The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-08-05

York city was under the eyes Of four
detectives.
Mny Arrest Another.
The plan was to arrest this man in
New York IL he is connected with either
OF the fugitives now sought for the mur-
der OF Herman Rosenthal Inspector
Hughes spent the day at Fleischmann. a
town twenty miles from Tannersville. But
he was kept advised of the new develop
ments and was on board the train which
picked up the shadowed man tonight.
From some man or woman the code
telegram was dispatched at the Station
v" yesterday morning. IL was addressed
to man in the resort and sent to a
particular hotel. Through some mistake
the person sought was not at the hotel.
Chief of Police Edward Laokey. of
| Tannersville. captured the message while
boy was hunting around town for the
person to whom II was addressed. 1t
was agreed then that the boy should
continue the search while detectives
trailed him. After several hours the
person named was located. He accepted
the code and cipher telegram. The mes
| sage bore the signature. English and
! contained references to the Affairs OF
| Whitley Lewis. The man TO whom It
was addressed made preparations to-
leave for New York. and when the man
boarded the New York train four de-
tectives took seats in the same car.
Another Harry Horowitx.
Meanwhile, excitement was afforded in
Tannersville by the discovery that a,
summer boarder named Harry Horo-
witz bore close resemblance to the pub
lished photographs of the missing Harry
Horowitz alias "Gyp the Blood" De-
tectives surrounded the place where he
was supposed to be stopping and waited
developments. But a sister of the young
man visited Chief Lackey and produced
her brother an hour afterward. He
clearly established his Identity, but lie
also admitted that he had known num-
ber of the men who figured in the Ro-
senthal case.
Attorney Sullivan, representing Rose.
VaIlon and Webber decided to-day TO
ask the court to waive the presence OF
his clients at the postponed session of
the coroners inquiry tomorrow morn
ing Failing to secure this, he will ask
the District Attorney personally to Sc
lect guard for the men, who are alb
sOlutely certain that II they go into court.
Gangster gunmen will attempt TO kill
them.
Behind the confession OF Jack Rose.
whose admissions led 10 the confessions
of the other prisoners in the Rosenthal
case. lay the longing for revenge. Rose
declares that he gave himself up on the
direct orders of Police Lieut.. Charles
Becker. and that Becker told him he
should be protected and that he would
lose nothing bu surrcndering.
Says lie Was Double Crossed.
As soon as Rose landed in the Tombs. |
he says, he discovered that Becker had
"dOuble-crossed" him. Either the police !
lieutenant could not or would not do
anything to help out his erstwhile COL |
lcctor. Then Rose. on the advice of At |
tcrney sullivan, told everything he |
knew, with the result that Becker was |
arrested and charged with being the in |
srigator Of the murder of Herman Ros- |
enthal.
II it was Lieut.. Becker who called on |
Rose TO give himself up. promising the |
gambler protection from the law; IL II |
was Becker who arranged for the retain |
ing of Attorney Aaron J. Levy to defend !
William Shapiro and Louis Libby-and |
Jack Rose says both of these things are |
true-then the final link is forged in the |
chain of direct circumstances connecting |
the police official with the murder of
RCsenthal
Becker telephoned to me the night |
before / surrendered" said Rose to-day, |
''and told me to come to headquarters !
and give them an explanation. lie told |
me there would not be anything to 1t,
that he knew what he was doing. and |
that everything would come out all |
right. He positively assured me that il |
was all fixed and that l would not be
detained"
When Becker teIephoned. Rose was at
Harry Pollock's house, and Becker not
nrlIt- l. rt-fa hn hrtt . hat
the authorities We're looking for the
gambler. Yet he gave no information
of Roses whereabouts. Rose says he
did as Becker told, but that he went
further and hired Attorney Sullivan to
look after mis- interests. He told Sulli-
van everything. and when Sullivan was
called before a conference of Deputy
Commissioner Dougherty. Inspector
Hughes. and District Attorney Whit
man he saw at once that Roses only
loophole was confession.
By this time Rose. who had been
thrown into a cell in the Tombs, saw
that Becker had deserted him. and Rose
confessed. When he had finished his
Sullivan said to him:
Rose who is the man directly be-
hind you?"
Becker" replied Rose
Becker talked with me-" continued
the gambler. and told me to get Aaron
J. Levy to defend Shapiro and Libby.
l could not do this because l was ILL.,
but it was attended to by some one from
Becker's Office
Made Revenge Complete.
Then in order to make his revenge on
Becker more complete, Rose proceeded
to talk Weber and Vallon into making
confessions also. and the result was the
story of graft and crime told
TO the grand jury by the three men.
Police Commissioner Rhinelander Wal
do, in 2,o0-word statement, defending
the police department to-day, declared
that gambling would not be a police
problem II the courts would convict .
man for gambling on evidence of the
same character as that on which they
would convict him of murder or bur
glary. He asserts that gambling exists
because the gamblers do much of the
corrupt election work which puts the
judges on the bench. He claims that,
a result of this gambling exists because
Il gets what amounts to protection from
the courts, and that the police would
not try to get graft II they did not
know that the courts would not con-
vict
The statement is a retort to the
criticisms Of the police department made
last week by Justice Edward Swami.
of the Court of General Sessions. Facts
and figures are set forth by Commits
sioner Waldo to show that a record of
arrests during the last twelve months
8 higher than ever before In the his
tory of the department