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BECKER WEEPS IN
CELL; IS NEW
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 indictmtnt 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
F. Mclntyre, chief counsel for the ac
cused official, called upon District At
torney Whitman and mad e overtures to
ascertain if Becker could get a sentence
of less degree for telling all he knew of
the police connection with the crime.
L pon 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 Becker 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 that 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 beer,
put away in five New' York savings
banka and in banks In Rochester, Phil
adelphia and cities in New Jersey. As
sistant District. Attorney Rubin is said
to have found that Becker had banked
money in Rochester.
Collected sfo,ooo in Single Month.
Jack Rose is said to have told the
district attorney that he personally
collected SSO,t.'OO 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 •nt confining
themselves exclusively to this section.
Police posters containing 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 exposure.- 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 Hall 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, general agent of the Not folk
Southern railroad, with headquarters
here, has resigned and will soon leave
Raleigh to accept a position with the
Atlanta. Birmingham and Atlantic, of
which E. T. Lamb, former head of the
Norfolk Southern, was recently elected
president.
Mi. Conn is a native of Raleigh and
has 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 I
Lizzie Ruth Astin.
The funeral of Lizzie Ruth Astin. little
daughter of W. R. Astin, who died at
Ben Hill late yesterday, was held at the
residence this afternoon. Intorment was
In Wesley chapel.
Mrs. Carrie Landmon,
The body of Mrs. Carrie landmon. who
died at 433 Fraser street, late yesterday,
was taken to Dallas, Ga.. today for fu
neral and interment. Her death came
after a short illness. Her Atlanta rela
tives are Mrs. Mollie Landmon. .1. B. and
George Landmon, Mrs. W. B. Irby.
Amazing Tale of How N.Y. Gangs Work
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Scene in Coroner Feinberg's court room. New York, at the arraignment of the men actually
charged with the slaving of Herman Rosenthal, the gambler. No. 1. “Whitey Lewis:’’ No. ,2,
“Jack Sullivan (Reicher) ; No. •'!. “Dago Frank” Cicocci; No. 4. William Shapiro. Lewis and Cir
occ.i art* held for actually firing the shots. Sullivan is said to'have been in the slaying 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 hlockof 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 "Apaches 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 politics, 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 thejmlice department.
Policemen and Gangs.
How the gunmen of New Y'ork 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
whom Commissioner Waldo is dally 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 by 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
Throwing a bomb $5 to SSO
Murder $lO to SSOO
A few of the gunmen make murder a
TriE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
I
' profession, and it is known that In at
I J least one case a gunman killed a man
I 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
I wolves—bravely when in large num
bers—is the nondescript following
1 called the Gophers. Their bailiwick
i 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
I business when it will benefit some one
' in the band are mete 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-
I d erously assault any man who crosses .
1 their path at a tangent to their own
smooth way of doing business. Several
of the most atrocious murders ever
i committed in this city are charged to
, them, and yet the guilty men walk
away, brush the dirt off their clothes
and get ready for the next event. Many
1 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, every day, afternoon
or night, several of them may be seen
standing in front of their "club house," '
which is almost as pretentious as that
of the Sant Paul association.
They do not look like the murderous
type onq might expect, but in well I
made clothes, clean shaven faces and
good shoes they 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
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 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 rodms 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 up” (
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 where 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 the gaze of
the other prisoners, for he feared that
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.
Haitien 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 wounding of probably 400
other persons, mostly Haitien soldiers.
General Tancredo Auguste, who was
appointed acting president by the na
tional assembly to succeed Leconte, vir-
I tually 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 if on fire.
Although Leconte had been In office
less than a year, there 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 a 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.---William 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 hot 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 Vilwock, sheriff of
Winnebago county, to go insane. He is
now in an asylum and while being
taken the'e nearly escaped from a
moving train.
Forty-ninth street and Third avenue
after the shooting and that they left
your car 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
Chauffeui from under drooping eyelids.
Both hung on his answer.
“Is that one of the men you drove
from the Metropole af'er the murder?”
the attorney asked, pointing to "Dago
Frank." Shapiro let his eyes rest upon
his fellow prisoner for only a second.
He put his hand to his fate and shook
his head.
•'No. 1 didn't see them good,” he re
pli< 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 feat
"I didn't see 'em Honest, Mr. Whit
man, I didn’t see 'em good," was the
terrified response.
TAFT SHOULD WIN, SAYS
HILLES, FOR FEARLESS
FIGHT AGAINST TRUSTS
By CHARLES D. HILLES.
Chairman of the Republican National
Committee.
NEW YORK, Aug, 9. —There is one
feature of President Taft's administra
tion which should win for him the
unanimous support of the plain people,
the wage earners, the farmers and all
that immense contingent which has suf
fered 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
whose greatest beneficiaries poured
their profits into tlie 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 widespread feeling in this
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
every turn, which have succeeded in
preventing the enforcement of the laws
which would have destroyed their mo
nopolies 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 backs on the man who more
than any other has dared to enforce
the 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 will
ing to spend unlimited sums to insure
bls renomination. He has never been
“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 has de
clared his willingness to contribute any
amount to the campaign of another
candidate so long as his candidacy w’lll
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
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
bacco 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 were 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,
j 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 ths men who are building homes
in Ohio and w’estern 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
were 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? x
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-
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junction asked for by Mr. Taft’s direc
tion.
Cites Far-Reaching Results.
The results of President Taft's fear
less enforcement of the anti-trust law
have far-reaching. Not alone the
trusts which he has prosecuted, but
those which deserved to be prosecuted,
have been halted in their Illegal pur
suits. fl,nd 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
there were “a practical man” in tfhe
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 was
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 bsul
which should bo permitted to violate
the law, know they can neither deceive
nor corrupt Mr. Taft.
Some of the men ho would perpetu
ate their, monopolies and disregard the
law undertook prior to the Chicago
convention the task of discrediting in
the eyes of the American people the
man who, by his fearless enforcement
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
fidence in the Intelligence of the Amer
ican people which leads me to declare
that President Taft's inflexible enforce
ment of the anti-trust law has been one
of the most forceful features of his ad
ministration and to believe that be
cause he has enforced that law he will
be re-elected to contlr.ue its undevlat
ing enforcement.
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. who explained his method to the
Congress for the Advancement of Sci
ence. now in session at Nlmes. Bergonl
recalled the experiments of Professor
Berthelot, who claimed that within a
generation beefsteaks and other foods
would be replaced by small pills con
taining the chemical constituents. Ber
gonl 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—Miss Mabel
Bennett, nineteen years old, fair ol
face, round of limb and scanty of bath
ing suit, suddenly appeared before
Judge Decker at Croton Point Beach
The judge elbowed his way through tht
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 Miss 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
SatteYlee. 20 years old. daughter of
Rev. J. H. Satterlee, a Baptist minis
ter. awoke in her home at Chunky,
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 t'oitufre to the tcvwti of Sa
voy on the condition that the above
provision be complied with.