New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-20


ter. All tthe people. and automobiles
outside seemed to be headed into 43d
street
Il went around the corner and saw
man lying on the walk. in front oil the
Hotel Metropolc. ] went up to the boa!
and recognized Herman Rosenthal. !
stopped down and shook him-you
could see that he had been shot-and
asked him: Hermie who did 1t? no"
did it happen? Then | saw ne was
dead. ! went AROUND 10 Broadway ana
hired a cab and went back to the Gar
den and telephoned to paper IN farh
Row."
It is believed that District Attorney
Whitman contemplates placing TIC
murder of Herman Rosenthal before
the grand jury next week. So far' the
grand jury has concerned itset soieiy
with the charges brought by Roseh-
thai against Lieutenant Becker out
yesterday, after spending busy day
looking up witnesses, the District Al
torney enlisted the aid not only OF
Frank Moss. one of his most expert
enced trial assistants, but also called
IN James F. Mcdonald and Luclan >.
breckenridge the assistant district at
torneys in the homicide bureau VINO
interest themselves only in preparing
cases for the grand jury.
After a consultation with Mr.. WHIT
man yesterday they left the Criminal
Courts Building, and the belief was
general that they had gone to inter-
view witnesses whose names had been
given to the District Attorney by Will
lam Shapiro and Louis Libby, the TWO
chauffeurs under arrest.
The examination Of Shapiro ana
Libby by the District Attorney was ar
ranged BY their counsel. Aaron J. Levy
WHO after two hours talk with his
clients yesterday morning went straight
to the District Attorneys office. lie
said that he intended TO ask Mr.. whit
man to have Shapiro and Libby brought
them himself. His last and longest talk
with them had convinced him, Mr.. Levy
said, that their true position In the
case was that Of witnesses instead of
defendants.
Mr.. Levy spent half an hour or more
with the District Attorney. While he
was there Commissioner Dougherty
made a short visit. Four strangers,
who were believed to be agents Of the
Burns Detective Agency. were also adj
mitted. and stayed until after Libby
and Shapiro had departed. Mr.. Whit
man was asked later If the four stran-
gers were Burns detectives. He re-
fused 10 admit it.
''Win you deny it?" he was asked.
Il won't deny anything said Mr..
Whitman. nor Will make any state
ment about the case"
Soon after the four were ushered In.
Lieutenant Edward Rayens, Of Mr..
Whitman's office, was sent over to the
Tombs for Shapiro and Libby. They
were brought over, handcuffed to-
gether, and In a few minutes MIR. Moss
and a stenographer Joined the party
They remained inside for the better
part Of an hour.
When MIR. Levy came out he refused
TO divulge the nature of the conference.
He said that he had agreed with the
District Attorney that the interests Of
justice would be best served by main
tanning silence. He said that there
were four strangers in the office while
Libby and Shapiro were being exam
ined and that some questions we're put
by one Of the strangers. He did not
know, he said, whether or not they
were Burns detectives, and he would
not be likely &c tell If he did.
1t is known that among other things
Mr.. Whitman questioned the two
chauffeurs very closely as to the move
ments Of their car that night. With q
pencil he sketched a rough map Of the
neighbOrhOod Of Long Acre Square and
had the two prisoners point out just
where they drove, where Jack" Rose
left them and where the machine drew
up in front of Considine's.
William J. Burns. head Of the Burns
Detective Agency, was seen at his
home, at No. II Claremont avenue. last
night, and asked if he had been re-
tanned by District Attorney Whitman
OF any one else on the Essential case
or in connection with the general gam
bling situation.
Il can't say anything about that
now" replied Mr.. Burns, at would
seem very much out of place for me to
speak about il at present"
1t was said at Burns,s office yester-
day that Burns was out OF town and
was not likely 10 be back until to-day
He evidently returned unexpectedly.
District Attorney Whitman left his Of
flee early yesterday afternoon and had
not appeared at his home late last
night. 1t was rumored that the Dis
trict Attorney and Burns were together
during the evening. 1t was said that
some important developments in the
Rosenthal case might. be expected at
the District Attorneys Office to-day.
Zelias Lawyer Indignant.
Charles G. + Wahle. Zeligs attorney
made indignant protest yesterday
against any intimation that his client