Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-08-03
TRAIL SLAYERS
To MOUNTAINS
SIeuths Locate Lefty Louie
and "Gyp the Blood"

New York, Aug. 3.-"Lefty Louie
and 'Gyp the Blood are surrounded
In their hiding place in the Catskills
by twenty central Office men and a
force of deputy sherifs. The gunner
are under cover less than 100 miles
from New York. We believe that they
Will be under arrest before the day Is
over"
That statement was made in the
office Of Police Commissioner Waldo.
The commissioner had received word
from the detectives, who have been
pitching hay and milking the cows
of Delaware and Ulster counties while
they waited for the murderers Of Her
man to slip into the sunlight from
their mountain retreats. Close mouth
ed as usual, both the commissioner
and Deputy Commissioner D%ougherty
were obviously elated over the fash
from the Catskills. Detectives Cas-
sassa and McEenna were rushed
north on a West Shore train. Dough
erty phoned instructions to the police
chiefs Of the mountain towns. Head
quarters was awake and busting.
1t was taken as a fact that the terri
tory around which the central ONCE
men and the deputy ahertns- have
draw q Gordon II the southwest end
corner Of Ulster c%ounty-the retreat in
which "Whitey" Lewis, who vas
brought here and held for murder.
was located by Detective James F.
Harvey, who posed as a farm hand,
while Lewis was pretending to be a
chauffeur out Of work.
Has Been Haven For Gamblers.
1t Ia a pleasant mountain country
and It has been for years the resort
Of Manhattan gamblers and gangsters
who spent their money there in the
summer months. A slip Of the tongue
by Harry Vallon, an admission from
BRIDGE" Weber and the %incautious-
ness Of the friends OF the men wanted
for murder transferred the hunt from
New York to the mountains. Since
Sunday, July 10, the pick Of Dough
erty's detectives have been searching
this territory. Late on Thursday aft
ernoon a short, fat man with bright
blue eyes. a shock Of light hair and a
pleasant smile was on his way from a
boarding house in FleIschmans to the
Delaware and Western railroad sta
ton. A farm hand, who had been
perched on a rail fence. slid to the
road, strolled up to the fat mar and
grabbed him by the shoulder. The
stout person pulled away with a curse.
whats the matter with you, you
rubeT he said.
The farmland removed the big straw
hat that had been pulled well down
over his face.
"Hello. Whitley" he said amiably.
"Going to New York;"
GOOD night" said the fat man. ~
might have known it. You're Detec-
tive Harvey. aren't you? l know you
face"
The capture Of "Whltey" Il evils,
whose real name is Frank %Seidenshue,
although he calls himself usually
Frank Mueller. and occasionally for
business purposes takes the names Of
Jacob Seigel, or whitley" Jack, was
accomplished by the same methods
that are being used to bring about the
arrest Of Louis Rosenzweig, Lefty
Louie, and Harry Horow1tz, "Gyp the
Blood"
From the time the detectives found
u that three of the four men &C,
cused Of shooting Rosenthal had fed
to the mountain country the best men
that Dougherty could lay hands on
were sent there to tan their faces and
callous their hands ut farm work.
Here was a situation" said Dough
erty. where the fiat footed cop was
Of no USE"
Dougherty Senses a Clew.
The story Of Lewis arrest goes back
to the first examination of Bridge"
Webber. shortly after Rosenthal was
murdered. The little gambler, I'm
conscious Of its value, confded to
Dougherty that his brother ran a
boarding house at Fallsburg. Without
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