Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-07-17
HE MADE CHARGES
 AND IS KILLED Herman Rosenthal, a New York Gambler Shot
 to Death.
SHOT BY MEN IN AUTO
Believe That Police Officers Murdered Man To Keep Him From Proving
 Charges of Graft.

New York, July 16-Herman Ros- | enthal, proprietor of New York gambling house, whose sensational 1 charges that the police were guilty of grafting and oppression were to be investigated today, was shot down and killed in front of the Hotel Met ropole early today hy five men, who escaped in a big gray automobile.
 Rosenthal was murdered only few hours before he was to appear in the home of the Third Attorney Whitman in an attempt to substantiata his charge that the police were grating on gambling houses.
 Within three hours after murder detectives visited a garage on Wash ington Square, known to the police as the headquarters of the taXicah robbers who recently robbed hanl, messengers of $25,000 and captured a man describing himself as Louis Libby, whom they made a prisoner on the charge of homicide. The police also recovered an automobile that they say was one that figured in the murder.
 Deputy Commissioner Doughertv as serted that eye witnesses to the mur- der Of Rosenthal identified Libby as one of the quintette who drove up in front of the hotel, and calling the gambler from his dining room to the sidewalk, shot him down with a fusil- Jade of bullets and then fled in the motor car.
 Mrs. Sadie Rosenthal, the gamblers s widow, in a statement to District At torney Whitman put the assassination of her husband squarely up to the po- lice. She said she had premonition tragedy would follow her husbands $ appointment to the Metropole and she named a police official as one of the men who was to be present.
 At least two witnesses agreed that one or more men in the automobile were policemen.
 Rosenthal sprang into public notice only last Friday when he hurled homb into police circles by filling af- in league with the gamblers through out New York and that every gamb- ling house was being assessed fixed sum for police protection.
 Rosenthal had been for some time, he explained, the proprietor of gam bling establishment on West Forty fifth street, which was closed on April 15. after raid by Police Lieutenant Becker, head of the so-called strong arm squad.
 This raid, Rosenthal declared, fol- flowed misunderstanding between himself and Becker. The latter, Ros- enthal alleged, was his partner in the nrofits of the establishment
 Specifically, Rosenthal affidavits charged that Lieutenan Backed had loaned him $1,5O0 on chattel mort gage on furniture on the For.y-fifth street house, as share in the gam blinp business done on those premises, and that Becker's share amounted to 25 per cent of the profits.
 Rosenthal's charges were so sensa- tional that the explosion of a bomb at headquarters could not have caused any more consternation in police cir cles. Police Commissioner Waldo and District Attorney Whitman, both of whom were out of town. cut short their vacations to start the inquiry Commissioner Waldo, after making himself acquainted with the situation i yesterday, wrote a formal letter to the district attorney, demanding all investigation by that office rather 1 than through his own department. He said that Rosenthal's accusation wal not so much charge of bad discipline I in the department as one of out and out crime, which, if worthy of serious consideration at all. would be worthy of adjudication before regularly con l stituted tribunal. District Attorney whitman forthwith announced that ht would begin formal investigation to day.
 The murder of Rosenthal befor' l daybreak brought the situation to