New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-08
Mrs. Lefty Louie" Rosen-
berg Says East Side Does
Not Make Bad Men.
BIG PEOPLE DO
THE MOST HARM
French Doll" of Becker Trial Is
Sure There's More Wicked
ness on Fifth Av.
Ry FLEANOR BOOTH SIMMONS.

She opened her brown eyes with the
most innocent, ingenious look, repeat
ing my questions thoughtfully, in a
chldlike sort Of voice.
DO / believe that there are gangs
of gunner, men who will kill people
for money? No; if there are such
things. don't know, of them. ] never
did know of them. / can't believe that
anybody would kill a man for money.
A fellow might kill somebody because
he was mad or for revenge, but not
for money. I've heard people say that
there were such gangs. but i never sa"
anything that made me think so.
Who was this girl? Mrs Lefty
Louie" Rosenberg, widow Of one Of the
four gunner executed at Sing Sing
last April for the murder of Herman
Rosenthal, gambler Then she was
called the French doll
Busy in Dressmaking Shop.
She is doll-like still. She has changed
little since the day she went upon the
stand to be cross-eXamined by the law
yers excent to become a tritie heavier.
She appeared a very plump doll, m
deed. when ! found her yesterday IN
the little dressmaking shop her mother
Mrs. Lieben, runs on Grand 81:
Nine. Lieben" is printed in crooked
letters on the board at the door, but
the name lis the only touch OF style
about the establishment. II IS com
monplace and shabby shop, and Nine
Lieben is much like her daughter, only
not nearly so well groomed. MIS-.
Rosenberg wore white SILK shlrI
waist and a brown skirt. Her molasses
colored hair was deliberately dressed
and fringed upon her forehead.
She was busy getting supper IN the
kitchen, and her mother was sewing
i'm the front room. Her small DrotheI
/ rad lust come in with a veil she had
een+ him 70 buy for wearing TO party
+ that night The atmosphere was as
neaceful as if crime had never en-
,ered the world. And hearing Mrs.
/ Rosenberg talk one could hardly be
/ Iieve II ever had. No carefully brought
mn Fifth av. girl could nave SHOWN
more inter ignorance OF wickedneSs.
oYou know" ] told her, that eN-
Jnspector Dooley declares the Eas'
Side gangs still exist and are ready 10
81 didn't know it," She said Il don
road about those things. When take
nm newspaper ! like 20 read aDOu'
the pleasant things. the NICE thlngS'
amt the newspapers DO say ms :
told her "Ard ] came TO ask you j
YOU think it is true ,,.
She looked ut me in puzzieu va W.
"What makes YOU come 10 me ~
asked. "What could ! know about sue.
things II isn't the East Sloe tna Una.
would make gangs. mere lsI -
more wickedness In the East sue '""''
there is on Fifth av.
Blames Rich for Wickedness'
OF is the people like that, the tlen
roo,lo the. big people, that 90 tne
49, harm. | have lived here on inc
Fsst Side all nay life. but II there is .
LOT Of badness here, gangs ana Suon'
have never seen them. ] nave hS"iu
peonle talk about gangs, Dut uOH
/ know what they mean. ., ".ha,
"Don,t YOU think" ! ventured, thas
,ho crowded streets make people bad
When there are so many together ~, .!i'
boJ neople mix with the good. ChH-
dren hive 20 play on the streets pc
cause there is no other place ioi
she twisted a ring on the thlrd
finger Of her left hand, looking o9t o.
the window over the motley cro"uS w
I the street. IL. ,oorlo
had" she said. "The badness IS III
them when they act wrong. why
should anybody think that because $, 4, a
great many people live together they
are wicked? ! have lived where tn mere
are a great many people all my, NE.
/ don't think IL makes them DO things
they hadn't ought 20 do. II there Is q
gang in this world | don't know IT,
don't believe the newspapers 90
either"
Mutual Friend to Her Aid.
Presently d nice looking young man