The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-20
NO NEW ARRESTS IN NEW YORK MURDER CASE Threatening Letters Are Re- ceived By the Pros
 ecutors WHITMAN BELIEVES POLICE ARE INACTIVE Actual Slayers Known But Not In New York
 Now

New York, July BOA campaign
 of assassination, it is considered, may
 follow the determination of District
 Attorney Whitman to uncover the
 conspiracy alleged to exist between
 the underworld and the New York
 police. District Attorney Whitman
 has been warned that he is marked
 for death if he does not let up in his
 inquiry Others who are active m the case have received similar warn ing.
 Today, the murder of Gambler Her
 man Rosenthal is mere incident.
 The men who planned that murder are known. Whitman says they will be punished. The underworld, snarl- ing, defiant, it's gunmen with their
 backs against the wall ready for any desperate crime that will strike terror
 into those who are fighting them, is
 prepared to go to any length to stop the chase and there is we'll defined feeling, today, that further crime is being planned.
 District Attorney Whitman admitted today, that he had received many threatening letters since he announced
 that he was going to send the mer who killed Rosenthal to the electric chair no matter how influential their backing. Ordinarily he would laugf at these threats but the open murder of Rosenthal, slain in the glare o1 the bright. lights of one of the best known hotels in New York city, with policemen almost within arms reacI of the murderers, has shown just how desperate these criminals are.
 ASSRn1folvY19n Aaron T T.6Uv affar. Eney for Libby and Shapiro, ownerf fof the murder car. himself product of the East Side, who knows the gang sters and their habits from persona observation, had no hesitancy, today in declaring that the situation waf acute Since he publicly announced that he will aid in the solution of this Platest of gang killings, he has receiv. ed letters saying he is marked fol death He 3 dIaitt ed odaX,zsthat- hs | is taking no chances and that he vii protect himself NO little gamblers feud brought about Rosenthaps Geath'' Levy saiG 1 in his office, today. '"rhe gambler: who hated shim, it is admitted there were many of them, could have slaiI 1 him months ago if they wanted to They could have had him killed SC, cretly and safely.
 But this tragedy has the mark! of terrorism. It was staged and ar ranged to strike terror into the heart: of informers. It was done to silence friends of Rosentha1 who had beer expected to show up at the district at | torney's office to back up RosenthaP: story of protection afforded by th' police in return for a share of th'
 money earned by crime: The shadow of the police is over this crime. The solution of the situation seem l ed. today, to center in the district at i torney's office Already it is under stood Whitman has the names or tne men who were in the murder car. He says they will all be caught and when 1 they are he expects they will tell all l they know about the men who inst1-
 gated the crime and when and where | it was planned.
 l The police privately admit thai most of the men who were in the
 murder Bar have been getting away from the city. All were well supplied 1 with funds, 1t is claimed. No req | effort was made to arrest them inn mediately after the crime and ever | now it is said no general alarm has 1 been sent to other cities to get them Central office detectives have gone tC Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore ana these men. Whether they would ar
 rest them if they actually found them l is question the district attorney re- | fuses to answer.
 | Lieutenant Becker was still on duty
 at headquarters, today. Police Com
 missioner Waldo asserted, that, un-
 less the district attorney produced some real evidence that would con- meet him either with the murder o1 | Rosenthal or show that he really was RosenthaPs partner in the gambling
 house he would remain on duty. A
 score of private detectives were, to-
 day, rounding up the loose ends o1
 the case for the district attorney. Ii
 was expected when his grand jury in
 vestigation was resumed, next week | everything would be ready so it could l proceed without interruption.
 l Whitman was, today, being assist
 ed in his investigation by his first as- sistant, Frank Moss, former police
 commissioner and absolutely familiar
 with every element of gang life in New York