The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-07-19
OWNERS OF AUTOMOBILE WILL
REVEAL STORY DUPLICATING
POLICE SYSTEM IN CRIME.
CAR HIRED BY JACK ROSE
Detectives Arrest Jack Rose, Who is
Gambler and Said to Be Friend
of Lieutenant Becker, Who Rosen-
thai Accused.

New York, July is. - Jack Rose,
wanted by the police in connection
with the murder of Herman Rosen-
thal,t the gambler and informer against
the police, went to police headquar-
ters this morning and was questioned
for two hours by Deputy Commits
sioner Dougherty. Rose admitted,
Dougherty said that he was a pas
senger in the automobile in which
RosenthaPs murderers drove to the
hotel Metropole, but Rose said that
he left before the shooting took place.
The deputy commissioner would not
say whether Rose told who else was
in the car when he left it. After the
examination, Rose, who is the man
who figured in the charges of gamb-
ling graft made by Rosenthal against
Police Lieutenant Becker, was placed
under arrest and taken to District
Attorney Whitman's office. where it
was expected he would be given an
other examination in connection with
the grand jury examination into the
gambling situation.
Rose Gave Himself Up.
Rose gave himself up, the deputy
commissioner said, after the latter
had told "Bridgie" Webber, arrested
yesterday in the case, to find Rose
and tell him to come Immediately to
headquarters.
Il am positive" said Dougherty la
ter on, that | shall have the MUIR
derers of Rosenthal in custody before
long, and | believe | know who did
the shooting. Roses statement to me
does not implicate Lieutenant Pecker.
| believe Becker was entirely ignor-
ant that the murder was going to
take place.
Rose told me of his whereabouts
Monday night. He acknowledged he
was in the gray automobile, but not
at the time the shooting occurred.
His statements as to his where
abouts at the time of the shooting
are very vague. Rose sad that if
anybody used the car afterwards he
did not know what happened. He ad-
mits he hired the car"
Rose was arraigned before the &C
oner who remanded him without b. /
for an examination on Monday.
Hundreds of the gambling frater-
nifty attended the funeral of the mur-
dered gambler today.
Aaron j. Levy, counsel for Louis
Libby and William Shapiro, who are
under arrest and the alleged owners
of the murder car, gave out a state
ment today in regard to Shapiro'5
conduct at the time of the murder,
Shapiro has admitted, according to
the car.
"The Police Are Fixed"
Shapiro" said Mr. Levy, told me
that after the shooting he was work
ing with his motor and pretended it
would not start. One of the PARTIES
said: Don't stall that engine. You
had better get it started and be quick
about it.
Shapiro still hesitated and one OF
the parties said Go on, you fool; get
started; don't you know that the
cops are fixed and no one will bother
us? 1t is a clean getaway.
It was reported about police head
quarters this afternoon that the ar
rest Of a prominent official would
soon occur.
Clues coming to light here and
there forecast today an unfolding
plot that led to the murder of
Rosenthal. Louis Libby and William
Shapiro owners of the gray automo-
bile which took the murderers to tho
shooting scene, are said to be in pos
session of information which they
propose to reveal to the district attor
ney that will indicate the police sys-
TEN was responsible for the plot to
make away with Rosenthal.
Shapiro and Libby say that the
car was hired by telephone by Jack
Rose, a gambler who with two other
men, one of whom was known by the
name of Iztke, boarded the automobile
shortly before midnight and were
taken up town. On the way Shapiro
said he picked up one or two other
men. Shapiro's story of what hap
pened thereafter is being reserved for
the district attorney.
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