Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-22
$4,000 Reward for
Missing Gnnmen.

New York, Aug. 21.-Charging that
some members" of the New York
police department knowingly permit
ted the escape of @Gyp the Blood and
I Lefty Louie" the missing gunner
indicted for the murder of Herman
Rosenthal. District Attorney Whit
man, tonight. announced the offer of
reward of $4,000 for the capture of
the fugitives, who have now been at
large one month and five days. The
prosecutor in formal statement
said:
Il am now in a position to offer q
reward of $4,000 for the apprehension
of Louis Rosenberg or Rosenweig,
alias Lefty Louie and Harry Horo-
WITT. alias 'Gyp the Blood. or $25oG
for the apprehension of either This
reward is. not offered to any member
of the police department of the City
of New York or anybody in the en-
ploy of the police department. and it
will not be paid any such member or
to any of the police departments en-
ployes.
ain taking this position | am ac-
tuated by no feeling of unkindness
toward the police department, but it
is my belief that if proper police work
had been done these men would now
be in custody The City of New York
is paying millions of dollars annual
" to the police department, whose
duty it is to detect crime and appre-
hend criminals and / cannot escape
the conclusion that some. members OF
the police department have known, IL
they do not now know, the where
abouts of these murderers,,'
The generosity of private citizens
made it possible for the district at
torney TO offer the reward, which Will
nrobably be announced in circulars to
be sent broadcast throughout the
country.
one of the district attorneys reasons
for suspecting that the police have al
lowed the two gunnien to escape was
Indicated, tonight, when it became
known that Sam Sehepps in his testi-
monv before the grand jury, yesterday,
said that three detectives from New
York police headquarters mad recog-
nized him while he was hiding IN
| Fallsburg, n. Y, and had deliberately
allowed him to escape. These detec-
tives were three of the five sent to the
region to arrest him on the charge OF
murder which the police had made
against him.
Schepps told the jury, it is under
stood, that he and the detectives knew
each other we'll and they had accept
ed his facetious declaration that he
was mir smith," with mock apollo
gies for disturbing him and allowed
him to go his way. Schepps was then
living at case in a summer hotel. "Gya
the Blood" and Lefty Louie" Were
believed at the time to have been IN
the same vicinity, where they are
thought to have fled after the murder.
Further details of Sehepps' tetsti-
mony involving Police Lieutenant
Becker. the accused instigator of the
murder, were learned. today Schepps,
| while acting as a go-between for Rose
and Becker, swore that he had fire.
auently stopped at the police lieuten-
ants house and narrated conversations
| he had with Becker which the district
attorney believes point to Becker's al
| legged determination to get rid of Ro-
| senthal. on one occasion the witness
| said, Becker said to him while he was
talking With him in the lieutenant
| parlor:
Don't strike match Sam. You're
| being watched and somebody might see
| you from the outside"
| on another occasion Schepps de-
clared that Becker, in speaking OF