The Prescott daily news., 1912-07-18
DISTRICT ATTORNEY ATTRIB- UTES MURDER TO CITY'S
 POLICE "SYSTEM."
PRISONERS MAKE STATEMENT
Conjecture That Killing of New York Gambler Was Result of Plot Still Is Believed to Be
 the Correct Version.

New York, July 1S.-Although only three arrests have been made, follow ing the killing, in front of the Hotel Metropole, of Herman Rosenthal, New York gambler who was about to make further disclosures to District Attorney Whitman concerning police graft and oppression, it was declared that two of the prisoners, Louis Libby and William Shapiro, had broken down and told all they knew
 Libby and Shapiro were the own- CTS of the slate-colored automobile in which the five slayers rode to the Ho- tel Metropole and in which they made a mad dash away from police pursu- CTS, until they were lost in Central Park. Libby has been identified by some of the witnesses as the man who drove the car and who did some of the shooting. He at first said that Shapiro had the car out, but later tangled his story under police ques- tioning.
 A third man, who is said to have been near when Rosenthal was shot to death in the heart of the city's great white way, is being held His name is variously given as Clark, Ross and Koch
 District Attorney Whitman said flat ly that he believed the death of Ro- senthal was due directly to the police system" He charged the Rosenthal death had been plotted and carried out in cold blood, simply to prevent him from revealing any more of the connections he knew of between the gamblers and the police.
 Six Auto Numbers, All Wrong.
 Another point made by Whitman was that the police on the scene turned In six different numbers for the automobile, all of them wrong, and when Charles Gallagher, an on locker, came forward with the correct number he was hustled off to a cell in the West Fortyseventh street sta tion, and only set free when Whitman ordered it.
 All these circumstances, and the express statement of ROsenthal to Whitman that he was sure the police would "get him. very soon, not direct ly but through men sent out to kill him, confirmed Whitman's suspicious that there was much police activity and interest behind the staying of Rosenthal.
 It is said that gamblers friendly to Rosenthal have indicated willing ness to tell some things they know, in order that the murder may be avenged.
 Lieut.. Becker, with whom Rosen- thal had his quarrel, and whom the gambler accused of extorting money as the price of protection for gam bling houses, declared he was shocked at Rosenthal's murder and had no idea why or by whom it was accom- plished
 The police declare Rosenthal's death was merely the result of gam bling feud. They point in corrobora- ton of this to the fact that the prls- oner Libby is henchman and chauf- feur for Big Jack Zelig, a down town gambler who has been in sev- eral shooting scrapes lately.
 Story Told at Garage.
 l.. A. Cuneo and Ambrose Cleric claim to be the owners of the garage in which the automobile was stored. According to the story told by Cleric, the machine was out of commission all day Monday but was fixed by II o'clock that night, when Libby left the garage alone in the machine. That is the last the men at the garage say they saw of him until 2:30 a. m. At that time Libby drove in, still alone.