The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-07-17
WILL GET THEM SOON
DOugherty, Confident, Sends
15O Plain Clothes Men
After AssasSins.
WHITMAN TO GO AHEAD
ROScnthal Gave Him Names Of
Gamblers Who Will Tell
Of Police Graft.

The police know the men who shot down
Herman Rosenthal. the gambler. in front
of the Hotel Metropole yesterday morning
few hours before he was TO reveal to
District Attorney Whitman the names OF
gamblers who could tell what policemen
had been getting prot ection money.
Commissioner Waldo. Deputy Com.
missioner Dougherty and Inspector
Hughes wrung II confession from Louis
Libby and William Shapiro. who owned
the touring car that was used in the murder
raid on the Metropole. Shapiro. who
drove the car. broke down after hours of
gruelling questioning. told the police that
seven men were in the plot to kill Rosen.
thai and that four were actually con-
cerned in the killing.
The minute this confession had be On
extracted from Shapiro $50 plain clothes
men were sent scurrying to every part of
the city. and Deputy Commissioner
Dougherty was saying confidently that
within few hours the assas. ins Of Rosen-
thai would be jailed. Libby and Shapiro
were charged with homicide. and John
Clark. gambler OF several aliases, was
held "a a material witness.
District Attorney Whitman said last
night also that Thomas Coupe. a clerk
at the Elks Club. had identified Libby
az one Of the men in the touring car,
and that Coupe believes he can identify
the other raiders.
Detective Shevlin last night arrested
Louis Webber OF 1893 Second avenue.
who gave his occupation as a broker. He
was locked up In the Mulberry street
station charged with being "A suspicious
person. 1t Is understood that he 10
wanted in connection with Rosenthals
murder.
Gamblers Work. Say Police.
The question that everybody was ask
ing. "Wh no had SO much to fear from
Rosenthal that they took the desperate
chance of staying him almost in the pres
encc of half a dozen policemen" was
answered by the Police Depa- tment fatty
and positively. "The gamblers who hated
Roscnthal and who have been driven out
of business by his unprecedented
"'suuear"
Lieut. Charles Becker of the strong
arm squad. accused by Rosenthal OF
grabbing 20 per cent of the profits of
Rosenthal's gambling house and who was
to he invest gated by the District Attor.
ney because of this accusation. hastened
to deny that he had any hand in the killing
or that he had the slightest idea who killed
his accuser. And Becker in held to be
gultess by his Commissioner.
But District Attorney Whitman. after
hours OF digging into the circumstances
OF the murder. put forward last nisht =
plain suggestion that the elm ination
OF Rosenthal was Of so much advantage
to what he termed the police system"
that the death must be laid at the door
Of police terrorists. Mr.. Whitman said
that whether or not gamblers fired the
shots that dropped Rosenthal in the
doorway Of the Metropole, he could not
believe otherwise than that the RESPONSE
bility lay elsewhere.
The killing of the main witness in the
Grand Jury investigation to determine
whether gamb ing in the Tenderloin
has bsen allowed to exist because Of Q
system of police partnership with the
gamblers will not end the investigation,
said Mr.. Whitman. lie had already OBJ
aimed from Rosenthal the names OF ton
gamblers, and these will DO examined
under the Bowling law.
And Mrs. Rosenthal, the District At.
torney says, stands ready to supply the
Grand Jury with intimate details OF her
husbands business. She will appear
to-day before the Grand Jury with John
j. Donohue, a clerk In the law ONCE Of
j. Van Vechten O.cott-the y, Donohue"
whose name was used in the mortgage
transaction that Rosenthal swore h had
with Lieut., Decker.
Auto Number First Clue.
The police hunt for the murderars was
taken up and carried forward with re-
markable speed. An four after Rossn-
thai had been lured from the Metropolis
restaurant by a whispered message that
somebody wanted to ses him outside
and had been dropped with bullet
through his brain and four other wounds
in the face the police had under arrest
iAuis lii,iy, who lives al 81 Siuy v-sant
street and VIII, owned with v illism Sha-
piro Of the same address big gray tour
ing car that they kept for rent in 'front.'
Of the Cafe Boulevard. at Second avenlf
and Tenth street. The numbsr Of LbhS|