Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-07-17
ONE SUSPECT Is ARRESTED
Men Guilty Of Crime Jump Into Taxi
and Are Driven Away.
FIVE TAKE PART IN CRIME
Dead Man Was to Have Been Wit.
ness in Court Against Grafters.
POLICE UNDER SUSPICION
Deceased Active In Starting Investi'
cation Lo0kina to Clearing Up
OF the Civic, Atmosphere
Of New York City.

NEW YORK, July 1S-Herman Rosen-
iiai,-proprietor of a gambling house here,
whose sensational charges that the po-
lice were guilty of grating and oppres-
sion. were to be investigated today by the
grand jury, was shot and killed IN front
Of the Hotel Metropole early this morn
ing by five men, who escaped in a large
gray touring car
Rosenthal was murdered only few
hours; before he vas to appear in the
home Of District Attorney Whitman and
give further statements in an effort to
substantiate the police grating charges.
Within three hours after the murder
detectives visited a garage on Washing
ton square. known to the police as the
headquarters of the taxicar robbers. who
recently robbed bank messengers Of s25,-
600 and captured man describing himself
as Louis Libby. whom they made a pris-
oner ION the charge of homicide. The
police also recovered an automobile that
they say was the one that figured in
the murder.
~t-s Libby is Identified.
Deputy Commissioner Dougherty as
serted that eye-witnesses to the murder
of. Rosenthal identified Libby as one Of
the duintette who drove up in front of
the hotel and calling the gambler from
the dining room to the sidewalk shot
him down with fusillade Of bullets. and
then. fled to the motor car. Rosenthai
was shot five times in the head.
Mrs. Sadie Rosenthal. widow of the
gambler, in statement to District At
torney Whitman, put the assassination
of her husband squarely up to the police.
She warned her husband that II he kept
an appointment he would come to q
violent end. She said she had a pre-
monition a tragedy would follow such a
conference and she named police Of
ficial as one Of tine men who was to be
present. ,.f
: Deputy Police Commissioner Dougherty
said today: .s
The car used was No. 4i,sl2; New York.
1t was Sought by Louis Libby last oc-
tober. He promised to pay $3.50 for IL;
had paid $2oo, and was still paying on It
Gar Id identified.
ut has been positively identified as
the car used by the assassins and Libby
has been positively identified as the
chauffeur and as one of the men who
fired at Rosenthal. The car was found
in the garage on South Washington
square ~. '''
The charge against the prisoner is
homicide. The garage Is the same III
s,,% 10 hxyM
tani in the $25,O0O taxi robbery. At this
time this is all l can say
Police Lieutenant Becker Joined Dis
trict Attorney Whitman when ne heard
of the murder. He said:
1T is very regrettable. know of no
motive ] haven't seen Rosenthal for a
week, and then / met him casually"
The police learned that Rosenthal
talked with friends about the degree of
safety in which he moved about since
he brought charges against the police.
I've been threatened" Rosenthal was
quoted as saying; but / don't care
hang for anybody. I'm going to stay
right here and face this thing. They
didn't play this game on the level and
I'm going to stick and meet justice"
Rosenthal sprang suddenly into public
notice only last Friday, when he filed
affidavits charging that the police were
in league with gamblers. He has been
proprietor Of a gambling house, closed on
April 10 after raid by Police Lieutenant
Becker, head of the so-called strong-arm
squad. ~.
This raid, Rosenthal declared, followed
a misunderstanding between himself and
Becker The latter, Rosenthal alleged,
was his partner, having lent him $500
OH chattcl mortgage as share In the
gambling business. Becker's share
amounted to 25 per cent Of the profits.
Statement by Becker.
Lieutenant Becker later said:
1t ought to be needless for me to say
think ought not to be asked to say
that 1 know absolutely nothing about the
crime. who pespetrated 1t, what the mo-
tive, or what end is to be gained by it.
want to say, now that ! have said this
much, that 1t was to my best and oniy
advantage that Rosenthal shoulu have
been permitted to live for many years. II
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