Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-07-25
WITNESS JAILED ON
 PERJURY CHARGE Tries to Shield Gamblers Who Killed Herman Ros-
 enthal in New York.
THE POLICE INACTIVE
District Attorney Whitman Unable to Get WitneSSeS-Water Al.
 so WeakenS.

New York, July 24-The first up- ward evidence of the effect of gang i terrorism on witnesses of the murder /! of Herman Rosenthal was seen to- day. As a result John Ressler, known q 5 ohn the Barber" is lln- der arrest charged with perjury. Reissler was called as a witness befor2 Coroner Eeinburg at the pre- liminary examination of Sam Paul and Webber, who are alleged to have been lea tars n the movement to silence Rosenthal when he threatened to expose the connection between the police and the gamblers.
 Before the hearing Reissler testi- fled in the presence of District At corney Whiteman and Assistant Pros ecutcr Moss that he saw Webber running away from the Metropole just at the moment the crime was comm ted. At the Coroner's office however, when Reissler looked at Webber and the small army who had managed to get tickets admitting stlicken with terror and immediately began 10 ieny the damaging testi- mony he had previously given con- cerning the accused men.
 He began by say ng that he was in front of the Cadillac Hotel in West Forty-third street just at the time of the murder and that he had seen Webber but he was not sure
 that Webber was running as he had
 D. eviously told MT. Whit man. He
 was not positive that he had ever seen Wehber. .a.- f.<. -...,--.s.
 Assistant District Attorney Moss then testlf ed regarding the story Raissler had told previously to the
 District Attorney and himself. Reissler was then questioned by H. D. Ma shall counsel for Webher. The witness seemed more terrified than ever and. to each question re- piled.
 ''I think so but n all the excite ment I am not sure" As he left the stand the District Attorney ordered
 his arrest to- perjury. The hearing
 of Webber was continued until Friday afternoon at 2 o'clocit and Pauls hearing went over for AS hours. Ad- mittarce to the hearing was by card, through fear that the gangs friends of the accused men might try to make trouble. Strangely enough the very men who are supposed to be ex- cluded, managed to secure tickets, wh le lawyers and newspaper men who had business at the hearing were shut out. Two of the gang were ai- rested on leaving charged with carry ing pistols.
 The power of the fear of the big
 men of the Temderloin was today shown. Herman S.ern, waiter at the
 Lafayette Baths, denied that Jack
 Rose, Webber and Sam Paul bIeak-
 lasted at the Baths on the morning after the murder. Sternl previously declpred that he had waited on these
 men at this breakfast. -a
 The pol ce have declared that the
 crowd in the street was so great at
 the time of the heating that the of
 ficers who were rushed to the scene
 dared not fire at the escaping mur- derers.
 In view of this statement the
 District Attorney is trying to find
 out why with all peaple on street, the coroner's exam nation today. He
 repeats his claim that the police con-
 nived at the assassination of the
 gambler who was about to "squeal' on members of the department. District Attorney Whitman today
 expressed the belief that the gray
 automobile, in which the four men fled immediately after the affair was
 blind, that the men who fled in
 .t were not the murderers and that
 the real slayers were lost in the
 crowd which soon gathered