Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-22
DRACNET IS OUT
FOR TWENTY As
SLAYERS
That Many involved in Killing
N. Y. Gambler, Says Prose-
cutor-Five Under Arrest.

NEW YORK, July 22.-District At
+ornev Whitman's detectives have de-
+ermined that the murder of Gambler
Herman Rosenthal in front of the Met
ropole hotel just before he was to lift
tho curtain from all of the graft trans
actions between the police and the
gamblers was carefully rehearsed be-
fore the gambler was killed. At least
twenty men, according to the informa-
lion of the district attorney, had part in
the preparations and helped stage the
tragedy.
With five men under arrest and
charged with completely in the assassi-
nation Of Rosenthal and another held
asa material witness, the long arm of
tbe police was stretched out over the
American continent today in an at
tempt to capture three other suspects.
Two of these men are believed to be in
Chicago and another In Canada. The
stage setting for the sassination in
cmded the original picking of the men
who we're to kill @Rosenthal, which is
alleged to have started Sunday after
noon July IA, the killing itself, the get
awav the preparation of the street for
the escape, the watching Of the victim
during the night and the final DISPOSE
ton of the men who rode away in the
gray automobile.
Gambling House Headquarters.
For all of this work it is charged
that Louis (Bridgy) Webber's gambling
ri
ond street was the final base of opera
tons. Weber himself, with Sam Paul,
leader of the East Side organization
bearing his name. are the last two men
to be placed Under arrest on the charge
of having part in the crime. The men
now in custody are:
Louis Libby, owner of the automobile
used for the murder.
William Shapiro, partner and chauf-
feur for Libby who drove the car.
Jacob (Jack) Rose, a gambler, who
is charged with staging the murder and
collecting the men who committed it.
Louis CBridgy) Weber, gambler, who
is charged with aiding the conspira-
tors and whose gambling house at
Sixth avenue and Forty-second street
is alleged to have been the meeting
place of the murder band.
Sam Paul, head of the Sam Paul as
sociation of the East Side gamblers-and
banded pirates.
Police Co. Between Held.
The man who was charged with hav-
ing material knowledge of such impor-
lance as to make it advisable to detain
him was Jacob A. Reich, better known
as Jack Sullivan, handy man for Po-
1ice Lieutenant Charles A. Becker and
go-between for gamblers and others of
the under world who, had business with
the police for which money had to be
paid and favors granted Reich or Sui
Ivan, was with Lieutenant Becker up
10 twenty minutes before the murder,
when he dropped into Webber's place.
The police said today that the prison
ers would be arratgned before Coroner
Feinberg this afternoon. Deputy Po-
lice Commissioner Dougherty an
nounced that two more arrests would
be made within a few hours.
The three men who are wanted to
throw light upon the murder are Sam
uel Schepps, Whitley Lewis and
Lefty" Loewy Another man, known
only TO the police as "Itzky," could also
give them help, they say When Com
missioner Dougherty was asked today
to make statement as to whether he
believed Lieutenant Becker was in
volved in the assassination he refused
to discuss that phase.
;au4ar.n4 RaaI<or Cb;f4aJ
At the direction of Commissioner
Waldo, Lieutenant Becker was today
relieved as head of squad No. l, known
as the strong arm squad" and as
signed to desk duty at the Bath Gate
avenue station in the Bronx.
This is the first police shake-up as a
result of Rosenthal's death.
The illness of Mrs. Lillian Rosenthal,
widow of the murdered gambler today
matted the proceedings of the grand
lafy It had been the intention of Dis
llct Attorney Whitman to call Mrs.
essential as the first witness in the
INQUIRY concerning the murder Her
htmate knowledge Of the events that
preceded the killing and of the rela-
"ohshlps that Rosenthal bore to the
o'Her gamblers and the police is con-
si0e'ed extremely important as a foun-
uaglon for the general case.
men Mr.. Whitman found today that
sue would not be able to appear he said
mat the grand Jury would not taAe nm