Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-16

1g and oppression were to be inees-|
shot down and killed in front Oh
early this morning by FIVE men.
a At least two eyewitnesses agree
was a policeman.
Rosenthal was murdered only q fel
WI before he was to appear n
the home of District Attorney Whi<|
man and give further statements q
an effort to substantiate the poli4|
grating charges.
Within two hours after the mu<|
Ger detectives visited a garage q
Washington square. known to IA
police as the headquarters Of n
taxicab robbers, who recently robbie
bank messengers Of SOS, 600. and
tured a man describing himself !
Louis Libby, whom they made
prisoner on the charge of homicid/
The police also recovered an autd
mobile. which they say was the or
that figured in the murder.
The arrest of Libby was folloue
by that of two others. The idenfIf
of only one as a member Of the part
doing the shooting has been esfaf
lished. however. to the satisfacfio
of the police. This man. accordiu
to Deputy Commissioner Dourherf<
Is Libby He was arraigned befor
The coroner and charged with nun
der, but refused to make a Statement
One of the other two prisoners I'D
police are Obliged to call John Doe
because of his refusal TO tell b
name or give any information as
the shooting, although, according
the police. he was in the hotel
the time The other prisoner
William s. Shapiro, said to be a parf
ner of Libby, and who was arreste
at the garage WI he automob51
was found. Al
Although evi6s &c as to he motfv
of the shooting as thus far gathers
seems to show that Rosentnal Ia
feared death at the hands Of the n
lice, a theory is brought forward thu
Rosenthal had really been the victi1
of the so-called Gambling fratern
ty." which took the opportunity al
forded by Rosenthal's activity again{
the police to seek revenge because 4
~''squealed" on them. II was learnd
that knowledge that Rosenthal W
to get his" was current among fr}
quenters of various tenderloin n
sorts, and a subject of common did
cussion some time before the shoo1
ing took place.
Deputy Commissioner Dougnerf
asserted tfsat eyewitnesses to tn
murder of Rosenthal identified Lib
as one of the quintet who drove
in front of the hotel and. calm
the gambler from the dining-roo{
to the sidewalk. shot him down viii
a fusillade OF bullets and then fs
in the motor car. Rosenthal was sh{
five times in the head.
Wife Tells of P~remonition-
Mrs. Sadie Rosenthal, widow of Il
gambler, in a statement to Distri@
Attorney Whitman. put the assassi1
alton of her husband squarely UP
the police. She said she warned \
husband that if he kept an apoin1
ment last night he would come to
violent end She said she had . PR
monition a tragedy would follow SUD
a conference. and she named q polid
official as one of the men who was
be present.
Rosenthal, in discussing the ca@
with Newspaper men yesterday. TOT
of threats that had been mad
against him and declared that
had been warned to leave town.
He declared that after a QUAR-
with Becker. the police official Id
caused the permanent stationing
a police officer in the gambling hous
in the rear of which was his hon1
His efforts to have the policema
ousted were unavailing.
Rosenthal sprang suddenly in1
public notice only last Friday. wh3
he hurled a bomb into police circ}l
by filing afhdavirs charging that Il
police we're in league with the gau
blers throughout New York. and TIL
every gambling house was being .
sessed a fixed sum for police prots
ton.
Called Police Lieutenant His Partner
Rosenthal had been for some TIM
he explained. proprietor OF
gambling establishment In we
Forty-fifth street. which was clos
on April Is after a raid by Poll
Lieutenant Becker, head OF the
called 'strong-arm squad.
This raid. Rosenthal declared. q
lowed a NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. bet~4
himself and Becker. The latter. I'd
enthal alleged. was his partner in
profits of the establishment
Specifically. R~osenthals afld44
charged that Lieutenant Becker
loaned him $500 on a chattel mn
gage on furniture in the FprtY-f(
street house as a share In the
bling business done on those prer1I