Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-22
DRACNET IS OUT
FOR TWENTY As
SLAYERS
That Many Involved in Killing
N, Y. Gambler, Says Prose-
Cutor-Five Under Arrest.

NEW YORK, July 22.-District At
torney Whitmans detectives have de-
terrined that the murder OF Gambler
Herman Rosenthal in front of the Met
ropole hotel just before he was to lift
me curtain from all of the graft trans
actions between the police and the
gamblers was carefully rehearsed be-
fore the gambler was killed. At least
twenty men, according to the informa-
tion of the district attorney, had part in
the nreparations and helped stage the
tragedy.
With five men under arrest and
charged with completely in the assassi-
nation of Rosenthal and another held
as material witness, the long arm of
the notice was stretched out over the
American continent today in an at
temnt to capture three other suspects.
Two of these men are believed to be in
Chicago and another In Canada. The
stage setting for the assassination in
cluded the original picking of the men
who we're to kill Rosenthal, which is
alleged to have started Sunday after
noon. July IA, the killing itself, the get
awav, the preparation of the street for
the escape, the watching Of the victim
during the night and the final DISPOSE
zion of the men who rode away in the
gray automobile.
Gambling House Headquarters.
For all Of this work it is charged
that Louis (Bridgy) Webber's gambling
house at Sixth avenue and Forty sec
ond street was the final base of opera
tons. Weber himself, with Sam Paul,
leader Of the East Side organization
bearing his name are the last two men
10 be placed under arrest on the charge
of having part in the crime. The men
now in custody are:
Louis Libby, owner Of the automobile
used for the murder.
William Shapiro, partner and chauf-
6eur for Libby who drove the car.
Jacob (Jack) Rose, a gambler, who
is charged with staging the murder and
collecting the men who committed it.
Louis (Bridgy) Weber, gambler, who
is charged with aiding the conspira-
tors and whose gambling house at
Sixth avenue and Forty second street
is alleged to have been the meeting
place Of the murder band.
Sam Paul. head of the Sam Paul as
ISOLATION Of the East Side gamblers and
banded pirates.
Police Go Between Held.
The man who was charged with hav-
ing material knowledge Of such impor-
lance as to make it advisable to detain
him was Jacob A. Reich, better known
as Jack Sullivan, a handy man for Po-
lice Lieutenant Charles A. Becker and
go-between for gamblers and others of
the under world who had business with
the police for which money had to be
paid and favors granted. Reich, or Sui
Ivan, was with Lieutenant Becker up
to wenty minutes before the murder,
when he dropped into Webber's place.
The police said today that the prison
ers would be arraigned before Coroner
Teinberg this afternoon. Deputy Pc
lice Commissioner Dougherty an
nounced that two more arrests would
be made within few hours.
The three men who are wanted to
tarow light upon the murder are Sam
ufi f'NutDpS w HllSN Lewis e'AAN
Lefty" Loewy Another man, known
only to the police as "Itzky," could also
give them help, they say. When Com
missioner Dougherty was asked today
to make a statement as to whether he
believed Lieutenant Becker was in
volved in the ASA sination he refused
to discuss that phase.
Lieutenant Becker Shifted
Al the direction of Commissioned
Waldo Lieutenant Becker was today
relieved as head of squad No. l. known
as the strong arm squad" and as
signed to desk duty at the Bath Gate
avenue station in the Bronx
This is the first police shake-up as a
result Of Rosenthal's death
The illness Of Mrs Lillian Rosenthal,
widow of the murdered gambler today
halted the proceedings of the grand
jury 1t had been the intention of Dis
tfiet Attorney Whitman to call Mrs
hosenthal as the first witness in the
inquiry concerning the murder Her
'htiAate knowledge Of the events that
preceded the killing and of the rela-
uonships that Rosenthal bore to the
olnsr gamblers and the police is con-
S'defed extremely important as a foun
oation for the general case.
When Mr.. Whitman found today that
S"e would not be able to appear he said
mat the grand jury would not take up