Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-11-15
DAGOFRANK TELLS
Jury HIS AL|B|
Last of Four Gunner Accused
of RosenthaI Shooting
Takes Stand.

bottle of beer, and in about twenty
FIVE minutes Bridge went down
stairs and came back with 'Gyp,
Louie and Whitley"
ITO the boys" the witness said,
Rose repeated the tale OF his inno-
cence in the "frame-up." Soon the
mysterious Stranger entered, and
after having gone out and returned,
said hat Rose wanted them to go to
the Metropole to meet White and
Steiner, the (Becker's) men, who
would prove that Rose was guilt
less of the frame-up. Frank s descrip-
ton n the stranger agreed with that
given yesterday by the other three
defendants.
But I wanted to go home to see
my girl, who was sick" went on the
witness. Besides. 1 figured they
would be BOOKING it all night. So I
went home"
He denied that he had ever been in
the Metropole or knew anything
about the shooting until the next day.
Likewise he denied participation in
the alleged attempt to kill Rosenthal
at the Garden restaurant. Further,
he denied that Jack Rose in his pres
ence had paid Lefty Louie" LOCO
as the murder fee"
"Gyp," "Whitey'' and Lefty came
to the fiat the next morning, he said,
and told him of the shooting. laying
it to Weber, Vallon and the strange
man.
The witness, strengthening his
alibi. told Of his movements after
having left the three the night be-
fore. He had not found his girl at
home. She had been arrested for
lettering and he had obtained bail
for her.
Frank asserted in his testimony
that the evidence of Giovanni Stanish
in the Becker trial had been mis-
quoted by the interpreter, Stanish
speaking only Italian, which is
Franks mother tongue.
Frank swore today that instead of
Identifying him as one of the men
who did the shooting, Stanish said:
II am in doubt about this man." in
dicatine Frank. The latter credited
a similar statement to Stanish in the
district attorneys office.
Here the eross-examination was
taken up, n before Frank was ex-
cused Justice Golf took a hand in the
questioning, asking him about his
movements after he left his three
companions downtown. Q
Hartford T. Marshall, a lawyer.
testified that William Shapiro, driver
of the so-called murder car, had told
him in the Tombs that Sam Schepps
and Harry WALTON were his pas
sengers when he drove to the Metro
pole.
Deputy Police Commissioner Dough-
erty. introduced to co%rroborate Mar
shall, was not permitted by Justice
Golf to do so.
John ]. Hickey, a bartender, told
OF meeting Rosenthal on the night
of the murder, with Boob" Walker,
and of going to the Metropole, where
the three took a table in the dining
room. "Rosenthal got up and spoke
to a man named O'Day," continued
the witness; "then he came back
and stayed three-quarters of an
hour.
"A lhdA AaAAAO0 DCdA IiONh |
joined us. Then Rosenthal went out
to the street to get some papers. and
l and Walker went with him. Rosen-
thai gave me a paper. and while /
was standing on the curb looking at
the headlines 1 heard a shot. l
looked up and saw a man with a
gun in his hand. The mar had a cap
on, yer his eyes. I saw his nose
and chin. 1t was a long sharp chin
and a straight nose. He was about
5 feet s or 9 inches and weighed
about 100 or 10 pounds"
This description fitted that of the
mysterious stranger as given by the
gunner"
WAS either of these four men the
man you saw shooting at Herman
Ro~senthal?" asked Mr.. Wahle. indi-
eating the defendants.
None of them was" said the wit
ness.