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HOSE, ON STAND.
ACCUSED BECKER
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Climax of Famous Trial Is
Reached When Confessing
Gambler Tells of Slaying.
XE'A YORK O*.; 12—Trembar.g in
even limb. end almost as pale as a*
aiieei. Gambier Jack R A se took the
stand at the tria of Police Lieutenant
CnarleS Becker for the murder of Her
man Rosenthal oday. ana swore that'
•he police official had ordeied the as-i
sissination This was the climax of;
sensational testimony, in which Rose|
had revealed his own relations and!
those of Rosenthal with the man now |
nov on trial.
' oming to the crucial point of his
testimony. Ro.-e .aid:
“Becker said to nt* I want that |
man (ft scnthal) ended for ad time io
come 1 want him croaked, shot, mur
dered or dynamited. I could beat him
up myself Ad I would have to do
would be to raid him and beat him up j
lor resisting arrest. You don t sup- i
pose I would ask you to go into any - i
h ng where you would be taking a
• ht’.ncc. do you'.’ There is no chance'
for an; one who ha« a hand in murder
ing Rosenthal You can assure Zelig
and his crowd there is absolutely no.
• anger. You know I have made good '
in everything 1 undertook. You know
that nten have been croaked before by i
policemen. I want you to go and se
Zelig. Tell him I will take ca-c'of that
case of his foi carrying concealed i
weapons. Explain to him about Rosen- ,
t nal.
' " Show h.m the riange lie and hi
st,.ng are in from the Rosenthal s iueal
Ok him :o is ue an ©rder to ■■ >me o' i
hi-. gang to i roak Rosenthal tonight.' ;
"Bis Jack" Zelig is the gang leader |
who win shot to death on a Second |
atnue street vat last Saturday.
Went to Tombs
To See Zelig.
Rose then went on;
"I then asked Becker if he cured if Y
took Harry Vallon with me. And when i
he said 'No' I got Vallon out of bed
and we went to the Tombs. Becket
said as 1 was going. Be tne. if possi
ble. to have it done tonight, anil then
by tomorrow i. will be all over"'
Zelig at this time was in jail (or car- i
eying concealed weapons. Ros* von-I
tinned:
“When we got In to s e Zelig. the |
first thing I did was to I ar.d him $lOO,l
saying, 'Becker sent this .o you.' Ze-I
llg replied, T don’t want any rnone j
1 want to get out of here. You ano |
Becket got me into it on a frame-up j
and you promised to get me out. Now. t
the district attorney is rushing me to!
trial, and I’ve got fourien years star
ing me in the fact.'
■'•Yes.' 1 said: 'I brought you this
after telling Becker all about our msf.
He said not to worry as he would take
• are of you. But he wants to ask al
favor of you ’ Ze ig said. Hi.i t ask |
any favors of me until you get me om I
of this hole.' 1 met left Zelig. and I I
saw Becker the ntxt morning and tod
him what Zelig had said. Becket then 1
said. Then he w ill stay where he is I
and the charge in the indi- inent stands |
as it leads. From now on 1 will settl'.
with every one of that gang.'
I suggested to Becket t.ta: I go to
-o come <>f Zelig ’s friends, lie said
it would be di right and to warn them
he aid, 'that nothing happens to any
one who croak'- - Re nthtil.’
Warned "Whitey” and
"Lefty” of Frame-Up.
”1 went up to Southern Boulevard
f.nd saw Whitey' and 'Lefty' amt told
them, 'I am to warn you fe lows you
*’’? in danger of the same fate .is Ze-
I '.’ They said, 'W* don't arty guns
an. more.’ 1 told them that 1 knevy
that, but that Zelig had been framed up
and that they would be. too. They
asked me w ho v as responsible for this.
1 told them Becker, and then they
asked why I told them. Bev a use Her
man Rosenthal Is trying to squeal and
trying to get-to the district attorney's
ofti c. Becker feels rttat all you fellows
w horn he has taken over on my ac
count s tould see to it that Rosenthal
does not make that squeal.' >
“ 'How do you mean?’ they asked; j
by croaking him ." I replied Yes ’I
They said, Vi •• ate willing We will go
tonight.’
I told them nos tv gu on the street. I
but to stay in the bouse ami wait fur I
me.” |
This conversation was fixed at June
ho or 22. whereas Rosenthal was not
assassinated until July IS.
