Evening star., 1928-11-22
FORMER ROTHSTE|N
GUARD IS SOUGHT
Wanted for Questioning Aft
er His Picture Is Identified
by Mrs. Reyes.
By the Associated Press.

| BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November %. - The
police announced today they were
searching for Jack Oegs) Diamond fol
questioning in connection with the
death of Arnold Rothstein, the gambler
He was once a bodyguard of Roth
STEMS.
No charge has been lodged against
Diamond. The police said Mrs. Ruth
Keyes Of Chicago identified Diamonds
picture in the rogue's gallery yesterday
as a man she had seen in the Park
Central Hotel shortly before the
| gambler was shot.
Once Gang Leader.
Diamond was once the leader of a
West Side gang. In 1925 he and three
others were arrested during a war be-
tween rival gangs, during which Albert
Levy was shot.
Diamond was with notorious gang
ster, Jack Orgen (Little Augie), when
the latter was killed in 1927. Diamond
himself was wounded in the gun bat
tie. He was arrested but released be-
cause of lack of evidence.
He was arrested last February in
connection with the fatal shooting of a
watchman in Brooklyn during an at
tempted fur robbery, but was again re-
leased
Inspector John B. Coughlin an
ak h0o 6ryYo V-f0 that
Diamond is not being sought as the
actual slayer
Mrs. Keyes partly identified the
photograph as that of man she had
seen with George McManus, gambler
| friend of Rothstein, in room of the
Park Central Hotel few hours before
| RothStein was shot there.
/ The police of Detroit, st. Louis and
/ Cleveland-known haunts of the sus-
| pect--were asked to join in the search
Mrs. Keyes. brought from Chicago as
a voluntary witness to aid the baffied
New York police, readily identified a
| photograph of McManus as that of the
! Mac" she met by chance on the third
| floor of the hotel the day Rothstein was
shot. The police had previously re-
| ferred to this man as Jack McManus
has not been found by the police.
introduced to Suspect.
About four hours before Rothstein
was lured into the room occupied by
| McManus she visited Mac" there, was
| introduced to the suspect and had sew
eral drinks, according to her story as
told by the police.
| The man she met in the room with
Mac" is described by police as pro-
| fessional gunman and gangster, who was
wounded less than year ago In an un-
derworld feud.
| A second gunman, police say, also was
present in the room when Rothsteln
was shot.
Due to Mrs. Keyes, the police had
| their first bright day in the investiga-
| ton. However, shadow was cast over
! it Ey Mrs. Ruth B. Pratt, Republican
member of the Board of Aldermen, who
recently was elected to Congress. She
wrote letter to Gov. Smith asking the
removal from Office of Police Commis-
sioner Warren, citing the Rothstein case
as evidence of "the shameful inefi-
cheney of the police and the demoralizeo
condition Of the department"
! Mrs. Pratt listed IS murders COM
| nnitted in New York since the first OF
the year which she said are unsolved.
| Hylan Hits Failure.
Former Mayor John F. Hylan, who Is
being doomed as an independent can
didate for mayor, declared in an address
at Brooklyn that failure Of the police tc
discover Rothstein's slayer raised tht
question of why big gamblers, which hi
said were suppressed during his admin
istration, were permitted to operate.
UNLESS RothesteinS slayer is appre'
hended," he says, 1.-The underworld in
terests will grow bolder and bolder II
their manipulations through Influential
channels, and others will meet th'
same fate that Rothstein met. The tim'
has arrived for honest people to bant
together and drive from power the un
derworld interests and their politica
allies"
The Better City Government League !
sponsoring Hylan's campaign. James j
Morgan, head OF firm Of chain drul
stores, is chairman of the league.