The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-18

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 ed by Police Lieutenant Wilbur charg- Iing him with complicity in the mur- der sof Rosenthal. He was represent ed by Attorney James F. Sullivan and made no statement to the coroner.
 It was intimated at the district att torney,s office that Rose had made a carefully guarded statement to Dis trict Attorney Whitman which satis- fled the prosecutor For the first time since the murder Whitman said after Rose had been locked up that he believed all of the facts in con nection with the murder would be known to the authorities within a few hours.
 It was admitted at Whitman's~ of flee that he has engaged a detective agency to investigate the gambling situation independently of what the police may have found out
 After Rose had been locked up Deputy Commissioner Dougherty and Inspector Hughes said that they ex- pected additional arrests would be made very soon.
 Aaron J. Levy, attorney for Shapiro. who drove the murder car,J told the district attorney, today, that while the shooting was going on Shapiro was working with his motor His |rcient, Levy said, was afraid to run away and, knowing there were plenty |iof police in the neighborhoed, was "stalIingi so that the men could be caught.
 One of the men in the car Levy said Shapiro told" him. ordered him ting him in the forehead at the same time
 This murderer told my client, :, said Levy, Ito get away in a hurry. l The cops are all fixed and knew what vas Delag pulied eif. he teld him, | aHq everything has been arranged sSs9 sSF ,fo slsas gataay s so se. gasy a with ! then nothing for shapiro to do but leave the eighborhood.,'
 After Rose had 1been taken to the district attQrney's' office, Lieutenant Becker was summoned to the city hall~ and Mayor Gaynor interrogated
 him at length. It was not divuiged just what was said between the mayor and the police officer.
 | Shortly afterWard, Commissioner Waldo was sent for by Mayor Gay nor to, discuss the case. After his conference at the city hall, the com missioner suspended Policeman Will, liam File, who was in the Hotel Metropole eating his lunch when
 Rosenthal was killed. It has been l alleged that File made several con flicting statements regarding his movements following the shooting. Waldo stated that he was suspended
 pending an iryestigation of his ac- The reason for the presence of Becker in the mayors office was shown when the following letter which Mayor Gaynor had sent to Po- lice Commissioner Waldo dealing with the situation was made public:
 Please have Lieutenant Becker, Policemen James White, Charles Foy iyh hor After the. precautions. we have taken and all we have devised and done to do away with the long seated and deep seated grating in the police de- pertinent, it is very discouraging to have even these Rosenthal accusations panaied about. To be sure, Inc was | a miserable outlaw against wi1 om veu and your predecessors have been con tinually- contending, but I would have the respect for the police raised so high that the accusations Of such a character would not be extensively credited. His, successive places have been entered by the police under war rants. and held possession for over two years. And I now see that he was at. war with the police and MT. Jerome before became Mayor. -1- -,t.-.', But he grew more defiant and vim dictive all of the while Those who killed him will be found, no doubt, and their motive disclosed. But ne died as he had lived, having been a lawiess character and having Dribed police from his youth up. do not see how Lieutenant Becker could sit down to dinner with such a scoundreL That he did seems to be admitted. When Rosenthal made his accusations against. your predecessor and his ;1ep- Iuty, MT. Driscoll, I fully investigated the matter and failed to find any wrong on the. side of the commissioner or the deputy That the depu-y lost his place on the ground of this com plaint is false. On the contrary I found that Rosenthal and his asso- ciates who called on me were the worst gang of men that had ever seen. This is why am so greatly surprised that Lieutenant Becker should sit down to dinner with any of them or associate with them in any way.'