Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-18
PO[|CE FIXED To
ALLOW SLAYERS
To ESCAPE
Man Driving Auto From Which
RosenthaI Was Shot Makes
Sensational Admission.

vEU YORK, July 1S.-William Sha-
,iro who drove the automoolle III
~. rode the murderers who killed
t5or,,sn Rosenthal, the gambler, In
800 If the Hotel Metropolis, after
+,o..,,+,aI had accused the police OF
-. n league with gamblers, today,
..',~t his attorney, Aaron j. Levy,
ICED that he was told by one of the
der marty that the police had been
aavedo and that official arrangements
I'D been made for the murderers to
escape. ,a
4os+ acrjon in which these things hap
lack Rose, friend to Police Lieu
.ao,n+ charles A. Becker, whom Rosen-
tbar alleged TO be his partner. surren-
dered and was subsequently arrested
mon the charge of murder. He adj
rnirted hiring the automobile used by
the assassins to escape. He will be
examined Monday
Mayor Gaynor Enters Probe.
Navor Gaynor summoned Lieutenant
Rocker TO his office for a conference
and started an investigation that is be
reved to be the forerunner of a police
shake-up.
Policeman William. J. File, who was
IN the Metropole when the murder was
committed. was suspended after Com
missioner Waldo held an investigation
to which all Of the policemen who were
in the vicinity at the time were called.
1t is rumored that Detective William
J. Burns. who worked up the McNa-
mara and other famous cases, has been
retained by a private citizen to run
down the Rosenthal slayers in the in
terest of the public good.
Before the grand jury resumed it's
labors today District Attorney Whit
man said
NO single explanation of the many
that have been advanced about East
Side gambling squabbles-and several
of these explanations have come direct
ly from the police-holds water.
This man Rosenthal has for many
years been mixed up in gang fights.
He has been seriously involved either
directly or through his friends in the
I fights that brought about the deaths of
Spanish Louis" and Kid Twist" two
notorious gand leaders and yet he was
not harmed at these times by rival
gangsters who perhaps might have felt
that they had cause to attack him.
No Danger From Gangs.
And for months preceding this muir
der his relations with the gangs have
been pleasant enough for him TO look
for no danger in that quarter His
promised exposure concerned the po
lice He had said he would tell nothing
about other garr5aag houses or gam
blers
Just a feW hours before he was to
comsetq my house and try to make
.sobd his charges he was killed. Now
7 The charges are practically dead-they
mean little or nothing The gain to
those accused by RosenthaPs death is
apparent
Il repeat that my personal belief is
that behind the gang that killed Rosen-
thai was a bigger motive than mere re-
venge The death was a protection to
tnGs system because it stopped one
t%8se and was a lesson to others that
misAt show tendency to wag."
Trying to Lose" Widow.
While funeral services were being
heid for Rosenthal efforts were being
made to induce the widow of the slain
gambler to leave New York so that
she could not give further information
10 the district attorneys office relative
10 her husbands affairs One of the
oVertures was made by a woman who
called Mrs Rosentha on the telephone
ana tried to make an appointment to
JNeet her in hotel in the heart of the
White light district. Friends of the
"'aoN tried to run down the call. but
o"y succeeded in learning that it had
sent from a point near Broadway
and Forty