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William (Bridgie) Webber, former New York gambler, whose testimony helped to send Police Lieutenant Charles Becker and four gunmen to the electric chair for the murder in 1912 of Herman Rosenthal, a
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peritonitis; on the 21st anniversary of Becker's electrocution; in
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