I then went back to Becker and told
him that Zelig’s friends were on the
job He told me that was good, and
that none would suffer. I'll take care
of every body tn this case ' be said. One
or two days went by and nothing hap
pened. Becker vailed m • up and said.
'Well. Rosenthal is still at it ami I don't
see those other fellows at him ’
. "1 told him 1 would do what I could,
and went again to see the other fel
low . I told them that Hecker had
eaid. If there is any further delay on
their part, there will be none on my
part.’ I told them, too, that Becker
was insistent, and that be wanted
something to happen and to happen
quick."
Becker Impatient
At Delay of Job.
"Rose said he saw Becket next dav
and reported to him. Rose continued;
Becker said to me, ‘There has been
nothing done It looks to me as ts 1
will have to do It myself. I told him
that hr would not have to du It. but
that they vven- waiting to get him
down town He said that they did not
have to wait to get Rosenthal down
town 'They <an break into his hou r
•wi get him.' Becket said Why ir a i;
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HUSBAND AND WIFE’S
THROATS SLASHED IN
SUICIDE AGREEMENT
GARRETT. PA.. Oct. 12.—Edward
Tucker, aged 35. formerly a telegraph
; operator in the Lnited States navy , ami
; his wife. Eva, aged 26. were found dead
with their throats cut in their home as
■ the result. It is believed, of a suicide
i pact.
, Elinor, aged one year, the only child
1 of the Tuckers, was in the house at the
i ini*. it i? believed that Tucker first
cut h.« wile s throat and then ended his
'own life Tucker's father was outside
I the. house
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H. H. KOHLSAAT GETS
CHICAGO INTER-OCEAN
CHICAGO Oct 12.—H. H. Kohlsaa;.
! editor and publisher of The Chicago
Record-Herald, has purchased The Chi.
jvago Inter Ocean from George W. Hin
man. who will retire from Chicago jour
inaiism. Kohlsa..: took immediate
I charge. Many changes in the business
and editorial organization of - he pa
per are planned by Koh'.s.iat
Kohls vat vve.~ part i>tvr*r of The.
Inter O. an from 1891 to 1 &93. and in [
I 1895 became editor and publisher of The
Chicago Tin* «■ HrrtM.
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Happy Frances Eggrt, daughter
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Eva Butirne. daughter of All /
and Mrs. W W Bourne. 207 Oak ./
street.
tiie Union .Squat--- hotel and said, 'Jack
it is long time - nee that thing was
started, and there has been nothing
done. It seems to me that one of two
things are true -either they are stalling
me or these follows don’t take any
stock in what von tell them.' 1 said
that ft might hr true that the fellows
did not take any stock in what I said,
but I assured him I whs not st tiling
him
'Then he asked me if I did not think
■ 'Bridgey' Webber knew till o[ tlienj and
could help. I said that it would not do
any harm for him to try. lie said. ‘J
want you to go up and see "Bridgey"
Webber.' ”
Rose then told of going to Webber's
place on Forty-second street with Sam
Schepi s. Webber was not there. They
met Recker In front of a cigar store
Becker asked w here "Bridgey" w as. and
was told that a man had been left at
Webber's place to bring him
Plan Miscarried.
Beeker Furions
'Right then Bridgey ' came along. "
said Rose. "Recker begun by telling
about Rosenthal's efforts to reach the
district attorney, saying. 1 have been
informed today by Jack Sullivan that
Besenthal is trying to arrange a meet
ing with Mr. Whitman' Becket then
said to Webber. '1 want you to help
Jack in that thing.' Becker said there
was no danger; nothing would happen
ito anybody who had a hand in croak
ling Rosenthal. He asked 'Bridgey' to
I step in and take charge Becker called
Webber aside then called me aside."
, This conversation took place late in
Julie Rose said.
"A few days later." he went on
Webber told me the gang was at the
! Latayeiu Baths looking for me. I went
I thete and found Gyp the Blood.' Lefty
Louie' 'Whitey' Lewis «nd ‘Dago
1- rank t'irotiel "
The gunmen told Rose they would at
tend to (bat mallet at 3 o'clock tiie
following morning t runnel reported
Rosenthal and tits wife st the Garden
. restaurant, Fiftieth t>L eet util Seventh
avenue but tu t u« the gang.'iteis were
aitt-’it to -liooi. i< i. < Hi ii i
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IHE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 12. 19iz.
