The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-10-07

letters were brought up by the reporters,
and they said what they already had
told Commissioner Whitney and Deputy
Warden Hanley. that they had invented
cheer Zelig up. Lefty would be the spokes-
man, said Gyp the Blood.
Zelis His hest Friend.
got letter from!Zeiig. the best friend
! ever had. last Thursday" began Lefty
Louie in reply TO questions. 1T was the
first letter We got from him. He used
to send us messages right along and
that's the reason ho didn't write.
And he didn't ever come down here
to call on us because well. you know
here to the TOmbs The letter he wrote
me last Thursday vss an awful sad one. :"
did he write that he was worried about
himselfp- Lefty was asked.
oh. no." cried the four. "He was
worried about us
out their faces and told In mournful tones
OF the great loss that jack y death had
been to them. Lefty said that when they
had come from their different tiers last
Thursday night and had chance. to
communicate with one another when
gathered in the counsel room talking to
Lawyer Wahle Lefty had showed tho
suggested that they all write to Jack to
80 I wrote letters said Lefty. Il
mean we all did, and We threw lot Of
comedy into them to cheer up Jack. Three
Of the letters were mailed Thursday night
and II was delivered to Jack at 70 Second
avenue. just a few. minutes before Jack
jumped on the trolley car that this bum
killed him In. But all that stun about
playing cards and being visited by Rioh-
man and that bunk was just comedy.
We never can be together here and the
lights 60 out around o o clock every. night,
and take 1t from me We don't get chicken
and lamb chop feeds at night like We said. :"
Sure II was comedy broke In Gyp the
Blood with laugh. why. yesterday
wrote to my wife that just saw a show.
Amt that a yell! The only show We
see here is the mice. was shooting
we tried TO cheer Jack"
What do you know about Davidson2"
Lefty was asked.
"He's Awful Low" says Lefty.
He's bum." was the prompt answer.
Jack used to give him quart ers and
halves so he co uld feed Him have $500
or even sis! He's kiddin' y,ih. He never
worked in his life. know him four years
now and ne's very low. He's awful low
Hes ~ always run messages for girls.
but a cadet. and when he says he ever
had trouble with prince like Jack Zelg
he's liar. Why. him saying he had
trouble with a man out Of his class like
Big Jack is like as IL one OF you gentlemen
had a little bootblack have trouble with
you. He wouldn't have the head to shoot
Jack alone. 1t was somebody else's
head. He was forced to do it."
Here Lefty, was but saying In other
words what the underworld and some in
the upperworld too. said yesterday
that Davidson may or may not have
imagined a grudge against Zelig and that
just at this time urged Davidson to shoot.
That bum never'd do II unless he was
forced, broke in Whitley Lewis why
! betcha that's the first shot he ever
fired in his life"-this with tho utmost
contempt Hes just a cadet and a rat
bacIjacRed him and su stuck N' him ys up o1Sa fox
money continued Lefty. That's what
they all say. They sayit about us too
And" broke In Whitley, do we look
like lot OF fellows who'd shoot man
cor even for sl.ooo'" cried Lefty Louie
in disgust.
But they got us in here and we're all
innocent. he added
We never went around sticking up
anybody" protested Whitley. I'VE all
used TO go around preventing stickups.
We. We stopped dp more stickups than the police
That's right growled Dago Frank
DO you know why Davidson killed
ZeAgs' Lefty was asked
Sure" cnorused the four. We'll tell
you about that later maybe said Lefty
Loui That II all come out soon. but
don't want TO say anything about it now
don't want to say whether or not that 8
just our opinion either. But we know
what we're talking about all right and
Jack wasn't croaked for any SIS or any
$500 either"
DO you think the shooting was an
outcome OF the Rosenthal MURDER"
=! don't want to talk about that either
said Lefty, while his three companions
looked into space in solemn silence.
What do you know about the Razzo
murder which Davidson says Zelig did
him?"
Il don't know anything about that. =
said Lefty. None Of us know anything
about that Davidson is bum and q
liar"
The gunmen said they never had heard
OF the girl who called at the Morgue late
on Saturday night and said that her name
was JOSIE applepAuf ana that she had
come for the $500 which Zelig was said
to have had in his pockets
Other gangmen on the free side OF the
Tombs denied that a telephone messag ge
had come for Zelig Just before he lett
the cafe in Second avenue Saturday night
Davidsons story OF Yesterday makes
no mention OF a telephone call. Zeligs
friends say that Zelig had started north
accompanied by Little Billie to have his
nails manicured in Fifteenth street whom
no was shot just south OF Fourteenth'
street.
And the police arrested this Little
Billie, said Lawyer Wahle. as a witness
and then let him CO.
Mr.. Wahie said he knew that a man
whose name is known to him gave $500
to Zelig just before Zelis got on the car
The lawyer refused to give the name
Of the man OF discuss the money TRANSACT
tion. Gangsters told tho lawyer vest erday
that ZeliR had seen Davidson as ZeliR
got. on the car, but that the gang leader
and his friends in their cont empt for
Davidsono never had any fear that David
son would shoot Zelig.
Deputy Commissioner Dougherty and
Detective L'Heureaux went to the Jersey
City police headquarters early yester-
day to look up the sale OF the revolver
to Davidson. The pawnshop was opensd
by clerk and record OF the sale of
the revolver was found
Says xeltg Changed Coats.