The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-22
Jack Sullivan Is Held AS Witness-Believed He
 Knows About Becker
DOUGHERTY TAKES
 HOLD OF THE CASE
Police Officials Cease Defense of Lieu tenant Becker, But Dougherty Says There Is No New Evidence
 Against Him

l New York, July 21,--LouIs (Bridgiel Wehber. keeper of an uptown resort | and sam Paul, head of the Sam Paul Association" at the outing of which last Sunday, threats were made to get Herman Rosenthai, the gambler. were arrested tonight on the charge of sus- pieion of homicide In connection with the killing Of Rosenthal last Monday night. Jack Sullivan. alleged go-be- tween of Police Lieutenant Charles Becker and Bald Jack Rose, the latter already under arrest, was taken in custody as a material witness. The arrests were the result of the activities today and tonight of Deputy Police Commissioner Dougherty. who has assumed active charge of the police hunt for the murderers of Rosenthal. More arrests are expected at any mo-
 nent, the commissioner asserted. but ] as to the nature of these arrests he would say nothing.
 When piled with questions as to the real significance of tonights work the commissioner was reticent This much he said definitely:
 1 Webber and Paul are not charged with being in the murder car" at the time the fatal shots were fred, nor are the men who actually did the shoot l Ing In custody; the arrests do not clear up the case by jugful" although the police have made material progress in | solving the problem which has busted the police department and the district 1 attorneys office for week.
 Becker No Wore off
 Whether the evidence obtained to- day leads toward Lieut.. Charles Beck
 CT, charged hy Rosenthal with exact ing tribute from New York gamblers. Commissioner Dougherty declined flat | ly 10 discuss. MT. Doughertv admitted
 that Becker was not at police head quarters today, but declared that the lieutenant bad not been arrested
 Becker is not involved more now
 than he was 2i hours ago." said the
 commissioner, and with that dismissed the subject.
 'Iaek Sullivan Ia regarded as the
 man who can thru~ the most Hght en
 Becker's participation In the case Whether he had done this already Is matter of conjecture but Commissions CT Dougherty admitted that Sullivan
 had told him he left Lieutenant Beck ers automobile in Inc vicinity of ! Broadway and Forty -second street one
 hour and half before the assassina-
 tion on Tuesday morning. Sullivan was also in "Bridgie" Webbers place be- 1 tween is and ? o'clock
 | Whether the rest of the men who are 1 implicated were in Webber's the com missioner, refused to say
 Sullivan Knows More Sullivan Is said to have admitted that
 he was with Bald Jack" Rose on Mon- day evening in Sam Paul's place. Rose l is now locked up in the Tombs charged with complicity in the murder. After | leaving Rose. Sullivan went to the fight | in Madison Square Garden and at the | conclusion of the bout joined Lieutenant Becker and was driven away from the i garden in the latter's machine. It is claimed that Sullivan was in the immedi- ate vicinity of the murder at the time l il was committed. but whether his | rest was due to this fact Commissioned | Dougherty refused to say,
 Commissioner Dougherty says Sullivan had told him his mission after leaving | Becker's was to see Sam Paul in "Bridgie' Webbers place but that he did not find Paul. Sullivan has further explained what his business with Paul at that time was and has also explained | his interest in doing some work for Lieu tenant Becker the nignt before the mur der
 While Commissioner Dougherty has | been busy with his end of the investi- gation District Attorney Whitman has | been working on independent lines. Mir. | Whitman has been out of town for two | days. and it Is has peen generally be- | lieved that he was in secret conference with the head of the private detective | force hired to work on the case. l Both Webber and Paul described them 1 selves as brokers, when giving their
 pedigree" to the police. Webber is J5
 years old and Paul Is fonr years his
 senior. Jack" Sullivan said that his
 correct name is John A. Rich.
 Chicago. July 2l.--Actiiig on adviees re- l ceiyed from the New York police detec-
 tives today searched Chicago for two men believed to have been implicated in | the murder of Herman Rosenthal. the New York gambler and alleged informer. "Whitey'' Lewis and Lefty Lewy. the l men sought. are belieg to have come 10 Chicago from New York several days ago.
 second Deputy Police Commissioner Dougherty, active head of the police | hunt for the murderers of Herman IRosenthal, the gambler was busy to- Iday and tonight making mysterious visits about the city in his efforts to
 solve the mystery and bring about the sensational developments which he ! had indicated an easy matter
 Developments were looked for late 1 tonight. but in the early evening noth- & l Ing could De as to what ndu 1 resulted from the commissioners ac- | tivity.
 ! High officials of the police depart- ment have ceased their defense of Lieu tenant Becker. formerly head of the ] strong arm squad" and accused by Rosenthal of having been in partner ship with him in gambling business. l Deputy Commissioner Dougherty in dicated this when in reply to aues- tion to whether Becker had been | sent to Far Rockaway to bring in | Bald Jack Rose, Wednesday night, replied "I would no more send out | Becker to arrest a man in connection | with the Rosenthal murder than 1 would send out Jack Rose himself'
 Rose Important Witness That Dougherty believes Rose Is an | important figure in the case. Is free | ly admitted by the commissioner. Mir. l Daugherty has implied in a statement 1 that he does not believe the assertion 1 of Rose that he was not in control Of i the murder car at the time Rosen- 1 thai was shot down. Rose Is a friend 1 of Lieutenant Becker and is said to
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