The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-07-17
ONE MAN ARRESTED.

Within three hours after the muir
der. detectives visited a garage on
Washington Square, known to the po-
lice as the headquarters Of the taxi
cab robbers, who recently robbed bank
messengers Of $25. 600 and captured a
man describing himself as Louis lib
by, whom they made a prisoner on the
C1aIge of homicide. The police also
recovered an automobile that they say
was the one that figured in the murder.
Deputy Commissioner Dougherty as
serted that eye witnesses to the muir
DER of Rosenthal identified Libby as
one Of the qutntette who drove up in
front of the hotel and, calling the gam
bier from the dining room to the side
VIZ TX, shot him down with Il fusiIiada
of bullets and then fed in the rnOtof
car.
Mrs. Sadie Rosenthal. the gamblers
widow, in a statement to Districl At
tOrney Whitman, put the assassination
Of her husband squarely up to the po-
lice. She said she had a premonition
a tragedy would follow her husbands
appointment at the MetrOpOle and she
named a police official as one of the
men who was to be present.
CHARGES STIRRED NEW YORK.
Rosenthal spTang into public notice
only last Friday when he hurled bomb
into police circles by filing attidavits
charging that the police were in league
with the gamblers throughout New
York and that every gambling house
was being assessed a fixed sum for
police protection.
RosenthaI had been for some time.
he explained. the proprietor of a gam
bling establishment in West Forty
Fifth street, which was closed on April
II, after a raid by Police Lieutenant
Becker, head of the so-called strong
Arm Squad"
This raid, RosenthaI declared, fol-
lowed a misunderstanding between
himself and Becker. The latter, ROsen-
thai alleged. was his partner in the
profits Of the establishment.
Specifically, RosenthaIs affdaVits
charged that Lieutenant Becker had
loaned him 81 500 on a Chattel mort
gage on furniture in the Forty-f1fth
street house as n share in the gam
bling business done on those premises
and that BeckeT's share amounted to
25 per cent Of the profits
OFFICIALS RETURN TO TOWN.
ROsenthals charges were so sensa-
tional that the explosion of a bomb at
headquarters could not have caused
any more CONSERVATION in police cir
Cles. Police Commissioner Waldo and
District Attorney Whitman. both Of
whom were out of town, cut short their
vacations to start the inquiry. Com
missioner W dtuOv dIteF making himself
acquainted with the situation yester-
day, wrote a formal letter TO the dis
trict attorney demanding an investiga-
tion by that official rather than through
his own department. He said that
RosenthaTs accusation was not so
much a charge of bad discipline in
the department as one Of out-and-out
crime which, if worthy Of serious con
sfderation at all would be worthy Of
adjudication before a regularly consti-
tuted tribunal. District Attorney Whit
man forthwith announced that he
would begin a formal investigation to-
day.
The murder Of Rosenthal before day
break brought the situation to a SEN
sational climax.
The gambler left his home late last
night. telling his wife that he had an
appointment to meet Police Lieutenant
Becker at the Hotel MetropOle at the
corner Of Broadway and FOrty-thtrd
street. RosenthaI reached the hotel.