The evening world. Newspaper, July 17, 1912, Page 2

THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1912.% DISTRICT- ATTORNEY DECLARES POLICE WERE CARELESS te the ih wiehdveerd of Rosenthal by Libby and Shapiro was an automobile she had seen in front of Lteut. Charles Becker's hame in Washington Heights between 6 and 10 o'clock Monday evening before the murder. It was learned that she had sworn that a machine she saw in front of Becker's home was similar to the gray car which the murderers weed and which ahe had in- spected before going into the Grand Jury room—also that the last numbers of the Hcense tag on the machine she observed were “813,” the eame as on the “murder” car. The effect of the young woman's testimony was discounted by the fact that Becker, in his raiding expeditions and for his private use, often nses acar which has the same outside coloring as the Libby and Shapiro car. But the facings of hfs car are blue and the facings of the other car are white. “why, the woman fiust be crazy,” said Deputy Commissioner Dougher- ty. “There are at least eight, perhaps ten, witnesses, who have sworn that Libby's car was in the Washington Square garage all evening until 11 o'clock Monday night, We have not been asleep on that thing, you know.” LIBBY AND SHAPIRO HELD FOR HOMICIDE. Libby and Shapiro were held without ball on @ charge of homicide by Coroner Feinberg this afternoon and remanded to the Tombs for a hearing Monday. The District-Attorney and Deputy Commissioner Dougherty wanted them sent back to Police Headquarters, but their lawyer, Aaron Lavy, objected and won his point. They were followed through the streeta to the Tombs door by a surging crowd of thousands, “Bridgie” Webber, who was arrested yesterday and has been under eamination by high police offictals until late this afternoon was allowed to go under $100 Dail to appear as a wftness. His lawyer told the Coroner that he would produce Webber at any time and that Webber would gladly co-operate with the authorities, Mr. Whitman sald the promise from Mr. Marshall was satisfactory and consented to the low bail. Robert H. Hebbard of Hebtard & Lesinsky, the lawyers who ar- ranged the $1,500 mortgage on which, according to Rosenthal's affidavit, he borrowed the sum-from Lieut, Charles Becker, and his partner, were vefore District-Attorney Whitman for an hour. In Whitman's hand, as he questioned them, was the record of the satisfaction of the mortgage which was supplied by County Clerk Schneider under subpoena, Hebbard came out of the District-Attorney’s office flustered and wiping perspiration from his face. At first he refused to tell what he had told the Distriot-Attorney; t he eaid that one Jacob Rose had come to him and had asked him to arrange a chattel mortgage under some other name than his own. Asked if this was the “Jack Rose” who was once a friend of Rosen- thal, later a friend of both Rosenthal and Becker and more iately an enemy of Rosenthal, though still friendly with Becker, Hebbard said that it was the same man. “Some time later,” Hebbard sald, ‘Rose came ¢o me and sald that he had quarrelled with Rosenthal and that inasmuch as Rosenthal had paid nearly all of the $1,500 due, Rose wanted to close all relations with him and wanted Hebbard to have a eatisfaction piece entered. This Hebbard did. Hebband insisted that he never heard Becker's name in the transaction until Rosenthal récently declared to him that Rose was merely acting as a screen, just as Donahue, the boy clerk in whose favor the mortgage was made, was a screen for Rose. District-Attorney Whitman's men started a hunt for Jack Rose as soon as the information regarding the mortgage was obtained from Hebbard. They came back to report that they believed he had left town last night, Deputy Commissioner Dougherty was observed soon after this report was made looking up timetables in a railroad guide. FILE SAW WEBBER JUST BEFORE SHOOTING. The reason for the arrest and detention by the police of “Bridgie” Webber was made known this afternoon in the corridor of the District- Attorney's office by Policeman File, who was ¢ormerly a detective detailed to re wR, WILLIAM SHAPIRO MURDER WAS PERMITTED BY POLIGE, HE SAYS (Continued from First Page.) tween Rosenthal and Lieut. Becker. I will not be able to call Mra. Rosenthal __LICUT: (CHAS. BECKER Two Prisoners in the Rosenthal ‘Shooting; Adio Officer Named in | Preceding Events j Louis LIBBY PRIEST IN COURT DECLARES HE DID NOT FOLLOW GIRL ——— Explains He Was Out Walking FORGER LURED BY WHITE LIGHTS PLEADS GUILTY. Church Member Who Squandered Money in Tenderloin May Get Ten Years. William M. Lawrence, bookkeeper for the Daniel Talmage Sons Company, rice importers, at No. 112 ter street, who stole $33,000 from his employers Police Must Explain These Strange Things in Killing of Rosenthal One detective was in the Hotel Metropole, within twelve iN fet of the shooting fuly tees fetes Sceens fe he Five uniformed policemen were within 300 feet of the indiewmenes, bo nated ony CR 3 killing, two of them within 100 feet. the GMOGn Gad one forgery ta (ne It required just fifteen seconds for them all to reach the Funee te tie Mean eit dee spot after the first shot had been fired, one being only two tence. He can get as much as ten seconds away, yet— faMch as five on the second. nn ‘ " Lawrence's home is at No. 16 South None got the right number of the fleeing auto (or re Elliott place, Brooklyn. He is married, rted the right number). children and was known por All were lax in giving pursuit until the auto was out of A Presbyterian snatch Lafayette ey yee cecmeceapeereces Charles E. Gallagher, a bystander, got the right number TURKISH CABINET age and was arrested for his