the upper East Side for as little as $lO, and that others have received as high as SSOO and SI,OOO for superintending the slaying, with a cor responding amount for others that as sisted. Gangs Used to Win Elections. Every election brings out the power of the "system.” A leader finds that he is in danger of losing his district through the vigorous campaign of his rival. He and his henchmen then go to the gunmen or repeaters, give the word and the man is elected, even if murder is committed. The repeaters are unmolested because word has come through the police captains that the bands helped the leader, and they know that before long tribute and political favors will be forthcoming. One of the most powerful bands of murderous hoodlums who work like wolves - bravely when in large num bers—is the nondescript following called the Gophers. Their bailiwick stretches all along the western side of the city from Greenwich village to Fifty-ninth street. They number in all about 300 men. ranging in age from 16 to 40. and large is the list of crimes they have committed. Murder is no more than a pastime, -and felonious as saults. robberies and destruction of business when It will benefit some one in the band are mere incidentals to their existence. They will murder for money and trust to their influence with the poli ticians to "square" the whole thing through the "system." They will mur derously assault any man who crosses their path at a tangent to their own smooth way of doing business. Several of the most at ocious murders ever committed in this city are charged to them, and yet v <he guilty men walk away, brush the dirt off their clothes and get ready for the next event. Many of their members are policemen. Don’t Look Like Bad Men. One of the best and most forcible il lustrations of how the gunmen have worked into the good graces of the po lice within the last two years is given every day in Seventh avenue, where the Paul Kelly band make their head quarters. A more thriving, more pros perous looking set of men of their call ing could not be found anywhere in the city, and any day, evert day, afternoon or night, several of them may be seen standing in front of their "dub house," which is almost as pretentious as that of the Sam Paul association. . They do not look like the murderous type one might expect, but in well made clothes, clean shaven faces and good shoes that could pass easily for persons living at the high-class hotels near by. Their members come and go as they please, revolvers or no re- volvers, except at odd times when the i police make a “raid" on the club. The ’ raid is the usual fruitless one. with an ; occasional arrest and a fine or dis ’ charge of all the prisoners on account of insufficient evidence. Harry Horowitz, called “Gyp the Blood," who Is wanted as a participant in the Rosenthal murder, is the leader -of a band of young outlaws who have , terrorized Harlem In the neighborhood of Lenox avenue and 116th street for many years. They have openly defied the honest policemen, insulted women ’ and young girls with impunity, at ’ tacked aged men and robbed them, sal ’ lied downtown into the homes of un ’ protected women and robbed them, shot up gambling rooms and kept the whole neighborhood in a turmoil. They have bullied and browbeaten the policeman ' honestly trying to do his duty by threatening to write to Commissioner Waldo and complain or "frame uq." ’ charges against the patrolman that will make trouble. Horowitz Outlaw Leader. , Horowitz himself is a tall, lanky, , yellow-faced youth, with a stoop and a . cringing way that certainly would not , mark him as a very bad man w here real . men figure. In spite of all his bravado, , he has gone to the captain of the dis trict crying like a baby because he > feared the police suspected him of a , crime. And when a particularly atro , cious crime did point to him he found influence to reach the "system” and he was not punished. He was born in 115th street and ■ reared in the district where his gun men make their headquarters. He re ; cruitd his bandits from the neighbor hood and from every other section of the city that would turn out possible good men for business. He aggrieved many a Harlem family by drawing into his element a young son who had given promise of amounting to some thing. The temper of the gunmen and their fear of their fellow gangsters was never more strikingly shown than when William Shapiro, driver of the noted gray automobile used by the slayers of Herman Rosenthal, was brought into Coroner Feinberg's court and put under a fire of merciless questioning in the presence of "Whitey" Lewis and Frank Cirocci, two of the men under suspi cion It was not the law that Shapiro feared not the blue-coated men who had sworn to uphold the law. He quiv ered and turned pale under tile gaze of the other prisoners, for lie feared th at he would be forced to tell the truth and his old pals would "get” him as they got that other who "squealed.” Herman Rosenthal, the gambler. Quailed Under Gangmen's Gaze. "Now. Shapiro.” said the coroner, "you know you