The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-08-02
ONE Of THE -FOUR
GUNMEN CAUGHT
BY POLICE
Whitley" Lewis Was Hiding at
CatSkiIl Resort
WAS NDED IN JAIL
Lefty" Louie and "Gyp the Blood
Believed To Be Hiding In Same
Vicinity.

New York, Aug. 2.-"Whitey Lew
is" otherwise known as Frank Null
Ter, one of the four gunner wanted
by the police as the actual murderers
of Herman Rosenthal, The gambler,
was arrested in the Catskill noun
tains yesterday afternoon ana late
last night was taken to Kingston, n
Y. to be lodged in the county JAIL
This was announced last night at po-
lise headquarters at New York by
INSPECTOR Hughes, who said that
three of his detestives had located
Lewis at Fleischmanns, n. Y, sum-
mer esort, 46 miles from Kingston.
After securing the region for nearly
three of his detectives had located
is working on farm. Inspector
Hughes said, and yesterday arrested
him just as he was to board a tram
at Fleischmanns to make his escape
The prisoner will be taken to New
York on an early train this morn
ing. 1t was reported at New YORK
police headquarters last night that
"Leftie Louie" and "Gyp the Blood,
two of the alleged murderers still at
large, had been tracked TO the same
vicinity and that their arrest would
soon take place.
The news that one of the fugitives
had been trapped was received with
great citation at New York police
headquarters last night because of
the criticism that has been directed
toward the police department for
their failure TO arrest any of the
men charged with the actual killing
of the gambler With the arrest OF
Lewis, the police have now in custody
two OF the four alleged assasins, the
other being "Dago Frank who is
now in the Tombs, and a fellowpris-
oner of Police Lieut.. Charles Becker,
who is charged with instigating the
sunmen to kill Rosenthal in order to
stop his exposure of alleged black
mail levied by the police upon gam
blers.
While District Attorney Whitman
believes that as a result of his in
vestigation into the murder of Her
man Rosenthal he has obtained evil
dence pointing strongly to the exist
ence of a wellorganized system OF
police graft, he announced last night
at New York that his phase of the
investigation will be subordinated
until he has convicted the murderers
of the gambler and all who were in
volved in the plot to xii him. Muir
der" said Mr. Whitman last night,
sis graver crime than the levy Of
blackmai by the police. decline
to be diverted by any demand for a
general investigation of the police
department and police grating until
these murderers have been brought
10 justice. | am endeavoring to pros
ecute to conviction all the murderers.
II is the duty of the 10.400 policemen
of this city to find them. They
should have been arrested at the
scene of the crime. The act That
they are still at large is a very seri-
Gus reflection upon conditions in the
police department.
"Dago Frank" Cirofci was identi-
fed yesterday as being in the gray
murder car at tibet ime of the shoot
ing. The identification, which was
made by three men, tok place a few
minutes before Cirofici was taken be
fore the grand jury with the apparent
purpose of shaking the nerve of the
gunman and forcing a complete con
fession from him. One of those who
identified Cirofci along with William
Shapiro. driver of the murder car.
was a man whom officials of the
prosecutors office refer to as the "un-
known" Cirofci appeared to be
greatly shaken by the appearance OF
the unknown" and a confession by
the gunman seemed imminent, offic-
ials of the district attorneys Office
said.
The whole conduct of the investi-
cation by the district attorney has
been assumed by himself and he is
not comforting with the police officials
The prosecutor is using his own stan
and private detectives to supply him
with necessary information. The
grand jury will probably not continue
its investigation into the Rosenthal
case for a few days or until such
time as the district attorney has
more needed testimony on hand.
Whitman is investigating stories that
Becker is worth nearly a million dol
lars. The appearance of Sam Schepps
is keenly awaited at the prosecutor
office. Schepps and Rose in a fur
Their confession to District Attorney
Whitman. says that few minutes af-
ter Rosenthal was killed Weber,
threatened by Becker, turned over
$1,000 in bills to Rose. who. in turn,
gave the money to Schepps. Rose
says that Schepps gave this money
to the gunner, Harry Horowitz, 9th
erwise known as "Gyp the Blood,
and Louis Rosensewig.
II Schepps corroborates Roses
in - r. Il "A