DEBS TO SPEAK IN
ATLANTA TUESDAY;
WELCOME PLANNED
Socialists of Atlanta and near-by towns
are preparing a big reception for Eugene
V. nebs, presidential candidate of their
party, who comes here Tuesday. Mr.
Debs will speak in the Auditorium and
will discuss Socialism aftd the Issues and
principles that differentiate the Socialist
party front the other political parties.
The doors of the Auditorium will be
open at 7 o'clock and the meeting will
begin promptly at 8. An admission fee of
10 cents will be charged
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and spoiled the tragedy. When Becker
heard this, he stormed. "I told you to
tell them to walk right up to Rosen
thal and shoot him iti front of a po
lleem.m. if they want to."
Night of the Slaying.
Coming down to the night of the
minder. Iher told of going around in
an automobile The tire burst. "When
v. c got dow n to Fourteenth st eet we
gm another car. driven by Shapiro,” he
testified. Then we went to the home
of Dago Ftank, in Seventh avenue. Vai
lon. Schepps and myself were in the
cat We thin went to Webber s place,
wheie we picked up 'Lefty Louie.'
Whitey' l.ewis and Gy p the Blood '
"We want upstairs into Webber's
poker loom, where we sat down and
ordered drinks.’’
About 3 o'clock some one brought
the word that Rosenthal had been shot.
Rose then went to Tinies Square and
notified Bieker Becket. Rose said, was
jubilant and replied over the telephone,
1 congratulate you. Where are you?"
Later Becket went to Webber's to
met t the gang.
"I asked him.' Rose said, "whether
he had seen Rosenthal's body at the
police station Yes,' responded Becke',
I went into the back room and took a
look nt it It wa.- a pleasing sight for
me to look and see that squealing
there. But for the presence
of Whitman I would have reached down
and pulled his tongue out and held it
up as a wanting to squealers.'"
Becker directed that SI,OOO be distrib
uted among tiie murderers so they
could get out of town, the witness
added
AGED ARCHITECT HIT
BY CAR AT 5 POINTS
wi 11, . r-.ssmg the street at Five
Points today, \ c Bruce, "7 years old,
an ar- hlte-t, living at 337 North Houle
vard was struck by a trolley car Mr
Bruce is the fathet of W II Bruce, sec
retary and treasurer of tin- Atlant* and
West I'- Int railroad
I : . Injured mao was taken to Grady
loi.-piia 1 win-re shortly afterwarua he
’ ' -vete-i , i • lousue-.* Hie itlurle' art '
SNAPSHOTS OF PRETTY !
WEST END CHILDREN
That West End has its full
quota of attractive youngsters is
proved by thp series of photo
graphs of the children of that
exclusive section of the city. At
iSy/t 99 ' ..mwjJH the top is Angel Allen, daughter
’* •' i ' r '!• P- Allen. 5
Lucile i venue.
PRICE GETS LOW
iVOTEOFELECTION
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But Only for the ”Unexpired i
Term”-—Full Term Support
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Strong.
———
With five counties incomplete, but not !
of sufficient voting strength in any way I
to change the results, Secretary of State
Philip Cook today certified to the gov
ernor the state house officers election
returns.
The highest vote received by any can
didate was the vote for the secretary of
state. He received a total of 55,326. The
lowest vote, with one exception, went to
Railroad Gray, who re
ceived 53,784.
All the constitutional amendments were
ratified by a vote approximating 3 to 1.
The surprising feature of the returns
was tiie very small vote received by
James D. Price for the so-called unex
pired term of Thomas G. Hudson in the
office of commissioner of agriculture
Price's vote in that race toaled only
-50"
For the long and full term. Price re
ceived 54,7*9 votes
EELS CLOG MACHINERY;
3 TOWNS IN DARKNESS
POUGHKEEPSIE. N. Y., Oct. 12.—A*
a result of a remarkable run of eels in
the SuwkilJ the towns of Red Hook.
Tivoli and Madelin are thrown intc
darkness nearly every night. The eels
can not be kept out of the machinery
in the lighting company's plant.
The company has three intake pipes
laid out into the stream and into the
pipes the eels glide in droves. The
clogging of the pipes pute the three vil
lages in darkness
Several kinds of screens have been
tiled in an effort to exclude the eels,
but thus far they have been found un
it vailing
ATLANTA CLUBWOMEN
SHOWN IN GREAT CAVE
Di W S Beekman, of Day ton. Ohio,
will deliver Ills lecture on the Mammoth
Cave tonight at 8 o'clock In th* lecture
room of Carnegie library He has con
ducted thousands -if tourists through the
cave, anti some of his pictures snow a
number of Mhinta clubwomen there dur
Ing the v sit Diet made following the hl
••nnltti <>( women's cl-ihs In • 'tnelnnntl.
