Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-18
Rose, Who Is Accused OF
Hiring Car, Goes Under
Third Degree in Probe
of Rosenthal Tragedy.
SAYS HE LEFT MACHINE
BEFORE THE SHOOTING
Chauffeur Tells Of Midnight
Jrip-Lieut. Becker, Who
Was Reported Missing, Re-
appears at Headquarters.

appears at Headquarters.
NEW YORK, July 1s.-Clues being
slowly unearthed here and there inai-
cate today an unfolding OF the pioe
that led to the shooting down OF ftos-
enthal. Louis Libby and Wiiiiaii
niro. owners of the gray
bile which took the murderers to tne
SCENE of the shooting. are said TO De
a. possession of information they pro-
nose n reveal to the district. attorney.
It is said it will indicate that Tue po.
lice system was responsible ior Tue
Mot to make away with Rosentnai,
Iie,tenant Charles A.. Becker. VINO
nod not been seen since yesterday at
arnoon appeared at headquarters at
IN o,clock this morning. There nao
heen stories that he had vanlsneo
aad h,s associates felt better when ne
appeared. - oor-
ue laughed at the rumors con-
corning his disappearance, and when
informed thai 1t was tnougnt ne no'
committed suicide, said: :.
.I don't look like a suicide, DO l.!
pafore he could be questioned as 10
n,here he had peer he hurried INTO
the detective bureau.
MIRO and Libby say that h
car was hired by telephone by JACK
Rose, a gambler. former partner =.
Rosenthal, and who, with Two otnel
men. one of whom is known oy Inc
name of 'Itzky' boarded the auto,
mobile just before ann
were taken uptown. On the way,
Shapiro said, he picked up n OF
two other men.
~ Rose Is at Headquarters.
Meanwhile detectives at headquar-
ters are questioning Rose, who Is
said to be a friend OF Lieutehahe
Becker. 4
Rose was under the third degree'
Deputy Commissioner Dougherty IN
terrogating him. Rose has admitted,
Dougherty says, thai he was a pas
senger in the automobile in which
Rosenthal's slayers drove to the Hotei
Metropole, but said he left 1t before
the shooting look place.
The deputy Commissioners would not
say whether Rose told who else was
In the car when he left 1t. After n
examination Rose, who figured In the
charges of gambling graft made by
Rosenthal against Lieutenant Beck
or. was arrested and taken to Dis
trict Attorney Whitman's' office,
where 1t was expected he would be
given another examination in con-
nection with the grand jury investi-
CATION into the gambling situation.
Rose gave himself up, the deputy
commissioner said, after the latter mad
told "Bridgie' Weber, arrested yes
terday in the case, to find Rose and
tell him to appear Immediately at
headquarters.
Does Not Implicate Becker.
81 am positive" said Dougherty
later. that / shall have the muir
derers OF Rosenthal in custody be-
fore long, and / believe l know who
did the shooting. Roses statement
to me does not implicate Lieutenant
Becker. / believe Becker was entire
ly ignorant hat the murder was go
ing to take place, and all l ask IN
this case is fair play until the facts
in4the case are made known.
Rose told me of his
Monday night. He acknowledged ne
was in the gray automobile, but not
when the shooting took place. HIS
statements as to his whereabouts at
the time of the shooting are very
vague. Rose said if anybody used the
car afterward he didn't know wnat
happened.
HE admits that he hired the car
that he got somebody to telephone for
1t from Tom Sharkey's saloon, In
Fourteenth street"
Police Lieutenant Becker and Police
Commissioner Waldo appeared at the
City Hall soon after noon today and
went into conference with Mayor
Gaynor.
Waldo Suspends File.
Police Commissioner Waldo an
nounced the suspension of Patrolman
William ]. File. who was in the Hotel
. Metropole off duty at h time of the
murder, and who unsuccessfuliy pur-
sued in a taxicab the automobile IN
which the slayers escaped.
Assemblyman Aaron ]. Levy, coun-
sci for Libby and Shapiro, tells a
startling story he said tne prisoners
had related to him regarding the
part they played in the affair.
Shapiro told me- said Mr.. Levy,
that he had the gray car at the
Cafe Boulevard stand, when, just be-
fore midnight Monday, Rose called
up 'Whiteie,' the starter, and left
orders to send the Libby car t. Third
avenue and Fourteenth street.
shapiro said he wen to that point
and picked up Rose and one or two
other men who were with him, and
before they had gone far three or
four more men got into the car.
Shapiro knew Rose, and recognized
another of his passengers as a man
who Is known as Itzky.' and that
was all of them he knew.
Hit on Head with Revolver.
when Shapiro rebelled after they
had told him what they intended to
do, one of the men in the car hit him
over the head with the butt of a re-
volver and told him to beat IT. up
town to Forty-third street. He
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