The Sentinel=record., 1912-08-02
"WHlTEY" LEWIS, ACCUSED OF RosENTHAL MURDER, AR
 RESTED AND IN JAIL.
PROSECUTE GUN MEN FIRST
District Attorney Whitman Turns Graft Investigation Over to Depu- ty and Gives His Whole Time
 to Murder Case.

New York, Aug. 1--"Whitey" Lewis, one of the four gunmen want ed by the police as the actual mur- derers of Herman Rosenthal, the gambler, was arrested in the Cats kill mountains this afternoon, and was late tonight being taken to Kingston. N. F., to be lodged in the county jail This was announced at police headquarters here by Inspector Hughes, who said ,nree of his de- teetives had found Lewis at Fleish manns, N Y., a summer resort.
 After searching the region for nearly two weeks the detectives found Lewis working on a farm. In- spector Hughes said, and today ar. rested him, just as he was to board a train at Fleishmanns to make his escape The prisoner will be brought to New York on an early train to- morrow
 It was reported at police headquar- ters that Lefty" Louie and "Gyp the Blood" two of the alleged murderers still it large. had been tracked to the same vicinity, and their arrest would come soon. The news that at least one of the fugitives had been trapped was received with great ela- ton at police headquarters, because of the criticism that has been direct ed toward the department for it's fail ure to arrest fugitlves charged with the actual killing. With the arrest of Lewis. the police now have in GUS tody two of the four alleged assas- sins. the other heinz "Dago Frank :" who Is now in the Tombs. and 8 fellow prisoner of Police Lieutenant Charles Becker, who is charged with instigating the gun men to kill Ro- senthal
 While District Attorney Whitman ia confident he has obtained evidence pointing strongly to the existence Of a we'll organized system of police graft, he announced tonight that this feature would be subordinated until he had convicted the murderers Of Rosenthal and all involved in the plot to kill him.
 Murder" said Mir. Whitman to- night, lis a graver crime than the levy of blackmai by the police. l de- cline to be diverted by any demand for a general investigation of the po- lice department. and police grating until these murderers have been brought to justice l am endeavoring to prosecute to convict all the mur- derers. It is the duty of the 10, 400 policemen of this city to find them. They should have been arrested at the scene of the crime. The fact that they are still at large is very serious reflection upon conditions in the police department"
 The prosecutor took pains to add. however, that the investigation into the graft system was in his view a secondary consideration. only for the time being, and said he had delegat- ted Assistant District Attorney Moss to carry it on.
 Mir Moss expects to see in his cell tomorrow Jack" Rose, self-accused graft collector, and will go over again with him his sworn statement that Becker had told hlm the annual blaekmail money levied by the police upon gambling houses and other ille- gal resorts amounted to g. 400, 900. These figures the district attorney believes to be no exaggeration. Mir. Moss expects to get from Rose and also from "Bridgie" Webber a list of gamblers who paid tribute and also a list of graft collectors. These will all be summoned before the grand jury, and from them it is hoped to gain clues indicating how high up" the graft went and how 1t was distrib- uted
 Following this policy of a two-fold prosecution, MT Whitman today bent his efforts to weaving closer around Becker the web of evidence by which he hopes to convict him of being the man who instigated Rosenthars mur- der He called before the grand jury John w. Hart, Becker's attorney, and through him established the fact, he said, that while Rose was a fugitive from justice, Becker sent Hart to him to get an affidavit clearing the police officer from the charge that he was a partner in Rosenthals gambling es- tablishment This was on the night after the murder, and according to Roses story. Hart came to him at his hiding place on Riverside Drive after he had telephoned Becker to know if he was going to be protected for his part in the murder plot. Rose admitted to the district attorney he