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[Trains Held Up
i On Georgia Road
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• AUGUSTA. GA.. Oct. 12.—Georgia
}
rail oad passenger train No. 1 left the
Union depot at 8; 30 o'clock this mous
ing and pioeeeded as far as Belair,
when the crew was held up at the
points of revolvers by two men and
forced to tun the train back to Au
gusta.
Superintendent W S. Brand said that
the hold-up was in true Western fash
ion and the men either boarded the
train between Augusta and Belair o:
secreted themselves on the train before
it left Augusta.
The train carried mall and was bound
for Atlanta. It was being run by Engi
neer Perkinson. The two men, neither
of whom any one of the crew knew, told
the conductor to order the engineer to
back the train to Augusta, and the or
der was very promptly' obeyed. Mr.
Brand said that the engineer was not
threatened.
Another attempt is to be made during
the day to operate train No. 1. although
it is by no means certain that it will
get to its destination.
The Georgia road also reports that
attempts are being made to operate
trains out of Atlanta and Macon today.
Late yesterday, at Camak, an engi
neer is said to have been assaulted
when he tried to get his engine in
readiness for yard duty.
When train No. 1 attempted to leave
here yesterday afternoon, after waiting
almost all day for orders from United
States Marshal George F. White, the
engineet stopped at the Harrisonville
yards, two miles from this city, to g> !
water, a freight car was attached to
the teat of the ttaln Unknown men
put on the btakes of the freight cur
and when the conductor attempted to
■elease them he was driven inside a
patsetige. vouch with rock? and bricks
Th- i .-iti - t i i.—l tu the i its
I PASTOR TO TELL OF
HIS LABORS AMONG
CHINESE HEATHENS
"The Cry of the Chinese" will be told
by Rev. Lacy I. Moffett Sunday morn
ing at the Central Presbyterian church.
For eight years Mr. Moffett worked
in the Chinese empire. In his lecture
Sunday morning he w ill tell of present
day conditions in China, both political
and religious, and he will discuss the
significance of the great awakening yf
the Chinese masses.
At the Sunday evening service in the
Central Presbyterian Dr. Dunbar Og
den will preach on the ptinciples that
should sway the honest voter in At
’ ianta. The sermon will have a direct
bearing on the mayoralty race. His
subject will be "A Message to the
Voters of Atlanta.”
CHARITY RALLY OCTOBER 22.
COLI.'MBL'S. GA.. Oct. 12. —October
'22 has been set apart as rally day fo r
. the Associated Charities in Columbus.
, with exercises in the auditorium of
I Chase’s Ccnservatory. Dr. M. Ashby
, Jones, pastor of the First Baptist
church of Augusta, and a former pas
tor of the First Baptist church in this
city, will be th? principal speaker.
, ’ -W' .111
■sn thing
TO STOP STRIKE
AUGUSTA. GA.. OC. 12. —With five
compsrtiies of the National Guard under
arms. Augusta is quiet today and no
rioting is expected. The fact that all of
! the saloons are closed and no cars are
being tun after nightfall reduces the
possibilities of disorder. Augusta is
about as dry a town as any in Georgia.
The action of the Central Trades
council last night in agreeing to a prop
osition made at a meeting of citizens
to appoint a mediation board composed
of five men to try to bring about a set
tlement of the car strike is expected to
prevent a general strike in sympathy
t with the carmen. Nothing will be done
further in regard to the sympathetic
strike until next Wednesday night,
when the trades council holds a regu-
• lar semi-monthly meeting, if a call for
? a special meeting is not /issued before
j that time.
Tiie guatd at the power house has
been doubled and would-be rioters, re
membering the shooting of three citi
' zens by the militiamen some time ago,
■ are not expected to start any trouble.
The strike of carpenters and tinners
that started yesterday has been in
a dorsed by the Central Trades council.
