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2 HOSE, ON STAND. ACCUSED BECKER - * Mtf t- I 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; * ••*nn ijH'liJif (tun** ’’ li " '• ri » t> u« ~ I 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 I 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. ■- Lal la ' W > - i i ' jf* f2•■BlbJl t T' /a -a-• mF. ’-' // wfcir // .?V< wz 1/ . k/ / I > ' 'H 1 Ik Happy Frances Eggrt, daughter ioi Ml’. au<l Mis. -I. B. Egai't. 4<>4 \\ •MF I 1 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 ‘ V -V f'- ' * 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 "v '**--*• A lit li I* £/>/ -11 W « 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 I But Only for the ”Unexpired i Term”-—Full Term Support I 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. I I \ / T**! j i __ [Trains Held Up i On Georgia Road I • 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 r i 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 ! 5 HHBHHHBHHBI When You Buy GLASSES You want to know that they are perfectly correct. It’s sat isfying to feel that you hav* had a thorough, painstaking ex amination by Opticians who are skilled and reliable. That’s exactly the kind of * service we give you. and ■ forty-two years’ faithful se ice to the public insures it you. We have a new Fingerpie ■ Eye Glass mounting that be fitted to almost an) no <'ome in and we will tai” pleasure in showing It to you A. K. Hawkes Co. OPTICIANS I<i WHITEHALL