Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-07-23
TWO ARRESTS
MADE IN THE
GAMBLER CASE
New York Police in Active Hunt
for the Rosenthal
q Slayers.
NEAR THE MURDER SCENE
Officers Believe One Suspect Can
Throw Light on
Event
NEAR THE MURDER SCENE

New York, July 22.-Louls
(Bridge) Weber, keeper of an up
town resort, and Sam Paul, head of
the "Sam Paul association" at the
outing of which last Sunday threats
were made to "get" Herman Rosen-
thai, the gambler, were arrested last
night on a charge of suspicion of
homicide in connection with the
killing of Rosenthal last Tuesday
morning. Jack Sullivan, alleged go
between between Police Lieutenant
Charles Becker and BALD Jack"
Rose, the latter already under ar
rest, was taken in custody as a ma
terial witness.
The arrests were the result of the
activities yesterday and last night
of Deputy Police Commissioner
Doughterty, who has assumed active
charge of the police hunt for the
murderers Of Rosenthal. More ar
rests are expected at any moment,
the commissioner asserted, but as to
these arrests he would say nothing.
When questioned as to the real sig
nificance of last nights work, the
commissioner was reticent.
This much he said definitely:
Weber and Paul are not charg-
ed with being in the murder car at
the time the fatal shots were fired,
nor are the men who actually did
the shooting in custody. the arrests
do not clear up the case, by a Jug
full although the police have made
material progress in solving the
problem which has busted the police
department and the district attor-
ney's Office for week"
Whether the evidence obtained
yesterday leads toward Lieut..
Charles Becker, charged by Rosen-
thai with exacting tribute from
New York gamblers, Commissioner
Dougherty fatty refused to discuss.
Mr.. Dougherty admitted that Beck
er was not at headquarters yester-
day but declared that the lieutenant |
had not been arrested.
Becker is not involved any more
than he was twenty-four hours ago.
said the commissioner, and with
that dismissed the subject.
Jack" Sullivan is regarded as the
man who can throw the most light
on Becker's participation in the
case. Whether he has done this al
ready is matter Of conjecture, but
Commissioner Dougherty admitted
that Sullivan had told him that he
left Lieutenant Becker's automobile
in the vicinity of Broadway and
Forty-second street one hour and a
half before the assassination on !
Tuesday morning.
Sullivan was also in "Bridgie"
Webber's place. Whether the other |
J men who are implicated were in
Webber's the commissioner refused
to say.
Sullivan is said to have admitted
that he was with "Bald Jack" Rose
on Friday evening in Sam Paul's
place Rose is now locked up in the
Tombs charged with completely in
the murder. After leaving Rose, |
Sullivan went to the fight in Madi-
son Square garden and at the con-
clusion Of the bout joined Lieuten-
ant Becker and was driven away
from the garden in the latter's ma
chine. It is claimed that Sullivan
was in the immediate vicinity of the
murder at the time 1t was commit
ted, but whether his arrest was due
to this fact, Commissioner Dougher-i
ty refused to say.
Commissioner Dougherty says
that Sullivan has told him that his
mission after leaving Becker's car
was to see Sam Paul in BRIDGE"
Webber's place, but that he did not
find Paul Sullivan has further ex-
planned what his business with Paul
at that time was and has also ex-
planned his interest in doing some
work for Lieutenant Becker the
night before the murder
New York, July 23.-"Bald Jack"
Rose, Sam Paul, BRIDGE" Weber,
William Shapiro and Louis Libby,
all held by the police for completely
in the murder Of Herman Rosenthal