Norwich bulletin., 1912-07-17
Confession in
 Hands of Police
SEVEN ARREeTs SOON FOR Ros.
 ENfHAL MURDER.
THREE ALREADY HELD
Gambler Who Disclosed Partnership Between Police and Gamblers Shot Down-Hs Widow 6Iames Police


 New York. July 16.-Fhrough the alleged confession of a man under lar rest, the names of seven men said to have been participants in the sensa- tional killing early today of Herman RosenthaPs charges was not relished by presumably was about to make impor- tant additions to his recent disclos- ures of alleged partnership between high police officials and members of | the gambling fraternity, are believed to be in the hands of the police and additional arrests are expected to fol- low shortly.
 Threats Made Against Rosenthsl.
 According to District Attorney Whit man, Rosenthal was about to name gamblers who would be able to cor roberate his asseverations regarding police colluusion with men of his law banned calling.
 That such a raking up in gambling circles and spreading of the scope of 1 Rosenthals charges was notrehshed by men who might come to be involved was apparent, it develops, from talk among members of inner circles" in the Tenderloin which began as soon as word of Rosenthars purpose was pass ed along Threats were made yester- day. it Is declared, that things would fare i'll for Rosenthal if he continued to press his charges.
 Threat at Poker Party.
 If Rosenthal doesn't quit within the next few days we will get him for keeps" was a remark of member of a poker party on an East Side 'assO citation" outing on Sunday, reported by man who declares he overheard 1t, to District Attorney Whitman this af- ternoon.
 Up to a late hour the police had , given no inkling of the man in custody who had given the names of the seven mon alleged to. be implicated in ths shooting. During the day three men were arrested in connection with the murder of Rosenthal.
 l Owners of Auto Held. Louis Libbey. part owner. it is sl- legged. of the automobile containing the party of seven men who a little more than an hour before daylight were driven up in front of the Hotel Metro pole and from the members of which came the volley of shots wi
 stretched the gambler dead on the @ sidewalk as he stepped from the build ing was one of the trio. The police declare they are assured that he was
 the driver of the motor car and they
 have charged him with homicide His
 partner in ownership of a garage, VII
 liam Shapiro, is another prisoner-held as a material witness So Is man z whose identity the police have been hiding under the name of "John Doe.
 and who was declared to have been in
 the neighborhood of the hotel at the A time of the shooting.
 k Rosenthal Feared Only Police. ; Instead of fearing harm at the hands '' of the gambling fraternity. Rosenthaff
 chief dread. 1t is declared, was police
 enmity because of his charges against : a member of the force. He expressed this fear to the district attorney.
 The police will get me because they '' have a system of always putting inn
 portant witnesses out of the way. Bet
 ter men than I have been put out Of Y the way for daring to sdueal on the '. police" is a statement attributed to = the gambler shortly before he met his
 death.
 Widow Blanes Police. l. Mrs. Sadie Rosenthal, widow Of the )f gambler. in a statement to District Ia Attorney Whitman, put the assassina- n ton of her husband suuarely up to
 the police. She said she warned her
 husband that if he kept an appoint l. ment last night he would come to fo violent end She said she had pre- t- monition a tragedy would follow such le a conference, and she named police
 official as one of the men who wos tc
 be present.
 At least two witnesses agreed thai 9S one or more of the men in the auto mobile were policemen.
 k RosenthaPs Accusations. T. Rosenthal sprang suddenly into pub.
 lie notice only last Friday when h'
 hurled a bomb Into police circles b' ad l filing afidavits charging that the DO l. licA were in league with the gambler h. throughout New York. and that ever. ne gambling house was being assessed In fixed sum for police protection.
 Rosenthal had been for some time
 he explained. the proprietor of a gam 20 bling establishment on West Forty mt fifth street which was closed on Apr e. tb after a raid by Police Lieutens1 r. Becker. head of the so-cslled "stroni n" arm" squad.
 This raid, Rosenthal declared, fol
 lowed a misunderstanding betwee ITS himself and Becker. The latter. Roe he enthal alleged, was his partner in tn ut profits of the establishment. IS: Alleged Mortgage Loan GU Specifically, Rosenthars affidavit
 charged that Lieutenant Becker hs
 loaned him s1.5OO on a chattel mort -te gage on furniture in the Forty lift no street house as a share in the gam lal bling business done on those premises on and that Becker's share amounted or 25 per cent. of the profits.
 Rosenthal's charges were so sensa
 tional that Commissioner Waldo an le- District Attorney Whitman, both ( on whom were out of town, cut shol re, their vacations, to start an inquiry. d. Waldo Asked for an Investigation. e. Commissioner Waldo. after nakin
 himself acquainted with the situatio ,te yesterday, wrote a formal letter ed the district attorney demanding an 1T ey vestigation by that official rather tha ,er through his own department He sal ats that Rosenthaps accusation was n' on so much a charge of bad discipline
 the department, as one of out ar
 out crime. which. if worthy of seriqI
 consideration at an. would be worth ~ of adjudication before a regularly cor S9 stituted criminal tribunal. ,.h District Attorney Whitman fortl with announced that he would beg nn nn formal investigation today