The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-07-28
Does Not Believe That
He Could Have Pro-
tected Gamblers.
AFFIDAVIT MADE
BY LIEUTENANT
Details His Movements on Night
OF Roscnthal's Murder, in Ell
tort to Establish Man,
damus May Force Gaynor
to Call Meeting of Board
of Aldermen.
Especial TO Tho Tlmes.ninna..h1

Il
New York. July a7-To- days d.
N''OPineHts IN the murder police-xraft-
saHhoiihS investigation following tho
rIuruer eleven days ago of Gambler
rier man kosenthal Included threats hy
a.. men TO compel Mayor Gaynor.
VII OF mandemus. TO call to-
se'"er me board for the purpose of
eohsldering the Rosenthal murder s,d
mo wholesale charges Of graft ayai,st
INC police department that have fo1
iowed IN its wake
ROOF rooms, gambling houses and
itiot hntlon bureaus where racing
UPS are furnished. opened again to-dns.
after being closod by the police s,rcs
the Rosenthal murder.
fohce Commissioned Waldo for thu
nrst time since the murder. issued =
statement. largely IN defense OF IJer-
tenant charles Becker. In which he
uec'areo that the lieutenant could NOT
protected gamblers except under
'alse pretenses. because Becker wYa
not In charge of all the raiders and
sou!d not have given immunity had he
ueslred The statement also said that
IL was impossible to stop rnmhlinv
in New York The statement ilrst cana
out over Wsldo's name, and later tho
commissioner requested that "a birh
oniciat be substituted for his name.
Becker Makes Statement.
friends now are locked UP in connec-
tion with the murder and whom
Rosenthal charged with grating. two
aays before his murder. has made nm
ahidavlt in which he purports TO de-
tau all his movements on tho Monday
night and Tuesday morning of tho
killing 49,"
Following the arrest OF his friend
Jacob a. Reich. known also as JnnH
sullivan. cKlng of the Newsbovs'l
Becker told OF his movements. Ho
p. NJ
y visit TO his lawyer. taking a friend
nome in borrowed automobile and
then dinner, took him UP TO s. when hs
went with Sullivan Versl. the chauf.
four. and "a newspaper man to a prize
hsht at Madison Square Garden After
the fight he said he went to a down.
town newspaper Office. then took Suls
Ivan to "Bridgey" Webber's place in
Forty-second Street. and then went
home and 10 bed. arriving at his up
town hat about l:45 A NJ. Tuesday. He
was told Of the murder over tho tele-
rhone and came down town on SUBJ
way train. reaching the Metropole az,
ter 3 o'clock.
Alderman Curran. head of the
seventeen members who threaten to,
mandamus the Mayor, also wrote Cav
nor sarcastic letter. asking him how
1t would embarrass him IL the Board
found out how his man Rosenthar
was so theatrically and openly muir
dered IN the limelight of Longacre
Square2'
When the Mayor was approached to-
night on the subject he declared with
considerable asperity tnat the poti-
tionins Aldermen were trylng TO en-
barrass him In trying TO clear UP the
case. He put the matter over until
Monday AS three days notice is neo-
essary. the meeting cannot bs called
before August in any event
with eleven days elapsed sinca
Rosenthai was shot down seven men
night make UP the East Side gam
bier colony In the tombs, held in con-
nection with tho murder. but none ia
specifically charged with the shooting.
inc men in custody are Jack" Rose
and Jack sullivan. friends OF Beck
err. Louis Libby and William Shapiro.
part owner ana chauffeur respectively.
or the murder car" "Bridgey' Web
Der. "Dago Frank" Cirofocl and sam
sGhepps. EGst side gamblers The
police are looking for Whitley" Lewis.
CGyp the Biood'p
New Witness Found.
new witness of the murder ap-
peared to-day and offered his services
10 the deputy commissioners When the
gambler was shot down. the witnoss
stood less than 100 feet away He saw
Rosenthal in the doorway OF the
Metropolo. He remembers that Rosen-
thai was pulling at a cigar and in
tently reading a newspapers He re-
calls the swift approach of the as
sassins. He knows that the pistols
were emptied within a foot 81 Rosen-
thals face. And the description of
the murderers is SO clear in his mind
he believes he would nave uo difticuity
in Singing them out OF "A crowd
Although no apparent PROGRESS was
made In locating ana capturing tho
men who did the killing valuable in
formation came 20 Dougherty- missing
links In the chain OF evidence and
further suggestions as 10 who was
with Bald Jack" Rose shortly before \
Rosenthal was Killed
The deputy commissioner got worH
that one Of the four charged with thi
actual shooting has been scen III
Chicago So Mr.. Dougherty imne-
diately telegraphcd Instructions TO tho
police there and was waiting late to-
The sending OF a detective from this
city.
Tho police heard. too that Big
Jack Zelig. Lefty" Louie and Whitley
Lewis were guests Of Jack Rose on
the NIGHT Roscn,hal was killed: that
the three were riding with Rose In
the red automobile that was used IN
procuring tho aiidavits that Leuten-
Continued on Eighth Pase.)