Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-14
CunmGn Lured
 by Jack Rose
CALLED TO SCENE OF MURDER
 ON PRETEXT.
DEFENCE OPENS CASE
Claims Actual Shooting Was Done by Webher, VaIIon and a Stranger
 Fear of Jack ZeIiq Motive of Crime.


 ed it's case tonight in the trial of the four gangsters accused of murdering the gambler, Herman Rosenthal at the inS1gation of Charles Becker, and counsel for the gunmen opened for the defense, declaring he would show that none of the four took part in the shooting or were in any way connected with the plot to kill he gambler. He declared he would show the quartette were lured to the scene on a pretext and that the shooting in front of the Metropole. where Rosenthal was laid low, was done by Bridgie Webber, liar ry Vallon and mysterious stranger who was thus brought into the case for the first time.
 The defenSe's outline of its case traced by the gunmens' attorney, c. G. F. Wahle, was not concluded until nearly ' o'clock tonight. Court was then adjourned until tomorrow, when the first witness for the defense will take the stand.
 Gunmsn to Go on Stand.
 When the prosecution's last witness had testified Justice Golf denied MT. Wahle's motion to dismiss the indict- ment and acquit the defendants. The lawyer then outlined his defense after going into a personal history of each of his clients, declaring that bad as their records might be they were not guilty of the Rosenthal murder. He announced his intention of placing each of the gunmen on the stand. Mir. Wahle declared he would show that Frank Cirof1ci. one of the four, was at home in his own fiat at the time of the shooting and that it was only their interest in their friend, Jack Zelig, the East Side gang leader, that had brought any of them near the scene of the crime on the morning of July 16. Only Cirofici was in the so-called murder car that night, the attorney said, and this was some time before the shooting.
 Rose Feared Jack Zelig.
 The fear of Jack Rose, the informer, of Jack Zelig's vengeance, growing out of the alleged frameup of the gang leader when he was arrested on a charge of carrying concealed weapons, was the key to such negotiations as took place between the gunmen and Rose, counsel declared. It was repre- sented to his clients, MT. Wahle said, that Rose, having heard that Zelig sus- pected him of inspiring the frameup, wished to show Zelig's friends that the suspicion was entirely unfounded. On the night of the murder, counsel con- tinued, his clients had been summoned to Bridgie Webber's place on Forty second street
 A Stranger Involved. Ciroici, who was in the Bronx, was brought down by Rose, Sam Schepps and Vallon in the car, while the others, summoned by telephone from a restau- rant on Second avenue, came by the subway, MT. Wahle continued They went into Webber's resort, where they met Rose, Webber, Vallon, Schepps and stranger, whose identity MT. WahIe did not disclose. Rose, the attorney said, assured them that he would have Steinert and White, the police officers who were accused of executing the actual framing up of Zelig, meet the quartette of Zelig's friends and assure them that neither Rose nor Becker in- spired the frameup, but that the orders for that proceeding came from head quarters"
 Lured to the MetropoEe.
 Rose Weber, Vallon, Schepps and ] the fifth man, the stranger, went out leaving the men talking, MT. Wahle continued, but the fifth man shortly ] came back and told them Rose wanted to see them in the Metropole. "Dago Frank decided he had more important business downtown and went home to | his fiat, MT. Wahle went on, but the others accompanied the stranger around toward the hotel, stopping for moment opposite the Cadillac, a | short distance from the Metropole Opposite the Metropole, according tc MT. Wahle, Webber, Schepps, Vallor and Rose were standing Continuing MT. Wahle said: The fifth man in the party said: Wait till tell them you 1 are here.'"
 Webber, VaIIon and Stranger Did the | Shooting.
 i The fifth man then went across tc Webber, Vallon. Schepps and Rose and Horowitz, Rosenberg and Mueller started tc~ walk east in Forty third street. Webber and Vallon, who were opposite the Metropole, crossed over and with the man whose name has moi yet been disclosed started to shoot and these boys, fearing another China town episode, started home by way ot the subway. This group of five men Vallon, Rose, Schepps, Webber anc the fifth man, divided. The fifth mar disappeared in a lot of building ma terial in front of the addition to the Hotel Woodstock. He ran along the north side of Forty-t third street ant never entered the car standing on the south side of the street
 Fear of Jack Zelig the Motive.
 That, gentlemen of the jury. is the story of the killing of Herman Rosen. thal, and We will prove 1t out of thu mouths of the people who were witt Herman Rosenthal when he was killed by disinterested witnesses and by peo pie who will prove that this was scheme to get these boys there and pu' the crime upon them. We will prov, that the motive behind the whole affail was the fear of Jack Zelig."
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