The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-02
"LEFTYo LEWIS
 GETS THIRD DEGREE
District Attorney Whitman Pre- pairing Case Against
 Becker

New York,Aug 2.--"Whitey'' Lewis
 real name Frank Giedensfue, was
 oloseted with Deputy Commissioner
 Dogherty and Inspector Hughes. of
 the detective bureau, today. Louie IS the second charged with being fmph- cated in the murder of Herman Ros-
 enthal, gambler.
 "Dago Frank Cirofici has been
 prisoner for several days. Dougherty
 said today he believed they would
 soon have the two other suspects in
 custody shortly and with that end in view subjected Louie | to a severe
 grilling It is now a race between the private. detectives of the district at
 torney's office and the police to cap
 ture the alleged murderers. Commits Sioner Waldo has let it be known that if the police do not turn up the want ed criminals, 8 number of heads will drop.
 Meanwhile, District Attorney Whit man is preparing the case against Police Lieutenant Becker, charged with the instigation of the Rosenthal
 murder. He laid great stress, today. On the admission by Attorney Hart, counsel for the indicted police soffi- cfal, that he had not been in com munIcation with Rose after the mur- der This admission, Whitman be- lieves, will make material the eyi- dence of his chief witnesses Rose, Webber and Vallon. He also believes that he will be able to show that someone besides Becker was responsi- b1e for Hart's alleged call Whitey' Lewis laughed at the p0- liceman who brought him from King ston to this city, today. He told him that he was coming from Fleischmans to Kingston to surrender himself. He said that he was not even in New York when the killing took place and count for all of his movements. When arrested, less than a dollar was re- ported to have been found in his pocket He was put on the grill for four hours.
 District Attorney Whitman was ab- sent from the city last night and tor day, 1t was finally reluctantly admit ted at his office that he had gone to Boston where he would hold an "irl- portant conferenceS dealing with the Rosenthal case. Just what that con- kference was to be about OF whom # was with was not revealed. It was reported, however. that Big Jackf' Zelig, Nthe gang leader under indict- Inent for carrying concealed weapons, was supposed to be in Boston and to lghaWe been there ever since he was admitted to bail.
 Whitman, it was stated. will join his wife and some friends in New Hampshire, tonight, and remain in seclusion until Monday.
 Inspector Hughes. in charge ef the detective bureau, today, said that his
 wife was on the verge of nervous prostration and under the care of a doctor as the result of the public criticism of the detective bureau of which he is the head.s Hughes ad- mits that he has sent nany of his best men to the Catsikill mountain region.
 Hughes was much interested in the report made to him by detectives who ] brought Lewis from Kingston, of the ] presence al the railway station and 1 the ferry of dozen men whom they recognized as. gamblers. The detee- l tives ostentatiously shifted their re
 volvers from their hip pockets to their outside coat pockets and the gangsters made no attempt to inter fere although some of them are said
 to have shouted to the prisoner to
 .'standpat' and not squeal