The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-07-25
DISTRICT ATTORNEY WILL BE
ABLE TO SHOW "PoLicE sYs-
TEN" WAS BEHIND MURDER.
GAMBLERS AIDING DEFENSE
Police Commissioner Says So Far He
Has Found Nothing for or Against
Lieutenant Becker in This Case.
Photographs Sent Out.

New York, July 24.-The trail that
leads to the men who framed the plot
to slay herman Rosenthal, the gamb-
ler, is slowly clearing, and District
Attorney Whitman believes today
that from the bites of evidence CLEAN
ed here, and there he will be able to
show that the police system" and
even those higher up were behind the
conspiracy to silence Rosenthal.
From Harry Vallon, gambler. and
one of the occupants of the murder
car" the public prosecutor has learn
ed further facts that implicate Bald
Jack" Rose, close friend of Police
Lieutenant Becker, and who hired the
gray automobile that took the gun
men to the scene Mrs. Rosenthal
widow of the gambler told the grand
jury that Rose was Beckers closest
friend, and charged that Rose was
the lieutenants gambling house COL
lector.
With arrests of other gunner, the
prosecutor expects to learn enough
to involve Rose further in the mur-
der plot and by so doing force him
to make a full confession and reveal
those who were behind the killing
Shapiro to Tell All.
William Shapiro, driver of the car,
and Louis Libby, one of the cars
owners, will probably be permitted
to turn states evidence, counsel for
the pair having informed the public
prosecutor that Shapiro knows all the
men who were in the car, and that if
he does not know their names he
will be able to identify them
Deputy Police Commissioner
Dougherty made it clear that ne was
questioning everyone connected in the
case as to their relations with Lieu
tenant Becker. 80 far" said Dough
erty, 81 have discovered nothing in
this case, either for or against Lieut..
Becker"
There were reports today that
"Bridgie" Webber, now in custody,
had determined to tell all he knew.
1t was in Webber's poker rooms that
the gunmen gathered before they
went out to kill Rosenthal.
Gamblers Defense Fund.
A large fund is said to have been
raised by gamblers to defend the
pris' rers.
Meanwhile, the investigation by
the grand jury into the gambling sit
uf ton and the revelations made by
RCsenthal was continued today. There
were reports that important indict-
nlt rts would be found
Supreme Justice Giegrich today
dismissed the writ of habeas corpus
sued out by "Bridgie" Webher, one
of the prisoners in the murder case.
The hearing of the writ of Sam
Paul was adjourned until tomorrow
morning.
There were reports at the office Of
the district attorney today that the
prosecution had information that in
,dicated that the gray automobile
which figured so prominently in the
Rosenthal case was used merely as d
blind, and that the actual slayers
of the gambler we're concealed in the
shadows of the hotel and after the
killing mixed with the crowd.
The police department today sent
out to every city in the country pho
tographs and descriptions of the men
wanted for the killing.
Aaron J. Levy, counsel for Shapiro
and Libby, said today that his home
had been entered last night, and that
he believed some one wanted to do
him bodily injury, as there were no
evidences that anything had been
stolen. Mr. Levy stayed at the club
until an early hour this morning, and
upon his arrival home he found the
door of his apartment had been brok
en- open. -