New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-15
SOUGHT FAR AND W|TE
Reported Here, There, Every.
where, but Never Found.
PRICE PUT ON THEIR HEADS
Whitman Excluded Police IN
Reward, as He Thought They !,
Would Be Produced"

Mystery has surrounded the unsavo.x,
and picturesquely named pair ever sn..
1t was reported they were in the gra,
murder car Reported here. repor,A.
there, watched for at Par Rockaway
sought In Harlem's dives, declared N h.
In Pennsylvania, seen in the Tendo,
loin, they were everywhere. and thsv
were not anywhere.
Only about a week after the murder
gambler Interested in the case said n.
saw Lefty" Louie at Sixth avenue sns
4Sth street, and two days later a letts,
was shown postmarked from Harlem. Ana
stating that Horowitz intended to attend
the meeting OF the Sam Paul Associ..
ton on July q. He wrote:
You know they can't get anything n,
me All I'm afraid OF is some OF thosA
hop-heads will blow on me before I ca.
things squared" But the Sam" PAU
Association shut up tight that night and
there was no meeting.
Then Commissioner Dougherty heard
on August 1 that "Gyp" the Blood had
been calmly talking to Harlem taxica6
chauffeurs few nights before The very
same day Boston gambler said ne saw
the man talking to big Jack" Zelig near
the Hotel Touraine in that city. ~
Burns Mon on Trail e..
District Attorney Whitman put Burns
men on the trail and Dougherty sent men
TO the Rockaways and others 10 comb the
Catskills 1t was in this Catskill Search
ba
up by the police was raken-"Whitey'
Lewis .'' ~
Indictments were returned against the
two men on August 20. along with d
Whitley" Lewis, "Dago Frank" "JacA +
William Shapiro and Leutsnans@
Becker, and some persons confidently e.
pected them TO walk into Police Head.
quarters and surrender as jauntily az
Harry Vallon did. But they deceived
these optimists. and District Attorney
Whitman put $3.50 on each mans head.
In the text Of his offer he excluded tbs
Police Department, and announced at tie
time:
II cannot escape the conclusion that
some members OK the Police Department,
at least, have known, II they do not now
know, the whereabouts OF these murder.
ers."
As short a time ago as Sunday before
last the District Attorney said he would
not be at all surprised IL the missing
gunner put In All appearance before the
Becker trial lie said he had inforna-
ton that the men we're likely TO be Pro
duced" as witnesses for Becker in order
20 bolster up the probable defence that
Rosenthal was killed as the result Of a
gang feud and that Harry Nalon was
the only man who fired a shot ...
One theory OF the defence, it has been
rurnored, is that Beckers counsel viii en-
deavor TO prove that $1,000 had been Of
fered Rosenthal to leave town, as gamblers
feared his promised disclosures would
ruin the business. bat that he raised h!s
Price to So. 600. and the four men obtainet
hv big jack Zelig were sent TO his
place to capture him and put him on
train. The story of this defence then runs
that WALTON, who had been drinking, was
overcome with hatred for Rosenthsl and
he saw the man leave the Metropole, and
forgetting all about the plan 70 kldnap
Rosenthal, killed the squealer"
This contention, if sustained. would not
only clear Becker's skirts. but would save
"Gyp" the Blood and Lefty Louie from
and that the hope thus held
put would induce the gunner to sur
render or to be discovered" by the POI
ice has long been considered plausible
around the District Attorneys Office.