The Alaska citizen., 1912-09-02

--As1.fzI..1II - in front of the Cohen theater, which Is directly opposite the Hotel Metro pole. When the car stopped 1t was facing Sixth avenue. Shapiro's story says that Bald Jack" was not one of the killers, but that he turk ed near by to see That the job had been pulled off"
 There were four in the car be- sides myself" said Shapiro. There was Itzky, Sam Schepps, 8 man who has been called Vallon-Harry Vallon. somebody said-and fourth man that l did not know It was not later than l:35 a. m. when we stopped opposite the Metropole. didn't know what was up. but l did know that ] had some tough birds with me thought that the bunch was going over to the Metrepele to get a drink. One of the passen- gers stayed by the car, apparently to see that didn't skip. While l was using my eyes generally like. l noticed that a bunch of men were walking up and down near the Met ropole-not all Jumped in a crowd but scattering like. one or two here, two or three there. They were pretty well strung out, and should say that they covered the street from Broadway to Sixth avenue. They weren't all on the north side It struck me that some of the faces in the bunch were familiar, but l could not place 'em. They were bad boys, no doubt of that
 Well, my passengers, as easy as you please, poked along over to the Metropole and looked around. From somewhere nearby, either from one of my passengers or from the other crowd came a low whistle, not ex- actly like a whistle either, but a hissing kind of whistle" Here Shapiro paused and gave the "Psssttt! Psssttt!" that is low and sibilant, and used by gang fighters and thieves the world over
 The bunch that had been hold ing down the sidewalks before my crowd got there seemed to be in and out of the Metropole; that Is. one or two of them would disappear for little while, to have drink maybe, and then come back and take up their walk. After the whistle all of them seemed to know that something was doing.
 Several of them spoke to my pas sengers Business went pretty slow. After fifteen minutes of rubbering and wondering what was going to be pulled off I dropped in- to a dose don't know how long was asleep, probably but five or ten minutes anyway. And then the bunch in the street, my crowd and everybody else, stopped prowling around and faced toward the Metro pole. Out came a guy, and the next was the shooting.
 AS l have said there wasn't any hurry about getting away. The man who had been standing near the car to watch me climbed in, and a min- ute or SO afterward along came the others. noticed that the gang that had been walking up and down, the fellows l spotted for lookout men were all over the place, putting into the crowd, getting in front of cops, and generally mixing them. selves up with the whole bunch. It looked to me as if they were there for the job of helping the getaway, or of covering the trail. saw DO. licemen, yes. How many l don't remember But there were cops in the mob that got there before my car left. It struck me that the tough birds that l noticed were tan. gling up matters pretty we'll, and my passengers thought SO too. One of them turned back and laughed. Oh, they weren't stalking me to any con. fidence. believe that they knew they would have time to roll away like millionaires, but they weren't going to let me muss up their game When started to stall with the motor, one of the wise boys waa next in a minute, and what he call ed me l don't care to repeat. They knew about automobiles alright Bang, got 1t on the side of the head. So finally, on second speed at a fifteen mile an hour clip, We went on out of Forty-third street just about as if we had been going uI Fifth avenue in the afternoon pretty slow"
 Shapiro then said that he had seen Jack Rose after the shooting standing near Sixth avenue. He also said that one of the men in the cal