Title
Jury Conveyed to Lunch in Murder Trial 1915
Caption
Charles Becker (July 26, 1870 - July 30, 1915) was a New York City police officer in the 1890's and 1910's and who was tried, convicted and executed for ordering the murder of a Manhattan gambler, Herman Rosenthal. Becker was the first American police officer to receive the death penalty for murder. The scandal that surrounded his arrest, conviction, and execution was one of the most important in Progressive Era New York in the 1890s and 1910s.
Date
1915
Credit line
Photo12/Universal Images Group
Reference
UMG20A60_312
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