New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-18
WIDOW KEPT FROM BIER z GAMING HOUSES QUi
"Movies" Fill Sans Souci. BID
Sam Paul Club Is Empty.
OTHERS IN FULL BLAST
"Bridgey" Webber's Famih
Not Worried Over His Arrest,
Sister in Law Says.

The East Side stuss games were go,
ming full blast yesterday There y...
two exceptions. These were the ~.
Souci Music Hall, Third avenue nea, ,a.s
street, and the Sam Paul Club, a. M :,
| eth street.
There was only caretaker at the Gin.
yesterday afternoon when a renor,..
called. He had not seen Sam Pau, "a.
any other Of the leading lights OF ~.
club. such as Dollar john LANCER. WIZ
runs a stuss Joint on Avenue c. or .p,,
the Dude" an uptown gambler. since No.
day night. And he did not know w,.-.
they were.
The Sans Souci, owned by Sam PAM
and up to Monday night, six hours befo,.
Rosenthal was assassina1ed a gambl,.s
house In full blast. with anywhere from
twenty to six hundred men playing de,
and stuss, has been converted into nov.
ing picture theatre.
This transformation was effected Tues.
day night. Yesterday It was open ana
doing business. In front OF this former
ga mblng house. which was pointed out
as one Of the many favored by the polio,
In RosenthaTs affidavit, was large fam.
ing Autograph, showing a white girl and
her faithful negro nanny holding a. 5ay
half a dozen cowboys. In large letters
was printed:
The Romance OF Deadly .45."
A visit 70 house not far from tn
ri MI tax
by the murderers OF Rosenthal stood. IN
search of a gambler who was at the sam
Paul Association outing last Sunday. when
RosenthaTs death was decreed, ended cur.
ously
The name on the doorbell was that Of
the gambler sought A ring brought a
kindly faced German woman to the door.
her husband showing up in the back.
ground. II was his name that was an
the bell. The visitor apoogized and er.
blamed his mistake
The good frau heard the word gambler
used, and, turning 10 her husband, SAID
in German:
Does he want you TO gamble"
The husband laughed
"Neinn" he exclaimed. Der herr is
Elm reporter!"
Then the husband explained that HE
wife thought the caller gambler, one o.
the habitues OF cigar store across the
street, in whose rear rooms stuss and
crap game was run continually. Invest.
CATION proved that the cigar store was a
mask for a gambling house.
A few blocks up Second avenue Is one Of
the most expensive apartment houses on
that thoroughfare. II is No. 1870, the hone
Of "Bridgey" Weber He was one o,
the gamblers on the Sam Paul outing last
Sunday. and at that time he and his wife
were in Police Headquarters.
The liveried elevator man brought the
lift TO a stop at the third floor Of No. ~
A pusi of baton brought out blond
haired SIav servant girl. She arnounesc
the caller. and very pretty girl, Ms
Sadie Probst. a sister-in-law Of Bridges"
received him.
I'VE did not know unit! We read the
papers this morning that Bridgey' was
arrested" she said. II read IL, and both
my sister and ! were surprised. we
thought he was uptown. But We are not
worrying. II you knew 'Bridgey-hes 80
kind hearted that he would hurt no one
you would know that he could not think
OF such a thing. He'll be cleared, az
right"
The Weber home is richly Appointed
Cut glass. statuary. paintings and ensray'
ings. mahogany furniture. rich eaTpeu
and thick rugs. all testify 10 the LAVISH
STYLE in which Weber lives