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Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-19
LEGISLATORS FAVOR
BILL FOR PENSIONING
GOVERNORS WIDOW

The legislature probably will pass
the bill awarding pension of $50 per
month to the widow of former Gov
ernor Allen D. Gambler.
When this bill was up for passage
g few days ago, it was opposed by Joe
Hill Hall and others, on the ground that
It was unconstitutional and should not
be passed until put in proper shape
Upon motion, 1t was laid on the table.
Since the bill was up the other day,
Mr.. Hall has reached the conclusion
that his first impression was wrong
and that the bill is constitutional. after
all, and it is now said he will support
It,
The bill provides for the payment of
pension of $50 per month to widows
OF governors who are possessed OF
property in an amount less than 81 800
provided such widows are relicts OF
governors who served in the Confed-
crate army. The bill can apply only to
Mrs. Gambler
Mrs Gambler, assisted by her daugh
Ter Is operating a boarding house in
GAINESVILLE. and is in reduced circum
stances. The proposed pension will be
a great aid to her
Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-19

definite direction The trail leads where
l thought it would"
Chief among the items that confirm
the county Investigators in their belief
that the responsibility for the Rosen-
thai murder rests with the police de
partment are these things:
Jack" Rose. held for hiring the mur-
der automobile for the crime. was a
close friend of Lieutenant Charles A.
Becker. whom Rosenthal claimed to
have been his partner, Rose was
known widely as a collector Of graft
for policemen.
Rose was active in getting evidence
for Becker against Rosenthal on the
night before he was murdered
The police are shown to have cleared
the streets about the hotel just before
the murder
The police made no successful effort
to catch the murderers although a
number of policemen We're in the imme-
diate vicinity.
Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-19

ing room gaze. fascinated, at the spec
tacle. Women scream and some faint.
Police Lieutenant File has seen the
whole affair from his seat down the
room. on the same side of the room as
the doorway where the tragedy was
staged He runs to the doorway and
sees the figures of four men moving, he
says, to gray. white striped touring
car that is clearly waiting for them. He
starts to cross the street to where the
automobile. he declares, is moving
slowly eastward, waiting for the -four
men who are to escape in it to climb
aboard
One heavy set. darkly clad man puts
his hand toward his pistol pocket. File
says, as if to threaten the policeman
File is within 40 feet of the motor cal
when all of its occupants having
climbed in, it shoots toward Sixth ave-
nue.
jim Considine, brother Of the hotel
proprietor, impresses into service two
frightened walters and makes them run
for ice and water Then Considine goes
out TO the sidewalk and tries to force
some cold water down the gamblers
throat and clumsily but Samaritanly
sponges off the blood streaked brow
Three policemen in uniform-Lieu
tenant Edward Frye and Patrolmen
Thomas Madigan and James Lynch
all of the West Forty seventh pre-
cinct, reach the scene but quickly de-
part in an impressed taxicab in chase
of the mysterious gray touring car de-
scrbed to them by Lieutenant File.
At sos o'clock, while the sun he was
never to see again is just peeking over
the rooftops to the east and giving a
garish light to the scene, a police pa
troll arrives, two policemen take from
it stretcher lift what was Herman
Rosenthal on It, put the stretcher back
into the patrol wagon and drive swift
ly. with changing bell to the West For
ty-seventh street station. where Coro-
ner Feinberg has told them to take the
BODY.
Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-19
CHAPTER I.
The Motive and the Men.

The story was told District Attorney
der of Rosenthal had been planned at
an outing of the Sam Hall association
last Sunday The organization went to
Northport. The men were bitter at
RosenthaI because of his "squeals.'
81 heard one gambler say, If Her
man goes too far with this. wen have
to get him." said the informant of the
district attorney.
When Rosenthal left the district at
torney after making the exposures ne
said he was afraid he would be
killed. not by the gamblers, but by
the police. He said they had got others
and could get him, and for that reason
he wanted to see the district attorney
early the next morning at the district
attornev,s home in Madison Square. 1t
was accordingly arranged that the
gambler. accompanied by his Wlte'
should visit Whitman at O'Clock AT
Whitmans apartments.
Furnished whitman O'S
'"These six men will tell you now
thew have to give up to the police
Rosenthal is said to have told w MT
man naming the men. They VIII give
Won the names of the police officers who
get the money, who are their collectors
and how far up in the police depart
ment the graft goes.
The six names as told since by the
dead gamblers friend were as follows:
~ DOLLAR John" whose real name is
Harry LANCER who is alleged to nave
run a gambling house at No st.
Marks place, which Lieutenant Beck
er raided in spectacular fashion Al
the time Dollar john raised the cry
that Becker took $1,000 from the roll
he carried in his pocket. Becker in
replv stated that he found sS,56l6o In
"Dollar Johns" clothes. and that the
money was later returned to hlm IN
the presence of his lawyer, and re-
ceipt was obtained for the amount,
90 Jack Rose. who boasts Of being
A close friend of Lieutenant Becker
and whose friends say vas the man
Who loaned Rosenths $1,000 on a
chattel mortgage to open gam
Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-19
PHONE GIRL WINS
S|C|L|AN PRINCE
Mary Murphy, of Chicago,
Wooed by Letter = Father
Says She'll Not Wed Him.

