The Washington times., 1912-07-17
BITTER FEUD SEEN
IN NEW FEATURES
. OF GAMBLERS WAR
Police and District Attorney
Whitman Make Charges
Against Each Other.
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attorneys who could stop gambling IL
they desired by upholding the police |
Instead Of letting them GO free on
suspended sentences or with an insig- |
nificant fine and issuing court orders |
recurring q1t,ng the police to return & to the
raids.
Again assuring. you that I will in
eyery way SUPPORT yo p, IN Prng1s pa all
victing the guilty. I remain, very re-
"RHINELANDER WALDO"
Will Make Arrests.
After sending his letter to the Dis
trict Attorney by special messenger
Waldo held a conference with Deputy
Commissioner Dougherty and Inspector
Hughes, in charge Of the detective
bureau. Waldo declared that his inves-
tigat,on of the Rosenthal murder was
proceeding satisfactorily and that all
of tho murderers would be under arrest
Ehortly. He said there was no doubt
that Rosenthal was killed because he
had squealed on certain gamblers and
declared that when the entire storJ
was made public 1t would be found that
certain charges against some of the
police were utterly unfounded. Waldo
however, did not deny that some po-
hcemen might have been indirectly coh-
cerned in the murder but positively de.
clared that every one mixed up in 1t
would be brought to justice.
District Attorney Whitman today said:
II do not wish to be misunderstood
i do not wish to go on record as having
depsFsa %R to Wsdo Ri
done good work in this matter, and is
with him, OF with the police department
as whole
Failed to Make Arrests.
II do charge, however. that the police
permitted the murder to take place and
deliberately allowed the murderers to
escape. OF this 1 have proof. There
we're five policemen within easy reach
at the time of the murder. and not one
of them drew his pistol or did any OF
those things that a policeman would
naturally do under the circumstances.
AN automobile cannot start at forty
miles an hour, however, powerful 1t Is
1t takes time to work up to that hY-
ure. and in my opinion there was ample
time for the policemen to have arrested
all the murderers concerned before the
car got under such terrific headway
Three men have SO far been arrested
in connection with the murder of Ros-
alleged, Of the automobile containing
the party Of men who shot the gambler
dead, was one Of the trio.
The police declare they are assured
he was the driver of the motor car and and
partner in ownership Of garage.
william Shapiro. is another prisoner
held as material witness. so Is a
man whose identity the police hide hide ,I. un- !.
declared to have been near the scene
or the shooting.
Denials BY Police.
The police bitterly denied and re-
sented whitmans characterizations.
They insisted that Rosenthal was killed
because he talked too much about the
gambling situation, and that he was
put out Of the way by the downtown
gambling syndicate. They said they will
prove this by the arrest within a short
time Of every one Of Rosenthal's MUIR
derers.
But whitman Is having an indepen.
dent investigation made. He has posi-
lively asserted that he will place nc
credence in any case the police may
furnish him. He positively declared to-
day that If the police were sincere they
would have arrested the murderers or
the spot.
There were five policemen within 2ot
feet Of the shooting" said whitman to-
day. 1.-TWO within 100 feet Of 1t. and one
within fifty Yet five men were able tc
shoot to pieces the head Of grand jury
witness. get into an automobile and es
cape without being seriously inconven
iencd. This, at 2 o'clock in the morning
on a brilliantly lighted street forty fee
off Broadway, in front OF a place tina
was filled with people: And, after th'
assassins got into their car the police
made little pretense Of pursuit, not on
got the right number of the car, ant
they arrested as criminal the mai
who tried to give them the right mum
ber.
Secrets Die With Him.
"Just as this man is about to CIV
the names of eight or ten men VIII
could and would support his charges G
organized corruption in the police de
partment Just as the situation shape
up most dangerously for the police ir
volved, ne is killed. The public feel
this killing was a part of the work {
great secret organization which ca
defy the laws as 1t peases. This xii
ing has been a fIightful blow to tn
orderly execution of justice in tn
country, although will not rest unit
every man concerned is punished"
Whitman today placed every memb'
of his personal staff at work on the g.
luton OF the murder. 1t is declare
that he would also engage all of II
private detectives necessary to chez
up on all of the police evidence fu
had lost all confidence in the police d
partment end that he intended probir
this crime at least Independent of 1t.
Have Situation In Hand.
Meanwhile the police declared they hi
their fingers on the situation. They 1
timated that Louis Libby and VILLA
Shapiro, who owned the touring Ct
that was used by the murderers. HI
furnished them with all of the fac
Of the killing and with the names
1he men who did the actual shootin
Shapiro, the police said, told them tn
there were seven men on the job al
that four took part in the actual XII
ing.
The police were prepared today to a
Taign Libby and Shapiro in court on a
tual homicide charges and John Clark
gambler, as a material Witness. Tn
were also holding, without any chars
Louis Webber, "a broker" of 1893 Seco
avenue. He was declared by Depu
Police Commissioner Doughcrty to be
possession of certain information
garding the murderer, which he h
consistently refused to give up.
Many Witnesses Called.