Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-07-16
PROPRIETOR or GAMBLING
HOUSE KILLED WHILE ON
WAY 70 ATTORNEYS HOME.
WIDOW cHAaoEs POLICE
WITH ASSASSINATION
Quintet Ii Autsmsbils Commit Crime
In Frsnt q Hetsl Mssrepels-sus.
psst Arrested q Garage Known as
slssadsuartsrs q Taxi Cab Robbers
-vie4im Witness In oraft Case.

here, whose sensational charges that
the police were suilty Of grating and
oppression were to bs investigated to-
day By the sTand Jury. was shot and
killed In front ofsthe Hotel Metropole
early this morning by Ave men who
escaped In . large gray touring car.
Roeeukf,al was murdered only rev
hourn b6fore he Waa to have appeared
Ia the home Of District Attorney
whitman, and give further statements
N An eflcrt to sNbstantiate the police
grating charges.
Suspect Under Arrsst.
Within three hours after the muir
der detectives vieited the garage on
washington square. known to the po-
lice N the ncaGquarters Of the taxi
cab robbers who recently robbed the
hank messengers and captured q man
describing himself as Louis LIBBY.
whom they made q prisoner on
charge OF homicide. The police al
40 recovered an automobile which they
say was the one that figured IN the
murder.
Daputy Commissioners Dousherty as
serted that eye witnesses to the mur-
der Of .Rosenthal identified Libby as
tone OF the quintet who drove up IN
front Of the hotel and. calling the gam
bier from the dining room to the slde-
walk. shot him down with a fusilade
of bullets and then fed in the motor
nar Rceersha! vas shot five times
u the head.
~ vvjJsw Accuses Police.
Yfrs sadie Rosenthal. widow Of the
~s,nhiar. IL - & statement to District
Vtlnruay whitman, put, the assasss-
IHtSaas soEshe husband sQuarely up 20
1 NJ ~ s1aSli06 oao warned her husoand
sfhat NJ he kaptss IN appointment &c
n X tsal,ld coraes TO ayiolent end. She saio
- Nd . prssaoniton tragedy
wouid follow such a conference. ana
she named police OFFICIAL as one OF
the men who were 70 be present.
ljhbey identified ~ Chauffeur.
deputy Police Commissioners Dough-
erty said today:
...rh. car used was No. 41.313, New
York. Il was bought by Louis Libbey
fAst October. He promised to pay $SsS
Tor II. had paid 5000 and was still
paying on 1t.
at has been positively identified as
the car used by the assassin and Lib
bey has been positively Identified as
the Chauffeur and as one OF the men
Who fired ct Rosenthal. The car was
found in the garage on South Wash
ington square.
.aThe charge against the prisoner is
homicide. The garage II the same IN
which was found the taxi used by
Montani Ii the $4,000 taxi robbery. At
this time this II all can say"
Police lieutenant Becker Joined Dis
trict Attorney Whitman when he heard
0f the murder. He said: 1T Is very re-
sretabie I know of no motive
havue,t seen Rosenthal for a week"
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.
Hossnthai Care for No One.
..rve been threatened" Rosenthal
was quoted - saying. "but don't care
Z hang for anybody. I'm going to stay
ffEht hexs ana face this thing. They
didn't play this game on the level and
I'm Eoing to. stick and get Justice"
Rosenihal sprang suddenly into pub
lic notiSs only last Friday when he
filed aSfidavits charging that the po-
lice were I'm league with gamblers. He
n8O U004, pEOQI4cSOI Va 60hO1lu6
house which closed on April 1b after a
raid BY Police Lieutenant Becker, head
OF the so-calied strong arm squad.
This rid, Rosenthal declared, fol-
lowed q misunderstanding between
himself and Becker. The latter, Ro-
senthal alleged. was his partner, hav-
ing lent him $500 on chattel mort
Haxe . & share in the gambling busi-
ness. Becker's share amounted to Is
psr. cent q the profits.
otSAsnssnt BY Becker.
Lieutenant Becker later said:
1T ought to be needless for me to
say I think + ought mot to be asked to
say that n know absolutely nothing
about the crime. who perpetrated II.
what the motive or, what end 10 to be
gained byit want to say now that
/ have san this much. that 1t was to
my. best ana only advantage that Ro-
senthal should have been permitted to
tive FOR many years II not for q few
more Aay6s only
81 bore this man no malice. He set
himself up - my enemy. have ex-
plained every move made with this
man TO the subtraction of my superl-,
ors ~
4 .The mortgage Ii very easily ex-
planned. ~ look on It now, in three
more day1s the whole thing would have
been on. calculated that In three
days at the outside the last suspicion
would be lifted from the police depart !
ment bys documentary legal evidence
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