The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-18
SLAYER0F HERMAN
ROSENTHAL EvADES
NEW YORK POLICE
Two Are Held for Murder
But 1t Is Believed Arrest
Was Only Bluff
STARTLING FACTS
BROUGHT TO LIGHT
Officers Stood Within Twelve
Feet of Spot and Made
No Effort to Apprc-
bend Criminals

NEW YORK. July 17---At the emf
of the second day following the shoot
ing of Herman Rosenthal, the police
seemed to have made little or no prog
ress in establishing the identity of tho
men responsible for the death of the
man who had threatened to exposa
the connection between the gamblers
ring and the pole
Attorney Aaron Levy. representing
Libby 4 Shapiro, the owners OF the
car in which the murd erers made
their escape, said tonight that two
men who had ridden in the murder
car during the night on which 1t was
used in the assassination Of Rosenthas.
whom his clients recognized were
Jack Rose and a man known in tho
East Side gambling circles as "Itzky."
Beyond this he said they were unable
to identify the latter
Libby and Shapiro are still held at
police headquarters. but their attor-
ney declares that their arrest was
merely bluff" and that both are
sure to be set free.
The further today's Investigate ton
went on the stranger IL seemed to I'M
biased observers that the slayers Of
Rosenthal were able to have made
their escape unless the police purpose
~ avoided activity in their capture Or
were unbeIievabIy stupid e
There was one polieeman-Detec-
tive Ffles-within twelve feet of the
spot where the gambler was siaugn-
tered. There were at least FIVE others
within sound OF the pistol shots. Yet
not one of them did so much as OBJ
tain the number of the automobile
which carried off the assassins, lat
alone capture them.
Singer Imprisoned
A private citizen. Charles Gallagher.
singer. who did obtain the number
and turned it over to the police. was
east into a cell like a criminal
Many persons believed that the ,o-
lice possibly knew that the Shaving
WAS TO take place. and was purposeIy
lax in their observations and actions.
District Attorney Whitman, in an
on1cial statement. went so far as de-
clare that the police permitted the
murder to be committed and the as
sassins TO escape. He pointed out the
facts leading up to that belief.
detective Files was at supper not
Tar away when Rosenthal was called
TO the street to meet his death Files
out, and. according to his own story.
ran outside and saw gray touring
car with white stripping moving away
at rapid gait
Files Didn't Sec II.
Other witnesses declared tho car
started slowly. as it naturally would
have to do. and that when Files
came out he could have overtaken IL
IL he so desired This was only "A few.
seconds after the shooting The place
was certainly light enough for any
policeman to have seen the number OF
the machine. But Files didn't see IT,
There were, according to report. at
least five policemen on fixed posts
within short distance of the Hotel
Metropoie.
1T should not {as Attorney Whit
man pointed ouD have taken the most
distant of these men more than fif-
teen or twenty seconds to run to a
point very close 10 the scene OF the
shoofinR.,. " here they could, al len Sc
have obtained the number of the car.
Yet did any of them rum No"
Mr. Whitman produced a record Of
the police blotter which showed that
seven different automobile numbers
were turned In by policemen, and all
of them were wrong
II remained for Gallagher TO turn
in the numerals 41.3l3. and when he
did, he was at once locked up "as q
witness"
When pursuit was made after the
gray touring car containing Rosen-
thars siayeis the gray machine was
already out of sight. OF this Mr..
Whitman declares he has positive
proof.
Il charge" said tne district attor-
fru IL boz
the murder TO be committed aud the
slayers to escape The responsibility
tor the whole affair lies right with
the policemen about the scene OF the
murder,
SkepticaI of Arrests.
The public will find. | fear that
a lot OF men of unsavory records will
be picked up and arrested; but when
it comes to putting the guilt on them
We will have NO real evidence at
all
81 have no quarrel with Police
Commissioner Waldo" concluded the
district attorney. but this murder and
the conditions which followed ii are
inexcusabie."
Deputy Police Commissioners
Dougherty was gruff and angry when
asked tonight what results he had
obtained from his days work, in~
Guiding his examination OF Libby ana
Shapiro, the partners owing the gray
automobile. and his later talk with
sam Paul. an Eastside gambler, said
70 have been an enemy of RoseF1-
that's.
II know lot about this wholo
business" he said, but I'm not going
to tell about it,
VIII you say that the shootino
was not a police iob---that the police
didn't have anything to do with e. a
mo. don't. would not care
for any man living. I would not car&
whoop If it was the governor d.
the States / would be on the Job
just as | am now trying 10 get -
man." S
rs Libby or Shapiro, rcsponsfhl~|
for the MURDER" he wHA asked. 8
II can only point out that 49,