pains. Gallagher gave the right number of the auto to the lieu- Auelhalt atc aay tenant doing desk duty in the Forty-seventh street station. aeinat the chainods oe Ge cA nT The lieutenant put a wrong number down on the blotter. of Union and_Prog District-Attorney Whitman, who was present, saw wrong mumbers on the blotter and caused the lieutenant to erase them and put down the real number—41313 N. Y. If Mr. Whitman had not been present would the correct number ever have been disclosed or the auto ever found? Capt. Day called up his station house, summoned the District-Attorney to the phone and asked him if he thought it wise for him (Day) to come down. If Day was unwilling to appear, why did Lieut. Becker, who had been accused by Rosenthal, turn up at the scene so quickly after the tragedy? District-Attorney Whitman accuses the members of the Police Department with having permitted the murder and letting the murderers escape. TAFT WILL NOT DIVIDE ELECTORS WITH ROO ROOSEVELT} =: (Continued from First Page.) Your eye-glasses won’t come e off if they have been fitted with the Rortis Sudion Chip It costs but 35 Cents and is sold only at our eight stores. Tats Oculists and Opticians claims of President Taft in the pri- mary States, The difference which has arisen will be threshed out at the Chicago conven. next month. Col. Roosevelt SADNa Goadadne "ua -day that a| 480 Fulton Street, ort workable plan would be found and that | _s07_Rroat_Street ho ‘serious division of opinion would SS" |. Roosevelt wan not willing to go Dysentery, Cramps into @ detailed explanation of the method of the procedure which he te- d Di hi e8 should be adopted, preferring U. an jarrhoea rve his opinions until he reaches Chicago. He made guided by two 1 principles: First, there must no agreement with the Taft forces which will give official recognition to the President as the ‘legitimately chosen Republican candidate in the States which the ex- nt won in the primaries. Bec- yy plan adopted must be non- n, and as applicable to Dem- 1000. Broads are common summer ailments and are generally caused by the system trying 5 rid itself of some injurious or indi- gestible material which has been im- prudently taken into the stomach. gulping down iced drinks or eudden changes in the weather. The discomforts and suffering which result are easily prevented and quickly congratulating that official on the num- ber and activity of the policemen in the convention hall."" nother example of the | part bafore the jury for a day or so because of her condition. I do not know how “That's just relieved By Dutite 's Pure Malt Whiskey. sf th ocratic as to Republican organisations. a 7 day he had walked out of the Metropole haracter of our the great family medicine. _ the “Strong-Arm” squad under Lieut. Charles Becker. strong @ case T oan make now that the [Behind Rosenthal wien the gambler was and Witnesses Testify Be ated “Whe Banaion OSRE8 BE its eystematic use you cam 00 “The best information I had was this,” said File, while waiting a chance ™4 witness is out of the way, .but/ summoned to his death and was so I will do my utmost to get to the bot- tom of the affair, I shall also rt every possible effort to bring the mur- has merely acted just like himeelt.. strengthen the digestive organs and Eight hundred policemen were supplied close behind him that he saw one of the entire system that the many to see the District-Attorney: “Just before Rosenthal went out of the hotel the murderers, crouching behind # pot- to Character. ~ ere » ‘bad to say to me! al . im charge of any gambling raids, it was made known at Police Headquar- ev) 1 saw ‘Bridgie’ Webber come into the place, walk around looking at the men &t the different tables, and apparently looking for somebody. He went out. A moment later Rosenthal went out, and the next thing that attracted my attention was the shots.” Mayor Gaynor, who has refrained from the outset to make any com- ment for publication on the subject of the murder, arranged for a confer- ence with Police Commissioner Waldo at the City Hall to-day. Commis- sioner Waldo, walking rapidly, arrived before the Mayor returned from Juncheon, and at once entered the Mayor's office. The Mayor and the Com- missioner were closeted for half an hour, after which it was announced lerers of Herman Rosenthal to justice. They should be behind the bara now, but were permitted by the police to es- cay According to a statement mace dy Detective File at Headquarters yester- ' Again assuring you of every unofficially that some statement would be forthcoming from the City's Ex-| Headquartors that both Libby and Shapiro have con‘e: ecutive. bead pa and have given the police the names of the men who are being jooked for. When the Commissioner came out of the Mayor's office he smilingly ‘greeted reporters, He was plied with many questions. “What I had to say in the presence of the Mayor or what the Mayor 11 not discuss,” said Mr. Waldo. “All I have to say on the situation was contained in my letter to the District-Attorney. There {a nothing more to be sald.” The Commissioner was asked concerning the possible future of Lieut, Becker and the likelihood of changes in the Police Department, but he an- ewered each question—“I have no further statement to make.” ‘The certainty of Commissioner Waldo, Deputy Commissioner Dougherty and Inspector Hughes that the names of all the men who had part in the assassination of Herman Rosenthal under the lights of the Metropole, in West Forty-thire street early yesterday, were known to them was not shaken to-day. But no additional arrests were made, It was asserted that the police knew that every one of the seven men concerned is in New York, Two they delleve