Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-25
ROSENTHAL CASE
D0UGHBAG OPEN
Money Is Distributed in Tender
loin TO Silence Possible
Witnesses.
Continued from FRS. Page,

cernlnS the accuSeo men.
He began by saying that he was II
front of the Cadillac Hotel, in Yves
Forty-third street, just at the tim,
of the murder and that he had seel
Weber, but that he was not sur,
Weber was running, as he previous
ly had told Mr.. Whitman. He wal
not positive he even had seen Web
Der.
Did you not say that you were
afraid to testify in this case and thai
you were afraid they would take your
life?" he was asked.
NO" he replied: IT said that |
did not wish to get mixed up in It -
John the Barber" was perspiring
and frightened within an inch of his
life. Assistant District Attorney
Moss then testified to the story Refs.
Ter told previously to the district
attorney and himself.
Arrested as Perjurer.
Reosler then was questioned by
II. T. Marshall, counsel for Weber.
The witness was more scared than
ever. He said, "I think, but | am not
sure" AS he left the stand District
Attorney Whitman ordered his ar
rest for perjury. The hearing of Web
Der was continued until tomorrow
afternoon at 2 o'clock, and Paul's
hours. Admittance to the hearing
was by card, through fear hat the
gangsters, friends Of the accused men,
might try to pack the room and make
trouble.
Strangely enough, the very men
who were supposed to be excluded
managed to get tickets, while law
yers and newspapermen who had
legitimate business at the hearing
were shut out. Two gangsters were
arrested leaving the hearing charged
with carrying pistols. D..
Webber Also Changes Testimony.
The fear of the big men of the
T%enderloin again was shown when
Herman Stein, waiter at the Lafay-
cite baths, denied that Jack Rose,
Webber and Sam Paul had breakfast
at the baths the morning after the
murder. Stein previously had de-
clared that he waited on them at
breakfast and wen gave a list of the
dishes they ordered.
District Attorney Whitman, how
ever, confirmed the story that Jack
Rose and his associates did partake
of a murder breakfast" at the baths
a few hours after the assassination
of RosenthaI.
Affidavits have been obtained from
rubbers and other employees of the
baths and they shatter the alibis of
Rose, Paul, Weber and WALTON. all
of whom were arrested for the crime,
but who persistently insist that they
are innocent.
Reported to Becker.
Otto Aversi. chauffeur for Broker
S%ternberg, whose car Lieutenant
Becker used the night of the Rosen-
thai assassination, was again called
before the Grand Jury and quickly
trapped into telling that when he
left the Grand Jury room Monday he
went directly to police headquarters
and reported to Becker.
In the testimony given Monday
Aversi admitted he had been coached
for the examination by Becker. This
at once made him one of the most
witnesses in the case, and
when the chauffeur left the Criminal
Courts building he was followed by
detectives. AS o 10 as the district
attorneys men made their report n
other subpoena was issued for Aversi.
which was responsible for his second
still Alleges Connivsnce.
The police have declared that the
in the street was so great at
the time of the shooting that the Off
GERS who rushed to the scene did not
locate the escaping murderers.
In view of this statement the dis
trict attorney is trying to find out
why out of all these only one witness
was found for the coroner's examina-
ton. He repeats his claim that
the police connived at the assassina-
ton of the gambler who was about
to ~''squeal'' on members of the de-
partment.
Sadie Sherman and Miss Artie Hall,
who were seated at a table near that
occupied by Rosenthal OF the night
of the shooting. firmly declared that
man in a hight suit ran into the
Metropole restaurant after the first
two shots we're fired. This man has
not yet been identified.
. Planning for Defense.
1t is reported now that Charles
E. Erbstein, a noted criminal lawyer
of Chicago, has been retained to de-
fend Rosenthal's slayer. Erbstein
was acquitted about a year g of a
charge of jury-fixing. He has been
called the Abe Hunlmel of Chicago"
At the Sam Paul Association head
quarters, in East Seventh street, it
was admitted freely that Erbstein
expected to work in conjunction
with the New York attorneys for
Paul, Weber. WALTON and Rose. Just
what was to be his part in the work
of the defense couId not be learned.
II was the common report around
the Sam Paul rooms that a meeting
will be held at once to determine
just what levies shall be made upon
the gamblers and ~divekeepers of the
lower East Side and the Tenderloin
to pay for the defense of the men
charged with completely in the Rosen-
thai murder.
Horowitz has written that he will he
at the meeting of the Sam" Paul AS
ISOLATION tonight. A letter to this
effect has been received by a close
friend of Lieutenant Becker.
You know they can't get anything
on me, the letter says. "All I'm
afraid of is some of these topheads
will blow on me before l get things
squared. Are they stalling or
Bridge 2
It is inferred Horowitz is having
trouble in preparing an alibi. .