Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-16

| Harry Nalion were his passengers
when he drove to the Metropole hotel
Saw the Shooting.
John j. 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
man named Beau Brown Joined us.
Then Rosenthal Went out to the street
to get some papers and | and Walker
went with him. Rosenthal gave me a
paper and while | was standing on
the curb looking at the headlines /
heard a shot. | looked up and saw a
man with gun in his hand The man
had a cap on.over his eyes. | saw his
nose and chin. 1t was a long sharp
chin, and a straight nose. He was
about 5 feet or o. 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
Rosenthal?" asked Mr.. Wahle. indi-
eating the defendants None of them
was, said the witness.
Hickey said. on eross-examination,
that four men fired at Rosenthal, but
that he did not see the faces of the
three others. He said he had known
Rose. Weber and WALTON for more
than year. but did not recognize
them as the men who fired, although
they were only about two feet away
from him at the time.
Did you do anything to stop these
men," asked Mr.. Moss. 'No, | would
not take a chance
Hickey admitted that he had done 'ab-
solutely nothing either to get the muir
derers or to help Rosenthal
WAS it because you knew in your
heart who those men were and if you'd
run after them you'd been catching your
own friends?" mo, sir.
He denied acquaintance with any of
the gunner.
can you say" interrupted Justice
Golf. whether any three of these de-
PENDANTS We're the men who you say
did the shooting or did not?" Il can
not.
Defendants Not There.
Pat Whalen, eabman, the next
witness, said he saw the murder from
his cab.
i heard a, shot" he said, land saw q
man standing on the sidewalk near the
body of Herman Rosenthal. / saw hun
running toward a building along the
nortn side OF 4Sd street" /
Was any of these four defendants the
man you saw running from the body?'i
mo, sir, not one replied the witness.
Rose Sherry was called in an attempt
to prove that Giovanni Stanish could not
have been an eye witness OF the murder.
The woman said that she had rented
room in her apartments to Stanish and
swore that he had entered the room at
o'clock. an hour before the murder
Her rooms were on 43d street, near the
Metropolis She said she heard the shots
ran TO the front door and saw stanish
still In his room at the time.
Recess was then taken.
Afternoon Session.
John Reisler, who has been known in
the case as John the Barber" was the
first witness at the afternoon session. He
testified to seeing Bridge Webber at
4Sd street and Broadway. near the Ho-
| tel Metropole, just after the murder.
What did you see Weber doing?''
y saw him running away" said the
| witness.
Mrs Mary Ellen Kydd, who said she
sold papers on the street near the Met
ropole. testified that She saw four men
: standing in front of theatre adjoining
, the hotel shortly before the murder She