The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-21
ROSE CONNECTED WITH THE MURDER Dougherty Does Not Believe He Dismissed Car WHITMAN IS ABSENT Deputy Police Commissioner Believes He Has the Case Well in Hand.
 Has Two Mysterious
 Visitors
WHITMAN IS ABSENT

New York. July 0.-aBald Jack Rose, who hired the motor car which carried the murderers of rosenthal. the gambler l to the scene of the crime, was connected more directly with the case tonight by implication of Deputy Police Commits sioner Dougherty. Rose has claimed that he was not responsible for the movement of the auto Commissioner Dougherty had talk with Shapiro chauffeur of the death car and added
 'Despite the fact that Rose says he ! dismissed the car. Shapiro says he did not"
 The tone in which the commissioner made this statement implied he placed | little credit in Roses statement that he got out of the car long before it reached the Metropole hotel the scene of the murder Rose claims he can account for himself an hour before and an hour after the killing
 The commissioner was asked pointedly whether Lieutenant Becker, the friend or Rose, and the man whom Rosenthal had declared was in silent partnership with him, has been connected with the case.
  case mentioned in the newspapers and 1 by various persons" he replied. There 1 is nothing tangible against Becker. Our investigation has failed to substantiate the theory that Rosenthal was called out of the Hotel Metropole when he was shot. As far as we have been able to learn, he left the hotel of his own accord" l Commissioner Dougherty today was in conference with several persons believed to be considered by the police important witnesses in the case Two of his visit ors today were elaborately gowned young women and another a young man Their appearance seemed to relieve the commits sioner of much anxiety. The identity of all was carefully guarded.
 eve have made good progress said Mir Dougherty when he had dismissed his visitors. First we have the auto- mobile which was used in the murder; second, we have the owner and chauffeur
 of the car: third. we have the man who
 hired the car, and, fourth, we have all the movements of the car traced from
 the time 1t was hired to the time it re- turned to the garage"
 While the police were busy with tneir
 end of the. case the district attorneys x office with a force of private detectives was working along independent lines. The district attorney himself, who left l last night on an important mission, - still was away. Those who are working
 with MT. Whitman felt tonight that the lines are tightening about the slayers of Rosenthal. l Every move in the crime Is known to the district attorneys office to the full satisfaction of the men handling the in vestigation, it was stated. The name and description of every man who rode In the murder car" Is known.
 l Detectives In the employ of the district attorney are now working in several cities where participants in the assassination are believed to have fled.
 murder car" District Attorney Whit man and private detectives employed by him, because he believes that the police have shown no inclination to unearth the crime, have shown that. after the shooting. the murderers loafed around the scene of the crime with no apparent fear of arrest.
 Shapiro has told enough details to cause the public prosecutor to believe that the private detectives will soon round up the gang of gun fighters whom the police have daily promised | to arrest. but have failed to do so. That the gambling plot and murder plot will lead far deeper into the police | department, Is now generally believed.