Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-27

SAW WEBER RUNNING
Others to Be Apprehcnded-Mystcr-
ious Woman Appears at Police
Headquarters and is Closeted.

New York, July 27.-Possibly the
most startling development of this,
the eleventh day after the murder Of
gambler Herman Rosenthal, was the
establishment of the fact that John A.
Rich, alias Jack Sullivan, whose real
name is Jacob Reich, the latest
man to be held for the killing, is the
close associate of Police Lieutenant
Charles Becker, and admittedly was
a passenger in BecHer's automobile
most of the night before the murder.
He left the Becker automobile not long
before the shooting, at "Bridgey"
Webber's gambling house in Forty
second street Louis krese, the mys-
terious surprise witness who yester-
day identified Sullivan as one of the
men he saw in front of the Metropole
Hotel at the time Of RosenthaPs assas-
sination, also swore positively that he
saw Webber running away.
On the testimony of Krese, who is
Coney Island waiter and of Barber
John" Reisler, who swore that he saw
Webber running from the scene of
Rosenthal's murder, Webber today is
held in a Tombs cell without bail, char
ged with the murder OF Rosenthal, and
will be held there unit August Is the
date set for the Rosenthal inquest.
Another man now held without bail
directly charged with the gamblers
murder is Frank Cirofci, "Dago
Frank" committed to the Tombs after
his story told to District Attorney
Whitman had been proved false by
the accidental discovery of photo
graph. Crossquestioned by Deputy
Commissioner Dougherty, "Dago
Frank" positively denied knowing
"Whitey" Louis, Lefty" Loewy and
"Gyp the Blood" while Dougherty at
the moment was in possession of a
group photograph taken at Coney Is
land, in which appeared Cirofici,
Louis, Loewy, "Gyp the Blood" and
two women
Mayor Gaynor who yesterday wrote
Commissioner Waldo letter ordering
him not to suspend Becker, and ex-
pressing confidence in the commlssl-
oner, today declined to take any act
ion on the petition presented by AL
derman Curran and signed by seven
teen aldermen, asking that a special
meeting of the board be called to con-
slider the Rosenthal case.
The mayor said he would reply to
Curran on Monday.
That the days developments in the
Rosenthal murder gambling inqulslt-
ion might include the capture of Har-
ry Horowitz, an east side gambler,
known as "Gyp, the Blood" believed
to have been a member of the "mur-
der car"was indicated by the appear
ance at headquarters today of mys
terious woman, said to be the wife OF
Horowitz
The woman was brought by detec-
tives from Far Rockaway and taken
to the office of Deputy Commissioner
Dougherty with whom she was clos
eted. The detectives. and Dougherty
declined to tell anything about her.
"Jack" Sullivan, whose real name IS
Reich, and who is known on the east
side as "King of the newsboys" today
was held without bail by Coroner Fein
berg, for completely in the murder OF
Rosenthal and was remanded to a call
in the Tombs until Monday when ne
will be given hearing.
Sullivan was in an ugly mood when
he was arraigned, at the request OF
Assistant District Attorney Moss on
the affidavit of Detective Finn
"That man Krese is nut Sulll-
van declared, "and ought to be either
in Jail or in an asylum. He is one of
the morbid sensationalists VIII always
turns up in every big murder inVesti-
CATION"
Sullivan said that he did not reach
the scene of Rosenthal's murder until
ten minutes after the shooting, when
there were fully 1000 persons around
the Metropole and he asserted that II
was he who telephoned the newspapers
about the killing