Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-16
NEW YORK GAMBLER
PUBLICLY KILLED.
Sensational Gang Murder" in the
Heart of the TenderlOin
District
SHOT IN THE GLARE OF LIGHT
Murderers Escape in Automobiles
One suspect Arrcsted-POlicc Prom
ise Sensations.

New York, July 16.-The most SEN
sationa gang murder" in the history
of :]ew Yori: was committed at two
d H., today in tho very heart Of the
n.y. tenderlom Ea"rlln Roscnthal,
noted gambler and the storm center
f the city's Ia. gambling scandal,
was shot to de!t. in the glare of the
lights Of the Hotel Metropolc. Ills
murderers utilizing modern methods,
c'me to the sceTe and escaped in Il
:'Yh powered 3cvcn passenger auto
mobile which easily out d;stanccd the
taXicabs pressed into service for pr
suit by the police.
One important arrest had been made
up to the middle oi the morning. The
accused man was Louis Libby, 50, Of
81 StuyveSant street. lie was picked
up in garage at ~ South Wash
ington Square two hours after the
killing. Deputy Police Commissioner
Dougherty, who was in direct charge
of the man hunt, insisted that he had
three witnesses who knew Libbey ana
who had positively identified him as
the chauffeur of the car in which the
murderers made their escape and one
witness who swore that Libbey fired
at Rosenthal.
Libbey's touring car answered the
description of that used by the mur-
derers. The license number was the
same given by score of persons who
saw the shooting. He was closely
questioned by the police. Beyond in
sisting that he had the right man and
would soon have all the others, Depu-
ty Commissioner Doughcrty would
not talk.
He already had one man detained as
material witness and it was rumor-
ed that another principal had been
secretly picked up and was being de-
tanned in his inner Office A peculiar
feature in connection with Libbey's
arrest was that the garage where he
stored his car was that used by Gino
Montani and the taxicab robbers who
recently held up two bank messen-
gers and stole $4,000.
The police insisted there was no
doubt that the murder of Rosenthal
was carefully planned and they de-
clare the actual murderers undertook
the crime fo rhire. They said that
when the entire operations of the plot
were revealed the city would be as
founded at its ramifications.
The murder early today of Herman
Rosenthal, while the elimination of
his war with the police and with the
uptown gamblers was probably the
most carefully planned and cold-blood-
ed of the recent gang killings in this
city.
He was recognized as the agent of
certain influential downtown poll
ticians and in most of his undertak-
ings presented simply the bank roll of
prominent sporting man and poll
tician of national repute.
1t was openly asserted yesterday
that he had been ordered by his pat
ron to leave town for a while, as he
had talked too much" 1t was in con-
nection with these orders that he went
to the Hotel Metropole, outside of
which he was killed, to hold q number
of conferences.
Four shots were fired-some of the
eye witnesses put the number at a
dozen but the police are now certain
only four were used--and one struck
the gambler on the bridge of the nose
crashing into the brain. The murder
ers then escaped.