Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-16

-
| said, to move on and she did so. Soor
| she heard shots.
| Il turned around and saw three mer
| fire shots" she said. They We're OF
| the group that / saw in front of the
| theatre. One was rather tall and had g
bald head. | saw him take off his hat
Mrs. kydd then gave good description
of Rose Webber. WALTON and Schepps
| The man who filled Nallons description
was drunk, she said. She said she had
| seen the same four men near BRIDGE
| Webber's poker rooms earlier in the eve
ming
Were any of those four men standing
| in front of the theatre, or any of those
| three whom YOU saw shooting, among
these defendants?" asked Mr. Wahle.
| The four men stood up.
II didn't see any of them there" Mrs.
| Kydd replied.
| On cross-examination Mrs. Kydd denied
| having fold Mr.. Moss, Deputy Police
Commissioner Dougherty or anyone else
| that she had not seen the shooting.
| Mrs Kydd added that she had visited
the West Side prison where Rose. Web
Der, WALTON and Schepps are locked up,
| to see if she could identify any of the
quartet as the real gunmen.R She
couldn't do so, she said: the warden did
not bring the prisoners before her She
saw "a tall, lanky man and stout
Irishman.'' she said. but they weren't
the ones
"Then you didn't know that the little
man was Bridge Weber," Mr. Moss
asked t'No., SIR she replied '"fhey
didn't bring any of them before me-
Isadore Bieber testified that he saw
Harry WALTON in front of the Metropoe
a few moments before Rosenthal was
shot and that Vallon asked him to go
into the hotel and fetch Boob Walker.
The witness said he refused to do SO.
Lefty Louie's" Wife's Story.
Mrs. Lefty Louis" Rosenberg blonde
haired, pink checked and doll faced, tes-
titled next She was dressed in a close
fitting black gown of hobble skirt cut,
low and square at the neck. A small
black plush hat rested coquettishly over
her ears. She corroborated the story of
her husband and the other gunner re-
garding Jack Roses visit to their apart
ment when Louie was recovering from
a pistol wound received in the Chinatown
shooting affair.
Mrs. Rosenberg said she overheard the
conversation between Rose, her husband
and whitley" Lewis and declared that
Rose had made no mention of Herman
Rosenthal. Nor did he say, she added
he wanted Rosenthal '.croaked" as Rose
testified he did at this visit.
Her sister. Rebecca Leiben, next testi
fed that the gunner had been in Rock
away the Sunday before the murder.
Alexander Luban, brother of Morris
Luban, one of the states eye witnesses
of the murder testified that his brother
was in Brooklyn at the hour Rosenthal
was killed SO did Bertha Feldman, Al
exander Luban's step-daughter.
Charles Pint, messenger boy, testified
that he delivered message at "Dago
Franks" home about minutes of 3
o'clock the morning of the murder Mr.
Moss conceded the receipt of the message
at that time.
James Maloney, keeper in the Tombs
prison, swore that William Shapiro
driver of the murder car, told him that
it was Harry WALTON and Sam Schepps
who put revolvers at his head and told
him to speed" after the shooting, and
not "Gyp the Blood" as Shapiro testl-
fed. On cross-examination Maloney said
that Shapiro mad said this during the
Becker trial. but that he (Maloney) had
said nothing about it until after Becker
was convicted.
The defence then rested its case and
at the request of Justice Goff, Morris
1uban was called as the first witness in
rebuttal The court said that for pur4
poses of record he wanted Luhan again
to identify the defendants who fired
shots at Rosenthal. Luban picked out
"Gyp,e lefty Louie" and ''Dago
Frank
Giovanni Stanich was then recalled
and Rose, Weber. WALTON and Schepps
were brought into the court room and
lined up. After the quartet had answer
ed to their names so that the jury might
recognize them, Stanich was asked If he
had seen any of them in the vicinity of
the Metropole at the time of the murder
Il did not said Stanich.
Adjournment was taken until tomor-
row.