Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-16
ENTER PLEAS WEDNESDAY
Wives and Alleged Pickpocket Held
as Material Witnesses.
FIND INCRIMINATING LETTERS
Police Unearth Missives in Flat.
Whitman at Hot Springs for
Schepps' Evidence.

NEW YORK. September 16.-Harry
Horowitz, alias "Gyp the Blood" and
Lefty Louie" Rosenzweig. whose ar
rests Saturday night completed the
roundup Of the gunner indicted for
the murder Of Herman Rosenthal, were
arraigned this morning before Justice
Goff in the supreme court. AT the re-
quest Of counsel for the prisoners
pleading was adjourned until Septem-
Der 1S.
of the prisoners, asked to enter tenta-
tive pleas Of not guilty with leave to
withdraw. but decided to wait until
next Wednesday before pleading. The
wives Of the prisoners and Max Kahn,
the alleged pickpocket arrested in the
fiat occupied by them, were held in
$4,000 bail each. as material witnesses.
Horowitz and Rosenzweig took a
keen interest in the proceedings. They
had no statements to make.
Prisoners Decline to Talk.
Horowitz and Rosensweig, preparing
for their arraignment today, evinced
no more disposition to give information
or make any admissions than they did
yesterday when Assistant District At
torney Moss grilled them for three
hours regarding the night when Ros-
enthal was shot down near the Hotel
Metropole. The two prisoners declined
to talk about the murder until after
they had conferred with counsel.
Forty or more letters and post cards
found in the rooms of the two men
may furnish important information to
the states attorney. Detectives ran
sacked the apartment from ceiling to
floor Beneath the boards of the floor
and tucked under carpets correnspond-
ence was found which Deputy Police
Commissioner Dougherty says is of i'm
portance to the prosecution.
Assistant District Attorney Moss was
prepared today to make a demand upon
the police department for these let
ters Mr.. Moss said he was unable to
understand why the news of the find
ing of the letters had been withheld
from him.
Whitman at Hot Springs.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark, September 49,
With the arrival here today of District
Attorney Whitman and Assistant District
Attorney Rubin from New York. Hot
Springs again was expected to become
one of the centers Of interest in the Ro-
Efforts will be made by Mr.. Whitman
while here to obtain statements, 1t is un-
derStood, with view to strengthening
the case of the prosecution against Police
Lieut. Becker, charged with instigating
the murder of the gambler. Herman Ro-
senthal, in New York city in July last.
For this purpose the district attorney
will examine citizens of Hot Springs who
talked with Sam Schepps after his arrest
here month ago and before Schepps was
taken back to New York.
An investigation will be made of the
assertion on the part Of the defense that
Schepps, while in Hot Springs, said or
limited to certain persons that in his opin-
ion Becker was the victim of plot, the
result of which was to fasten upon the
policeman a crime planned and executed
by the gamblers.
Becker's Counsel Also Coming.
Those to whom Schepps talked most
while in Hot Springs declare that he
made no such statements, directly or in
directly. Schepps however. is believed
to have talked to a great many other
persons as he had been here three weeks
before he was arrested.
Interest in the possible developments
here will be augmented by the arrival of
John F. Mcintyre Of counsel for Lieut..
Becker who, 1t is reported here, will
come to Hot Springs from New. York, re-
manning here Indefinitely.