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BECKER WEEPS IN! CELL; IS IW COLLAPSE Overtures for Immunity fori 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 r. Mclntyre, chief counsel for the ac cused official, called upon District At torney 11 hitman and made overtures to ascertain if Becker 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 wap 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 Becker. "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 I the same period banked $3,000 in his | own name. It was said at the criminal courts j building today that not onft had Beck, i er banked $15,000 in one month, but ' that in a period of three months he had put away sums estimated at between $300,000 and $300,000. These sums are said to have been put away in five New York savings hanks 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 SBC,OOO in Single Month. Jack Rose is said to have told the ; district attorney that he personally i collected SBO,OOO from gambling house ' operators for Becker in a single month. ] When the grand jury convenes next I Tuesday it is expected that seven in- 1 dlctments will be voted. But the police are not confining | themselves exclusively to this section. 1 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 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 Hall politician is quoted as L saying that Police Commissioner Wai- L 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. J Conn, general agent of the Norfolk Southern railroad, with headquarters , here, has resigned and will soon leave ' Raleigh to accept a position with the j Atlanta. Birmingham and Atlantic, of ] which E. T. Lamb, former head of the ( Norfolk Southern, was recently elected | president. ( Mr. Conn is a native of Raleigh and has served the Norfolk and Southern a> general agent for several years. He , ■will be succeeded by Charles V. Up- . church, his chief clerk. , 1 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 5 this afternoon at a mass meeting of Ma- 1 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 1 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- i sissippi. to be collector of customs at Natchez. Miss. I i DEATHS AND FUNERALS | • Lizzie Ruth Astln. The funeral of Lizzie Ruth Astln. little , daughter of W. R. Astin. who died at Ben Hill late yesterday, was held at the I residence this afternoon. Interment was | In Wesley chapel. Mrs. Carrie Landmon. The body of Mrs. Carrie landmon. who . died at 433 Eraser street, late yesterday, was taken to Dallas. C.a . today for fu- I 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 HowN.Y. Gangs Work FEE FOR KILLING A MAN, $lO I f -—-- --- It T * w I' ' WWRF ■ ■ flip W® s- gs HF jf-v 'imbv ' Kta Ehl / i ill " MMw \ i Mil WiMr fMiwOI HWSb 4F w y-4 1 i 'W -■'? mIwSI • i.. . —- — ■ ycoWStCHT -tcjiE. •’iy -ssite” I KTK-KXATIOXAU'X I’’’''* 1 ’’’''* eX.MNTXCX. Scene in Coroner Feinberg's court room, Xew York, at. the arraignment of the men actually charged with the slaying of Herman Rosenthal, the gambler. X 6. 1, “Whitey Lewis;” Xo. 2, “Jack Sullivan" (Reieher) ; Xo. 3. “Dago Frank” Cicocci; Xo. 4, William Shapiro. Lewis and Cir ftect are 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 t<x>k 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. ThaJ’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 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 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 Now York for executing the orders of their em ployers follows: Slash on the cheek (as a favor), up to $lO Shot in the leg $ I 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 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY. AUGUST 9. 1912. I i profession, and it is known that in at I 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 t he Is in danger of losing his district ■ through the vigorous campaign of his t rival. He and his henchmen then go to the gunmen or repeaters, give tlje ‘ 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 ! 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 -1 saults, robberies and destruction of I business when it will benefit some old- > 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 derously assault any man who crosses i 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 i 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 jhe gunmen have ■ worked into ths good graces of the po lice within the last two years is given every day in Seventh avenue, where . tile 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 i or night, several of them may be seen standing in front of their “club house." which is almost as pretentious as that of the Sam Ptfttl association. > They do not look like the murderous i type one might expect, but in well , made clothes, clean shaven faces and , good shoes they could pass easily for > persons living at the high-class hotels t near by. Their members come and go t 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 i 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 s Lenox avenue and 116th street for many years. They have openly defied the honest policemen, insulted women' 1 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 up" ' charges against the patrolman that will make trouble. Horowitz Outlaw Leader. Horowitz himself is a tall, lanky, , yellow-faced youth, w ith 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 front 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 whp 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 lie feared that he would- be forced t<> tell the truth and his old jlals 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 HF PLOT Four Hundred Are Killed or Wounded Besides President LeConte in Explosion. PORT Al- 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 Tancrede Auguste, who was appointed acting president by the na tional assembly to succeed Leconte, vlr- 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 it 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 ]|y 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. IV. 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, Ang. 9.—The house late yesterday unanimously adopted thp 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 CARNIVALJFOR CHURCH ST, LOUIS. MO., Aug 9.—lnsurgents triumphed when the women of the Ro man Catholic parish of the Holy Rosary were permitted to dress as they pleased at the eueher 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 there 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 otfsly 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 chauffeur from under drooping eyelids. Both hung on his answer. “Is that one of the men you drove from the Metropole after the murder?" the attorney asked, pointing to “Dago Frank.” Shapiro let his eyes rest upon his fellow prisoner for only a second. He pat his hand to hl.s face and shook his head. “No 1 didn't see them good,” he re plied. ' “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. "1 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 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 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 ovenyharged 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 his 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 wHHngness to contribute any amount tn 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 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 themeelves 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 so deceive the public and prevent the voter from supporting the man who laid the ax to their root? Ask the men who 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? 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 am 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? Never before in the history of this nation has rhe 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 bv'a jury, will stand between them and imprisonment. Such viola tions would be visited by a peremptory summons to court and a sentence tn imprisonment imposed by the judge who granted to the government the in- •••••••••••••••••••••••••• : ANNOUNCEMENT • • During the presidential cam- • • paign The Georgian will print the e • most accurate, interesting and au- • • thoritative views of three polfti- • • 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 • • point of view. His first article • • is published today. e • ALFRED HENRY LEWIS will • • write, beginning next week, arti- o • cles from the Roosevelt and the * • National Progressive party's point • • of view. a • These able writers will present. n • the news, arguments and fads * • from their own party standpoint. • • and will freely criticise and an- • • swer the opposing parties and • • candidates. " • • The Georgian will support Wil- * • son. 4 *•••••••••••••••«••••«»»»» 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 been 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, and the managers of big buslrre-s 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 the white house. They would not have tn. 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 w®s 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, wlilch should be 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 conventfen 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 7 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 continue 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 Nimes. Bergoni 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 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, Xug. 9—Miss Mabel Bennett, nineteen years old, fair of face, round of limb and scanty of bath ing suit, suddenly appeared before Judge Decker at Croton Point Beach The judge elbowed bls 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 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 Satterlee, 20 years old. daughter of Rev. J. H. Satterlee. a J'.aptist 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 ers. 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 entile fortune to the town of Sa voy on the condition that the above provision be complied with. 5