The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-03
POLICE EXPECT TO
MAKE MORE ARRESTS
Detectives After Two More
Gangsters
BECKER is SILENT
Inspector Moss Will Look Deeply Into
Graft Charges-Attorney Whit
man Goes to Boston on
Trial Business

New York, August with Whitley
Lewis and "Dago" Frank Cirofci locked
In the Tombs as two of the four gun
mon who murdered Herman Rosenthal,
police headquarters professed tonight
to be expecting news at any moment
of the capture of "Gyp' the Blood
and Lefty Louie" the two of the gun
men still at large.
Lewis. who was arrested last night
at a resort near Kingston, n. Y, and
brought here today refused to admit
when examined by Deputy Police Com
missioner Dougherty that he had any
knowledge of the shooting and said
that on the day before the murder he
went out of town to visit relatives.
He. was very vague, however, as to Just
where these relatives lived. He was
held for further examination Tues
day.
That the two gunmen still missing
are In hiding in the same region where
Lewis was picked up was the belief
expressed at headquarters tonight and
it was a belief that detectives. still
searching the neighborhood are hot on
their trail. .-
1t was said by Assistant District At
torney Moss, however, that he had re-
ceiyed word from Auburn that the men
were hiding In or near that city and
1t is understood detectives from the
district attorneys office have been try
ing to run them down there for sew
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the case today in the absence of Dis
trict Attorney whitman, who left for
Boston early in the day, expecting later
to go TO Manchester, VT, to remain
over Sunday with his family. Direct
ing his attention to the police graft
phase OF the case, brought. into prom
inence by the allegence of Jack" Rose
and "Bridgiee Webber. that the annual
levy of blackmail by the police on
Illegal resorts amounted to $2,a00.000.
Mr.. Moss examined number of gam
blers and other characters OF the uD-
der world. The assistant prosecutor
would not tell. however, with what
Information obtained.
Graft Not Exaggerated
Il do not think the s2,4oooOo graft fig-
ures named by Jack Rose Is an exasger-
alton" said Mr.. Moss tonight, but the
only absolute knowledge OF how much
1t really would amount to is in posses
sion of grafters and not the grated
Just who the grafters are-where the
money Is goins-is the vital question.
The arrests of Whitley" Lewis and "Dago
Frank are less important than TO de-
termine who is responsible for the crime .
Mr.. Moss added that he expected To
go very, very deeply into the graft
fea ture of the case in tho course of the
grand jury investigation.
The grand jury did not meet today but
will resume its inquiry next week.
Police Lieutenant Becker, locked in the
Tombs, in charge Of several guards, is In
an attitude of silence today.
Statements made Immediately after the
murder of Herman Rosenthal that he
was practically penniless have been more
than confirmed by an examination of the
gamblers affairs by his brother-in-law,
Joseph zimmerman.
The brother-in-law declares that aside
from the furnishings of the Rosenthal
house, the murdered mans entire earthly
possessions were included in purse
which he carried and which contained
less than ts5 Rosenthal owed some t1
gamblers at the time of his death lost
In games OF chance. zimmerman gave this
Information. He said he lived high and
norman said he did not know the exact
figures.
Third Degree for Lewis
Jack Lewis. one of four men ac-
cused of shooting down Rosenthal, un-
derwent the third degree grilling. The
prosecutor aimed to CLEAN information
that would supply corroboration of the
confessions of Bald Jack" Rose. Harry
vallon and "Bridgie" Weber In which
they declared that Police Lieutenant
Becker sought the death of Rosenthal
Lewis. whose real name is Frank
seidenshue was picked up yesterday
on the station platform at Fleischmans
N Y, just as ne was about to take
train for the west. He was brought
here during tho night. The trip was
without incident until the train drew
into the Weehawken terminal. There
"a band of six or seven Eastside gang
sters leaped over the gate separating
the platform from the tracks and
started toward the train. Suddenly their
eyes fell upon several headquarters de-
tectives who had been sent across the
river and the gangsters skunk back
into the depot.
No move was made to rescue the pris-
oner. Lewis was lodged in jail to
await the arriva1 or Police Commission
ars Dorgherty and Waldo Lewis said
that he was or the verge of giving him
self to the police as he had heard the
police wanted him. He would not say
where he had been In concealment.
Lewis declared he could and would
prove an alibi. He asserted he was
| not in the city when Rosenthal was
shot to death but said he did not tell
where he was going to the gang.
Lewis would not say what he was doing
at Fieischman's, but reiterated his pre-
vios statement that he was stopping at a
| reputable place and with respectable peo-
pie.
Whitman in Boston
Boston, August 2-District Attorney
Whitman of New York spent few hours
here today, but the object of his visit,
his movements while here and his desti-
nation upon leaving were not disclosed.
| According to the clerks at the hotel at
| which Mr.. Whitman registered he saw no
representative of either the Boston police
or a private detective agency which Is
said to be assisting in the investigation
! OF the Rosenthal murder.
Mr.. Whitman left the hotel early in the