The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-17

, miles an hour, however powerful ft is It takes time to work up to that figure and in my opinion there was ample time for the policemen to have arrested all the murderers concerned before the car got. under such ter rife headway."
 When Coroner Fainberg appeared in the inquest into BosenthaFs death. District Attorney Whitman asked him to postpone it until 3;3O so that he could be present in person. Whitman explained that he was engaged with the grand jury which is investigatfng the murder and the charges growing out of it. f-# v The chief witness was understood to be Mrs. Birdie Webber. wife of one of the men under arrest at Police headquarters.
 Webber, Libby and Shapiro were brought to the coroner's office but be- cause of Whitman's request, they were returned to police i1eadquarters Ac- cording too !, Police Commissioner Waldo. Feinberg was to be asked to charges and Webber as a material witness
 With an open feud existing between District Attorney Whitman and the police k, authorities, developments of the most sensational character in the gambling situation were imminent. today. Whitman openly asserted that Herman Rosenthal, murdered in front of the Metropole, early yesterday morning, was killed for a purpose.
 He said that he was killed not alone to close his mouth but the public place was selected for the murder so that others who might desire to rsqueal'' would be properly terrorized. The police bitterly denied and resent ed Whitman's characterizations. They | irG fa6 fho& kL-T nL cause he talked too much about ts1M gambling situation and ths N~ was put out of the way by Iown- town gambling syndicate. said they will prove this by the arrest within a short time of every one oe Rosenthars murderers.
 But Whitman is having an indepen- dent *investigation made. He has pos itiyefy asserted that he will place no credence in any case the police may today, that if the police were. sincere they would have arrested the murder CTS on the spot.
 There were five policemen within 300 feet. of the shooting" sAid Whit man. today. two within 100 feet of it and one within 50- Yet five men were able to shoot to pieces the head of a grand jury witness, get into an automobile and escape without being seriously inconvenienced. This at 2 o'clock in the morning on a brilliant ly lighted street 40. feet off Broadway, in front of a place that was filled with people. And after the 5assassins got into their. car the .rP0i3ce made little pretense of pursuit, not one-g got the right number of the car and they arrested as criminal the man Whe tried to give them the right number.
 Just as this man is about to give the names of the eight or ten men who could or would support his charges of organized corruption in the police department, just as the. situa- tion shapes up most dangerously for the police involved, he is killed. The public feels this killing was a part of the work of a great secret organiza- tion which can defy the laws as it pleases. This killing has been fright full blow to the orderly execution of justice in this country and one from which it will take it long to recover although I will not rest until every man concerned is punished
 Whitman today placed every mem Der of his personal staff at work on the solution of the murder He de- clared that he would also, if 1eces- sary, engage all of the private detec- tives necessary tos check up on all. Of the police evidence furnished him. 4, He made it plain that he had, lost all con fidence in the police department and that he intended probing this crime at least independent of it.. -.s-- .------ss -,-. q.
 Meanwhile, the police declared they had their fingers on the situation. They intimated that Louis Libby and William Shapiro, who owned the tour ing car that was used by the mur- derers, had furnished them with all of the facts of the killing and. with the names of the men who did the actual shooting. H
 Shapiro, the police said, told them that there were seven men on the job hat If fr killing. D..
 The police were prepared today to arraign Libby and Shapiro in court on actual homicide charges, and John Clark, a gambler, as material wit ness. They were also holding, with out any charge, Louis Webber. a broker, of Second avenue. He was declared by Deputy Police Commis- sioner Dougherty to be in possession of certain information regarding the murder which he has consistently re- fused to give up.
 While the police were seeking the slayers of Rosenthal, District Attor- ney Whitman was setting in motion the grand jury wheels to investigate the charges of the murdered man that Police Lieutenant Charles Becker, of the strong arm squad, had loaned him $1, 800 and declared himself in on a cut in. the gambling house profits,
 The police later arraigned Louis. better known as "Bridgie' Webber. in the West 18th street court, and had him rema nded back into their custody for "A hours, on a charge of being a suspicious person. They also. allege that at an outing attended by most of the downtown gamblers, last Sum day, on the steamer Seagate, Webber told several others:
 That guy RosenthaI is talking too much. If he keeps on someone will Xo fn h
 ,Wehber positively refused to give the police any information and he was re- manded so that he could be given the third degree.
 New York, July, 17--A mysterious woman dressed in green went to the office of District Attorney Whitman, this afternoon, and told him that she saw touring car similar to that us- ed by the slayers of Gambler Herman Rosenthal standing in front of the home of Police Eieutenant Becker from 6 until o'clock on the night before Rosenthal was killed.
 Whitman took the woman across to the coroner's office where, after look ing after the car used by the muF- derers, and which stood just outside
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