Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-07-17

WINGED me that ne was afraid some
thing was to happen to him. / know
that one of the men in the car was a
policeman"
Mrs. Rosenthal, wife of the gambler,
was driven almost frantic when a
messenger went to the Rosenthai home
tc tell her that her husband had been
Slain.
"1'his is the police again" she ex-
claimed. ut is just what / expected. 1
staid up, fearing that Herman would
rot get back SAFE
District attorney Whitman was noti-
FED of the murder within a few min
utes and half hour later had OPEN
ed mis- offices and was proceeding With
staff of stenographers and assist
ants to the 37th street police station.
He began his investigation of the muir
der there at $50 o'clock. There We're
several witnesses ready to talk to the
district attorney, but none OF them
appeared to have any very definite in
formation to give. Their descriptions
of the gamblers ASSISTANTS We're
meagre and did not agree in details
Three persons had noticed the num-
Der of the ear, but each remembered
it differently.
Deputy Police Commissioner Dough-
erty said, this morning:
"Tbe car used was No. al ,313 n. Y. 1t
was bought by Louis Libby, last Oe-
tobar. He promised to pay $500 for IT,
had paid $50 0and was still PAYNE
on it
ut had been positively identified as
the car used by the assassins and Lib
by has been positively identified as
the chauffeur and as one of the men
who fired at RosenthaL The arrest was
made by Detectives Lennon and Mar
rer of Acting Captain Gloster's staff
The car was found in the garage or
South Washington square.
.eThe charge against the prisoner is
homicide. The garage is the same in
which was found the taxi used by
Montani in the $4,000 taxi robbery. Al
this time this is all I can afford te
say"
Police Lieutenant Becker Joined Dis
triot Attorney Whitman at cnce wher
he heard of the murder. He said,
1T is regrettable. I know of no mo-
tive. / haven't seen Rosenthal for q
week. and then I met him casually"
The police learned that Rosentha
talked with friends about the degree
of safety in which he moved about
since he brought. charges against tn,
police.
I've been threatened" Rosentha
was quoted as saying. "but l dom
care hang for anybody. I'm going t.
stay right here, and face the thing
1tatf saln hi hi
level with me and I'm going to sticl
and get justice. Common justice. that
all l ask, and I'm going to get it,
Lieutenant Becker said later:
1T ought to be needless for me t.
say think I ought not to be asked
to say--that / know absolutely NOTHING
about the crime, who perpetrated il
what the motive, or what end is to be
gained by it. / want to say now that
l have said this much and perhaps
am violating rule of the department
by so saying. that it was to my hes!
and only advantage that Rosentha'
should have been permitted to live
right on for many years. if not for q
few more days only. / bore this man
no malice He set himself up as my
enemy. l have explained every move
made with this man to the satisfae-
ton of my superiors.
The mortgage is very easily ex.
planned. As look on 1t now, in thres
more days the whole thing would have
been off l calculated that in three
days at the outside, the last suspicion
would be lifted from the police depart
ment by documentary, legal evidence
before the proper authorities"
Up to a late hour, tonight, there hat
been no further arrests in connection
with the murder, although it wa
known that & detachment of deteetive
had left headquarters in apparent con
ndence that they would soon place
their hands on other alleged partici
pants in the crime.
District Attorney Whitman as a re
suit OF his Investigations. today, de
claled emphatically. tonight, his be
lief that gamblers were not wholly re
sponsble for the murder. The distric
attorney was not sparing in his crit
icisms Of the police in certain develop
ments of the case. After interogatini
several patrGlmen, who We're in the vi
entity at the time of the shooting MI
Whitman said.
ut is 81 curious circumstance tina
fou patrolmen standing within 600 fee
OF the scene of the shooting. all faile'
to give corroborative accounts of TIN
MURDER