The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1912-09-20
GUNNER
ARE CAUGHT
Telephone Conversations
Give Clue to Retreat.
"Gyp the Blood" and Lefty
Louis" Caught Short Distance
From Scene Of Alleged Crime

New York, Sept. 1i.-"Gyp the bloor
and Lefty Louise" THE missing gun.
men indicted as two of the actual say
ers of Herman Ro.henul,al, the gam
bier, were found by thee police tondgi,'
living with their wives in a fiat IN
the Brownsville section Of Brooklyn.
Theey weere arrested by Deputy Polo
COMMIT ssioner Douserhty and a squad
of detectives who took Them 70 poli;t
headquarters and locked them up
They wiz be arra;gned Monday.
The two men had been occupying tht
flat since August Is, and were alone
until Tuesday when uhey were joine4
by hhedr wives, Through whom cues tc
the police.
The four wore sitting at tea wher
Deputy COMMISSIONED Doushery an(
HIS men burst open the door of th.il
,par1ment and with drawn revolvrs
ordered them to hold UP their hands
Nather of the men made any show o.
resistance.
Drop your guns. You've go. us,
said "Gyp'' calmly.
Give us ;ittle time to get drassed
wiil your said Lefty with equal com
posure. Scarcely another renrArk was
made TO the police by either man until
thsy were examined ut police head.
quarters later by Asstssant Distrct
Attorney Moss, acting Tor District Al.
torney Wllitnnan. who'has gone to Ho'
Springs to take testimony of. person.
who talked TO Sam Scherps, witness
In the oase.
The women, however, made "a scene
throwing their arms around their hus
bands necks and shedding cOpiou;
tears. They had 20 be torn away from
the men before the police could gel
their prisoners out of the apartment
and were later taken to headqurters
Wi tn the arrest of "Gyp" and
Lefty whose real names are HAIR,
Honowitz and L ouis Rosenzweig. al
of the seven men accused of the murds
of 'Rosemltal, of which Police Lieut.
Becker Is .hhe alleged 'instigator, arr
now in custody.
The capture of these two men CAM
as a result 'of what is regarded in po.ic'
circles as the best detective work dom
in the history of the department.
It was the fruit of unbroken surveielans
of THE wives and nelaives of the mer
since their disappearance the day o
the munder, July ls.
This surveira nce was mainta.na'
by sixty detectives working in relay.
who kept Deputy Commissioners Dough
erty constantly In touch with what the
did and where they went.
The final clue came as the result .
pieoing together a number of CONVEX
stations overheard by detectives an'
repotred to the Commissioners at d;ffsren
times.
Nhe first conversation was that "the!
are not lonesome because they can se'
moving picture show from thet
windows"
Another conversation gave the in
,n,, <J,s,t ,nIi
the house where the missing men lived
which was named .either the ''nav
BTgdpaon' the Bright or the Rrislmos
hand laundry"
A third conversation suppMed tn
fact that the neighborhood WAS ful
of Swedes and Germans" I
1t then became Commissioner Dough
ertyls task ito discover somewhere q
hand laundry in proximity TO a movlns
pauure show in vicinity inhaibltat
by foreigners of the natona mites NAMED
The possible name Of the laundr.
was obtained less than two days ag'
and the Commissioner discovered thu
there were half a dozen kaundries I"
simiMar names In New York City
and many more in-other cities for tn
Commissioners did not assume thae TN
gunmen were necessarily iocated II
New York.
when we found the laundry with
moving picture show close by ther'
were no Swedes or Germans in N
neighborhood, said Mr.. poasherty
tonight.