The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-08-08
POLICE DRAGNET
CATCHES ANOTHER
District Attorney Whitman Will
Bring Shapiro and Cirosici To-
gether-Evidence Points More
Strongly to Police Murder.
Lieutenant Talks.
NEW YORK. SneciaI.-Mifh

NEW YORK, SpeciaI.-With
another OF the alleged assassinS of
hCFs's22 Essential. the gambler,
who gave INFORMATION concerning
police graft. i'm custody and suffi-
Cicnt evidence secured to obtain
indictments for murder against
four men, District Attorney Whit
man declared today that he had
made long stride toward getting
at the bottom of the crime.
The latest suspect captured is
"DaSO Frank one of the men
who rode in the murder car TO
the scene of the assassination.
The fact that he was arrested in
the city is accepted as proving the
truth of the charges that nearly
all of the hunted men are still
in New York.
"Da@O Frank who has IA
record 0s burglar and las used
many ALIASES. said his name was
Frank CirOsiCi when he was lock-
eel up. He WAS arrested at 523 W.
One Hundred and Thirty-fOurth
Street. lie il declared by the pO-
Ice 10 he one OF the actual asSas-
sins.
The arrests were made by Dc
tcCtivcS UWOn. CaSsaCa. NCIICn-
sent To look up CiroSici. With
them thcy arrested Rosie Harris.
also known as Regina Gordon.
and Abraham Lewis. or Fat
Abic." IL his intimatcs know him.
The IlarrjS woman and Fat
Able were held a. material wit
ncsScS. the former going TO the
Clinton Street Station. the latter
being locked mp at headquarters.
ALI. UNDER OPIUM.
All three prisoners Wcre under
the influence OF opium when ar
rested. according to Deputy Com
missioner DOuShcrIy. who qucs-
toned them early this morning
before giving oHt their names.
Only the Harris woman was able.
DOu2hcrIX said, To give II clear ac-
count of her movements on the
night ROscnthaI WAS murdered.
She attempted To establish an
alibi for "DagO Frank by stating.
that she saw him about The time
K"Scnthal WAS murdered, hut the
accused man denied this. ana in
sisted that II cNas out of town.
Deputy Police Commissioner
DouShcrty and Inspector Hughes
later gave out Il statement, in
which they said:
"CtrOSiCi il charged with COM
pliCity in the murUCr of Herman
KOsCnthaI. The two others are
held aS material witnesses Giro
SiU viii he confronted with NIL
liam shapiro and other Witnesses
of the shooting OF ROscnthal that
ne may be identified a. the man
known a. "Da@O ETanL." who il
wanted for the murder. along
with Harry IiOrOWitZ. Lefty
Louis" alias Louis Rosenberg
and Whitley Jack" Lewis, alias
Frank Muller.
"Cirosici admits that he knows
ana - an associate @. .-.rD...--
and of Lefty Lewis lie de-
mics that he knows anything OF
the murder of ROScnthai or where
the other two men are. Two
satchels. filled with clothes. as
though CirOsici intended TO leave
town right away. were found in
the flat and were brought 10 no
lice headquarters with ihc pris-
OnerS.
WONfAN'S STATEMENT.
THE Harris woman gives her
age as twentY-fOur. She SAYS She
was arrested the night KOsCnthaI
was killed. and the records show
that at 1 :05 A. Nj. Tuesday, ,JuIN
I6th. she was picked up on West
One Hundred and Sixteenth
Street and charged with lettering
Dy some OF Inspector SWecny'S
men. When taken to court in
the morning she was sent to the
WorkhOuSe for five days by Mag
istratc Murray. The hour OF her
arrest Is identical with that of
ROscnthaI's death.
Rosie Harris says that 'Dago
Frank could not have taken part
In the murder of ROScnthal. She
says that when she was locked
up she sent word to Fat Able
who got 'DaSO Frank to find
somebody to bail her out. and she
met DagO Frank on the street
before 4 o'clock. when he had
found n bOndSman. We will in
Vestigate this story, but IL il inn
possible to get from the men
their version of what happened
Tuesday morning."
Through the confession of VIII
liam Shapiro, driver of the gray
automobile used by the murder
crs I'm going TO the Hotel Metro
pole to kill ROsenthal, and in
making their escape, the District
Attorney was able to complete