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Slice lieutenant ( AGAIN CONVICTED FOR INSTIGATING MURDER OF; HERMAN ROSENTH AL--END OF CAUSE CELEBRE. New York, May 23:?Twelve men today decided for the second time that Charles Becker was the archconspirator responsible for the murder of Herman Rosenthal, the gam bier, which nearly two years ago awoke New York to a realization of corruption in the police department and opened a new era of police reform. Becker, once a police lieutenant, was found guilty of murder in the first degree. Only a pardon or interference again by the court of appeals can save him from following to the electric chair the four gunmen who shot Herman Rosenthal, 1 the gambler, early on the morning 1 of July 16, 1912. The jury today decided that the gunmen were Becker's agents. One ballot decided Becker's fate. It was taken almost immediately after the jurors returned from luncheon at an up-town hotel where they went when Supreme Court Justice Samuel Seabury had finished his charging. It was unanimous for conviction. Tears streamed down the foreman's face as he announced the decision and tears stood in the eyes of several other jurymen. They had agreed that the corroboration which the District Attorney failed 1 to present at the first trial to support the stories of Rose, Vallon and Webber, the three accomplices who turned informers, had been furnished by new witnesses at the second. Becker's counsel announced that he would appeal and gained a week's ' stay for the preparation of his fu- 1 ture campaign. The defendant was J granted a short meeting with his wife and his brothers and then was 1 taken back to his cell in the Tombs. ' Becker and his wife v? "re talking shortly before 5 o'clock in a room ' adjoining the Sheriffs office, when 1 a court attendant announced that < the jury had reached a verdict. Mrs Becker was not permitted to ac- ( company her husband to the court 1 room. Newspaper men, court attendants, counsel for the defence s and District Attorney Whitman and 1 his staff were the only other persons admitted. The defendant's ! two brothers, Jackson and John Becker, the latter a detective, a 1 lieutenant, hurried to a side entrance ( where they stood awaiting the ver- 1 diet. 1 When the little group in the^ourt ' room had found seats the twelve 1 men who alone knew Becker's fate 1 filed silently in with Foreman F ^ Meride Blagden at their head. All twelve faces were expressionless. 1 Justice Seabury mounted the 1 bench. He glanced quickly at the ! faces of the jurors, but he learned ' nothing there. Old court attend- 1 ants who declared long practice had made them anie usually to tell the verdict by the jurors' looks, admitted that on this occasion they were at a loss. Becker in the room overhead was still talking to his wife when Justice Seabury took his seat. A bailiff was sent for the defendant. Becker kissed his wife as he left her. "It's all right," he told her; "don't worry. They'll free me." I Becker walked briskly through the court room to the rail facing Justice%Seabury and gripped it with , both hands. His face was colorless. He glanced hopefully at the jury, but he didn't catch the eye of a single man. From all outward appearances the jury did not even know the defendant was in the room. The clerk asked the jury to rise. 4*n 99 i J 411 roreman, ne saiu, nave yuu reached a verdict?" Blagden, a youngish man, blonde and slim, brushed his eyes with a handkerchief, already damp. "We ( iiave," he said softly. "We find the , defendant " he hesitated a I moment and continued in a whisper, "we find this defendant guilty, as 1 charged in the indictment?guilty of murder in the first degree." ] Becker's face was gray as he grip- i * I ped the bar in front of him with all his strength. The big muscles in his neck jumped out in heavy rolls. The veins at his temples swelled. His great frame swayed and drooped; then with quick control he became himself again. Big tears welled into the eyes of the little foreman. He wiped them away and then the clerk began to ask the questions required by law. The roll was called and each individual juror was asked if "guilty" was his verdict, too. Becker stood motionless while these questions were being put to ??? ??? TmmpHiatelv uDon their u1c ju&vsao. **> ? w conclusion the clerk began to take Becker's "pedigree." To the first questions Becker answered in a steady voice that he was 43 years old, was born in the United States : and that his parents both had been born in Germany. "Married?" queried the clerk. Becker didn't answer immediately. Almost in a whisper he replied, "yes." 1 As to his occupation, Becker said he was a "former police officer in I the city of New York, a Catholic and of temperate habits." Justice Seabury thanked each man Df the jury for his services and they left the room. Handcuffs were then locked about his wrists; he was taken from the room and around the corridors to the mj: fV,Q Dther side ot tne duiiujuk, QWi UOO WUV J Bridge of Sighs and into the Tombs. On his way around the corridor friends expressed their sorrow. "I am very, very sorry for my- j jelf," he declared grimly. "I have nothing more to say." Immediately after the court was adjourned Mr Manton said: "I fail to see how the jury managed to convict Becker in view of lonflicting evidence presented by ( ivitnesses for the State and evidence :hat our witnesses gave. But it has ( seen done." He immediately went | to work to prepare an appeal. "We vill fight, and fight hard, to have Becker cleared of this charge." * * 1 ? av? District Attorney nmuiiou pressed himself as highly gratified svith the verdict. "It speaks for itself," he said. "Becker is guilty. It was proved. He must pay the penalty of his crime." 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