The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-09-03
SAYS HE COULDN'T GET
MURDER NEWS TO WALDO
Private Detective Believes He
Saw Gyp the Blood and
Lefty Louie.
TOLD 1T TO DOUGHERTY
No Police Action Followed.
Schwartz Thinks-Will
Tell Whitman.

lclI NHItIIIUH.
Peter Schwartz, a private detective.
who was formerly in the Police Depart
ment, complained yesterday that al
though he made three attempts last
week TO get into Commissioner waldos
Office to offer the Commissioner In
formation about Gyp the Blood and
Lefty Lou!e's probable whereabouts he
had not been permitted to have a pri-
vate conversation with the Commits
sioncr.
Schwartz. who when forced out OF
the Police Department in May. 1903. in
sisted that the Police Department Is
no place for a man VINO tries to he
honest" said yesterday that before at
tempting to see Mr., Waldo he wrote
20 the Commissioner to say that he had
important Information regarding the
Rosenthal case" and asked for sugges-
! tions az to the best way OF getting
this Information to the Commissioner
without risk Of the police getting II
| first. The detective. who lives at 42l
East Seventy ninth street believes that
this letter was Intercepted at Head
quarters. At any rate the letter never
was answered, Schwartz says.
After third attempt to see the Com
missioner last week Schwartz says that
he decided that the next best thing
would he to give TO Deputy Commits
Sioner Dougherty of the detective bu-
| ieau the Information which he had
| failed 10 deliver to the Commissioner
| dlrect. He says he saw Mr. Dougherty
| and told his story IN detail. but that no
| action by the police followed
Since Schwartz was put Off the force
nine years ago his detective activities
have included work for Attorney
| Gneral McQuade when Mr.. McQuade
was working on the Ice trust investiga-
| tion year ago with Assistant Distrist
Attorney William a. De Ford. Mr.. De
Ford then represented Mr. Whitman in
the Ice trust inquiry and Is now the
| District Attorneys chief assistant in
the preparation for the John Doe in
quiry beginning to-day.
| Heard News In Omaha.
| The Information which Detective
! Schwartz says he wanted to tell Mr..
| Waldo personally but couldn't came TO
| Schwartz while he was working in the
| middle West on a case that has no con-
nection with the Rosenthal murder.
| While prowling around dive in omaha.
| Neb one night about month ago
looking for fugitive he happened to
sit al a table next 70 a table at which
were two young men talking familiarly
| Of Dago Frank Cirofci and Whitley
Lewis. the fugitive gunmens two friends
now In the Tombs charged with the
actual killing OF Rosenthal
Detective Schwartz says he tempo
rarily put his own private work ont
Of his mind TO listen. The few words
spoken loud enough to reach the de-
| teC'ive's ears continued to arouse his
| curiosity. He never had seen either
| Harry Horowitz, called Gyp the Blood,
or Lefty Louie. but in his pocket he
| had one Of the first police "hiers' Civ
| ing the fugitives' descriptions and their
pictures
Schwartz saws he waited for an op-
portunlty during a lull in the con-
versation at the next table and then
| shifted in his chair TO get a view of
| the two young men. The resemblance
| OF the two. he saws, to the police pic
lures OF Gyp and Lefty and To the pub
lished descriptions was remarkable.
The detective from that moment on
gave every moment that he had free
from his own private case to cultlvat-
ing an acquaintance with she two
men. 1t was hard work. because the
two evidently wished to keep to them
selves.
They showed up only at the dive
where Detective Schwartz first had seen
them and at one or two similar places
in Omaha. Advances by Schwartz
when he did come across them were
repuscd. But he finally managed to
each week secretly with SIS by friends
in New York.
Wrote waldo About II.
Detective Schwartz was very busy all
! this time with his own work that had
| brought him to Omaha, but he found
time one night to write a letter to
Commissioners Waldo. he says. concern
| ing the two men In Omaha. He did not
go into details about the pair In this
| letter. but asked the Commissioner
merely how best to get TO Mr.. Waldo
the Information regarding the Rosen-
thai case" so that the Commissioner
and no one else In the Police Depart
ment here would see the letter.
This Is the letter which Schwartz
says the Commissioner never answered
and which the detective believes was
intercepted here. Developments in the
case that had brought Schwartz to the
West took n turn that made It neces-
| sary for him to return East immedi-
| ately. Before he left Omaha he told
colleague what he knew Of the two
men.
When Schwartz arrived here he was
still so suspicious Of certain members Of
the Police Department, 50 far as the
quest OF Gyp and Lefty was concerned
that he decided to talk with no one
about the Omaha occurrences except
Mr.. Waldo himself. The point made