CHICAGO, July ia six-dollar~a-
the city by announcing her engage
ment to Sicilian prince who a year
ago was spurned by a 10000, 900 Mich
igan City Qnd) heiress. The young
Woman is Mary Veronica Murphy,
boasting Of but twenty summers, u
wealth of auburn hair, flashing roman
tic eyes and an ambition to wear a
gems studded coronet. The royal suit
or is Prince Di Santa Margherita, of
Messina. Sicily.
Miss Murphy stopped plugging mes
sage flashes long enough today to tell
of her romance.
Il met the prince last November at
ball here she admitted. He fell
in love with me that night. He court
ed me as only a scion of a noble house
could Then he left for Sicily on ac-
count of the illness of his mother He
pleaded for my hand in ardent love let
ters and l consented"
The love evoked but disgust from
Dan" Murphy, father of the near
princess and saloon keeper He de-
clares his daughter will never marry
the prince person.
Attaches of the Italian consuIs Of
flee here translated the letters for the
young woman. They declare they have
no reason to discredit the foreigners
title, although they have never heard
of him
Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-19
Killing of Herman RoSentha|
Marked by Dramatic Fea-
lures in Every Phase.

other shot. and then three in rapid sue
eession. like this: X-x-Xx-X. ! ran
to the corner of Forty third street,
where | heard the second shot, and the
shooting ended just as l reached the
corner. l ran over to where l saw a
man on the sidewalk.
File told me that four men had
driven away in big gray touring car
and that he did not have its number
He said we'd have to chase 1T In an
other machine and that it had gone
toward Sixth venue. But | did not sec
anv touring car of any kind on the
block, and | got to Forty third street
about as quickly as a man could
never did see that gray automobile File
told me about.
Il got Horan to start his engine and
turn his taxicab around and l jumped
in. in back with Lieutenant Edward
Frye. who had come up, and tlle
iumped on the front seat with the
chauffeur
I'VE hit it up pretty fast eastward on
Forty third street until just opposite
the Elks club. There dark haired
figure, who turned out later to be
Coupe. ran out into the street ana
yelled number al us. He said 4l3lS.
We said thanks, and kept on going 10
Madison avenue There milkman
told us a gray machine had gone very
far up Madison avenue We went up
to Fifty eighth street but we never
60 W n
Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-19
pITTSBURG SHIPPING
COAL SOUTH BY BOAT

PiTTSBURG, July 19-Eleven tow
ooais in the fifth and sixth pools clear
eo today with approximately 1916, 900
pushels Of coal for the South River
men are eXultant over the somewhat
novel experience of shipping coal on a
sood stage in July. There was stage
u about nine and half feet at the
Point bridge today.
heaEN rains over the water sheds Of
.ue Allegheny and Kiskiminetas rivers,
a'u some over the Monongahela give
a good shipping stage.
Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-19

bling house at No 1O4 West Forty
fifth street Rosenthal said Lieutenant
Becker put UP the money.
CD ABE, the Rebbler." who runs a
cafe in lower Second avenue.
ca j. J. Donahue an alleged repre-
sentative of Lieutenant Becker, who
signed the mortgage, as the man to
whom the money was paid but who
had admitted that he only received $40
for his signature.
(5) A gambling house employee,
named Hallow, who at one time worked
for Dollar John" in the St Marks
place house.
(6) Robert H Hibbard formerly a
policeman, now lawyer at 220 Broad
way. who, Rosentha said, was the at
torney of Becker in the chattel mort
gage transaction by which Becker ad-
vanced $500 for the Forty fifth street
gambling house.
More Names Promised.
Then there are -four more names
which will give you Monday morn
ing" continued Rosenthal Il won't
tell you who they are now, because /
want to see some of them first and
learn how far they will go. They know
a lot about police graft and if they will
come across right you can put the big
gest police grafters behind the bars
When Rosenthal left the district at
torney's Office he met number of run
ners for East Side pool rooms, to which
he is said to have remarked in SOME
what boasting way:
I've got the bunch nailed now
Whitman is going to get hold Of the
right people tomorrow, and then the lid
will come off"
The word vent through the gambling
world as quickly as the telegraph could
have carried it, According to one re-
port, a meeting was Immediately held
al a cafe in Second avenue. only three
blocks from the cafe Boulevard
Among those present was one Of the
gamblers whose name had been fur
nlshed District Attorney Whitman by
Rosenthal With him was a represen-
tative Of a prominent police official.
whose name has been frequently men
toned since Rosenthal attacked the po-
lice, and the leader Of an East Side
gang. which is closely allied with the
gang headed by Montana, which per-
petrated the taxicab robbery in Park
place
q L
Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-19
HOLLIS is AGITATED
BY CONTROLLERS
SALARY QUIZ REPLY

