Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-07-17
THINK KILLING WAS
 RESULT OF PLOT
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Hotel Clerk Identi!ies aInc oi Three Men ArresteA ,harged
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New York, July tG.- District Attor- ney Whitman after examining Thom- as Coupe, night clerk of the Ells Club, who witnessed the assassination of Herman Rosentital, the gambler said tonight:
 "Coupre has idendfied Louis Libby as the man who killea Rosenthal. He will make splendid witness. There were others in the car which Coupe thinks he can also identify as soon as 1 they are arrested
 A mass of evidence was gathered today which clearly indicated that 1 Herman Rosenthal was murdered as a result of gambler police plot to nip in the bud the exposure of police and gamblers which Rosenthal threatened. I The police lay the crime at the door of gamblers. On the other hand, those of the gambling fraternity who were closest to Rosenthal, said that the po- | lice had a much greater motive i'll such tragedy than the gamblers. With remarkable rapidity the police 1 captured a slate Golored automobile which they say was used in the com- mission of the crime, and arrested three men who are charged with hay l ing more or less knowledge of the I murder. The prisoners arc Louis l Libby, whose name is registered as l the owner of the car; William Snap 1 ir, I.ihby's chauffeur and partner, and 1 John Clark, who, because of his repu- l tation as gambler and because he 1 had been seen near the Metropoles entrance where Rosenthal was shot, is 1 believed to have some inside know | ledge of the plot.
 At the same time that the police as- serted that they had all but solved the mystery of the murder five witnesses were found who testified that no i slate colored automobile had been seen on Forty-third street near the hotel at the time of the murder. l Rosenthal was killed at three min utes before 2 Tuesday morning. 1 A newspaper man who came upon l the scene of the murder ten seconds after it was committed said that he saw the assassins run into the dark between Broadway and Sixth street, but they did not take refuge i'll the au- tomobile. Policeman Madigan, who was on the post at Broadway and Forty-first street, a hundred feet from the spot where Rosenthal fell, and who was the first officer upon the scene, ! also says he saw no automobile. l Evedince unearth today tends to show that those members of the po- lice involved in Rosenthal's revela- tions to District Attorney Whitman were in state of absolute panic Mon day night. On the following morning at & o'clock Rosenthal had promised to give to Whitman four more names, which he said would show what offl- cers of the police department got graft
 
 money from gamblers and how hlgh up in the police department the graft money went. Already Rosenthal had civen six names to Whitman, three Of
 whom were more or less intimately connected, it is alleged, with Lieuten- ant Becker, head of the strong arm
 squad whose raid had put Rosenthal out of business.
 l Lieutenant Becker protestd en-
 phatically when he was asked II ne
 believed the police were in anyway lh-
 volved.
 Investigation also reveals the fact
 tonight that Becker was within almost a block of the scene of the murder al
 the time it was committed and was
 riding in an automobile.