Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-09-16
ROSENTHAL GUNMEN
CAPTURED BY POLICE
IN NEW YORK FLAT
Two Missing Assassins Found in
Company with Wive by Deputy
Commissioner.
WHITMAN HAS HIS suspicious
District Attorney Remarks on Cap.
ture in His Absence.
INTERRUPT LITTLE TEA PARTY
Gyp the Blood and Lefty Louie Not
Excited Over Arrest.
DEPARTMENT PROUD OF WORK
sixty Detectives Kept Busy I'm Re,
lays Find Clues and Doug.herty
Puts These Together, Is
the story.
LITTLE TEA PARTY
Gyp the Blood and Lefty Louie Not
Excited Over Arrest.
DEPARTMENT PROUD OF WORK

NE WYoRK, Sept 15.-"Gyp the Blood"
and Lefty Louie" the missing gunner
indicted as two of the actual slayers Of
Herman Rosenthal, the gambler. were
found by the police last night living with
their wives in flat in the Brownsville
section Of Brooklyn They were arrested
by Deputy Police Commissioner Dough-
erty and squad Of detectives, who
brought them TO police headquarters and
locked them up. They will be arraigned
on Monday.
The two men had been occupying the
flat since August Is and were alone until
last Tuesday. when they were Joined by
their wives. through whom clues to their
whereabouts were obtained by the police.
The four were seated at tea when Deputy
Commissioner Dougnerty and his men
burst open the door Of their apartment
and with revovers drawn ordered them
TO hold up their hands Neither OF the
men made any show of resistance.
Drop your guns; you've got us" said
"Gyp the Blood" calmly
Give us little time to get dressed,
will your said Lefty" with equal COM
posure.
Few Remarks Made.
Scarcely another remark was made to
the police by either man until they were
examined at the police station later by
Assistant District Attorney Moss. acting
for District Attorney Whitman, who has
gone to Hot Springs 20 take testimony Of
persons who talked to Sam Schepps,
witness In the case.
The women, however, made a scene.
throwing their arms around their hus-
bands necks and shedding copious tears.
They had to be torn away from the men
before the police could get their prison.
ers out OF the apartment and were later
brought to headquarters
With the arrest Of "Gyp' and Lefty
whose real names are Harry Horowitz
and Louis Rnsensweig, all Of the seven
msn accused Of the murder OF Eessnfhar.'
OF which Police Lieutenant Becker is the
alleged instigator, are now in custody.
The capture OF the two men came as
q result of what Is regarded In police
circles as the best detective work done
in the history OF the department 1t was
the fruit OF unbroken surveillance of the
wives and relatives OF the men since their
disappearance on the day of the murder,
July l6
Many Detectives mt work.
This surveillance was maintained by
sixty detectives. working In relays, who
kept Deputy Commissioner Dougherty IN
touch with what they did and where they
Of piecing together number Of conver-
sations overheard by detectives and re-
ported to the commissioner at different
times. The first conversation was that
They are not lonesome, because they
can see q moving picture show from their
back windows"
Another conversation gave the informa-
ton that there was laundry in the
house where the missing men lived, which
was named either The New Brighton"
''rhe Bright" or "The Brighton Hand
laundry"
A third conversation supplied the fact
that the neighborhood was full Of
Swedes and Germans"
1t then became Commissioner Doug
ertys task to discover somewhere hand
laundry in close proximity to moving
picture show in q vicinity inhabited by
foreigners Of the nationallties named. Tho
possible name Of the laundry was OBJ
tained less than two days ago, and the
commissioner discovered that there were
half dozen laundries of similar naturs
in New York City and many more in
other cities, for the commissioner did not
assume that the gun men were necessarily
located In New York.
when we found the laundry with a
moving picture show close by, there were
no Swedes or Germans in the neighbor-
hood" said Mr.. Dougherty tonight.
When we found laundry with the
foreigners In the neighhorhood, there
was no moving picture show. One of our
laundry clues took US to New Haven, and
we were just about to investigate another
In Pittsburgh"
Final Trap IL Laid.
Early today Detectives Meyer anil
Cassasso discovered In Brookiyn the
New Brighton Hand laundry which
perfectly fitted all requirements. They
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