Milford chronicle., 1912-07-19
GAMBLER SLAIN
IN The STREET
Shot in New York by Five
Men in Motor.
SEVERAL SUSPECTS ARRESTED
Herman Rosenthal, Who Accused Po-
lice Of Graft, Is Murdered Before
Charges Could Be Prohed.

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G s lice Of Graft, Is Murdered Before
n Charges Could Be Probed.
"n Herman Rosenthal, proprietor Of a
i gambling house on West Forty-ffth
pa street, New York city, whose sensa-
as tional charges that the police were
go guilty of grating and oppression were
ze 10 be investigated by the grand jury,
iy was shot down and killed in front Of
y the Hotel Metropole, on West Forty
~ third street, by five men, who escaped
M In a large gray touring car.
M ROsenthal was shot four times in
al the head. He was murdered only a
few hours before he was to appear in
'ri the home Of District Attorney Whit
a' man and give further statements in an
effort to substantiate the police graft
ing charges. In his statement he said
Becker, a police lieutenant, was
partner in his gambling house
Within three hours after the murder
!. detectives visited a garage on Wash
= ington Square, known to the police as
b the headquarters of the taxicab rob.
Il bers who recently robbed bank mes
sengers of $25, 200 in the financial dis
! trict.
7 There they captured a man describ-
ing himself as Louis Lippy, whom they
arrested on the charge of homicide.
The police also recovered an automo-
bile which they say was the one that
figured in the murder
The efforts of the police to run
! down the five men resulted in the ar
Io Of
only one of them, Libby, as member
of the party who did the shooting has
been established to the satisfaction of
the police. Libby was arraigned be-
fore the coroner and charged with the
murder but refused to make a state
ment.
One of the other two prisoners is a
man whom the police call John Doe,
because Of his refusal to tell his name
or give any information. although, ac
cOrding to the police, he was in the
hotel at the time. The other prisoner
was William S. Shapiro, said to be a
partner of Libby. and who was arrest
ed at the garage where the automobile
was found
Although evidence as to the motive
u lMG SMOOLlMB dD llluo AuA lEdl llEN !
seems to show that Rosenthal had
feared death at the hands of the po-
lice, tbe-theory was brought forward !
that Rosenthal had really been the
victim of the so-called gambling fra |
ternity," which took the opportunity |
afforded by ROsenthal's activity |
against the police to seek revenge for |
his "squealing" on them. 1t has been |
learned that knowledge that ROsenthal
was to get his" was current among |
frequenters of various Tenderloin re-
sorts and a subject of common discus /
sion some time before the shooting |
took place.
James Dougherty, the deputy police
commissioner, asserted that witnesses
of the murder of Rosenthal identified
Libby as one of the five who drove
up in front of the hotel, called the
gambler from the dining room to the
sidewalk. shot him down and then fed
in the motor car.
Mrs. Sadie Rosenthal, widow Of the
gambler, in a statement to the dis
trict attorney, put the assassination of
her husband squarely up to the police.
She said she warned her husband that
if he kept t appointment with Dis
trict AttorneA Whitman he would come
to viole16 end She said she had a
ersTHsRdtfon a tragedy would follow
such a conference, and she named a
police official as one Of the men who
was to be present.
Mrs. Rosenthal was driven almost
frantic when a messenger told her
that her husband had been slain.
This is the police agan," she ex
planned. 1T is just what / expected.
/ stayed up fearing that Herman
would not get back safe"
Rosenthal, as the proprietor Of
gambling house, several days ago ap-
piled for warrants for two leading
l. members of the police department,
charging oppression. He made an af-
fdavit declaring that a lieutenant
Becker, of the police department, was
a silent partner in his gambling es-
tablishment Forty-ffth street
He declared that after a quarrel
with Becker, the police officials had
caused the permanent stationing of r
police officer before the gambling I
house, in the rear of which was his a
home. His efforts to have the police 2
man ousted we're unavailing. The iling t
Of the affidavits caused the promise OF {
a thorough investigation of the police ,
department by District Attorney Whit :
man. 1