The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-07-23
Mrs. Rosenthal, Widow of
Murdered Gambler, Will
Be Asked to Tell All She
Knows About Becker.
--LATEST PRISONER
is HARRY VALLON
Surrenders Himself at Police
Headquarters. - The Po-
lice Are Looking for Sev-
eral Other Men.
National News Association)


NEW YORK, July 23-The hearing
in the Supreme court on the applica-
tion for writ of habeas corpus for
Sam Paul and Louis Weber held in
connection with the murder of Herman
Rosenthal. was postponed until tomor-
row to give the stenographers an op-
portunity to transcribe the notes in
the case
Mrs. Lillian Rosenthal, widow of the
murdered gambler, appeared before
the grand jury today.
District Attorney Whitman desired
to obtain from her corroberative evi.
dence of the charges that the police
collected tribute on gambling.
Other information sought from Mrs.
Rosenthal was regarding various din
ner parties which she attended to-
gether with Rosenthal, Lieutenant and
Mrs. Becker and others; whether
Jack" Rose was placed in Rosenthal's
gambling house by Becker to keep ac-
count of the receipts and see that he
received his full share of the profits;
the conversations she overheard and
those in which she participated be-
tween Rosenthal and Becker, and be-
tween Rosenthal and others, which
have direct bearing on the case; also
the various alleged warnings received
from Rose and others that unless
Rosenthal left town he would be kill
ed; telephone messages received from
Rose Immediately before the tragedy
which he intimated that Rosenthal
was marked for death. ''-,--'.e-
There was another arrest in the
case today, but it was made only when
man whom the police had confessed
themselves unable to find, surrendered
himself. The latest prisoner is Har-
ry Vallon, who has been frequently
mentioned as the member of the gamb-
ling coterie that Rosenthal had en-
bittered by his revelations. He drove
up to police headquarters at one
o'clock this morning and gave his
name to the lieutenant and was es-
corted to the Mulberry street police
station. There he was booked as
A2oAAy oiAoA, 90 yOdI D. SJC4 "5uSPAS-
ious person"
Vallon has been mentioned in var.
ious ways in gossip about the crime
He is said to have been a go-betwecl
for the police and gamblers below 14th
street. One report is that he was in
the gray automobile when it stopped
in front of the Metropole. Another is
that he was in 1t earlier in the even.
ing with Jack Rose.
Still another is that he it was who
called Boob" Walker, and a man
named Hickey, from a table at which
they were talking to Rosenthal in the
Metropole just before the shooting
But the only charge against him now
is being a suspicious person. Vallon
is one of the men the police announced
they were very anxious to get 9th.
ers are:
Dago Frank, notorious gunman
and East Side gangster
Harry Horouitz, alias "Gib, the
Blood" who has been a notorious char.
acter for several years and an uptown
lieutenant Of Jack Selig, the gang
leader.
Today it is said they are also look
ing for "Humpty" Jackson, a former
gang leader released from Sing Sine
about four weeks ago and Red" wag
ner. Jackson and Wagner are said to
be the first men Jack Rose picked ur
after the murder car left Sharkeys in
14th street That private help will be
given District Attorney Whitman be
came known today. J. P Morgan and
other millionaires have pledged aid in
running down the slayer to preserve
law.
While the District attorney prepared
to place before the grand jury the sto
ry Of Mrs. Lillian Rosenthal, widow OF
the murdered gambler, H. T. Marshall
counsel for Louis Webber and Sam
Paul, two of the men held as accom-
plices to the assassination got ready
for battle this afternoon before Jus
tice Giegerich of the supreme court
The attorneys asked to have the men
released upon a writ of habeas cor.
pus.