Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-07-18
ROSE IN
MURDER CASE
Police Lieutenant Becker's
Friend Hired Auto.

lnstigated the ssa~ssination of Herman
Rosenthal and that they are willing to
help the district attorney to prove 1t
was the declaration made by Louis
Libby and William Shapiro, owners Of
the automobile that carried the muir
derers. Libby and Shapiro are now
under arrest for the murder. They
told their stories to Aaron J.. Levy,
their counsel.
While Commissioner D~ougherty's de-
~tectives were searching the city for big
Jack Rose of the Sam Paul association
and a friend of Becker Of the strong
arm squad, and for a little gambler
named Itzke, both Of whom are want
ed in connection with the killing, Libby
and Shapiro were telling Lawyer Levy
the story Of how the raid on the Met
ropole was arranged and what took
place after Rosenthal was shot to
Heath.
The prisoners talked with apparent
randor. They said to Levy that they
will have no more dealings with the
detectives and that they will tell what
they know only to the district attorney.
Jack Rose Engages Car.
AS Libby, spokesman for the pair,
tells the story, he was waiting at the
Cafe Boulevard last Monday afternoon
for somebody to come along and rent
the car that he and Shapiro had
bought. Late In the afternoon Whitley,
the starter at the Boulevard, got a
phone call from Jack Rose. Rose want
ed the automobile for that night and
left orders to have 1t run up to Four
teenth street and be in waiting In
front Of Tom S%harkey's saloon.
Shapiro got to Sharkey's with the a
about II 80 and found Rose and two
men waiting. One Of these Shapiro
knew only as Itzke. The other was a
stranger. Itzke and the stranger piled
In the auto and told Shapiro to drive
uptown. The trip took them far up In
the Bronx before Shapiro got the order
to turn about and head for the Tender
loin.
Shapiro said he whisked the car from
Sixth avenue into Forty-third street
and halted 1t by the curb just a little
east Of the Cohan theater.
Here the Libby-shapiro tale of ad-
venture came to a %standstill. MI. Levy
explained that neither Libby nor Sha-
piro will admit that they had anything
to do with the killing and that they
don't want to talk about the scene In
West Forty-third street until they go
before the district attorney. The own
ers of the gray car then took up their
story again at the point where their
patrons had leaped back into the car
and were hustling for safety.
Shapiro shows Il broken head as evil
dence that one of Rosenthal's murder
ers had pounded him with the butt Of
a revolver in a effort to make him
drive faster.
Didn't See Policemen.
"I started the car while the men
were climbing into it," said Shapiro.
Several Of them were still on the run
ming board when | turned loose and
made my machine jump toward Sixth
avenu l was scared clear through.
| didn't see any policemen. If there
were any In our path they kept them
selves well out Of sight. 1 never saw
a tax1cab full Of policemen after US.
"a yell from the man standing up
in the car ordered me to turn from
Forty-third street northward into Fifth
avenue. We went like lightning up
Fifth avenue, turned at Forty-sixth
street into Madison avenue, kept up
Madison to Forty-ninth and then shot
over to Third avenue. There 1 was
ordered to stop. My passengers, four
men, climbed out, and l was told to
beat 1t. l drove home to IS %Stuyvesant
street as fast as possible and woke up
Libby. / told him what had been
going on and that there had been shoot
ing and trouble"
The admission Of Libby and Shapiro
that Jack Rose hired the car for Mon
day night and was one Of the passen-
gers brought an acknowledgment by
Deputy Police Commissioner Dough-
erty that he was searching the town
for Rose In connection with Rosen-
thal's murder.