Evening journal., 1912-07-16
BULLET
ENDS LIFE
OF GAMBLER
ROSenthaI Who Talked TOO
Much" Shot Down Under
Glare Of Famous Hotel
MURDERERS USE AUTO;
SUSPECT IS ARRESTED
By The United Press.

BY The United Press.
NEW YORK, July 16.-The most
sensational gang murder" in the
history of New York. was committed
at 2 o'clock this morning in the very
heart of the new Tenreloin. Herman
Rosenthal, noted gambler and the
storm center Of the city's latest gam
bling scandal. was shot to death in
the glare of the lights of the Hotel
Metropole. His murderers, utilizing
modern methods. came to the scene
and escaped in a high powered seven
passenger automobile which easily
outdistanced the taxicabs pressed into
service for pursuit by the police. One
arrest had been made. The av-
cused man was Louis Libby, aged 35.
OF 30 Stuyvesant street He was
picked up In a garage at ~ South
Washington Square two hours after
the killing. Deputy Police Commits
sioner Dougherty, who was in direct
charge of the man-hunt, insisted that
he had three witnesses who knew
]
fed him as the chauffeur OF the car In
which the murderers made their es-
cape and one witness was obtained
who swore that Libby fred at Ros-
enthal
The murder of Herman Rosenthal.
while the elimination of his war
with the police and with the uptown
] gamblers, was probably the most
carefully planned and coId-blooded Of
the recent gang killings in this city.
the home of the gangster. Rosenthal
was one OF the best known of the
so-called cheaper gamblers" OF the
city He was recognized as the agent
OF certain influential downtown poll
ticians and in most OF his undertake
ings represented simply the bank roll
of a prominent sporting man and poll
itlcian Of national renute.
It was openly asserted yesterday
that he had been ordered by his pa
tron 10 leave town for a while. as he
had talked too much Il was in
connection with these orders that he
went 10 the Hotel Metropole outside
of which he was killed to hold a
number OF conferences. Four shots
were iired--some the witnesses
put the number at a dozen. but the
police are now certain only four were
used-and one struck the gambler on
the bridge of the nose, crashing into
the brain. The murderers then es-
capped.
Rosenthal had been in the Metro
pole for some time and came out of
the Forty-third street entrance at
Just about ? m. He met a man
there and stood chatting with him for
a few minutes. AS he turned away
a big slate-colored touring car drove
up and three men alighted from It.
The first man out began pumping
bullets from an automatic gun. The
first bullet sped true TO the mark
causing instant death AS Rosenthal
fell two other shots struck him, in
dieting wounds.
The man who did the shooting dis
appeared while his companions
J jumped into the big car which sped
away. Times Square was in an up
! roar Gamblers and men of the white
light district were running around in
circles. Some, not knowing what
was going on had drawn their pis-
tolls for self-protection. A stream OF
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hotel. They knew the meaning of
the shots Diamond Jim" Brady.
George Considine. John Kelly. George
Belts and others who knew the dead
man we'll rushed to his side One
Z glance was enough They turned
away shaking their heads.
Its a coroner's case" they said.
Mrs Herman Rosenthal went to the
coroner's office and claimed the body
of her husband and ordered it re-
moved TO an undertaker's for prepar-
alton for burial. She was singularly
composed and appeared TO think only
Of vengeance on the murderers.
= "The police have bounded us night
and day. In addition other enemies
have been busy. Strange men have
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