New-York tribune., 1920-07-05
Cabins Accused
Slayer Said to
Have Confessed
''Handsome Charley" Ro-
shore, Brought Back From
Iowa, Killed Spaniard for
His Money, Police Say
w Was DamnFool, His View
Prisoner Tells Emoiionless
Story ofHowH He Murdered
Friend. Officers Declare

"Handsomc Charley" Roshore, still
clad in the tight-htting green suit and
gaudy habcrdashery, whose price is
said to have been murder, was brought
back to this city yesterday from Iowa
to answer a charge of killing his friend
Manuel Cabin, a prosperous Spanish
restaurateur, who was shot June o.
According to the police. the prisoner
has admitted killing Cabin. He was
locked up. at Headquarters.
Detectives Campbell and Scnff, who
trailed Roshore almost half way across
the continent and caught him as he was
about to take train for the Pacific
Coast took him at once to the Office
of Captain Carey, mead OF the homicide
bureau at Headquarters where Assist
ant District Attorney Hennts examined
him.
"Handsomc Charley" carefully laid
his new straw hat with its green band
on the~policc captains desk, seated him
self daintily, hitching up his razor
edged trousers so as to show not only
his patent feathers with the cloth tops.
put also his socks OF green silk, ad-
Justed mis- yellow dotted green tie so
that his white silk shirt displayed it's
opulcncc, and remarked, according to the
account OF the interview given by
Captain Carey and Mr.. Hennrs:
was damn fool for thinking |
could pull this off and get away with It. !"
Say Charley Needed Money
That was the introduction, the police
and prosecutor said, to an account of
the murder that was as emotionless as
the deed itself. The burden of the
story was that "Handsome Charlev"
needed money and happened to share
'he ped OF man who had plenty on
night wnen Charley had q loaded
revolver
l. did not matter TO "Handsome
Charley" his hearers gathered. that
the stocky Spaniard had been his
TREND and business partner, that they
drank together, laughed at each others
stores and that Cabin not only had
given his friend shelter for the night
but had invited him as a mark of
77o Washington Street. which he was
rcdecorating for his bride The fact
was that Charley needed money.
Cabin bad owed him $500 ever since
they had liquidatcd Il joint saloon
business in Hoboken on basis un
satisfactory to Charley. But that was
not, what inspired the wasp-waisted,
blondpompadoured youth to feign
sleep until his friend was breathing
heavily.
"Handsomc Charley" dropped into
pretended slumbcr. according to the
story he is said to have told, simply
because he needed money and that
seemed the first step in short cut
to money and diamonds. The diamonds
Charley had seen $4,000 worth of
them set in rings and pins which Cabin
laid out carelessly on the bureau as
he removed his outer clothing pre-
paratory to tumbling into bed.
$1,000 Meant Riches
AS to the money. Charley knew
that Cabin seldom carried less than
81 900 in his trousers pocket. Az that
moment 81, 900 was riches to "Hand-
some Charley" He was an expert
dancer, but hadn't had an engagement
for weeks; he fancied his judgment at
the track. but the horses hadn't been
running according TO form; he could
do a days work i'll a cigarette factory,
but there was a strike; he had sub
sisted at times on the earnings and
perquisites of a theater usher, but re-
garded it as beneath profess onal
dancers dignity.
SO "Handsomc Charley" lay silent
with his eyes closed until the stcrtor