The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-02
ROTHSTEIN QUITS AS
KING OF GAMBLERS
Coupling His Name with Base
ball Scandal Is Too Much
of a Shock.
RESENTS BEING A PARIAH
Man Who at 35 Amassed 3d.
100000 to St,000,000 at
Games of Chance Is Sad.


blush when he is spoken of as the King
Of American Gamblers, made known yes
terday through some of his courtiers his
nnrpose 10 surrender his crown and TO
retire permanently from the pursuit OF
that lucrative though exacting profess
sion.
Mr.. Rothstein shrinks from the shock
ha has suffered in consequence OF the
free use of his name Of late in connection
with the worlds series baseball seandai
IF 1919 1t is a distinction which, ne
says, he does not deserve.
From now on" the retiring monarch
ras quoted as having said. 81 shall de-
yote most OF my time and attention TO
my racing stable and to the real estate
business. 1t is not pleasant to be what
some call "A social outcast.' and for the
sake of my family and my friends am
ad the chapter is closed"
Rothstein, his friends say hos
amassed a competence which entities
him to the luxury of retirement from
the exacting duties Of a professional!
gambler whenever he may crave rest
His pecuniary accumulations. as a re-
suit of strict attention to his speciaitIes,
an eye alert to the main chance and an
interchangeable industry, amounts, fellow
gamblers aver. to between 100000 and
100000 In addition to that. though
he is only So years old--an age when
many young men less well adapted per-
haps to their skilled trades are only
just getting Notwithstanding name
is known from coast to coast-and II
has not yet been inscribed on the roster
of any penal institution.
Fast Horses in His stable.
He is the owner of the Redstone Stable
OF race horses and has in his string
some speedy ones. including Gladiator.
Neddam, Sporting Blood and Billy Nc
Leughlin. Among his human friends
and associates. too, he has numbered
many who were not accounted slow-as,
for instance, Bridge" Weber, Harry
WALTON. Sam Paul and Jack Rose. whose
names were often In print in connection
with the gamblers conspiracy that re-
suited in the murder OF Herman Rosen-
thai and the death in the chair of Police
Lieutenant Becker. For fifteen years
Rothstein has conducted gambing
houses with distinction, and seemingly
with more or less immunity from annoy
ance, in New York city. Saratoga and
Long Beach besides running his racing
stable and having an interest in a track
or two
Abe Attell, at one time featherweight
ring champion, whose name also has
been used quite carelessly IN connection
with the baseball scandal has Ions
shared with Joseph "Curley' Bennett the
honor of standing close % the throne oi
the King of Gamblers Indeed. since IL,
Herman Rosenthal assassination, Attel
has been so close to the person OF the
monarch that he has been credited gen
orally with being the bodyguard of thai
nersonage. 1t was Attell, the one tim,
pugilist who few days ago threatened
TO crack open" the whole inside story
of baseball fixing" in a manner thai
would astonish all that had NOT shared
in the swag.
Attell and also "Curley" Bennett hav,
made IL their proud boast that such 1.
the power of their sovereign. Roths Elm
and so fully have they basked in hi.
favor that none has ever dSred to prose.
cute them. Bennett was tried once o.
white slave charge. but when the trla
came on the principal witness, yodne
girl, had a lapse of memory on the wit
ness stand She said in her previou.
deposition, however. that Bennett hat
boasted:
II have the biggest gambler in thc
! country behind me; he is Arnold Roth
stein lie can get me out Of everything.
Has Ret 100000 on One Race.
Rothstein had become known as on,
cf the greatest plungers on the Amer
ican turf. He has been known to plac,
as much as 100000 on a single horse
| His gambling establishments in IN,
Tenderloin flourished like the green ba,
tree until Police Inspector Dominica
Fenry was indicted and subsequent,
convicted. Since then fortune has beer
| less kind.
This merry monarch OF Dame For
tunes realm came into the police spot
light on January 10. 1919. Word ha,
Lonc out TO stand for a pinch" an
Dominic Henry and seven OF his detec
tives raided game In West Fifty
seventh street where a fat had bee
| hired for the night--a favorite devic
4
shorn neatly and quietly and II Is no
Desirable for the shearers to reveal thei
/ regular "hang-out" In the event OF In
,amb bleating aftcrward.
Az the detectives rushed the doorwa,
they were met with barrage OF pIsto
shots and two OF them were slighti
wounded. Rothstein himself IN his ca
took one Of the wounded "bulls' 10 tn
| hospital.
Rothstein was indicted twice. once Il
the case of each wounded victim. III
defence was that he thought holdu
men had broken in upon the gIune. as II
| twice before had been the victim OF sue
| holdups. and In consequence Had oh
| tanned permit TO pack" revolver
When the case came 10 trial the woundc
| detectives memories had been much i'm
paired The gambler escaped conviction
and the Indictments subsequently wer
dismissed by Judge Mcintyre OF III
General Sessions Court OH the groun
that there was not sufficient evidence {
| convict
The Almirali special Grand Jury late
Investigated charges that II had cos
| Rothstein $4,000 to square things.
that sum being split among 1nspecto
| Henry. an official IN the office OF IN
| District Attorney and an editor OF
morning newspaper. who had been a fire.
duent companion OF Rothstein at Ia
race tracks. Nothing came OF this ex
cept an exchange Of letters betwee
Mayor Hylan and Commissioner len
right The Grand Jury found no basI
for the accusations.
Buys Fine Place Near Saratoga.
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