The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-07-25
hold, a fate similar to ROSeIShars
will berall them.
SEEKING JACK ROSE.

hold, tate similar To lSOSciShol'S
viii befan them.
SEEKING JACK ROSE
The man most vigorously
sought now is Jack" Rose, a
gambler and friend of Lieutenant
Becker. ASScmblyman y. y. Levy,
counsel for Louis Libby and Will
liam. or "AntOniO," shapiro. OWN
erS OF the car i'm which the RO-
Scnthal aSSaSSinS escaped, has
stated that his two clients adj
mftted To him that it was Rose
who hired the slate cOlOred au-
tOmOblc on Monday night. It
was hired. thcy say. about II
r. VI. Monday, for about three
hours before ROScnthal was shot
to death This il regarded aS
the most important Development
up 10 date i'm the sensational case.
The grand jury is also investi-
eating report that it was really
Rose. and not Becker, as Dre-
viousIy alleged. who lent the ST.
500 with which ROsenthal started
one OF his many gambling houses.
Ia il rumOrcd that Detective
William =. Burns, who worked up
the Mcnamara and other famous
eases. has been retained by n Dri-
waite citizen to run down the Ro-
scnthal Siaycrs i'm the interests of
the public good.
BEFORE the grand jury resumed
its labOrs District Attorney Whit
man said:
mo single explanation of the
many that have been advanced
about East side gambling squab-
blcS-and several of these cX-
plantations have come directly
from the police department.
holds water.
CONCERNED ONLY THE PO-
LICE.
This man ROSenthaI has for
many years been mixed up in
gang fights. He has been Scri-
OuSly involved either directly or
through his friends in tho fights
that brought about tho death of
Spanish Louis and Kid Twist
two notorious gang leaders. and
yet he was not harmed at these
times by rival gangsters. who
perhaps might have felt that they
had cause 10 attack him.
And for months preceding
this murder his relations with
these gangs had been pleasant
enough for him to look for no
danger i'm that quarter. His prom
police: he had said he would
tell nothing about other gambling
houses or gamblers.
just few hours before he
was TO come to my house and
try TO make good his charges he
was killed. Now the charges arc
pIaCt icaliN dcad-tllcy mean lit
tie or nothing. The gain TO those
accused Ey EOScnthai is appar-
Cnt.
II repeat that my personal be-
-r,F / q. l.. IL Il.
killed RoSCnthaI was bigger mo-
tive than mere revenge. The death
VAS Il protection 30 ihc system
E"vHJsc Il stopped ono tongue
and WAS Il lesson TO others shat
might show q tendency To Wag."
Shortly after Lieutenant Becker r.
ported at police headquarters it wa
earned that Mayor GaynOr had take
! hand in the case and had detaile
he Lieutenant to find Rose.
Il was said that Becker had bee
detailed To run down Rose. followin
conference which Police Commits
ioner Waldo held with Mayor Gay
lor in the latter's office.
While funeral services were bcin
held for RoScnthal efforts were bein
made 20 induce the widow Of IN
lain gambler to leave New York s
hat she could not give further in
formation to the District Attorney
'ffice relative 20 her husbands ai
airs.
one ~ these overturos was mad
ly woman who called Mrs. Roser
raj on the telephone and tried {
mako an appointment to meet her /
1 hotel i'm the heart of the "Whit
light district
Friends of the widow tried TO I'll
Town the call. but only succeeded
earning that - had been sent frOl
p point near Broadway and Forty
'irst Street.
Some people are trying 70 set m
ont Of New York just as soon as Her
man is buried" declared mrs. ROseI
viii stay and tell District Attorno
Whitman all"