The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-08-03
MEN ARE PENNED IN.
Twenty Detectives Surround
Harry HOrOwitz and
Louis ROsenZweig.
LEWIS Is QUESTIONED
Knows All About Murder. Is
Doughcrty's Comment After
the InquisitiOn.

Twenty Central Office men and "A
force Of deputy sheriffs have Gyp the
Blood and Lefty Louie surrounded in
their hiding place in the Catskills. The
gunmen are under cover less than
100 miles from New York. We believe
they will be under arrest by tomorrow
night"
That stateuent was made to THE Sun
last night in the office Of Police Com
missioner Waldo. The Commissioner
had received word from detectives who
have been pitching The hay and milking
the cows of Delaware and Ulster
counties while they waited for the
murderers of Herman Rosenthal to
slip into the sunlight from their noun
tain retreats.
Close mouthed as usual. both the
Commissioner and Deputy Commits
| sloner Dougherty were obviously elatcd
over the word flashed from the Cats
! kills. Detectives Casassa and Nc
Kenna were rushed north on a West
Shore train. Dougherty telephoned In
structions to the police chiefs of the
| mountain towns. Headquarters was
awake and hustling.
1t was taken as a fact that the
territory around which the Central
Office men and the deputy sheriffs have
| drawn Gordon IN the southeast end
OF Delaware county and the northwest
corner OF Ulster county--the retreat in
which Whitley Lewis who was brought
here yesterday and held for murder
was found by Detective James f.
Harvey. who posed as n farmland
while Lewis was pretending to be
chauffeur out of work.
Catskills the Gangmen's Resort.
1t Is pleasant mountain country
and It has been for several years the
resort OF Manhattan gamblers and
gangsters. who spent their money there
In the summer months. \ slip OF the
tongue by Harry Nallon. an admission
from Bridgie Webber and the incau.
tiousness OF the friends of the men
wanted for murder transferred the hunt
. from New York to the mountains. Since
| sunday. July 1S the pick of Dough-
ertN's detectives have been searching
this territory.
Late on Thursday afternoon a short
TAT man with bright blue eyes shock OF
Ilfht halr ana n pleasant smile was on his
way from a boarding house at Fleisch-
manns Ia the Delaware and Eastern
railroad station. \ farmland who had
been porchcd On rail fence slid TO
the road, strul!cd up to the fat man
ana grabbed him by the shoulder. The
stout. person pulled away with curse
what's The matter with you, YOU
rubc?" he said.
The farmland removed the big straw
hat that had been pulled we'll down
over his face.
Hello, WnItey," he said amiablv.
"Goins to New York"
Good night" said the fat man. II
might have known it. You're Detective
Harvey. aren't YOU? know your face
now"
The capture Of Whitley Lewis, whose
real nam" is Frank Siedenshue, al
though he calls himself usually Frank
Muller. and occasionally for business
purposes takes the name of Jacob
SeRcl. OF Whitley Jack. was accom-
plishcd by The same methods that are
being used 10 bring about the arrest
OF Louis Rosen2weig U.efty Louic) and
Harry Horowitz (Gyp the Blood. From
the time that the detectives found out
that three of the four men accused OF
shooting Rosenthal had fled to the
mountain country the best men that
Dougherty could lay hands ON were sent
there to tan their faces and caIlous
their hands at farm work.
Here was a situation" said Dough-
eriy yesterday. "where the hatfootcd
cop was of no use"
Got TIP From Webbcr.
The story of Lcwis's arrest goes ba *
to the first examination OF Bridgie Web
her. shortly after Rosenthal was MUIR
dercd. The little gambler, unconscious
Of its value. Confided to Dougherty tha.
his brother ran boarding house AT
Fallsburg. Without sensing what the
Deputy Commissioner was driving at.
Webber went on to tell how he and Val
Ion and others Of their merry mixed
set usually spent the trying weather
Of the summer months in the cool and
quiet little towns OF the Catskills-Big
Indian. Fleischmann's. Griffin Corners
and other villages.
When Harry Vallon twirled his walk
Ing stick into Police Headquarters and
sat down some hours later for a chat
with the Deputy Commissioner he lei
out that his wife was at Big indian.
Prying into the gossip of gamblers
and gangsters Dougherty discovered
that hardly a man mentioned In CON
nection with the Rosenthal murder
was not familiar with these Catsklli
villages They rather claimed the credit
Of discovering the summer resorts.
Nallon and Webber complained mildly
that va many people were going there
now that big Indian and Fleischmann's
had lost The cxclusiveness that once
made them delightful So what with
the admissions and the connrmati0n
, from other sources Waldo and Dough-