The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-07-17
SHOT BY GANG OF.
UNKNOWN MEN
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CALLED FROM NEW YORK HOTEL
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AND KILLED BY SIX AS
ve SAILANTS In, AUTO.
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THREE SUSPECTS ARRESTED
Dead Man Chief Witness in Probe
Into Alleged Protection of Gamb-
.l ling Joints by Police Department
for Pay. 3.ssfl m

New York, July 16.-Effcrts - ne
police to run down the five men who
early this morning shot the gamb-
Ter, Herman Rosenthal, to death in
front of the Hotel Metropole, only
few hours before he was to give evil
dence against the police about gamb-
ling graft, has resulted today III the
arrest of three men.
Only One Identified.
The identity of only one of them as
a member of the party who did the
shooting has yet been established.
This man, according to Deputy Com
missioner Dougherty, is Louis Libby,
and drove the automobile in which
/ the party rode to the Metropole. He
was charged with murder, BUT refused
to make a statement One of the
other two prisoners is man whom
the police were obliged to call John
Doe" because of his refusal to tell
2 his name or give any information as
to the shooting, although according
to the police, he was in the hotel
at the time
Victim of Own =raternity.
The other prisoner is William Sha-
piro, said to be a partner OF Libby.
Although evidence as to the not'1'
of the shooting seems to show that
Rosenthal had feared death at the
hands of the police, the theory was
! brought forward today that ROsen-
thai had really been the victim of
! the fso-calied gambling fraternity"
which took the opportunity afforded
! by ROsenthal's activity against the
/ police to seek revenge for his 'squeal-
ing" on the gamblers
knowledge that Rosenthal was to
get his was current among fire.
quenters of various tenderloin re-
sorts and a subject OF co-Hmon dis
cussion for some time before tho
shooting. ..a... f4r-. ,,-.,-.
Within three hours after the mu
der, detectives visited a garage &
WASHINGTON Square, known to. t
police as the headquarters of the :
icab robbers, who recently robbs1
bank messengers of $4,000, and ca =
tured man describing himself as
Louis Libby, whom they made pris-
oner on the charge Of homicide The
police also recovered an automobile
that they say. was the one that fig
ured in the murder.
Deputy Commissioner Dougherty
asserted that eye witnesses to the
murder, of LResenthal identified Libby
as one of the quintette who drove in
front of the hotel and calling the
gambler from the dining room to the
Sidewalk, Shot him down with a fus-
ilade Of BULLETS and then fed in the
motor car --
Wife had Premonition.
Mrs Sadie Rosenthal, the gamb-
ler's widow. in a statement TO Dis
trict Attorney Whitman, put the as
sassinatioh Of her husband sgnarely
up to the police. She said she had a
premonition a tragedy would follow
her husbands appointment at -he
Metropolis and she named police Of
fetal as one Of the men who was to
be present.
Deputy Police Commissioner
Dougherty said today:
The car used was 4l,3f5-Ne"
York. IT was bought by Louis Libby
last October lie promised to pay
$S99 for il. had paid 5000 and was
still paying on it --.-.-
1t has been positively Identified as
the car used by the assassins, and
Libby has been positively Identified
as the chauffeur and as one OF the
men who fired at Rosenthal The
car was found in the garage on South
Washington Square.
THE charge against the prisoner
I is homicide. The garage is the same
in which was found the taXicab used
by Montani and the $4,000 taxicab
robbers. At this time this is all 1
can afford to say"
Police Lieutenant Becker Joined the
district attorney at once when he
heard of the murder He said:
1T is very regrettable. l know Of