The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-07-16
Chased by Lieut.. Frey, but
He Escapes in Street
Crowd.
VICTIM DIES At ONCE
Man Who Did Shooting Be.
liPved to BE- From the
East Side.
SLAYER NOT IDENTIFIED
lie Was in TaXicab and Ii Is Be-
licvcd Others Were
With Him.

Herman Rosenthai, the Tenderloin
gambler who gave up to District At
torney Whitman a tale OF eXtortion by
the police and Of inside gambling
methods. was shot dead about 2 O'Clock
this morning at the entrance to the
Hotel Metropole at Forty-third street
and Broadway.
Four shots were fired by a man who
jumped from a taxicab. three OF them
taking effect. The first shot was fatal.
striking Rosenthal on the bridge Of the
nose and crashing into the brain. The,
slayer escaped.
Rosenthal went to the hotel from
Sixth avenue through Forty-third
street and stood talking q few minutes
in front OF the hotel with q man whom
no one seemed to know, but who seemed
to be on intimate terms with the ex-
poser Of the gamblers. He chatted
few minutes and then the man turned
and went into the hotel lobby just az
a taxicab drove up.
A man jumped from the taxicab and
began to pump bullets at Rosenthal
from the distance OF only a few feet.
The gambler crumpled up and as he
fell two shots struck his body. The
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stantly.
Then the. man who did the shooting
darted into the crowd and was lost.
The taxicab which had brought the
murderer to the hotel darted away
toward Sixth avenue. up the avenue.
over to Madison and Fifty eighth
street. There Lieut.. Frey Of the West
Forty-seventh street station. who had
comma ndeered a taXlcab and ordered
the driver TO speed after the cab. lost
the speeding vehicle in the darkness.
In the meantime Times square was
In an uproar. Gamblers and men OF
the midnigh, lights were swarminy In
Cons,dnc's hostelry. Diamond Jim
Brady, Honest John Kelly. George Belts.
/ the Considnes. and hosts Of the sport
! ing fraternity knew the meaning OF
the shots when they saw Rosenthal
drop. They rushed to his side, and
with them went nearly all that part
Of the Tenderloin that was still awake.
Rosenthai was in the dining room
when he was called out and told there
was somebody wanted to see him on
the street. He went to the door.
Does anybody want me here?" he
said, and then turned to go back.
As he did 30 the taxicab drove UP
and a man In a light suit began To
shoot. DR.. Taylor of Flower Hospital
came and said Rosenthal had been
killed instantly.
There was little doubt among the
gamblers. who were around the hotel
that Rosenthal had been shot by some
one hired by the gamblers whom he
had exposed. He had been expecting
trouble and had been told to set out of
town.
II seemed but a few minutes before
policemen were swarminG In the square.
One might have thought they sntici-
pated the shooting so quickly did they
come and surround the body The
crowd yielded one witness. who was
taken to the West Forty y-seventh
street station. The police refused 10
give up his name.
Several stories were told ~ the
shooting by witnesses. Some said that
four men waited outside for Rosen-
thai and blaxed away as he came from
the dining room. Others that tour
) ing car was used to make the getaway
and that the firing came from the car
on the opposite side OF the street. Nearly
al, agree, thought, that the number Of
the car in which the shooters got away
was 4s,lsi. N. y.
Mrs. Roscnthai was sitting In her
home AT IO4 West Forty-hfth street
that gambling house about which ~
many stories have been written In the
last few days In connection with the
gambling expose, when sh" Sa' to'a
that her husband was shS.
my God. have besNY eSpe'''as
that" she said. and then wsnt arou"o
! 10 where her husbands bodN ~ss "'eS
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