The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-09-09
FINDS SINGER WHO SAW
SLAYERS FLEE IN CARS
Whitman SubpPnas Woman
Who Tells Of Two Autos
at the MetropOle.
CAN IDENTIFY ONE MAN
Laura Davis Watched Excite
ment From Cadillac After
Murder Of ROsenthal.
CAN IDENTIFY ONE MAN

Herman Rosenthal, has been served with
a subpoena by one Of the District Attor-
news detectives.
Mr.. Whitman learned a few days ago
that Miss Davis heard the shots that
killed Rosen.hal. She ran to a window
on the Forty-third street side OF the
Cadillac Hotel and saw the murder car
start away. he was told.
II was also learned Yesterday that
Detective Val O'Farrell. once a member
Of the police force. hut now head OF
detective agency OF his own, has been
working for some time under the direction
Of John +. Mcintyre. Lieut.. Beckers chief
counsel, in the interests OF the Becker
defence.
O'Farroll. while looking UP witnesses
and gathering data to he used by Beckers
lawyers when the indicted policeman is
called to trial next Thursday. has come
across several things that point towa rd
long continued team work In orime by
the four indicted gunmen. Gyp the Blood
Lefty Louis. Whitley Lewis and Dago
Frank Cirofici
Miss Davis was served with a subpoena
last saturday night just after her per-
formance at the Midway Park Theatre.
About the middle of last week she is said
TO have broken her silence about what she
saw on the night of the murder. The
D
which she has been singing 10 whom she
told her story is credited with supplying
Mr.. Nhitman's office with the infor ma
tion that resulted in the subprna.
lhose who have heard Miss Davis's
story say that the singer believes she can
identify one man whom she saw lump
INTO the gray car and. perhaps. several
others VINO hurried away toward Broad
way in another automobile while the gray
car was disappearing toward sixth avenue.
Mr.. Will man is said To have considered
the informal ion that came to his office
OF sufficient importance to send Detective
Stewart. who went to Hot Springs to
get sam Schepps. to Middletown, The
det eciive talaed with Miss Davis and
subprnaed her to appear before ihe
Grand Jury next thursday
Before Miss Davis was found at Middle
town. detectives had been sent TO Chicago,
Miss Davis's home city. and 10 Meadville,
Pa. in an eaort TO lind heI.
The singer was very much RgitRted
when told that she would have TO Tell
her story to the Grand Jury next Thurs
day Reporters who tried to interview
her at Middletown yesterday we're told
that she has been too much upset since
learning that she will he called I o TESTIFY
as TO her story.
Miss Davis's version Of what happened
a. she saw it from hotel window almost
directly above the spot where RosepthaI
however. yesterday by one to whom she
recently told it.
Il had not been feeling we'll for some
days.' Miss Davis was oiioted rs saying,
ami when l went to the Cadillac Hotel
on the night Of the Rosenthal murder
O'Clock when ! went up to my room q.
the hotel A few minutes earlier as |
was entering the Cadillac on the Forty
third street side next door and just q
few feet to the west Of where Resent hal
was killed. ] noticed stranger sitting
on the steps al the entrance to the hotel
and then thought this strange.
Il tried to read for a while when got
up to my room but couldn't and decided
to go to bed. just as J was about 10 lie
down heard bang. which for an in
stant ] supposed 70 be the sound Of an
, toward the window, however. and just
then | heard the second Of tho shots
coming from in front OF the Metropole.
Il stuck my head out OF the window just
in time to see two automobiles in Forty
| third street, one pointed toward Broadway
and one toward Sixth avenue. There
were, | think, three or maybe four men
in the machine headed toward Sixth
avenue.
Il saw man run toward that car.
climb in and Immediately the car started
eastward at high speed The car point
ing III tHt OtueT ulTtCtlOfl ~ tnS BATn6
time started toward Broadway with sew
eral men in il. And then people came
running from all directions.
Il don't know whether | could ident ify
the man who ran and climbed into the car
tha; had disappeared toward Sixth avenue
right after the shooting. do think.
however. that could identify the man who
was sitting in front Of the Cadillac door
when | went into the hotel"
Miss Daviss friend at Middletown
did not explain why the singer expects
to be able to identify the men in the gray
car; Miss Davis had intended to leave
Middletown yesterday because OF illness
and go to her home in Chicago. She
changed her plans when served with the
subppna and now intends to stay in
Middetown until next Wednesday.
! The kind OF evidence which Detective
Val O'Farrell has been digging up for
Becker. it was said. will be used In an
effort to prove that Rose. Webber and
vallon Of their own volition directed the
four indicted glinmen to kill Rosenthal
without any suggestion from Becker.
Detective O'Farrell. it is maintained,
has uncovered q number Of details con-
the Blood. Lefty Louie. Whitley Lewis
and Dago Frank in the holdup and robbery
OF the 1bankroll" in Nanny Manheimer's
gambling house in sixth avenue; the
blowing up OF the entrance to Abe
EaCn6el place. IN W pSt FOfIy-NItn street,
the holdup and robbery at TarboX 9 place
in which the four now indicted for murder
got away with a gambling "bankro
OF Sll 600; the bomb explosion at Beansy
Rosenfeld's in Harlem. and an East Side
saloon holdup and robbery in April. 1911.
All of these crimes took place within
the past two years and all OF them. SO
O'Farrell is said to have esta blished were
the personal work of the four men accused
now Of the actual killing Of Rosenthal.
II ia further maintained that Rose, Web
ber. Vallon and perhaps another man had
something to do with crimes committed
by the four Zelig gangsters and prompted
them TO shoot Rosenthal.
the Curran investigation and tho trial OF
former Inspector Cornelius q. HAYES,
District Attorney Whitman and his asso-
ciates look for a weeks proceedings that
will be especially helpful toward exposing
graft when the actual calling OF the John
Doe witnesses begins.
The interest o-day will doubt less bs
centred on the City Hall and the calling
Of Mayor Gaynor as the first witnesst'to O
be examined by the Curran invest igat ion.
Members of the Curran committee ex-
pressed disappointment last night when a
rumor reached them that Mayor Gaynor
may not be able to appear before the COM
mittee until later in the week.
The members of the COMMITTEES who
spoke learned of this rumor YESTERDAY
and heard 1t at 30 late an hour that the
truth OF the report could not be verified
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