The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1918-04-03
QUESTION WOMAN,
.ROTHENBERG'S ALLEGED
FRIEND, ABOUT COHEN
Continued from First PaSe.)

out OF proportion 10 It's profts. But
the strongest reason was that what
he got by burglary he was losing in
gambling. This determined him TO
get on the inside of the gambling
game himself and get even.
SAYS COHEN LOST $3.50 IN
HOTEL GAME.
He was not welcomed 10 the circles
OF professional gamblers. He told me
that they deliberately trimmed him
Of $3.50 In a certain hotel and then
boasted TO him that tho game had
been crooked. A mans frst duty,
Cohen told me, is 20 protect himself
And that was the explanation he gave
for turning states witness.
The first thing he did was TO give
me information which used in get
ting four convictions in tho case OF
the Central Merchants Club. In that
case we had tho minute books OF ex-
ecutive meetings OF the club. books
prepared 10 serve as an alibi in case
OF a raid. Only three men had known
where these books were kept"
SAYS CASE 10 STRENGTHENED
BY NEW EVIDENCE.
Mr.. Smith said the case against
Rothenberg had been strengthened
over night by new evidence.
Through underworld sources which
I don't want 10 reveal now" eaid the
Prosecutor. I'VE have corroborated
the story OF tho negro elevator boy
Joseph Edney. who yesterday identi.
fled Rothenberg as the slayer"
Did two men see the shooting? 2"
Mr.. Smith was asked.
Il don't want TO say anything more
than that we have corroborated the
Identification" he replied.
The opening volley IN a defense OF
Rothenberg was hred to-day by the
defendants counsel, Louis FridiEer
who saId lie would demand an early
hearing.
THE so-called Identification OF
Rothenberg by the negro elevator
operator, Edney, 10 all buncombe,' d
said FridIger. Tho District Attor.
noys office Is just trying TO advertise
its gambling crusade. They're hold
ing my client merely because they
think he knows some persons who
are concerned and because they think
he knows who committed tho crime
They have been giving Rothenberg
the thrd degree, and before he had
the benefit Of counsel they induced
him 70 consent 10 postponement OF
his case until Monday, although on a
short affidavit the defendant has the
/ right to a hearing within forty-elght
| hours after his arrest. am prepaT-
Ing papers 20 fight that action aud
get an immediate hearing ! have
| already advised my client not 20 sub
nit 20 any more third degree
methods lie will tell his story IN
court and not before"
Held without bail in tho West
Side Court. Rothenberg insists he
knows nothing about the murder
II Is known a woman calling herself
sister OF Cohen had gone 10 the
| Fourth Branch Detective Bureau ana
asserted sho knew who killed her
/ brother.
Il know who killed him" she tear
| fully declared. lie was always threat
oHing 10 XII Harry II he married Dor
| |ohy."
The woman then gave the name Of
| Cohen's enemy,
Mr., Smith tlid he took no stock In
the theory that Cohen was murdual
because Of hs marriage II that had
been the motive, he pointed out. mo
slayer might have acted scNtraI years
ago. Central once detectives. how.
ever persisted I'm tho belief that thcr,
, 10 woman Implicated In tn,
shooting,
There has been introduced into the