Because Mr.. Hollis, of Taylor, object
- "a the form of the reply sent to the
honse today from the Office Of the
COMPTROLLER general, in response to an
,rcuirv directed from the house, with
resnect to the fees and compensation
of that office. the comptrollers report
WAS not received" by the house, but
stands merely as having been read.
Mr. Hollis was agitated visibly when
IN. report was read, and Immediately
rose TO a question of personal privi-
Iege attacking the form OF the comp
troller's reply. and asking the house not
to receive it.
The motion not to receive never was
acted upon. The gentleman from Tay-
or got tangled up so hopelessly as to
his parliamentary status that he yield
ed the floor to Mr.. Alexander, of De-
Kalb from whom he had obtained it,
and the report was not mentioned
again in the days proceedings.
The comptrollers report was in the
shape more of a personal communica-
ton to Mr. Hollis than a reply to the
house. and for this reason Mr.. Hollis
objected to its reception. He took the
position that the house and not Mr..
Hollis had asked the comptroller for
information concerning his compensa-
ton.
Under the report, it was shown that
the comptroller receives a salary Of
$4,000 per annum and approximately
s7,64S41 in fees, making a total of
$s.64841, based upon current receipts.
This. the comptroller points out, is
much less than the 100000 per annum
he has been reported, in some quar-
Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-19
VITAL STATISTICS BUREAU
PROVIDED IN SENATE BILL

A bureau of vital statistics. as an ad-
junct to the state department of health,
is provided in a bill sent to the senate
today by j. E. Beauchamp, Of the
Twenty second district
Senator Beauchamp said his meas
ure was modelled after recommends
tions recently made by the American
Medical association. Georgia, he said,
was unusually negligent in the matter
of gathering vital statistics, especially
in the rural districts
Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-19
J. ]. FLYNT ANNOUNCES
FOR R. R. COMMISSIONER

GRIFFIN. GA. July 19.-J. j. Flynt,
of Griffin, has announced for railroad
commissioner. Mr. t'lynt is well known
throughout the state, was in the legis-
lature for seven years, was president
of the senate, was a delegate to the
late Democratic convention at Balti-
more, is on the committee to notify
Governor Wilson OF his nomination by
the Democrats, and is now judge of the
city court of Griffin. He will make an
active campaign for the place.
Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-19
GRACE CASE GOES
ID TRIAL JULY 29.
Famous Case Given Preced-
ence over All Others at Next
Term of Court.

vrs Daisy Opie Grace, charged with
,al+ With intent to murder her hus-
asnd E. H. Grace, on March 5, will be
tss frst person under Indictment to
t1oo Judge L. S. Roam in the criminal
,i,,sion of superior court on July 29
Yer case was given precedence over all
theirs by solicitor General Hugh M
Torssy in making up the calendar to-
dsv for the next term of court
Practically 100 cases are set for hear
inc Al this session. and among them are
aa,.eral older ones than the Grace case,
bnt its prominence led the officials to
nIsce it first on the list. On account
# the usual long time of organizing
me court the hearing will hardly be
more than begun on the first day The
ILLNESSES will be summoned early next
week
Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-19
GIRL TYPIST WRITES
115 WORDS A MINUTE

SPOKANE, WASH, July ia new
typewriter speed record has been
hung up by Miss Florence E. Wilson,
of New York. in the national contests
held under the National Commercial
Teachers federation. Miss Wilson cop
led 7,219 words in an hour. making IS
mistakes. Five words were deducted
for each mistake. leaving the total
6,S79 words, or an average of lis
minute. The former record was liz
words per minute.
Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-19
HUGE lCEBERGS AND
Fl0ES DELAY LINERS

