The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1913-08-21


bors with the Curran aldermaDic COM
mittee, which grew out of the first
revelations made. and more than one
! other young man owe enhanced repu-
tation and nation wide prominence to
the number 41313 n Y.
The One Clew.
| 1t is not fancy or Imagination that
ascribes so much to the fortunate cir
cumstances of an automobile number
murderers did not trouble to remove or
to falsify. The crime and the fight
were so cunningly planned by experts
in assassination that 1t is doubtful If
the gun men ever would have been
identified or Becker, their employer.
exposed had not they been guilty of
unbelievable stupidity in a trivial mat
ter District Attorney Whitman has
said more than once that the case
would have been hopeless If the car
number had not been obtained.
The whole work of a year was based
on that. If the number had been lost
there would have been no arrests hot
after the murder: no confessions by
Rose and Weber and yallon and
Schepps: no conviction of Lieutenant
Becker and of the gun men: no Curran
committee revelations. with the conse-
quent convictions of Inspectors Swee-
ney. Hussey. Murtha and Thompson
and of their tools and collectors: no
probing of the relations between
treacherous policemen and their vile
business partners; no such awakening
of public conscience and spirit as fore
ed effectual betterment and instigated
series OF confessions.
Rosenthal himself. an unpleasant
specimen of an unpleasant class. al
ways u trouble maker and Il "squealer."
always snarling and clawing at the
police and his own kind. was hardly to
be believed when he made an affidavit
on Saturday. July ID. 1912, that Lieu
tenant Charles Becker, the strong arm
squad celebrity. was his gambling
partner and promised to reveal to the
grand jury the secret relations of po-
lice crooks with the protected gam
blers
RosenthaFs Revelations.
Whitman rather shook his head over
the credibility of this east side gam
bier transplanted to the Tenderloin.
In the line of duty. but not hoping for
much. he directed Rosenthal to appear
on Tuesday. July Is. to give the names
of gamblers who could clinch the ac-
cusations against Lieutenant Becker
and other policemen. On Sunday and
Monday Rosenthals story swept over
the city. Most people. perhaps. doutt-
ed its truth. A few believed it and
predicted for Rosenthal sudden and
unhappy death. In gambling houses
and saloons patroniZed by gamblers
some who had reason to know Becker
whispered that he would certainly kill
the squealer.
On the night of Monday. July 10. |
1912. Rosenthal took supper In Consi- |
dimes Metropolis in Forty third street |
Just west of Broadway. and nervously |
detailed his troubles with Becker and |
his plans for getting even to half a |
dozen half bored and cynical frequent
ers of the cafe. He was there until |
shortly before o'clock on Tuesday |
when he was told that some
body wanted to speak to him outside.
He walked out and was shot to death
as he stepped over the threshold. 1t
was exactly 81 a. m.
A little was revealed then and much
later as to how a gray car had stopped
by the south curb across from the
cafe. how four men lounged across
the street and waited by the door. how
the street was unguarded by police
men. how the four rapidly slew Rosen-
thai and then escaped in the gray car
going east through Forty-third street
There was no policeman TO block the
light. No policeman secured accurate
V the number of the automobile. There
was nothing but laundering confusion
until the district attorney appeared at
he West Forty-seventh street station.
obtained the release of vaudeville
lancer who had been locked up as a
vituess and from him secured the cor
ect number Abb y. Y.
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