The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-02
ANOTHER ARREST
is MADE IN THE
ROSENTHAL CASE
Whitley" Lewis Arrested by
Detectives i'm Catskill
Mountains
MOSS WILL CONDUCT
THE INVESTIGATION
Hopes to Obtain Names of Gamblers
Who Paid Protection" Money.
Claim Immense Amount Re-
ceived by Police ;als

CciNcu ny IoiCt ais
New York. Angus .sSS Whitley Lewis.
one of the four : 90 wanted by the
police as the act o. fderers of Herman
Rosenthai. the . .er. was arrested in
the catskill o 8 ms this afternoon and
was late to, = eins taken to Kingston,
| n. Y to ed in the county jail. This
was ammo, i at police headquarters
here " Inspector Hughes. who said three
of his detectives had found Lewis at
Fleislmanns. y. Y, a summer resort.
After searching the region for nearly two
weeks the detectives found Lewis work
ing ON farm, Inspector Hughes said, and
today arrested him just as he was to
board train at Fleishmanns to make his
escape. The prisoner will be brought to
New York on an early train tomorrow.
| II Was reported at police headquarters
that Lefty Louis and "Gyp the Blood .
two of the alleged murders still at large.
had been tracked to the same vicinity
and their arrest would come soon The
news that al least one of the fagitives
had been trapped was received with great
elation at police headquarters, because OF
the criticism that has been directed to-
ward the department for its failure to
arrest fugitives charged with the actual
killing. With the arrest of Lewis the
police now have sin custody two of the
four alleged assassins. the other being
'Dago" Frank, who is now in the Tombs
and q fellow prisoner of Police Lieu
tenant Charles Becker. who is charged
with instigating the gunner to kill Ros-
enthal
Whitman Talks on Murder
While District Attorney Whitman is
confident he has Obtained evidence point
ing strongly TO existence of we'll or
ganized system of police graft, he an
nounced tonight that this feature would
be subordinated until he had convicted
the murderers of Rosenthal and all in
volved In the plot to kill him.
Murder" said Mr. Whitman tonight,
lis a graver crime than the levy of black
| mail by the police. ] decline to be di-
verted by any demand for a general in
vestisation of the police department and
police grating until these murderers nave
been brought to Justice. / am endeayor-
! ing to- prosecute to conviotion all the
murderers II Is the duty of the 10, 4Dt
policemen of the city to find them They
! should have been arrested at the scene
of the crime. The fact that they are
still at larse is very serious reflection
upon conditions in the police department
The prosecutor took pains TO add. how
ever, that the investigation into the graft
system was in his view as a secondary
| consideration only for the time being
and said he had delegated Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Moss to carry 1t on.
Moss VIII See Rose
Mr.. Moss expects TO see IN his cell to-
morrow Jack Rose. self accused graf,
! collector for Becker. and will go over
with him again his sworn statement that
| Becker had told him the annual black.
mail levied by police upon gambling
| houses and other illegal resorts amounted
to So, 100000 These figures the district at.
! torney believes to be no exaggeration
Mr.. Moss expects to get from Rose anc
also from Bridge Webber a list OF
gamblers who paid tribute and also q
| list of graft collectors. These will all be-
summoned before the grand jury and from
them II Is hoped to gain clues indicatins
how high up the graft went and how
! 1t was distributed.
| Following this policy of twofolt
prosecution, Mr.. Whitman today BEN
| his efforts to weaving closer around
Becker the web of evidence by which
/ he hopes to convict him of being the
man VINO instigated Rosenthals mur-
der He called before the grand jury
John w. Hart, Becker's attorney, and
through him established the fact, he
said, that while Rose was a. fugitive
from Justice Becker sent Hart to him
to get an affidavit clearing the po-
lice officer from the charge that he
was a partner in I,osenthafs gambling
establishment This was on the night
after the murder and according TO
Roses story. Hart came to him at his
hiding place on Riverside drive after
he had telephoned Becker to know II
he was going to be protected for his
part in the murder plot. Rose ad
mitted to the district attorney he was
almost hysterical that day on account
of his fear of arrest and had tele-
phoned Becker no less than four times
Becker's Attorney Present
The legal importance of Hart's visit
in the view of Mr. Whitman is that
Becker failed in his duty as po-
lice officer in not arresting Rose when
! 1t was published broadcast the next
| day he was wanted. IT was not until
Hart was arraigned before Judge Mul
queen as "oontumacious witness"
| that he would admit before the grand
! jury that he had gone to see Rose.
basing his refusal on the ground that
| he was acting for his client, Becke err
I. 4
advised Rose to give himself up after
consulting with another lawyer. Ac-
cording TO Roses story, Hart told him
| If he did not make the affidavit Beck
| er would not protect him.
In regard to the aldermsnic inves-
| tigation into the alleged police graft
system ordered by Mayor Gaynor, Dis
| trict Attorney Whitman said tonight:
Il am very busy looking into The
actual facts of the murder. I will CO.
operate SO far as l can with any sin
cere Investigation into police condi-
tions. but of course cannot permit
such proceeding to interfere with the
course of Justice
Detective Harvey. one of the men
who arrested Lewis. In a report made
to Inspector Hughes over the tele-
phone tonight said the prisoner re-
fused to talk about the assassination
and denied all knowledge of the mur-
der. Lewis seemed much depressed by
his arrest. according to the detective
and expressed surprise that he had
| fallen into the hands OF the police
/ Ask Impeachment of Justice