The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-07-23
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n. Y. POLICE
Plans to Kill Gambler ROsenthal
Well Laid
EVEN STREET WAS CLEARED
Ganamen Hired All Taxlcabs In
Vicinity SO That murder Car"
Could Escape.

New York, July - bald Jdch
Rose. Sam Paul Bridge Weber,
William Shapiro and Louis Libby, all
held by the New York police for com
plicity in the murder of Herman RIOS
enthal. the gambler, early last tues
day morning, just before Rosenthal
was TO have told District Attorney
Whitman of an alleged bargain ne
tween the police and gamblers, We're
arraigned before Coroner Feinbers
yesterday. In the hearings the as
trict attorney won the first scrlm
mage in a battle OF wits with the at
orneys for the accused.
Bald Jack" Rose, gambler, ana
friend of Lieut. Becker, whom Rosen-
thai charged with eXacting tribute
from gamblers, was held without bail
for the coroner's inquest Thursday
Rose is said to have hired the 'mur'
der car" in which the gunner later
went to assassinate Rosenthal. Louis
Libby. part owner of the murder
car" was held for the presentation OF
further evidence Thursday and the
case of William Shapiro, chauner oil
the car, was likewise put over to That
day.
Bridge" Weber, the gambler in
whose place in Forty-second street
the gun gang is said to have congre-
gated for the murder, was held with
out bail until tomorrow. Sam Paul
the East-side gang leader, was like
wise held without bail for further eX-
animation tomorrow. Jack Sullivan,
alleged go-between for Rose and
Lieut.. Becker, was held as material
witness in 500 bail which was FUR
nished.
Meanwhile the countrywide search
for the actual assassins OF Rosenthal
continues both the police and the pri-
vate detectives whom the district at
torney had employed taking an active
hand Five men whose names have
been secured from those under arrest
are wanted. and some of them are un-
derstood to be in Chicago, having fled
from New York the day following the
shooting Commissioner Dougherty
admitted after the arrest OF Weber
and Paul Sunday night that the ac-
tual murders were not in custody and
that the arrests thus far made do not
clear up the case by a jugful.
Investigation shows that there was
not a slip-up in the plans to kill Ros-
enthal, and that the principals behind
the plot were most careful to estab-
lish alibis Further, 10 or more men
must have had some connection with
the plan to Stay the gambler. as there
were evidences that when the muir
der car" drew-up near the scene of
the shooting all taXicabs In the vici-
nifty had been hired and sent away to
prevent a successful chase being
made of the murderers.
William Shapiro in statement add
ing important details to what he had
already told has revealed how gang
men kept the street in front of the
Hotel Metropole practically clear OF
taxicabs for 30 minutes before the
murder in order, apparently. that the
murder car" might have a clear
getaway" He said that at least 10
men must have known of the 'croak
that was to be pulled of. as they
were in front of the Metropole ready
to blackjack or kill if necessary any
one who interfered with the job or
tried to block the getgway Of the gun
fighters
II was learned yesterday that Ros-
enthal had scarcely fallen TO the side
walk under a fusillade of bullets
when some one called District Attor-
ney Whitman on the telephone and
said You had better get down to
the Metropole ahead of the police, or
pistol will be found on Rosenthal's
body"
The prosecutor hurried to the scene
and satisfied himself that there was
no weapon on the body OF the gam
bier. Later the story developed from
several sources that the murder plot
included statement to be given out
by the police that Rosenthal had been
killed in a gamblers duel, that two
other gamblers had been wounded
and the police we're looking for the
injured men.
District Attorney Whitman's
prompt arrival on the scene is said
to have thwarted that part Of the
plan.