ROSENTHAL'S MURDER

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 121, 23 May 1914, Page 5

ROSENTHAL'S MURDER

BECKER AGAIN FOUND GUILTY. (By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright.) (Received May 23, 11 a.m.) NEW YORK, 22nd May. Ex-Police-Lieutenant Becker was, at the second trial, found guilty of complicity in the murder of Rosenthal. Tho jury stated that unquestionably Becker had assisted in the tnurdar plot, and the death sentence must again be imposed. [Rosenthal's murder was the outcome of charges of graft against the New York police. He was a noted gambler, and had been summoned as a witness at the enquiry into the charges. It was alleged that the murder was inspired, if not actually committed, by police officers. As a matter of fact, ex-Lieutenant Becker, of the police, was found guilty of being concerned in the murder. He appealed, and a new trial was ordered. Rosenthal was having a meal in an hotel dining-room shortly after 2 o'clock on the morning of 16th July of last year, when one of the hotel servants told him that some friends in a motorcar wero waiting for him outside. He left the table and went out, and as he was crossing the pavement to the car six men who were in it fired revolvers simultaneously at him, and he fell, hit by four bullets. The car immediately drove off. Last month four of the men convicted of being concerned in the murder were electrocuted in Sing Sing Prison. None of them confessed, as was anticipated, and none mentioned exLieutenant Becker as being in any way connected with the_ crime. Whitey Lewis, > as the executioners were strapping him in the electric chair, mumbled : "Gentlemen, I did not shoot at Rosenthal, and those who said I did were perjurers. For the sake of justice, gentlemen, I say I did not." The electric current here cut short the statement.]