Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-10-11
identify FOUR
AS MURDERERS
Witness Swsars that He
Saw ROsenthaI Slain

] New York, Oct. 11.-At the opening
Of the trial of Lieutenant Becker for
the murder of Herman Rosenthal,
Louis Krause, a waiter, identified
"Gyp the Blood" "Leftie Louie and
Whitley" Lewis as three OF the -four
men who shot Herman Rosenthal dead
In the doorway of the Metropole. He
pointed to Jack Sullivan as the man
who bent over RosenthaIs body and
who then turned with a laugh to the
murderers.
The identifcations were made under
the most dramatic circumstances.
Krause, who is a waiter, had just tes-
titled emphatically and with every APP
pearance of sincerity that despite the
threats of roughs gathered In Forty
third street he had stayed and had
seen the murder and had seen Bridge
Weber running toward Broadway.
District Attorney Whitman gave his
witness a chance to demonstrate the
accuracy Of his memory.
Justice Golf directed that the four
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Lieutenant Becker as accused murder
ers, be brought from the Tombs. They
entered laughing or sneering, accord
Ing to their manner Krause left the
witness chair and when called upon to
point out Whitley Lewis" unhesitat-
ingly and rapidly touched hat a
ster on the shoulder. Lewis laughed In
his face. He laid his hand on Rosen-
berg aud kept 1t there a moment upper
turbed by R~osenberg's black chances.
He pointed ~squarely at Horowitz, who
showed his teeth In a smile in which
there was no merriment, and Their he
turned to Jack Sullivan. who fairly
shrank away from him.
For two hours John r. Mcintyre did
his best to wreck Krause's testimony,
but failed utterly. The Hungarian re-
piled readily and positively and in
volved himself In no important contra
dictions.
Defense After Harry WALTON.
So far as the plans Of the defense
were developed by Mr.. M%cIntyre's cross
examination of Krause, 1t seemed evt-
dent that they are fighting not only to
clear Becker but to exculpate the gun
men accused Of the actual murder.
Some of Mr.. McIntyre's questions In
dictated that the defense will try to
that Rosenthal was shot by Harry
WALTON, now one of the principal wit
nesses for the prosecution.
Under rapid Roadway after the selec-
ton just before noon of the twelfth
juror, the fourth days session of the
trial produced the testimony Of six
witnesses. The state took the neces-
sary steps in proving the murder by
calling Policemen John ]. Brady and
William j. File, DR.. Dennis Taylor, an
ambulance surgeon of Flower hospital;
DR.. Otto II. Schultz, the ~coroner's ply
stefan who performed the autopsy on
Rosenthal's body, and Jacob Hecht, a
waiter in the Hotel Metropole restau-
Krause, the waiter, the sixth wit
ness, opened the way for the develop
ment of the larger features Of the trial.
He was called to identify the gunner.
SO that the state car go ahead with its
work Of connecting Lieutenant Becker
with the crime Of the gunner.
For that general purpose the prose-
cution will call for its first witness
Giovanni Stannich, an Austrian. who,
like Krause, was standing in front of
the Netropole, who saw the shooting
and who later identified several OF the
murderers. 1t is not unlikely that Jack
Rose will take the stand some time to-
day, but the plans OF the district at
torney are subject to change in that
particular. Mrs. Herman Rosenthal, 1t
is expected, win be one of the main
witnesses to tell the story of her
husbands relations with Lieutenant
Becker.