Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-08-04
Committee of Fifteen Will Wage War Against
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OR ACTS MEETING HIS PLANNED
Will Be Held at G0oEar's Uni0n- ,jacob ii. Sciiiii iIea.iS t;e
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New York, Aug. 3.--More far reach- ing than the I.enow investigation and , more cleansing than the work Of the comm tee of fifteen, an organization was formed here today to investigate without regard to it's extent, and with the aid of the best lawyers and detec- tlVes obtainable, the corrupt alliance between the police department and the underworld
 The call for the organization of the great non-partisan, non-sectarian citi- zen committee, was sent out this af ternoon signed by Jacob H. Scnitf, Felix Alder, Bishop Greer, Jesse Straus, Eugenius H. Outerhunt, Dr. Henry Moskowitz, Allen Robertson and Henry Green. At the same time Mrs. J. Boizen Hartman was asked to head an sauXiliary committee of 1 women, With Mrs. Russell Sage Mrs. E. H. Hartman and others as mem bers. Every influen ial citizen of New York, men or women, is to be asked to join one or the other Of these organizations.
 A mass meeting will be held in Coopers Union as soon as the ar engagements are concluded. Plans will be adopted at this meeting for q campaign meaning to clean up the city and to free i. from the alliance between gamblers and other vicious denizens of the underworld, and the police, as revealed by the murder of Herman Rosenthal. The committee plans not only to drive the guilty ones to cover. as did the commit ee of fif- teen, lbut to force them to flee the city and to wipe out the vice and crime which the Rosentha investiga ton shows 70 be rampant.
 Popular subscriptions are to be op cned, but even now there is enough money on hand. pledged by those who are heading the movement, to carry it through. Res ponsibility for cadctism. gambling and the mass of crime Oh the East Side, is openly laid at the door of the Police department by leaders in the new probe.
 Forced by demand of seventeen members of the board of rman. Mayor Gaynor was compelled to call meeting of the tcard to be held Monday to choose the committee to III CSOlSdlc lHG cOIl>C UC iIc NAitNAlt ohN it's relations with gamblers. Alder man Curran, who headed the demand for an aldermanic investigation, de- clares that his work will not inter- fere, either with the district attor- ney's probe, or going on with the committee of citizens organization, which was begun today.
 Burns detectives today surrounded Harry Horowitz, known as "Git, the Blood" and Lefty Louis at sum- mer resort near Boston. These are the two men wanted to fill out the deatn-dealing quartet, some man or men of which fired the shot that kill ed Gambler Rosenthal.
 "Dago Frank" and "Whitey" Lewis, the other two, are in jail, charged with the murder.
 Charles H. Smith, of the Boston end of the Burns agency, gave out this statement ,oday. adding that 23 men were at work on the case. The en- tire country for radius of 2o miles around the resort has been searched, with the result that the men were found while all he country from New York west to Buffalo and Pittsburgh is covered with detectives watching every avenue of escape for these or other men wanted in the case. | The men had not been arrested be- cause the de. ectives are waiting flor letters which may come to them and which may have bearing on their connection with the crime. Several suspects have been arrested by the police. but it was not until the Burns men took hand in the case that Horowitz and Lewis were found.
 Murderer's Revolver Found.
 The revolver with which Rosenthal was killed has been found ill trunk belonging to "Whitey' Lewis and identified as the gun used by the mur- derer by Police Lieutenant William Jones, revolver expert, and captain Saurot, in charge of the finger print department.
 District Attorney Whitman, who is in Manchester, N. IT, working on the New England trails of the fleeing men, announced over the long distance telephone today that the case nat reached such a point that he is prac- tically sure of getting and conVlctlng all the murderers. Further than thls he refused to discuss lthe details he has in hand.
 Becker Prepares Defense. It was learned today that Police lieutenant Becker, alleged 10 he the man who instigated and paid for the rnurder Iof Rosenthal, will make the defense that Jack Rose planned to kill Rosenthal, because of deal in which the gambler "did' Rose out of a large sum of money. The accused policeman will tell the story of a gamblers feud of long standing. said