The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, May 28, 1914, Page TWO, Image 2
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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.
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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
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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
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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."
Mrs Becker remained in the Sheriff's
office a long time after her husband
had been returned to the
Tombs. She was too overcome with
?rief to leave immediately.
When she went at last she had to
be assisted from the building.
This, the sixteenth and last day of
the second trial, was devoted to the
Judge's charge and deliberation of
the jury. '
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