Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-30

fIne cOnIeSSiOflS SHO" ~
derers of Rosenthal were -Lelty
Louie" or Louis Rosenzweig; Harry
Horowitz, or Clip the Blood;
Muller. or white jack Lewis "A
-Dago Frank Cirofci. Only Cironci
has been a~pprehended. These gun
men. members of the notorious big
1ack,, ZeIig gang, piled themselves
with liquor and then went out n
rhot Rosenthai for q price. said to be
5000.
Rose Is Terrified.
Terror-strfcken, Rose, Weber and
WALTON spent the night in the public
prosecutors Office, fearing they would
be murdered if taken to the Tomos
nris6n. District-Attorney Whitman
believes that. his case against Lieu
tenant Becker is without flaw; nat
tbe confessions, taken separately
aovetailed and confirmed n announcer
and thai from the testimony OIL other
witnesses the case against becAei
cannot be broken down. -
"Bald jack Rose, gambler, Wno
saws he was Becker's gampilns -E-uso
oollector. felt the ground slipping
from under him day by day. Wlth-
out money or friends, he realized ina
he was being made to e the weight
Of the crime alone. His counsei ao-
yised him to confess. Rose pecarne
completely terrified. To his
James M. Sullivan, he said:
.If YOU see to it hat my wire anu
child, IN are protected, I'll come
across and tell the truth ABOUT TINS
1,n afraid it will be the end OF me-
No cell on earth will be strong
enough to keep the life in a man VINO
gives I'm about this killing"
"Must Be Made Away with"
limitations were made to Rose ina.
an indictment might be expectso
against him, and then he confessed,
Counsel for Weber and Vailon'
catching the drift of things, also ad-
vised their clients to tell all the truth
and thus win immunity.
Pose told District Attorney WHIT
man that for a long time he mad peen
Becker's gambling u coiiector'
that Becker, as head of the gambling
house SQUAD. "smelled out" prohtaple
places. and that each montn coiiec-
t;ons were made. Becker did not get
all the money, Rose says. as some OIL
II was distributed to others
Rosenthal was a thorn In
side. Becker lad pressed Rosenthal
TO the wall, according TO Rose, n
Rosenthal threatened to make things
nub,;c Six weeks before the killing,
Rose SAYS, Becker sent for him n
aeid Rosenthal must be made away
with.
Gunman Needed Is Freed.
Rose dinche1 at the words, he says.
and Becker, noting his state of mind,
remarked, according to Rose;
Now. there is no use getting wor-
ried or v about this job. That
dog has made too much trouble
what do you think / am in this de-
partment for? / can do what l -
please. I'll see to it that nobody gets
into serious trouble. Now you go
II and do whatever is necessary
Rose says he went out and saw
-Big Jack" Zelig to make a a for
his gunner. Zelig was under indict-
ment for carrying concealed weapons,
and the possibilities of a stay in Sing
Sing prison did not appeal. Conse-
ouently, Rose says. when he prom
ised to see that nothing happened
when Zelig anne to trial, there was
no trouble getting the gunner.
Victim Never Without Shadow.
Y 1t was at this point in the proceed
ings hal Rose backed somewhat out
of the mruder activities All the gum
men were informed to be ready to
kill Rosenthal, who, in the mean
time, had been Swallowed day and
night. A few days before the kill
ing, Rose says, he met Weber and
Becker, and while the three were
talking it over Becker said to Web
CONTINUED On Seventh Psse.)