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BECKER'S BODY NOW f AT HOME OF WIDOW POLICE LIEUTENANT DIED WITHOUT CONFESSING. Scenes Attending the Execution of Man Who Was Twice Convicted of n xt ^ i%_ tr j itosencnai s .uiiruer. New York, July 30.?Charles Becker's body was brought to Mrs. Becker's home in the Bronx late today. It was in a plain black casket. A small crowd of neighbors assembled as the hearse drew up before t?e building. The funeral, it was announced, will take place Monday. Execution of Becker. Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, July 30. ?Oharle? Becker was out to death in the .electric chair here this morning for the killing of Herman Rosenthal, the New York gambler. The former lNew York police lieutenant retained < ihis composure and protested his innocence to the last. He went to his death < with a photograph of his wife pinned i on his shirt over his l:eart. Three | shocks were given before the prison physicians pronounced Becker dead at 5:55 o'clock. Becker led the way to <Ms own execution. He sat up all night on the edge of his cot, calmly talking to Dep- j wty Warden Charles H. Johnson. "I have got to face it," said Becker, "and I am going to meet it quietly and 'without trouble to any one." Tee deputy warden iiert ?secKer aoout an hour before the time set for the execution, and when toe priests, Father W. E. Oashin, the prison priest, and Father Curry of New York, came to administer the last rites they found the condemned man with his face resting on his hand gazing at the prison floor. Tfte priests remained with him to the end. o?uv/i tx v aiin o vuuv^a iuc ui vi the witnesses began to assemble outBide the prison walls. Quietly their names were checked off by Deputy "Warden Johnson. Then the witnesses were led to the place of execution in the death ibouse adjoining the old execution chamber, where the four gunmen were put to death over a year ago for killing Rosenthal. When the witnesses were seated Deputy Warden Johnson nodded to Prircipal Keeper j TV j ii. i i rrea .uoriier ana iiiey ieit tue ruviu through a smail wooden door that led to the death cells beyond, where Becker was praying with his spiritual adv visers. Becker rose to his feet -when he saw Johnson and took a crucifix from the hand of the prison priest. To Father Curry Becker gave his last message as he took his place at the head of the little file of men that marched to the room of death. Becker's Last Message. His last message was: "1 am not gumy Dy oeea, or conspiracy, or in any other way, of fcbe death of Rosenthal. I am sacrificed to the world and my friends. Amen." The one-time police officer hesitated as he entered the execution room. It seemed to the witnesses as if he was startled that the deafoi chair was so near at hand. He looked quickly atj the double row of witnesses, glanced ! at the floor, swept with his eyes the! whitened wall of the room and then I. i suddenly, as if coming to himself, j walked briskly over the rubber mat i and seated ? imself in the electric chair. Behind Becker followed the prison priests chanting the prayer of death, which was repeated by the condemned f man. "Jesus, Mary, Joseph, have mercy on my soul," nervously spoke Becker as deputy wardens stepped forward and adjusted the electrodes. Hardly a minute elapsed before the electrode was applied to toe right leg, a slit Vni-nnn. Kaon nnt in t+Vl ft liaviiug i/tuu p.i v ? ivu-j* j vuv <u trouser leg from the knee down. After the electrode had been firmly adjusted against a shaven spot on the back of the condemned man's head, the State executioner looked at Deputy .Warden Johnson, who surveyed the figure that was still mumbling the death prayer in the chair. Johnson half turned his head and the execu tioned jammed tf:e switch. Tre first shock lasted a full minute and the executioner said that it was 1,850 volts and ten amperes In strength. It came while Becker was still commending his soul to his maker. The two prison physicians stepped forward to examine the collapsed figure supported in the death chair 'by the teick, black leather straps. The stethoscope was applied to the heart and Dr. Charles Farr, the prison physician, pressed his finger against ap artery in the neck. There was still a feeble stuttering of the heart. Pronounced Dead. The physician stepped back from the rubber mat and again tihe electric current pulsed through the body. The shock lasted seven seconds. After a hasty examination Dr. Parr asked that a third shock be given. -Tfais lasted five seconds. 'An examination that took , ... ? w.i se.eral minutes followed. Three physicians among t:e witnesses then made an examination and Dr. Farr at 5:55 o'clock quietly announced: "I pronounce this man dead/' During the night BecKer penciled on a piece of paper what he captioned "my dying declaration." It was taken to the warden's office, where two copies were typewritten, which Becker signed in a bold hand with his fountain pen. To Deputy Warden Johnson, who had charge of the execution in place of Warden Thomas Mott Osborne, who does not believe in the death penalty, the one-time police lieutenant gave his fountain pen as a gift. "It is the last thing that I have to give away and I want you to ihave it. I want you to give this statement to the newspaper men." Becker's message read: "Gentlemen: I stand before you in my full senses, knowing that no power on earth can save me from the grave that is to receive me. In the face of that, in the teeth of those who condemn me, knd in the presence of my God and your God, I proclaim my absolute innocence of ti-e foul crime for which I must die. You are now about to witness my destruction by the State, which is organized to protect the lives of the innocent. May Almighty God rardon every one who has contributed in any degree to my untimely death. And now on the brink of my grave I declare to the world to at I am proud to shave been the husband of the purest, noblest woman that ever lived?Helen Becker. This