have been lying to me in saying that you drove those men to HAITI DISASTER RESULT OF PLOT Four Hundred Are Killed or I Wounded Besides President LeConte in Explosion. * PORT AU PRINCE. HAITI, Aug. 9 I Haitian soldiers today began making arrests of men suspected of participa tion in the blowing up of the national palace yesterday, which resulted in the death of President Leconte and the an nihilation and w ounding of probably 400 other persons, mostly Haitien soldiers. General Tancrede Auguste, who was appointed acting president by the na tional assembly to succeed Leconte, vir- I tualiy. placed the city under martial law today, and issued a manifesto say ing that a rigid investigation of the out rage would be made. While soldiers patrolled the streets others were at work clearing away the wreckage of the palace, which was burned after the explosions had set it on fire. Although Leconte had been In office less than a year, thei»- were rumors of conspiracy against him at the time of his death. That was the reason Le conte had insisted on maintaining a powder magazine and arsenal in his palace, and why he kept hundreds of soldiers stationed either in the struc ture or in the Immediate neighborhood. The palace, a huge frame building re sembling an American summer resort hotel rather than the official residence of the head of a republic, caught fire from an explosion in the magazine, which was immediately underneath Le conte's chamber, and was soon envel oped in flames. The first explosion occurred at 3 a. m. yesterday, and was followed quickly by fire. The flames ignited charges in the cannon and small arms, and in ;i short time there was a cannonading. Following the arrest of a negro pol itician today who is reported to have had dealings with the neighboring re public of Santo Domingo, it was re ported that grounds had been found to warrant that Dominican officials were Interested in the plot. ■ „ PITTSBURGER NAMED PRESIDENT OF EAGLES AT CLEVELAND MEET CLEVELAND. Aug 9.--Willlam J. Brennan, of Pittsburg, was elected president of the Order of Eagles at their convention here today. Other officials elected were: Worthy vice president, W. T. Cogan, of Cin cinnati; worthy secretary, J. S. Par ry, San Francisco; worthy treasurer. Fred Hughes, Yonkers. N. Y.: chaplain, E. W. Fuller, Richmond, Va.; conduc tor, T. P. Gleason. Minneapolis; trus tees, C. H. Mann. Kansas City: James E. Kelly, Cleveland; Fred Naeve. Da venport, lowa, and John Bohl, New- Haven, Conn. MEDITERRANEAN FLY QUARANTINE FOR THE ATLANTIC COAST ONLY WASHINGTON, Aug. 9—The house late yesterday unanimously' adopted the conference report on the agricultural appropriation bill, thereby concluding action on another of the national sup ply measures. The conferees struck out a provision limiting the quarantine against the Mediterranean fly so that it would ap ply only to the Atlantic coast. This is the second change . which has been made In the bill with regard to the Mediterranean fly, the original provi sion being that protection against the pest should not apply to the Atlantic seaboard. The conference report on the agri cultural appropriation bill already has passed the house. HOBBLE SKIRTS WINNERS AT CARNIVAL FOR CHURCH ST LOUIS. MO., Aug 9. —Insurgents triumphed when the women of the Ro man Catholic parish of the Holy Rosary were permitted to dress as they pleased at the eucher and carnival on the church grounds. The men of the ex ecutive committee agreed on a ruling that no “hobble" skirts should be al lowed at the entertainment. The wom en rebelled. SHERIFF GOES INSANE FEARING HE IS CRUEL NEENAH. WIS. Aug 9.—Constant fear that he was too severe with pris oners caused John Vilwoek. sheriff of Winnebago county, to go insane. He is now in an asylum and while being taken there nearly escaped from a moving train. Forty-ninth street and Third avenue after the shooting and that they left your ear there. Weren’t you lying? Didn't you take those men uptown?" "Yes.” said Shapiro, glancing nerv ously about. "Whitey" Lewis and "Da go Frank" Cirocci were in the room and looking at him. "Whitey" was boring Into Shapiro's soul with his little sharp eyes. "Dago Frank” was watching the ebauffeut from under drooping eyelids. Both hung on bis answer. "Is that one of the men you drove from the Metropole after the murder?” the attorney asked, pointing to "Dago Frank." S.taplro let his eves rest upon his fellow prisoner for only a second. He put bls hand to his face and shook his hrad. • "No 1 didn’t see them good," he re pll< d. "Is that one of the men you drove that night?" asked Mr. Whitman, point ing to Whitey" Lewis Shapiro seem ed struck with a spasm of fear. ”1 didn't see 'em Honest. Mr. Whit man. I didn’t see 'em good," was the terrified response. iTAFT SHOULD WIN, SAYS ■ HILLES, FOR FEARLESS FIGHT AGAINST TRUSTS By CHARLES D. HILLES. 