The Alaska citizen., 1912-09-09


 hese admissions forced from liar before the grand jury are regarde as strong corrohoration Of Roses confession generally implicating Becker in the murder of Rosenthal.
 Becker spends most of his time in his cell reading the newspaper ac- counts of the tragedy of which he is the central and most sinister figure
 ESSENTIALS WIVES AID.
 Both the widow of the. dead gam bier and his first wife. known as Dora Gilbert, are doing all they can to aid the district attorney in tho solution of the mystery. The widow! told the district attorney that Beck CT received 20 per cent of the gross returns i'll the house that her hus, band ran. When Jack Rose be- came too greedy. Rosenthal quit. and it was then that Becker caused the raid to be made on the house.
 I''4tt 'IlIDtIi, tHt SdHlbltT \ ul- vorccd wife, told of the visit of Rose and his palS to her house just before the murder, and how she had painted decidedly black picture ol the man from whom she was separ- ated, but that it was malice that prompted the statements she made and that she would not tolerate for l moment such a wrong being done 0 anyone, particularly a dead man
 BURNS RAN GAMBLING HOUSE
 True to his reputation for the in troduction of new and modern methods in detective work. Burns opened and operated gambling house in the heart of the Tender loin, and there paid the police for protection Not only did Burns house pay it's share of the graft but it traced the money that it paid out. and as result three police officials and one civilian were trap ped.
 Burns has an intimate knowledge of money, secured by years of work for the United States secret service, and the way in which he traced the money given for protection was slow but sure. The bills were not marked for the detective feared that then the criminals might De suspicious. Consequently Burns took the number of the bills, and then traced them to the banks in which they were deposited In this way the man who actually banked the money was cornered
 The names of the men have not ct been disclosed, but Burns will present his evidence to the grand jury just as soon as Whitman is through with the running to grounl of the actual murderers of Herman Rosenthal.
 HOT AFTER SUSPECTS.
 Detectives are hot on the trail of two of the supposed murderers of the gambler Harry Horowitz "Gyp the Blood" and Louis Rosen- zweieh, Lefty Louie" are said to be surrounded by deputy sheriffs and four detectives from the Gen. tra1 nffirn in Nnur found at Tannersville. N. Y. In the heart of the Catskill mountains, when they got wind of the proximity of the police they took to the hills Their capture is a matter of hours so the latest report says.
 DETECTIVES AS FARMERS.
 The arrest of "Whitey Lewis" and his unconscious statement that he was wont to spend the hot days of the summer in the Catskills gave Deputy Dougherty, of the New York police force clew, and detectives went to Tannersville and Big Indian in those mountains, and posing as farmers traced the men now sur rounded in the hills.
 REVOLVER FOUND.
 Deputy Commissioner Dougherty has given out the information that in the arrest of Frank Cirofici, "Da, go Frank" the police found an inn portant man. In the trunk of the most recent suspect was found the gun that Lefty Louie" used in kill ing ROsenthal. Lieutenant William Jones, the revolver expert of the police department, after a careful examination of the pistol concluded that it was used about the time that ROsenthal was killed It was ."S2 caliber revolver, and one Of the bpllets removed from the head of the dead gambler was of that cali Der. In ad,;,,ion to that the detec- tives founI two bullet holes in the door of the Metropole hotel made by .32 caliber bullet. The discov- cry of these holes in the door of the hotel, seem to indicate that some shots were fired at a fairly long range. But probably the shot that actually sent Rosenthal across the great divide was fired at close range. for from the powder marks on the face. Coroner Physician Schultze de-