Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-07-18

poTtant Witnesses out OF the way. Bet
ter men than / have been put out Of the
way for daring to squeal on the police"
is statement attributed to the gambler,
made shortly before he met his death.
WAS TO HAVE TOLD MORE.
Rosenthal was murdered only a few
hours before he was to appear in the
home Of District Attorney whitman and
give further statements in an effort to
substantiate the police grating charges.
Within three hours after the murder
detectives visited garage in Wash
ington square known to the police as
the headquarters of the taxicab robbers.
who recently robbed bank messengers of
$4,000 and captured man describing
himself as Louis Libby. whom they made
a prisoner on the charge Of homicide.
The police also recovered an automobile
that they say was the one that figured
In the murder
Deputy Commissioner Dougherty as
serted that eyewitnesses to the murder
of Rosenthal identified Libby as one of
the quintette who drove up In front of
the hotel and calling the gambler from
the dining room to the sidewalk shot him
down with n fusillade of bullets. and then
fled in the motor car Rosenthal was shot
five times in the head.
Mrs Sadie Rosenthal. widow of the
gambler. in a statement to District At
torney whitman. put the sassna ton
of her husband squarely up to the police
She said she warned her husband that If
he kept an appointment last night he
would come to violent end. She said
bnI frop
follow such a conference and she named
a police official as one of the men who
was to be present
Deputy Police Commissioner Doukherty
said this morning: THE car used was
NO. 41.313 N. Y. 1t was bought by Louis
Libby last October. He promised to pay
$3.50 for it, had paid 500 and was still
paying on 1t.
CAR POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED,
1T has been positively identified as the
car used by the assassins and Libby has
been positively Identified as the chauffeur
and one Of the men who fired at
Rosenthal The arrest was made by
Detectives Lennon and Marion Of acting
Captain Gloster's staff. The car was found
in the garage on South Washington
square.
1.-The charge against the prisoner is
homicide. The garage Is the same in
which was found the taxi used by Mon
TAM and the $4,000 taxi robbers. At this
time this Is all can afford to say
Police Lieutenant Becker Joined Dis
trict Attorney Whitman at once when
he heard of the murder. He said: at is
very regrettable. ! know Of no motive.
I haven't seen Essential for a week and
then l met him casually"
The police learned that Rosenthal talk
ed with friends about the degree Of safe
ty in which he moved about since he
brought charges against the police.
i've been threatened" Rosenthal was
quoted as saying, but don't care hang
for anybody. I'm going to stay right here,
and face this thing. They didn't play
this game on the level with me. and I'm
going to stick. and get justice. common
justice, that's all I asked. and I'm going
to get It,"
POLICE BORE NO MALICE
Lieutenant Becker said later: ut
ought to be needless for me to say,
think I ought not to be asked to say.
that l know absolutely nothing about
the crime, who perpetrated It, what the
motive or what end is to be gained
by it. l want to say, now that I have
said this much, and perhaps l am vio-
lating a rule Of the department by so
saying, that 1t was to my best and
only advantage that Rosenthal should
have been permitted to live right on
for many years, IL not for q few more
days only. i bore this man no malice.
He set himself up as my enemy
have explained every move made with
this man to the satisfaction Of my
superiors.
THE mortgage is very easily ex-
planned. AS look on It now, in three
moro days the whole thing would have
been Off. I calculated that in three
days. at the outset. the last suspicion
would be lifted from the police depart
ment by documentary. legal evidence
before the proper authorities"
District Attorney Whitman said that
Rosenthal had told him yesterday that
he feared death at the hands of the
police
1.-THE police have killed better men than
me when 1t became necessary to do 1t ia
suppress evidence" the gambler said
according to the district attorney.
TOOK STATEMENT AS JOKE.
Mr.. Whitman added that when he took
this statement as a joke, Rosenthal re.
Piled. IT'S no laughing matter at all"
and expressed the fear that something
would happen to him In the next few
hours.
II was because Of this fear. Mr.. Whit
man explained, that he had told Rosen-
thai to come to his apartment this morn
ing instead of making the trip to the
criminal courts building
Rosenthal sprang suddenly into public
notice only last Friday. when he hurled
a bomb into police circles by filing aft.
davlts charging that the police were In
league with the gamblers Throughout,
New York and that every gambling house
was being assessed a fixed sum for police
protection.
Rosenthal had been for some time, he
explained, the proprietor Of a gambling
establishment OH West 18th street. which
was closed on April 10 after a raid by
foiice Lieutenant Becker. head Of the
so-called Strong-arm squad
This raid, Rosenthal declared, followed
misunderstanding between himself and
| Becker. The latter, Rosenthal alleged
| was MS partner in the profits of the es
! PUNISHMENT. Specifically, Rosenthals af
| ildaVlts charged that Lieutenant Becker
mad loaned him $500 on a chattel mort.
gage on furniture in the 45th street house
as snare in the gambling business done
on those promises, and that Becker's
snare amounted to twenty-five per cent
| OF the profits.