Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-18
POLICE fixed To
ALLOW SLAYERS
To ESCAPE
Man Driving Auto From Which
Rosentha! Was Shot Makes
Sensational Admission.

NEW YORK, July 18.-William Sha
MIRO who drove the automobile in
which rode the murderers who killed
Herman Rosenthal. the gambler, in
front of the Hotel Metropole, after
posenthal had accused the police of
being in league with gamblers, today,
through his attorney, Aaron j. Levy,
charged that he was told by one of the
murder party that the police had been
o6xed" and that official arrangements
had been made for the murderers to
escape
This sensational statement followed
fast action in which these things hap
pened:
Jack" Rose, friend to Police Lieu
tenant Charles A. Becker, wnom Rosen-
thai alleged to be his partner surren-
dered and was subsequently arrested
upon the charge of murder He ad-
mitted hiring the automobile used by
the assassins to escape. He will be
examined Monday.
Mayor Gaynor Enters Probe.
Mayor Gaynor summoned Lieutenant
Becker to his office for conference
and started an investigation that is be.
lieved to be the forerunner of a police
shake-up
Policeman William j File, who was
IN the Metropoe when the murder was
committed, was suspended after Com
missioner Waldo held an investigation
to which all Of the policemen who were
in the vicinity at the time were called,
It is rumored that Detective William
]. Burns, who worked up the McNa-
mara and other famous cases. has been
retained by a private citizen to run
down the Rosenthal slavers in the in
terest of the public good.
Before the grand jury resumed its
labors today District Attorney Whit
man said:
NO single explanation of the many
mat have been advanced about East
Side gambling squabbles-and several
of these explanations have come direct
" from the police-holds water
This man Rosenthal has for many
years been mixed up in gang fights.
He has been seriously involved either
directly or through his friends in the
fights that brought about the deaths of
Spanish Louis" and kid Twist" two
notorious gand leaders. and yet he was
not harmed at these times by rival
gangsters who perhaps might have felt
that they lad cause to attack him.
No Danger From Gangs.
And for months preceding this muir
der his relations with the gangs have
been pleasant enough for him to look
for no danger in that quarter His
promised exposure concerned the po-
lice He had said he would tell nothing
about other gambling houses or gam
blers.
Just few hours before he was to
come to my house and try to make
good his charges he was killed Now
the charges are practically dead-they
mean little or nothing. The gain TO
those accused by Rosenthal's death is
apparent
repeat that my personal belief is
that behind the gang that killed Rosen-
thai was bigger motive than mere re
venge The death was protection to
the system because it stopped one
tongue and was lesson to others that
might show a tendency to wag"
Trying to Lose" Widow.
While funeral services were being
held for Rosenthal efforts were being
made to induce the widow of the slain
gambler to leave New York so that
she could not give further information
10 the district attorneys office relative
10 her husbands affairs One of the
oVertures was made by woman who
gained Mrs. Rosenthal on the telephone
ana tried to make an appointment to
meet her in hotel in the heart of the
white light" district Friends of the
WIDOW tried to run down the call. but
ohly succeeded in learning that it had
been sent from a point near Broadway