The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-08-02
FOUND AT r. r. STATION
Headquarters Detectives Get
Off Train While He
Awaits One.
LAWYER WENT TO ROSE
Bccker'> Attorney Admits Visit
After Killing Of
Gambler.


gangmcn named ny Jack Rose as the
men hired at Lieut.. Bcckers orders 10
murder Herman Roscnthal. was ar
rested last evening at t'leischmann's.
little summer resort in the Catski'ls
forty-six miles from Kingston
He was well supplied with money
and had been living at an expensive
hotel. Three Central Office men caught
him at the railroad station as he wa
about to board "A train.
Lewis stood still long enough for the
detectives to compare him with their
circulars. lie was taken to Kingston
and will bc brought here this morning.
The other striking development in
the murder Investigation was the ad-
mission made 10y Lieut.. Bccker's law
yer. John W. Hart. that at Beckers
! request he had conferred with Jack
Rose less than twenty-four hours after
Roscnthal was murdered.
The District Attorney gave Mr. Hart
: the alternative Of answering questions
which brought out this fact or OF
going to TAIL. The admission Is n partial
g Ik'St thu We >
confessions duplicating the lieutenant
The investigation as to alleged police
! grating and of Roses story tnat
Becker collected s2,500.060 a year has
hcea delayed hy the District Attorney
because of the rapid developments 10
the murder case.
The Arrest Of Lewis.
His true name is Frank Siedenshue.
He would not disuss the shooting. There
are now at large but three whose names
are upon the circular sent out by Com
missioner Dougherty describing the men
wanted for the shooting at the Metro
pole.
y fat little man with small eyes that
blinked at the sunlight was walking
yesterday afternoon up and down the
diminutive station platform at Flcisch-
mann's. the summer resort in Delaware
county, in the Catskils. when three men
who had just dropped off train
thumpcd up to him. The three were
Detectives Harvey. Raftis and Campbell
: from New York Headquarters, and they
, knew AS soon as they stepped to the
, platform and glimpsed at its solitary
, occupant that they had come to the end
of five days work
, The man who stood staring at them
. was he whose picture appeared under
the names White Lewis. White Jack,
Jacob Seige and Frank Muller on
Doughcrty's circulars in the detec-
tives pockets. The circular says he
was one OF the gangmen employed 10
kill Eosenthal. He Is described as y
''plokpocict. sneak thief and free user
J. of firearms" He has served terms at
i Elmira and Sing Sing, according to
v Headquarters records, and the circulars
d say that he is commonly known as y
l. gun or strong arm man, and an asso-
= oiatc If professional thieves"
% WALTON Game From Catskills Too.
Harvey. Rafts and Campbell have
y been in the Catskills for five days. 1t
Sc was from Big Indian, not far from
~ Kingston. that Harry Valon came tn
II give himself up at Headquarters. aud
It was in the Catskills that one Of the
gamblers mixed up in the Rosenthal
shooting ran a boarding house. So the
Headquarters men with Kingston as Q
base. went out on the trail of the little
,r resorts that have for some years been
10 the summer haunts Of the more pros
u porous of the East Side gangmen.
-Four days ago there came into
As Fleischmann's the man with all the
d. names and he used one Of them to regis
I. ter at the biggest hotel in the place.
d. hotel with prices as steep as Its altitude
IL He spent money pretty freely about
nd town. where no one had ever seen hin
O. before. and by and by the detectives
Of casting about further down the line
heard about the arrival and his roll.
he They got there just In time. Whcr
"a Lewis climbed out Of his rig at thu
II. station platform he carried valise an,
n intended to take a train for Kingston
vo down the spur OF the Delaware and III
cd ster Railroad. He took a later train a
n 5 o'clock with the detectives hammerini
Il questions at him, questions that HI
steadfastly refused to answer. lie wa
locked up in Kingston over night.
=, Before they put Lewis" on the trail
I. the detectives got Inspector Hughes a
Headquarters on the long distance tele
'e phone and told him all about 1t. He Wa
tlckled at the arrest and had good word
to say about the work Of his men.
ON Campbell said over the telephone tina
of he expected to take train at 3:l'
RI O'Clock this morning from Kingston
ng This IL due at Weehawken at 5:'o
Hughes will have two men to meet ths
Ny train.
or I.cwis's picture In the gallery at
he Ucndouartcrs Is No. ll96l Under M
ye several names he appears frequently on
,rt IN. records. AZ lately as Jun" OF this
y,ar ne was thought before Masia'rai,
IRE Kcrrochan On disord'r'y '"hunS'
m. lchargc Tie was discharged
His arraignment In conri followed