Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-07-27
Witness Kreso Tells How Street Was Cleared for
 Assassination.
HE POINTS THEM OUT
Says Webber ard Sullivan Ire I've oi the Men Who Ran to Auto
 After Fatal Shot.

New York, July 2G.-Positivelv iden- ! tIfylng sRriggy" Webber and Jack sullivan as two of the men who ran
 10 the automobile in front Of the
 MetfoFolie Hotel, immediately after
 the shooting of Gambler Herman Ros- , enthal on the night of .Julv 15 onic
 hfeso, waiter today presented the
 most damasing testimony yet adducea
 agalnst the alleged slayers of the
 man who had threatened to expose
 police graft.
 kreso told his story before Cor oner Felnburg, at the latter's exam lnatlon of Webber and as a result.
 Webber was committed to the Tombs without bail until August 15, charged With accessory to the murder. Jack Sullivan also was arrested, charges agalnst him being based on Kreso's testimony. Kreso declared that the street was cleared in preparation for the assassination by band of forty men, He told how he was ordered to move on by one of the .angsters when ne stopped to see what a crowd of four or five men Were doing in the middle of the street.
 These men he said went to the entrance of the Metropole at the sig nal from man in the doorway, inn mediately thereafterWards the shot that killed Rosenthal was fired, and four or five men hurried to the waiting automobile and disappeared.
 Did you see anyone standing in this group of men who is now in the oCi- ct,;o Whitman.
 Yes, there he is,' and Kreso point ed his finger straight at the face of Briggy Webber.
 The scene was dramatic in it's in- tensity and for a moment not even the court officials spoke Then sen- sation followed sensation. Then Kreso identified Jack Sullivan and Coroner Feinburg ordered his arrest. Despite | the arrest of Frank Girofici, alias "Dago Frank and his arraignment. ! District Attorney Whitman this after noon admitted that the case against | the nurderers of Rosenthal is weak. ! He attaches little importance to the arrest of "Dago Frank.
 'The statement that l have evi- i dence enough to convict four or five !! men in the Rosenthal case is false, said the District Attorney ''I have 1 enough evidence, believe, to convict |, two men, but the one man l would like to get hold of is Sam Schepp i With him in the Tombs we would have the key to the situation.
 It developed today that the police of New Haven, Conn.,, had Schepp un- tyIyn of ftnr, ftn rrIn but released him because the New | York police said he was not wanted.
 William Shapiro, who made con- plete statement to the District Attor- ney, has established the identity of the men who used the gray murder car on the night of the tragedy. His evidence is strong against Jack Rose, Harry Vallon and Briggy Webber, as well as against the missing Schepp.
 Three other witnesses, whose have not yet been made pub lie. declare they saw .Vallon at the Metropole before the murder. This shatters Vallon's alibi.
 Mayor Gaynor today wrote to Po- lice Commissioner Waldo two-thous- and word letter in which he asked the commissioner not to suspend Lieutenant Becker, alleged to be the man who received the gambling graft, except on evidence strong enough to 
 Formal charges were. made at po- lice headquarters today against Will liam ]. File, the patrolman who was in the Metropole dining room at the time of the shooting. He is charged with neglect of duty in failing to catch the murderers and also in fail ing to report all the facts in his possession to his superior officers. It is hinted the real reason for the sus- pension is the fact that 1Eile had col Iected evidence to show that one Of his superior officers had shared in the graft from a big wire tapping