Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-25
at Criminal
Courts Building and
Says He's Ready
to Testify.
FINGER-PRINTS ARE TAKEN
FROM DEATH AUTOMOBILE
Doughbag Is Passed in Tender
Ioin and Possible Witnesses
Suddenly Discover That
Memory Is Failing Them.

~
NEW YORK, July 25.-of all the
men suspected and hunted as thu
actual slayers of Herman Rosenthai
the gambler, it is declared TODAY fhaf
only n actually has left the cIfr.
Lefty Loewy and Sam" schepps
have been seen in a saloon at sfxfh
avenue and Forty-eighth street con-
versing with friends. Harry Horo-
witt. known as zip the Blood ~
been in Harlem. Meantime the police.
however. are sending broadcast d.
scriptions of the suspects.
Lieutenant Becker, who was invited
by the grand jury to appear and give
testimony, made his appearance In
the criminal courts building this
afternoon and announced that he was
ready to testify. He went TO the dis
trict-attorney's Office and there
waited with L~ieutenants Costfean
and Reilly, who also had responded
to invitations, to be escorted b. Dis
trict-Attorney Whitman into the
grand jury room.
One line of investigation Of the
murder. it developed today, i
through finger prints taken sewers
days ago from the doors Of Loz J
Libby's gray automobile. These M :
been compared with the finger pr11 >
Of Frank Muller, alias aWhftexts
Lewis. Frank Nitrate. alias .Dato-
Frank; Louis Marks, alias Lefty
Louie. Harry Norewitz, alias SYN
the Blood" and Samuel Sehepps. ali
Of which are part of the records u
the detective bureau. The result 81
the comparison has not been made
public.
Doushbax Wen EiIled.
Ten-doIlar banknotes are declared
never to have been so plentiful
among certain habitues of the sec
ton a Broadway and Forty-sec-
n street as within the mast few
days since investigators. public and
private, have been trying to round
up witnesses OF the killing The
plethora Of cash seems to have in
duced a state of suspended memory
on the part of chauffeurs, newsbovs.
hangers-on of various resorts and
others who might be to
have knowledge of the incidents az
the crime or events in Connection
with 1t that preceded or followed.
The report was current today that
powers who are interested In seeing
tina a minimum of evidence Is Of
fered had been around with 4
"doughbag' and had provided for all
who even asserted they knew any
thing about the tragedy.
Bald jack Rose, whom District
Attorney Whitman and Deputy Police
Commissioner Dougherty believe 10
have been the managing mind behind
the murder plot, still believes the
police system will protect him. and
he halts at turning informer. al
though the public prosecutor has let
1t become known that Rose viii be
treated with leniency II he discloses
the names OF the real conspirators.
The grand jury planned to con-
tinue today its investigation into -he
gambling charges made by Rosen
thai, and probably will recall Otto
Aversi. the chauffeur. who drove
Lieutenant Becker around town the
might oi the ihuruer.
inspectors Under sub,e~n..
police
ana cantair nal, 80 ~
noana r. snnssr hafo~a az
inry to5av
That ~ No, u.s $50.
,haps s,sc,os,ra. s., -
tha;r ,,s,snca - -
ps,s,ar Lnon,n ss .Tasr az pa-se-s
nrant h.so-s ca-a.a. -
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pau and sRrisveys, vrshh.r
District Attornev wb,3,a, ,a..~
made what he believed 70 be ,,a,e-,s1
progress IN the case 81 far as wea-
hers connection with he AFFAIR :
concerned. when Reisler made an 80
6davit previous to arraignment 81 +
p-eriurv charge.
The afidavit said that Reisler and
his wife were in the vicinity at fhs
Hotel M~etrepole the night OF the rim
ing somebody told me thaf uerz
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