1 Chairman of the Republican National Committee. NEW YORK, Aug. 9. —There is one feature of President Taft's admini.stra- I tion which should win for him the i unanimous support of the plain people, the wage earners, the farmers and all ’ that immense contingent which has suf I sered so seriously from the extortion • practiced by offending trusts. That is his Inflexible enforcement of the anti- ' trust law. It won for him the con demnation of certain trusts, some of 1 whose greatest beneficiaries poured their profits into the coffers of those who sought to prevent Mr. Taft's re ' nomination. Why should it not win for • him the support of those who have themselves suffered at the hands of ’ those trusts? There is a w idespread feeling In this 1 country that the average man has not ! had a fair show, that he has not re ceived a square deal, that he has been at the mercy of great aggregations of capital which have overcharged him at » 1 every turn, which have succeeded in "preventing the enforcement of the laws 1 which would have destroyed their mo ’ nonolies and compelled them to accord a fair deal to all alike. And there is much reason for this feeling, but the feeling itself would be without reason If the great army of consumers were to ! turn their hacks on the man who more than any other has dared to enforce ‘ tile law. "Has Played No Favorites.” President Taft has played no favor ites in the enforcement of the anti trust law. There have been no specially . favored trusts whose heads were vvill ’ ing to spend unlimited sums to Insure " his renomination. He has never been t "a practical man,” as the trusts Inter pret that phrase, and no suggestion that "Interests which have been so friendly ’ to us are Involved” has ever appealed to him as sufficient reason for calling ■ off a prosecution. That Is why the ’ trusts are supporting another candidate ’ and why George W. Perkins ha-s de clared his willingness to contribute any amount to the campaign of another candidate so long as his candidacy will contribute to the defeat of President Taft. And. too, that Is the reason why • a few men with incalculable resources have undertaken a systematic campaign to persuade the people that the trust I prosecutions have accomplished noth ing and that the decision of the su preme court against the Standard Oil . and Tobacco trusts are of no impor tance. Says Tobacco Planters Thrive. Ask the tobacco planters of Ken tucky whether the suit against the To baceo trust has accomplished anything. They will tell you that now’ they get a , reasonable price for their tobacco, whereas before the dissolution of the trust they W’ere compelled to accept whatever price was offered them, a price which was so far below the cost of production that the planters had to band together to limit the production, had to resort to the extreme methods of the "night riders" to save themselves and their families from starvation—and even then did not always succeed. You do not hear anything of night riders now. and the planters are getting fair prices for their products because the trust has been broken up, and there is competition among the buyers. Ask the independent oil producers what they are getting for their oil since the Standard Oil trust was broken up. They will tell you that they are getting at least a living return, where as before they were at the absolute mercy of the trust. Are not these re sults worthy of achievement? Are they to be obscured by efforts to ma nipulate stocks and to boom the prices of Standard Oil securities to deceive the public and prevent the voter from supporting the man who laid the ax to their root? Ask the men w’ho are building homes In Ohio and western Pennsylvania what they have to pay for their win dow glass since the Taft administration broke up the window glass trust. They will tell you of the benefits of the trust prosecutions under the present law. This means that much has been accom plished, and that it Is because of Mr. Taft's fearless prosecutions. The Fight on the Beef Trust. What has caused the dissolution of the beef trust? Is it the impotence of the anti-trust law? No; it is the ef fective application of that law. For more than a year the owners and di rectors of that trust lived in the shad ow of the prison. They were rich men —men who had always had everything their own way—and the prospect of prison sentences drove them almost to despair. They were acquitted, it is true, but not until they had spent almost a million dollars for their defense, and not until they had undergone an expe rience which no one of them will ever willingly undergo again. That is why they have offered voluntarily to dis solve their trust and are now engaged in that task. If the anti-trust law wore as useless as it has been reported, do you suppose a great monopoly like the beef trust would voluntarily aban don its advantage, disrupt its power and distribute its property'.’ Never before in the history of this nation has the anti-trust law been so rigorously enforced, and today there are literally hundreds of men rich, power ful and able who have been enjoined by the courts from continuing to do business in an unlawful manner or from attempting to revive the monop olies they once enjoyed, and they know that if they disobey these injunctions no prolonged litigation, no possible ac quittal by a jury, will stand between them and imprisonment. Such viola tions would be visited by a peremptory summons to court,and a sentence to imprisonment imposed by the Judge who granted to the government the in- • ANNOUNCEMENT • • During the presidential cam- • ' • paign The Georgian will print the ® • most accurate, interesting and au- • • thoritative views of three polrti- • • cal parties that can be obtained. • • CHARLES D. HILLES, former o • private secretary to President • • Taft and the chairman of the Re- • • publican national committee, will » • write for The Georgian a daily * • news article from the Republican • f • point of view. His first artie'e » 1 • is published today. e • ALFRED HENRY LEWIS will • • write, beginning next week, anti- • • cles from the Roosevelt and the ® • National Progressive party’s point • C • of view. e • These able writers will present ® • the news, arguments and facts • • from their own party standpoint. ® • and will freely criticise and an- « • swer the opposing parties and • • candidates. „ • The Georgian will support Wil- ’* • son, a 1- •••••••••••eeeeeeeeeeeeeifa I junction asked for by Mr. Taft’s direc , tion. Cites Far-Reaching Result*. 1 The results of President Taft’s fe-ir j less enforcement of the anti-trust law , have been far-reaching. Not alone t e trusts which he has prosecuted, but those which deserved to he prosecuted, have been halted in their illegal pur suits, and the managers of big business are proceeding today with the utmost , caution lest they come within the pale of the law. They would not do so if s there were "a practical man” in tflie ( white house. They would not have to. Then they could gain a promise of Im ' munity from prosecution could they but deceive such a man Into believing that the absorption of their rivals wjis for the general good. ' Those who want “a practical man.” one with whom they can do business. * one who will exercise his own good judgment and decide for himself which are "good trusts" and which are bad. which should be permitted to violate 1 the law, know they can neither deceive 1 nor corrupt Mr. Taft. Some of the men ho would perpetu ' ate their monopolies and disregard the 1 law undertook prior to the Chicago 1 convention the task of discrediting tn the eyes of the American people the man who, by his fearless enforcement 1 of the law’, had won their fear and ■ their hatred, but the American people were not deceived, nor will they be in this great fight. They will stand by - the man who has stood by them and - who has enforced their laws without fear and without favor. It is my con- i fldence in the Intelligence of the Amer . lean people which leads me to declare • that President Taft's inflexible enforce t ment of the anti-trust law has been one i of the most forceful features of his ad t ministration and to believe that be > cause he has enforced that law’ he will be re-elected to continue its undevlat ’ ing enforcement. i —————— ' ELECTRICITY AS FOOD SUBSTITUTE! OH. JOY!! PARIS, Aug. 9. — Hunger Is to be abolished shortly by electricity, ac cording to a prophecy by Professor Ber goni, w’ho explained his method to the Congress for the Advancement of Sci ence, now in session at Nimes. Bergoni recalled the experiments of Professor Berthelot, who claimed that within a generation beefsteaks and other foods would be re.placed by small pills con taining the chemical constituents. Ber goni added that what chemistry had not yet accomplished electricity will achieve through treatment with high frequency currents. DAMSEL IN DRY BATHING SUIT ANNOYS THIS JUDGE NEW YORK. Aug. 9.—Mies Mabel Bennett, nineteen years old, fair ot face, round of limb and scanty of bath ing suit, suddenly appeared beforr Judge Decker at Croton Point Beach The judge elbowed his way through the crowd which surrounded Miss Bennett and her dry bathing suit. "You go home and put your clothes on,” he said. Miss Bennett disappeared—for a minute. Then the judge saw another crowd also around the bathing suit with Missj Bennett inside. When the judge threatened to lock her up she departed. SAYS SHE WAS IN HEAVEN: GIRL ASLEEP FIVE DAYS NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 9.—After be ing asleep five days, Miss Lulu Mae Satterlee. 20 years old. daughter of Rev. J. H. Satterlee. a Baptist minis ter. awoke in her home at Vhunky, Miss., and declared she had been in heaven. Many friends were assembled about her bed before she began a recital of her visions. Miss Satterlee said she had conversed with St. Peter and with the spirit of Henry Ward Beecher and oth- PERFECT? $2,000 FOR YOU IN SWITZERLAND. GIRLS GENEVA. Aug. 9. Two thousand dollars is to be given annually as a prize to the most nearly perfect girl, physically and mentally, in Savoy. This is a provision in the will of M. Carrett, wealthy and eccentric ex-deputy of Chamberley. who retired from politics several years ago and has since lived in the Alpine grotto, Savoy, He left his entire fortune to the town of Sa voy on the condition that the above provision be complied with. 5