The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-07-29
MURDERERS WERE
NOT IN GRAY AUTO
Burns Men on the ROsenthal
Case So Report to
Mr.. Whitman.
TOOK A RED MACHINE
From Eighth Avenue They
Sped Straight to Far
ROckaway.
THEY LOST PAY GAMBLING
Jack Roses House at Beach
Got the $1,000 Paid
for Crime.

The first results OF the inNestiga-
ton by Burns detectives into the mur-
der of Herman Roscnthal have been
flashed TO the District Attorney in the
form Of report that the five men who
shot down the gambler walked straight
from the Mctropole to red automo-
bile waiting near Eighth avenue and
Forty-third street. drove to Far Rock
away and lost the price of the murder.
$4,000, in few days gambling. in =
house kept by Jack Rose himself
There is positive ground for tho
statement that District Attorney Whit
man bases upon the preliminary re-
ports received from w. J. Burnss
agents his belief that the police havo
only a muddled and confused knowledge
or the circumstances of the killing ami
Of the retreat of the assassins.
Before Mr. Whitman left for New
England on Saturday he said he had
just heard from Manager Dixon OF Mr..
Burns's Office. He declared there was
reason TO believe that some OF the
ulu Ilbl 'stlPt III inc fsIuy
car driven by Shapiro.
The quiet work of the Burns detcr-
tlves has indicated that the Ave men
who shot Rosenthal were AT Far Rock
away until a few days ago. that they
received daily news of the hue and cry
while they gayly flung upon the
roulette table the proceeds of their
crime. and that when the lucklcss play
and hard drinking had cmptlcd their
pockets they sneaked one by one back
to town and went into hiding.
How much of this. II any Is known
to Deputy Commissioner Dourherty
has not escaped from that close mouthcd
official. But Mr. DouIhcrty spent all Of
yesterday and much of last night in dri1-
ing his fast red car. "333S3." along the
beaches and questioning men who are.
from old Pinkerton knowledge. con-
fidants and go betweens for the orirni-
nails who drift between Manhattan and
the scashorc.
4 New Assassin Named.
The story that proceeds from the
Burns inquiry places a new name on
,he list of assa ssins-kitty Sccond-a
furtive rascal of East Side haunts. one
down in the police books as pick
pocket and devoted also to satchel
thieving and hotel prowling. The names
of the others are the names Of the
four whom Dougherty has advertised
as the actual murderers, Harry Horo-
witz. Frank Muller. Dago Frank and
Louis Rosenberg. The information of
the District Attorney is that HorOwitz.
Muller and Rosenberg were the three
l,.rs .,l... tI,nl 1,.a
appeared unsuspcctingly on the thres-
hold of the Mctropole and that fired
the shots. while Kitty Second and Dago
Frank or another man flankcd tn.
murderers with drawn pistols ready
Ia shoot down any man that lntcrfered
with the killing.
No more interesting feature of the
deliberate and systematic plot and of
the consummation has come tn light
than the one disclosed yesterday. Al
though far removed from any evidence
previously obtained, il does not ina
teriaily affect the stories told by Sha-
piro or by kresc. the waiter. or by the
new witness the police are 50 carefully
concealing and safeguarding.
As the Burns men have II there were
at least twenty in the conspiracy to
silence the too talkative gambler. Mutt
tcrings and rumbings of the coming
explosion were heard along Sixth ave-
nue. and broadway and Fortythlrd
street, wherever the lights shone
brightest that night.
Not merely Forty-thrd street in the
neighborhood of the Metropole was
sentinelled hy gangsters. Pickets from
the East Side were posted In Broadway
and Sixth avenue and the news of the
approach OF men not wanted near the
MctrOpole was sent by the code Of the
gangs from block to block. And that
accounts for the vicious looks that were
cast at chance passersby and for the
low threats that were muttcred In their
ears by men who came and went like
shadows The stage was being set for
the crime.
Wide Spreading PLOT, Plenty "f
Money.
Money appeared from strange pockets.
The riffran OF Chinatown and the Zelig
territory that centres in Allen street
were paying their way with the change
OF large bills. Financially the plot was
AZ well cared for as In any other neces-
sary detail.
The drifting gossip Of gamblers, OF
taxicab starters. Of actors and Of po-
llcemen that taxicabs were carrying
queer freight has been sho' to be
true. for the lookouts, the pickets. We're,
az the Burns investigation st ows, hir-
ing every taxi that came to the Metro.
pole--hiring It and getting It cut OF the
street.
Half an hour before the gray car shot
into Forty-third street-for the gray
car lay where shapiro said lie halted
It when he lOoped from broadway to
the south curb by COhan's Theatre.
there were a dozen men by the least
count stretching their legs and using
their eyes In that street. 1t was to
these men, District Attorney Whitman
now says, that Harry Nallon talked
when he hurried from Webb, rs poker
rooms to the Metropolc To draw I,oscn-
thal's friends, Walker and Hickey, away