Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-07-19
investigations Are Under
neadway 10 Case Of
Gamblers Murder
Several Notable Characters
Are Before District
Attorney
Looks as Though New York
Police System Had A Hand
10 Tragedy

NEW YORK, July 1S.-The murder
plot that brought Herman Rosenthal
to his death that a gambler might
tell no tales, today is being brought
closer to the Police System"
William Shapiro, part owner of the
Murder Car, is giving the public
prosecutor information that strength.
ems the belief that the Staying OF
Roseuthal did not spring from the
enmity of the gamblers clique.
Shapiro admits that when the mo,
tor car was engaged he was told the
policemen had knowledge of what
was going to happen and that nobody
was in danger.
Bald Jack" Rose, the gambler and
friend of Police Lieutenant Becker,
and who surrendered himself to the
police, has given the name of the
gambler and gun-fighter who was in
the car the night Rosenthal was shot
down in front of Hotel Metropole.
His name is Schapps. Detectives at
once began securing the town for
him. What Rose told Deputy Com
missioner Dougherty makes the po-
lice anxious to know more about
"Bridgie' Webber, the pool room
keeper, and friend OF Rosenthal. Rose
said when he left the car uptown he
dropped In on Webber, but later it
appears Weber turned up at Hotel
Metropole just before Rosenthal was
shot and there SHOOK hands with the
gambler. Webber was also seen al
the hotel after the shooting. Shapiro
is willing to tell more of the circum.
stances that led up to the shooting OF
Rosenthal, but he won't tell them to
the police. Shapiro, through his
counsel, admits he fs in bad condi-
tion, but hopes to be dealt with len
iently, If he tells all he knows of the
murderers and the killing. He is will
ling to take chances with the district
attorney, but won't talk to the po-
lice. For the first time, the name
of "Big Jack" Seelig. the east side
gang leader and gambler, recently
shot by "Chick" Triggs, the gangster,
was brought into the case today. De-
tectives heard that Seelig, who is
known as the right-hand man Of Sam
Paul, another east side sang-leader,
was seen talking with Rose on the
night OF the murder. According to
the story, Rose was trying to get
Seelig to do something for him, and
Seelig was promised as reward i'm
munity from the charge of carrying
concealed weapons, now pending
against him.
Developments are expected today
from three hours conference with
District Attorney Whitman had early
with a mysterious man, said to be q
we'll known gambler and friend OF
Rosenthal.
Il have nothing to say now con-
cerning the man who called. Perhaps
later will have matters so arranged
that shall be in a position to give
details of what have learned"
Whitman, however, intimated that he
had discovered important evidence,
and that today he will issue subpoen-
as on the strength of the mans state
ments.
Private citizens nave promised
funds for private investigation by
private detectives to clear up the
the Rosenthal murder. The police
and the district attorney are conduct
mystery in which the police are in
volved. With the advent Of private
detectives, five distinct investigations
will be under way in connection with
ing inquiries along separate lines,
and the grand jury Is working on still
another line, while the mayor is hav-
ing quiet investigation in his own
way, and private detectives will make
the fifth.