The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-10-07
'zEL|G MARKED
FOR DEATH" As
RESULT OF FEUD
Assassination of East Side
Bully Had Long Been
Decreed. 80.
FIXED MONTHS AGO.
When Man Who Shot Zelig
Was Sentenced Gunman's
Fate Was Settled.
FIXED MONTHS AGO.
tCon tinued from First PsseJ

with tire killing OF Herman Rosenthal.
Recently thousands Of tickets were sold
on ths East Side and In the Tenderloin
for a ball advertised to be given on Oct.
3 at Stuyvezant Casino for the benefit
OF one Harry Lewis. No such a ball
was given and the ticket money II
supposed 10 have been set aside by Ze-
Liz for the defense fund OF the quartette
In the Tombs. The practice OF giving
for the price Of tickets was common
and continuous with Zelig.
Friday night and at various times on
Saturday, RED Phil" who was either
very drunk or pretending to be very
drunk. met Zclig. demanded money and
insisted that he knew Zelig had a lot of
money There IL considerable taIk about
Ave 500 bills which are said to have
been handed TO Zelig In sesaps cafe .
short time before he was killed.
This report 10 being investigated. The
man who is said to have handed ZeIiB
the money has not been found. He -
said to be close to q big east side poll
tician, and tho money u declared to
have been paused TO Zeiig ~ advance
expenses for hordes Of election repesters
who have been colonizsd In the Bowery
and other east side lodging houses. Al
any rate the 5000 wss not In Zelig's
packets when he died from the effect OF
Red Phirs" bullet, and the investiga-
ton embraces not only whers the money
came from. but what became Of IL.
Deputy Police Commissioner Dough-
eyty. who has bsen working on thu
case continually since Saturday night,
does not believe the murder Of Zeiis
was accomplished BY an organized
plot. But he admits that Red Phir'
was perhaps fred by a ganxster's am
hilton to do something that would
make him big man In The eyes Of
his associates.
IF there had been a delibsrnts
frameup TO kin Zelig." said Doughertp
this Afternoon. this fellow Davidson
wouldn't have had to 60 out aud buy
. gun. A sun would hsys bsen fur
nished him and some attempt would
probably have been made TO take care
Of the gun After the shooting and get
Davidson away.
zELlG PUNCHED HIM AND RED
PHIL GOT A GUN.
Davidson appears to have worked
himself up to the crime all day Saeur-
day. He followed Zeix to segars cafe
in Second avenue Saturday afternoon
and pestered the gang leader with his
determinations and drunken talk until
about 4 o'clock, when zelig stepped out
on the sidewalk. Davidson followed
him and ZeIlg punched Davidson In the
face. Right there the red-hsired gang
ster started on his murder expedition.
He went over to the Bowery and tried
to buy a revolver. Failing. he bought
a revolver in a Jersey City pawnshop
that was lost by policeman In Brook
| Ign. eighteen months ago. and with THIS
gun he committed the murder"
Although no police record OF arrests
Or previous crimes stands against Red
Phil" he has an unsavory record on
the East Side. He IL a member OF a
gang that makes a business OF proving
on pcddlers and pcddler's patrons In
Rivington street, between Allen and
Clinton streets, and along Clinton
street
These pickpockets al grufters work
among the poor and terrorizcd people
who are afraid to complain to the
police. At one time 1t was the custom
of holder members of the gang OF which
Red Pha' IL . member to hold M
stuss games. robbing the proprietors
and patrons indiscriminately. This form
OF income was wiped out when Jach
2elig was employed by the gamblers &c
protect the stuss houses Naturally
the gang was sore at Zeiig.
ABDUCTED SMALL GIRLS FROM
THE MOVING PICTURES.
, Among the diversified activities O.
the members OF Red Phils" gang wa
the abduction OF young girls from NOV
ing picture shows and their sale int,
5 white slavery. This practice was know.
5 TO members of Zelig's gang. who mad
occasional sallies into the territory o
. the Rivington street OUTFIT, and tool
: away by force some girl who had bee,
D abducted and ruined by one OF IRE,