Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-20

Startling evidence of the cas-
leisurely name with which Il )
7sssins of Herman Rosentha he
gambler, left the scene of the OF
ing. presumably through la or
connivance on the part of N nbers
of the police department, $ OBJ
tanned today. The men who s down
Rosenthal fingered after the h%ooting
and strolled away from his ,~rostrate
form to reenter the murS er auto
without any police interference.
These facts were obtained by Dis
trict Attorney Whitman from Sha-
piro. driver of the auto. who said:
1.-THE men who shot Rosenthal
walked away with their revolvers in
their hands. They stood In the mid
die of the street half a minute be-
fore they started back toward me"
whitman Expects Roundup.
Shapiro has told enough details to
cause the public prosecutor to believe
that rrivate detectives will soon round
UP the gang of gun-fghters the police
daily have promised to arrest. The
district attorney is being assisted by
the Burns agency.
The gunner and blackjackers who
shot Rosenthal are believed by de-
tectives today to have been procured
by Bald Jack" Rose. under pressure
Of the police system which was
seeking effectually to close Rosen-
thal's mouth against further charges
that gamblers had to divide their
gains with the police.
Rose is a close friend of Police
Lieutenant Becker, who was yester-
day removed as the head of the
''strong-arm" squad, which handles
the gambling situation In sthe city.
District Attorney Whitman has
cleaned enough information to con-
vince him that Rose, at the sugges-
ton or knowledge of the police, hired
some of Jack Zelig's gang of gun
fighters to make away with Rosen-
thai. The market rate for killing
men by some of the East Side gun
men is said to be $1,000.
Rose and Becker in Same Locality.
1t a learned today hat an ex-
traordinary coincidence brought Po-
lice Lieutenant Becker and Jack Rose,
the collector" in close proximity a
few minute before the killing of
Rosenthal. Becker was in an auto IN
Forty-second street. between Sixth
avenue and Broadway, at 1870
O'Clock. Rose says he left his auto
at Sixth avenue and Forty-second
street to go to Bridgie Webber's
gambling rooms at 1:3O o'clock.
That the gambling and murder plot
will lead deeper than expected into
the police department is generally be-
lieved. Shapiro has told the prose-
cutor and detectives hat he picked
up Rose and. two other men, Itzky
and Schaaps. by appointment, in
Fourteenth street. and hat on the
way uptown several changes were
made in the party.
Information regarding these changes
of passengers in the murder car"
is being withheld. Shapiro says that
after the men shot Rosenthal they
put their guns in their pockets with
out any rush and stood around for
a time. After a while, Shapiro says,
they walked leisurely over to the car
and got aboard. The chauffeur said
that he STALLED" with the motor, hop
ing the police would come, but that
one of the murderers pointed a gun
at him and said: Quit monkeying
and roll along"
Shapiro said the car made only
fifteen miles an hour and he did not
see any chase being made to capture
them. Going up Fifth avenue, Sha-
piro said, n of the passengers said
to him that he was a fool to get
scared, as nobody was going to get
into trouble because the job had
been fixed and that the police weren't
doing anything.
Rose Expected a Tragedy.
Police Commissioners Dougherty got
from Rose the information that he
was working for Lieutenant Becker
early Monday night. Rose told the
deputy commissioner that he was
afraid of Becker, and had gone to the
house of Dora Gilbert, Rosenthal's di-
vorced wife, Monday night, because
he knew she was going to make an
affidavit that Becker wanted an af1-
davit against Rosenthal. Rose told
che commissioner that he was not
surprised when he was told that Ros-
had been killed, as he thought
he would get it, because he talked
much.
The breach between District Attor-
ney Whitman and Police Commits
sioner Waldo has widened. Sharp
criticism of the failure of the police
to accomplish anything definite in the
search for the gamblers assassins is
made by Mr.. whitman.
mo attempt was made to get Rose
until my department made 1t so hot
for them that he CAM into police
headquarters on his own notion" he
said.
Says Policemen Seemed Confused.
George Richards has told District
Attorney Whitman hat he had
and That the police did not make any
effort to pursue the assassins until
automobile disappeared. He
said the chauffeur and one other man
remained in the car while two others
the shooting, M standing on
side of the entrance of the
Metropole and a third stood behind
the two as a sort of outpost, evident
ly to guard against interference by
the outsiders. When these men
boarded the car after the shooting,
one held a pistol to the chauffeur's
head, as II to force him to make all
possible speed. Two policemen in
front of the M~etropole. according to
Richards, seemed so confused after
shooting that they did moi know