NtW YORK July 19,-Huge icebergs
ana an active ice field were encounter
oN the steamers Mauretania and
'r5ldtlc which arrived In port today
3 lhe progress of both ships was i'm
lor several days while travelling
.no extreme southern course about
South of Cape Race
oers fully 800 feet high and / 600 feet
1,.i1, Netufning on the Mauretania were
"Illsm A. Brady, Charles Frohmar
~ fVchard 6. Kerens. American am
Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-19
BILL PROVIDES BONDED
ST0RER00MS FOR CROPS

Representative Cabaniss, of Ogle-
thorpe county. introduced a bill in
the house today providing for system
of bonded warehouses in Georgia for
the storage of farm products
This is a measure in which num-
ber of farmers organizations are deep
ly interested and it is sure TO receive
much strong support.
Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-19
ESCAPED CONVICT MAY
BE IN OR NEAR ATLANTA

MONTGOMERY. ALA. July 10
Henry East. a white convict, who es-
capped from a Louisville and Nashville
train Tuesday night, Is probably in
Georgia. He is said to have a wife in
or around Atlanta and it is the belief
Of State Transfer Agent C. C. Lindsay,
from whom East escaped that the con-
vict has fled to her East is under SEN
tence of eighteen years for burglary at
Florence
Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-19
Detective Burns Joins the Hunt for the Slayer Of Gambling King
LAIEST FACTS POINT TO TE4E GUILT OF TH4E- POLICEL
"Trail Leads Where | Thouuht
1t Would" Says New York
District Attorney.

NEW YORK, July 19.-Louis Lib
by and William Shapiro, owners of the
automobile in which the assassins of
Gambler Rosenthal escaped. were
taken to the district attorneys Office
this afternoon. 1t was reported that
they had made a full confession and
that the arrest of a prominent police
official would soon be made.
A complete exposure of police graft
was promised by county officials today
Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-19
CHAPTER II.
The Murder of Rosenthai in
Front of Hotel in Glare of
Lights.

Herman Rosenthal walks eastward
on Forty third street from Sixth ave
nue. until he arrives at the Hotel Met
ropole He enters the dining room.
Rosenthal beckons Richard Erbe, a
waiter who has served him frequently,
and tells him to bring him a drink a
horses neck
From time to time he glances toward
1.-THE open doorway as if awaiting some
one. He is nervous and apparently can
not understand why his expected guests
do not arrive. At half an hour after
midnight, as Erbe tells it, three men
| join Rosenthal at the table
Police Lieutenant William File is sit
ting more than halfway down the din
ing room from Rosenthal Al the po-
iceman's table. which he occupies al
most nightly. for File is an ex-sparring
partner Of James ] Corbett and likes
the glamor of New Yorks night life,
are Miss Artie Hall. a vaudeville sing
er and another man and woman Their
table is on the westerly side of the
room, so feet from where RosenthaI
sits
Joined BY Three Men.
When Rosenthal is Joined by three
men at 1890 o'clock File recognizes
them Later in the morning he gives
their names to Inspector Hughes as
Charles O'Day, better known in tne
gamblers world as Big Judge" Grow
ley; another man known as SANDY
CIemons, and third as Mcmahon
The four men order another round Of
drinks. Rosenthal takes ginger ale
Highballs are ordered by his guests
Another round is soon served by Erbe
For almost an hour and a half the
four men sit there apparently talking
over Rosenthars charges that his gam
bling house was financed by a police
lieutenant who is always sharer in its
profits.
AS Rosenthal expounds to his three
listeners what he proposes to tell Dis
trict Attorney Whitman later the same
morning. "A well dressed youth comes
smilingly in the open door walks di-
rectly to Rosenthals table. and, as
File tells ii to his superiors later in the
day, says
'Rosenthal there's a friend OF yours
out on the sidewalk that wants to talk
10 you. Come out here. will your"
Rosenthal calls the waiter. receives
his check for so cents. puts dollar
bill on the table and walks to the door
way.
The three guests disappear as if on
signal into the hall
The messenger halts near the door
for an instant and is joined there by
Roserthal Then the two resume their
short walk to the sidewalk Quickly
the messenger lodges to the west and
fades from the view Of those in the din
ing room. who feel the electricity of a
momentous act in the surcharged at
mosphere. All eyes are on Rosenthal
as he walks through the doorway.
One Man Did Shooting.
A light gray clad figure steps toward
the gambler a hand that carries a
deadly revolver is thrust into Rosen-
thals face there is a savage pull of the
trigger and two bullets go whstling
past Rosenthal's head
The gambler turns in dismay Three
more shots follow one another with
startling rapiditv. two Of them taking
effect in Rosenthals head
The gambler seems to fold into him
self, -iike an accordion, and falls slowly
To the sidewalk
Stage folk and gamblers in the din
Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-19
m0NARCHISTS GIVE UP
FIGHT IN PORTUGAL

6ADAJoSE. SPANISH FRONTIER.
'lN ls.-Portuguese monarchists have
poiailly abandoned their attempt to
'nfo" the republican government
s~. Don, and the royalist soldiers have
rd INTO the fastnesses OF the
~ l'el Estrella mountain range in
a., "'fth awaiting another call to ac-
Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-19
gELr line FOR vALposrA.

