Atlanta semi-weekly journal., 1912-08-23
ALL WITNESSES To
TALK. OR 60 TO JAIL
IN GAMBLING PROBE
Inquiry Has Sweeping Powers
to Force Every Person Sub
penaed to Tell All That He
Knows
CBy Associated Press,


NEW YORK, Aug. 22.-Four police
inspectors and three civilians were in
volved in corruption that netted them
hundreds of thousands of dollars from
gambling houses and resorts of i'll
fame. according TO information which
District Attorney Whitman will lay be-
fore Justice Goff when the "John Doe
inquiry Is begun as -corraliary from
the RosenthaI conspiracy investigation
The inquiry will be of such scope that
persons who, decline to testify will be
sent to jail. 1t is expected to develop
line Of information that could not be
gained during the trials of men accused
as Rosentbal's slayers.
The grand jury today was to inquire
into the charges that Police Lieutenant
Becker directed that big jack zelig
be arrested and a gun placed on his
person. that Zelig might become the
tool of the lieutenant and furnish the
men to kill RosenthaL The two police
lieutenants Steinert and White. who ar
rested Zelig. may be indicted for op-
preston. 's..
Interest centered largely today in the
arraignment of five of the seven men
indicted for the killing of Rosenthal.
They were expected to plead not guilty.
They are Lieut. Charles Becker. Jack
Sullivan, William Shapiro. Frank Null
ler Cwhitey Lewis), and Frank Cirofici
(Dago Frank. Louis Rosenzweig
(Lefty Louis) and Harry Horowitz
(Gyp the Blood are still at liberty with
reward of $4,000 offered for their
capture John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is
said to have guaranteed the reward for
the arrest of Rosenzweig and Horowitz.
BECKER ARRAIGNED. t,t
Police Lieutenant Charles Becker and
four of his alleged underworld accom-
plices we're arraigned before Judge Null
queen in the court of general sessions
today, charging them with the murder
of the gambler. RosenthaL
Counsel for Becker said that he was
not ready to plead today and the court
set Tuesday next for the pleading. The
other four prisoners pleaded not guilty
with permission to withdraw or change
the plea by Tuesday next.
CORONER'S INQUEST
The arraignmenf of Becker was pre-
ceded by the coroner's inquest. which
has been adjourned. Daniel Frohman
was foreman of the jury, which, after
hearing the evidence, returned a verdict
that Rosenthal had come to his death
by means of a bullet wound in the
brain, caused by some person or persons
unknown" They recommended that
Louis Libby, part owner of the murder
car" be discharged from custody. This
will be done.
Among the inquest witnesses was Pos
Iiceman William ]. Files, who was criti-
cised for his failure to capture the as
sassins. He testified that he was din
ing in tn Metropole at the time, and
when hc heard the shots he pulled his
gun and ran out on the sidewalk. He
asked several persons which way the
murderers went. but none could answer
him. He and other officers then Jump
ed into a taxicab and gave pursuit to
an automobile going east This auto
mobile. he learned later, was not the
gray car in which the assassins es-
capped.
A sealed indictment, charging perjury.
was handed up by the grand jury today
against Charles steinert and James
White former members of Lieutenant
Becker's strong arm" squad. They are
charged with framing a gun-carrying
case against the gang leader, big jack
Zelig.