Good citizens here from the ranks of
the merchants, professional men. eapi
‘ talists and tradesmen hope that Au
gusta -. ill soon be normal again
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U. S. Court Not
Protecting Trains
. MACON. GA.. Oct. 12.—The United
• States court is not undertaking as vet
I to protect the Georgia railroad in the
operation of trains, according to Mar-
I shal George F. White and District At
torney Alox Akerman. Both state that
. the two trains run on the Georgia rail
road Thursday and yesterday were used
i simply to facilitate the delivery of the
i copies of the ’"straining order issued
by Feuerat Judge W. I. Grubb and were
, not intended for any other purpose
Unit ss the court specifically orders aft-
■ er the heating on the petition for a
- permanent Injunction on Monday.
• neither Mareial White nor any of his
.deputies will accompany Georgia rail-
rood trains.
"I have not sent .my otdeis to Wush
-1 iifgtun is reported from Augusta, and I
urn not taking any part In the strike
situation." states the marshal. The dis
trict attorney state* that the onlv pro
tection given tl Georgia railroad s>
far Is the grunting of the restraining
ordei against persons molesting Geor-
I. i <!flI nK.
RAILWAY STRIKE
IS NEARTHE END
Warring Factions Reach Agree
ment in Long Conference.
Both Sides Satisfied.
Continued From Page One.
may know who or what is subje< , ■
i criticism and its just condemnation
"A railroad is a quasi public corpor -
tion —having devoted its property .
the public use, the public has an Inter
est in its use and a right to Insist th
it be used for the public convenience
"A citizen who takes service with 4
, public service corporation in a m* .-.
ure and in a qualified sense, is a pul •
officer, and as such devotes his se;--. ■
ices to the public, and should alwara
bear this in mind.
“We know nothing of live meri,.. f
this controversy, but we do know »
public is interested in the result- .
' this unfortunate controversy, which i .
I brought about a total suspension to
lof the services which it has a right .
• expect and demand, and for the lad,
, of which it is suffering.
Somebody at Fault,
Board Declares.
“Somewhere, and by somebody, ther»
is fault or blame worthiness.
"The commission has all along appr
ciated the delicacy of the situation an.,
the danger of .embarrassment from am
ill-advised action or effort on its pa t
in the premises and has heretofore in
stituted no inquiry, in the hope tin,
some settlement would be secured b
. the principals themselves or through
I the efforts of mediators.
“The commission does not desir?
i even now or in the near future to move
I in the matter, and will not except un
j der a sense of duty.
"It has therefore directed the chair
man to < loseiy watch the situation foi
I a while longer, and unless there be
I resumption of service within a v
i brief period, to issue a rule nisi, di
i reefed to the Georgia railroad and the
• Atlanta. Joint Terminals, requiring tii*'in
to show cause before it for the pres
ent suspension of their services to th
public.”
The Georgia roa 1 sent out train No,
2 from Atlanta to Augusta at S::;i
I o'clock today, an hour late. No Fed
eral officer was on the train, but it lef
■ the Union station v. ithout any demon
|stration and with the mails anil severs
passengers on board. No trains wet* '
; operated yesterday, though they wet
made up in Atlanta and Augusta an
ready to leave. No reason for holding
; them was given by the road officials.
Says Half of
Strikebreakers Quit.
i Union men say today that more titan
! half of the strikebreaking workers ent
. ployed in the joint terminal yards qui'
last night. Officials say this is untrue
and that but a few men have left. I'
was said by a union man yesterday
. afternoon that nearly all the men had
signed an agreement to quit work last
I night.
At the office of Chairman Wicker
sham, of the terminals, it was said
today that the road would stand by it.’
■ agreement and take back all the strik
| ers for whom room could be found, but
I all could not be given work at this time
i ' Officials said they did not know just
I how many men had quit work. They
' said J. B. Edwards, a conductor on the
> Western and Atlantic, had got the
. strikebreakers together last night air
( addressed them with a view to pel
suading them to leave.
It is known that a number of the men
‘ : now employed in the yards are not
; “strikebreakers” in the accepted use of
’ j the term. They are employees of the
Louisville and Nashville system at other
points, and were sent here by their su
perintendents. They are employed to
’ handle freights of the L. and N. and
other roads in the joint terminals.
’ which would ordinarly be handled b
' the joint terminals force.
JONESBORO HOME BURNS.
JONESBORO. GA., Oct. 12.—The bun
galuw home of H. W. Plunkett was burnfii
. to the ground here last night. Part N
the furnishings were saved. Mr. Plunk
. ; ett. who is recovering from an illri r*.
I was overcome by the shock and is n"it*
> sick
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