The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-07-27
Board of New York Alder
men Want to Have Investi-
CATION of the Rosenthal
Murder Case.
THREE DETECTIVES
ARE WITH WITNESS
Because of the Threats of the
Allies of the Gangsters.-
Police Are Rounding Up
the Slayers.
(NationaI News Association

tNatfOndl news aSSOCiaIloDb
NEW YORK. July 27.-If Mayor
Gaynor refuses to call a special meet
ing of the Board of Aldermen at which
1t is planned to vote on the question
of an aldermanic investigation of the
police department and the Rosenthal
murder he will be served with q writ
of mandamus compelling him to do SO.
This was the program decided upon
today by seventeen Republican alder
men who petitioned him yesterday to
call the special meeting for August 1.
1t is clear that the fusion members
of the board under the leadership OF
Ralph Folk and Henry Curran. chair
man of the finance COMMITTEES. mean
business and that they believe they
have the strength to put through their
plans in spite Of opposition from the
mayor and the Tammany members OF
the board.
Mayor Gaynor promised to take the
matter up Monday but he has also
made his position clear that the whole
scheme was an attempt to embarrass
him.
It requires fifteen aldermen to sign
a petition asking the mayor to call a
special meeting of the board. The pc.
tition to which Alderman Curran tool
to the mayor had seventeen sigma
lures. Failing to secure cooperation
by this means the seventeen members
proposed to resort to a mandamus
| writ.
Allies Make Thrsats.
Threats made by the allies of ths
gamblers and gangsters under arres
for completely in the murder Of Her
man Rosenthal, the informer. causet
careful precautions to be taken toda,
to prevent the assassination, intimida
ton or spiriting away of Louis Krese
an important new witness. who fdenti
fed Bridge" Webber and Jack Sui
livan as two Of the men who stood II
front of the hotel Metropole wher
Rosenthal was shot down.
| The Tightening of the chain Of evi
dence around the accused men is sait
to have stirred their lawless associates
to such a point Of desperation that 1
IFS believed there is very little rea
cause to guard against another out
break of violence. Two detectives ar
guarding Krese today. They were de
tailed to watch over the witness b.
Deputy Com. Dougherty.
The arrest OF Sullivan" whose rea
name is Jacob Reisch and the flns
commitment of Webber, were primal
lily due to Krese's evidence before tn
coroner From Information that ha
reached Dougherty fears that an a
tempt will be made to kill Krese, 8
as to eliminate him as witness
Dougherty would not say what thi
information is but he attaches consis
erable importance to il. 1884
Men With Witness.
These men will stay with Krese a
long as the witness life is consfdere
in danger, and will accompany hill
. back and forth between his home, hi
work and police headquarters and th
: district attorneys ONCE.
: The district attorney and polio
agreed that Krese should give a falls
[ address when asked on the stand I
tell where he lived.
; Krese has told of seeing Rosenthi
; slain, of watching Weber stan
among the men who killed the gam
Ter and of Webber's flight when th
) final shots were Ared.
: District Attorney Whitman today r
, iterated his belief that the men WI
, actually killed Rosenthal have not y,
been captured He added that sati
! factory progress was made in the Il
j vestigation. Deputy Dougherty ar
. Inspector Hughes said no further a
Z rests were expected for day or tv
! but Ii was learned today at polio
headquarters that detectives had pic
/ ed up the trail of the men now at Ii
erty and wanted for the murder
{ Harry Horowitz, Lefty Louis" wi
2 tey" Lewis and Sam Schepps.
Commenting on Mayor Gaynor's Il
ter to Police Com. Waldo in whie
| the mayor assailed those who ha'