NALDOSTA, GA, July 19.-Work on
the extension of the Valdosta Street
Car Company's line along Hill avenue
is being pushed now, and it is expect
ed to complete the work before the
paving begins on that street again. The
extension is the first link in the pro-
posed belt line around the city.
Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-19
Story of the Crime and
The Events Before and After

NEW YORK, July 1s-Here are the
chief points of interest leading up to
the murder of Rosenthal the gambling
king, and the story of the killing. told
in the logical sequence:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-07
SEEK LOST BABY HEIR.
Boy, Whereabouts Unknown. Sole
Owner. OF Valuable Property.

Owner OF Valuable Property
Wichita, Kan, March 7.-Search is
being made in Texas for the child of
Mrs. Mary Howe, who was adjudged
to be of unSound mind by a commits
sion in the Sedgwick county probate
court ten days ago. The child, a g.
year-old boy, is said to be heir to a
fortune estimated worth 100000. In
formation reaching Mrs. Helene S.
Mason, police matron of Wichita, in
dfcates to her, she says that the child
has been hidden by nurse following
its separation from the mother while
she was on her way from Dallas. Tex,
to Illinois to attend the funeral of her
father, a wealthy banker.
When Mrs. Howe left Texas after
Durylng her husband, the child's faith
er, she was accompanied by her boy
and its nurse. so Mrs. Mason has been
Informed. Mrs. Howe was taken from
passenger train in this city two
weeks ago Saturday night, the con-
ductor stating that she had lost her
mind. Mrs. Howe took a room at the
Hamilton hotel, but after midnight
got up, dressed and was found by
police officers wandering about the
streets, calling for her baby. She was
placed in the Kansas Sanitarium and
later ad1udged insane. She is now at
a state hospital.
Inquiry made of Mrs. Howe's uncle,
w. M. Finch of Whitewater, Kan, by
the authorities in Wichita revealed
LlAeSt MIS- dOWSS husband died IN
Texas in November. and that her faith
er died in Illinois a month following.
Worry over the loss of her dearest
relative and husband, it is believed,
weakened her mind.
Mrs. Mason stated that she had
been informed that when Mrs. Howe
left Dallas. Tex, that her boy and a
nurse were on the train. She also
stated that the nurse and child dis
appeared from the train shortly af-
ter leaving Texas, and relatives of the
child have been unable to locate it.
Mrs. Mason was informed that Mr.
Finch of Whitewater. had gone to
look for the nurse and child. few
days after Mrs. Howe had been ad-
judged insane a man, whom Mrs. Ma
son took to be a private detective.
called at city hall and interviewed the
police matron at length about Mrs.
Howe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-07
GIVE KANSAS TO TEDDY.
But in East President Taft Is Strong,
Kansan Says.


Pittsburg. Kan. March THE
country east of the Mississippi river
is strong for the denomination. of Mr..
Taft, according to Clarence n. Price,
who has just returned from visit
of several days in Washington. 1t
is conceded in Washington, Mr.. Price
says that Kansas will be for RooSe-
welt and that there is a great Roose-
Welt sentiment in the states in the VI
entity of Kansas and in the west gen
orally However, President Tart
supporters and leaders have no fear
of the result in the east Colonel
Roosevelt they say, has no show to
win the nomination
when we crossed the Mississippi
and began talking with Illinois peo-
pie" Mr.. Price says. Eve found that
same way the farther we went Men
from all over the east informed US
that their sections were for the re-
nomination of the president. News
paper men especially, say that Roose-
welt has no following for the nominal
ton, that can accomplish anything
for him.
clyde H. Knox. editor of the Sc
dan Times-Star, accompanied Mr.
Price on the trip. Knox left Kansas
Roosevelt supporter and came home
for Taft. He believed that Roosevelt
could be elected and. that Taft could
not be when he went east He had
even been supporting the colonel In
his paper. But the conditions in the
east as he found them changed his
mind for him.
Congress will adjourn IN time TOT
the Republican national convention
Mr.. Price says. The Democratic con-
vention is one week later than the
ReDublican convention.