acknowledgement is the Woov T nan losvo npr T hid KSU.1J X W%ix AVM? V MV.. ? you good-bye. Father, I am ready to go. Amen." Talked With Deputy Warden. After his wife had said farewell shortly before midnight Becker maintained a casual conversation with Deputy Warden Johnson, who sat beside the screen in front of his cell. Sometimes he smoked cigars, after which he would let his head fall upon his hand and gaze reflectively at fcbe con crete floor for minutes at a time. Dawn found him seated on the edge of his cot carefully pinning a photograph of his wife on his white shirt just over his heart. Then as if he desired to have her all to himself, Becker put on a thin black alpaca coat, which he tightly buttoned. The photograph was not seen by the witnesses until the prison physician opened his coat as he sat in the death chair. Becker was put to death by tJ':e State executioner, whose name is unknown to the public. This man succeeded State Electrician Davis, and said he would not take the job unless his name was kept secret. He lives in a little "* * * * x -1 4. v:M town up-state ana weni auvut aiie work briskly. Becker's executioner said that in his opinion the man had died instantly at the first contact. An autopsy was performed, accordiny to law, immediately after the execution. After Becker's body had been removed from the chair Samuel Haynes, a negro murderer, was brought into the execution room and electrocuted. One of Becker's last request^ to Warden Osborne was that he be put to aearn Deiore me negru. Mrs. Becker's last effort to save her husband was made yesterday, when she appealed personally to Governor Whitman for a reprieve so that an appeal might be taken to the State court of appeals. Missing the Governor at Albany, Mrs. Becker met him at Poughkeepsie. The plea was fruitless and the untiring wife hurried back to Sing Sing to bid her husband farewell. She oroe uM+ih f/\r an hrmr I^pavine' the ?? UO AV4 MM ?W V>. . 0 death house at 12:30 o'clock this morning, she left soon afterwards for 'New York, outwardly displaying no effects of the severe mental strain. John Becker, her brother-in-law, accompanied her. A lengthy statement to Governor Whitman was given out by Becker late yesterday. Becker reiterated his innocence and declared ihe never had offered to plead guilty to second degree murder. lAi statement credited to Mrs, Becker was given out here shortly after her husband's deatn. Statement From Mrs. Becker. "I shall never rest," she is quoted as saying, "until I have exposed the methods which were used to convict my husband. Whether he was guilty or innocent, there was no justification for the means employed to convict him. "I would rather lose all the other members of my family, as dear as they are to me, than lost Charlie. No one can take his place. In all of the ten vears of our married life I never had occasion once to regret that I was bis wife. 'Charlie was no angel. He made no pretense of being one. He was just an ordinary human being?and perhaps that is why I loved him so." Dr. W. O. Stillman of Auburn, who assisted in the autopsy, said that Becker showed unusual resistance to the electric fluid. After the autopsy Dr. Stillman said: "I noticed no unsual effects upon Becker's vital organs. The way he resisted the .strong current was remarkable, showing him to be an unusually i powerful man." meeker went to his aeatn xnree years and a day after his indictment and arrest, and slightly more than fifteen months after the execution of the four gunmen convicted of the actual murder of Rosenthal. Becker is the first man who left the death house when granted a new trial, j to return there and suffer the death , t\ rvr-? r\ 1+T7 All Vt or? ti'Vi/n V? o 1 nf f QS rt cr ' pciia,iLj'# ?n.i 1 viiivio >? iav>/ na ? t i^ii unx^ j Sing's death house afte"r being granted a new trial have failed to return there for some reason or other. Plate on Becker's Coffin. New York, July 31.?'A, silver plate bearing the inscription, "Charles Becker, Murdered July 30, 1915, by Governor Whitman," was placed tonight on the coffin containing Becker's body by direction of his widow. The nlo + o -ie fnnr Hit cover inrOiPe in civP jjx Utt 10 1VUX VJJ WV ? v*A *uv?v? iviwv and the letters in script are an inch hig!:. It is securely fastened. WILSON MAY INTERVENE. High Nayy Department Officials Make Admission (That lT. S. Troops May Soon Tuke Vera Cruz. Washington, July 31.?Although they deny any orders had been received that would indicate proposed activity, high officials of the navy department made the significant admission today that they expect to be called upon soon to occupy Vera Cruz. TLey admitted also their belief that the United States will take possession of Mexico City and hold it until a stable government is established in Mexico. They attach no significance to the lack of orders to prepare for any emergency. Chas. A. Douglas, legal representative of the Carranza government, announced today that Gen. Carranza's troops expect to occupy Mexico City on Monday. After opening up the railroads and telegraph lines between Vera Cruz and the capital, t):us insuring free interchange of communications with the outside world and the bringing in of an abundant store of foodstuffs, and establishing order in Mexico City, Carranza will ask recognition from the United States. Referring to the presidents demand made two months ago that the warring factions get together and arrange for peace and tf:.e restoration of order, Mr. 'Douglas said that there was no organization with which Carranza n/vn.lj-l Vi/ilH Q-nv npnpo rtprlpvs Villa VV/Ui\i UV/^U ^/vi-rvv . and Zapata were both, he declared on their last legs and tottering. "I think conditions there not only warrant, but make absolutely necessary official recognition by our own government," said Mr. Douglas. "Mexico is not wholly pacified and may not be for some monti":s." The state department announced today the receipt of news that Gen. 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