The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-07-18
WON'TTELL DETECTIVES
Pair Will Give Details of
Wild Ride Only to
Whitman.
LINKS ROSE WITH BECKER
Pitt Says Gambler Was Getting
ROsenthal's Former Wife
to Make Affidavit.

Louis Libby and William Shapiro, own
ers Of the automobile that ca rried Her
man Rosenthal's murderers to the Hotel
and sped them through a
ring Of policemen and who are them
selves held in connection with the murder.
told their lawyer. Aaron j. Levy. yes
terday that policemen instigated the
assassination and that they were willing
to help the District Attorney to prove it.
They were not specific in making that
bald accusation. but maintained IL was
true. The vagueness Of the charge was
explained by the statement that the
details were being reserved for the Dis
trict Attorneys ear.
Dougherty's detectives searched the
city for Big Jack Rose Of the Sam Paul
Association and friend OF Becker Of the
strong arm squad, and for a little gam
bier named ltzke, both of whom are
wanted in connection with the killing.
At the same time Libby and Shapiro
were telling MIR. Levy a thrilling story
of how the raid on the Metropole was
arranged and OF what took place after
Rosenthal was shot 10 death.
The prisoners talked with apparent
candor. although there was no doubt
that they were boiling mad over the
inquisition that Second Deputy Commits
sioner Dougherty put them tn rough
on Tuesday afternoon when he dragged
from them the names of the men that had
used their car. They said they would
have no more dealings with the detec-
tives and that they would tell what they
knew only to the District Attorney.
Car Rented In Afternoon.
As Libby. spokesman for the pair, tells
the story. he was waiting at the Cafe
Boulevard on Monday afternoon for
somebody to come along and rent the
car that he and shapiro had bought on
the instalment plan. Late in the after
noon Whitley, the starter at the Boule-
ward, got Il telephone call from Jack
Rose Rose wanted the automobile for
that night and left orders to have it run
up to Fourteenth street and he In waiting
in front of Tom Sharkey's saloon
Whitley turned over the order to Libby.
who booked it as matter of course. Jack
Rose had been liberal patron of the
Libby-S shapiro firm and had used their
gray Packard on several joyful occasions
when the strong boys OF the Sam Paul
Association We're out spending their sur
plus change. So Libby left word with his
partner and told shapiro to have the car
in Fourteenth street at the time Jack
Rose specified.
Shapiro drove uptown but was little
late making Sharkey's. He got there
about 1880 O'Clock and found Rose and
two men waiting in some impatience. Ono
of the pair Shapiro knew only as ltzke.
The other was stranger to him. he says.
Rose. ltzke and the stranger piled in the
auto and told Shapiro to drive on uptown.
They were in no hurry. 1t seemed. and the
trip took them far up in The Bronx before
Shapiro got the order to turn about and
head for the Tenderloin.
Shapiro was unwilling to say just how
far northward he had driven his passen-
gers, and he was vague about the route
they took on the way back. but Lawyer
Levy explained that his client was reserv-
ing several important facts for the Dis-
trict Attorney. shapiro said that he
picked up one or two men on the way
back and that he whisked the car from
Sixth avenue into Forty-third street and
halted it by the curb in front of the Acker.
Merrall 4 Condit building just east OF
the Cohan Theatre.
Tell Little Of the SHOOTING.
Here again the Libby Shapiro tale Of
adventure cam, to standstill and the
pair carefully veiled what they are sup
posed TO know OF the killing OF Herman
Rosenthal and OF the movements Of their
passengers at that particular time. Mr.
Levy explained that neither Libby nor
shapiro will admit that they had anything
to do with tho killing and that they don't
want to talk about the scene in West Forty
third street until they go before the Dis.
trict Attorney. SO owners Of the fast
running gray car took up their story u
the point where their patrons had leapec
back into the car and were hustling 10,
safety
shapiro shows broken head a. svi
dence that one of Rosenthal's murderse
had pounded him with tho butt of . ~
, volver in an effort 10 make him driv
faster and to let him know that IN Woul'
In. killed In his soat II he faltered In th
dash for freedom.
Il started the car while the mon wsr
climbing into it," said Shapiro. 'Sevsra
of them were still on the running hoar
. when turned looss and made my maoAlA
Jump toward Sixth avsaus. ! was sease
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