they have in custody. Shapiro ‘and Libby, the men whose automobile was used by the murderers, were taken before the Coroner to-day and changed with homicide, Lieut. Becker, against whom Rosenthal made the charges which stirred up the gambling and police situation just before the murder, is no longer Shapiro drove them. Commissioner and hi them, he said, he knew. Shapiro, accord! to wait just where he was, loungers in the neighborhood. left the tonneau doors open, REVOLVER AT NECK AS HE Bhapiro was @ iittle hazy about wha said he heard one shot and then several and ordered him to go eastward at full » The man back downtown to the garage at No. 72 Several pointa of importance to the Police were withheld, one of them be! where Shapiro left the men after had killed Rosenthal, Deputy Dousherty intimated that the identity of all four men was known and that they members of a gambling club that Re thal had caused to be raided sveral 4m ‘ tera to-day. He has not been deposed from the command of his squad or euspended from duty; his raiding work was done by assignment, either fol- lowing his own suggestion or by direct order from higher officials. Since the Rosenthal charges he has had no gambling assignments, Every bit of material regarding Becker's record and all the Information | ° which might intorest the District-Attorney, It was sald at Police Headquart: ers to-lay, had been turned over to the District-Attornoy. Meantime District-Attorney Whitman's repeated charges against the police “system” are irritating to the high officials of the Police Department, TOO MUCH PUBLICITY, SAYS DOUGHERTY. “In the morning papers,” said Deputy Commissioner Dougherty, “is much {nformatior. the publication of which hinders our hunt for the guilty man. It is all of it Information gathered by this department and turned over to the county officials. None of It was made public by us.” Police Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo addressed « le to District. Attorney Whitman to-day, following his reading of the District-Attorney's wtatement charging the police with responsibility for the assassination of Herman Rosenthal. The letter as made public at Police Headquarters, fol- lows: Str: I have the honor to again urge that s complete investigation be made by you without any further delay of tho allegations made in the press that members of the police force have been in partnership with gamblers, and of the statement that you are allege’ to have made pubd- Lely that members of the department were qullty of instigating the munier of 4 gambler, Immediate action is necessary in the interest of good order and that the good reputation of 10,400 men who are honestly doing their @uty should not be besmirched by individuals who may be rascals, Under the present organization of the Department less than 160 men have any connection whatsoever with the enforcement of gambling laws, leaving over 10,00 men free from auspicion of connection with gamblers. It would eppear to be unjust that the reputation of the entire force should be attacked on account of the allegations of a self-confessed gambler that & subordinate police officer, who has never been entrusted with any special power, has been his partner. It is unfortunate that the desire for publicity should lead any one to unjustly attack a body of men on ac- count of alleged wrong doings of a few. In investigating the action of the police in connection with the gambling @tuation, investigation should also be made of the courts and district-attor- neya, who could stop gambling if they desired by upholding the police |. sending convicted gamblers to jail instead of letting them free on suspend : Bee Tin a erienianest So and levulng onus ardess requicing the = suffered physically as well es! financially from Rosenthal's enmity, The Police sat one or two of then had been beaten so by thugs hired by Rosen- thal that they were unrecognizable for & thme, and that they ed their! grudge unt!!] Rosenthal's feud with the Police gave them a chance to “get him” ata time when the crime would be at- tributed to other motives and other per- sons, As soon as the police heads had talked wth Shapiro, one hundred and fifty de- tectives were sent to various parts of the city as rapidly as possible and dur- ing the night, when hours passed with- | out results, more men were added. kept at Head- waiting to identify the men 4 to have described an slayera of Rosenthal and who were being souxat in every dive in the city by three hun- dred sleuths, The police declined to tell what they learned, if anything, from Webber, who was picked up about mid- night by Detective Shevelin, ‘The prin- oner described himself as Louis We- ber, thirty-aix y old, @ broker, of No, 198 Second a BECKER TELLS OF MOVEMENTS ON NIGHT OF MURDER. Lieutenant Becker made public to- freely scene of the murder, going up Broadway to his home in a borrowed Several of the men involved, he hinto4, | 7 “Bridwey" | 3 ted tree at the side of the d his revolver at Rosenthal and fire shots, He has not yet explained he fell so far behind this man tn chase or why he falled to use his revolver to protect the man who being murdered. Police to return to the gamblers gambling apparatus seized in the raids, port in bringing all facts before the Public and convicting the guilty. Very respectfully, R. WALDA, Police Commissioner, Despite the denials of the prisoners, it 1s positively asserted at Police sig2d all they know Udbby is said to have told Commissioner Waldo that four men engaged the car in front of the Cafe Boulevard about 1 o'clock yesterday morning, and that the aides that four men engaged the car from him. Two of ng to rellable information, told ‘They ordered him to drive uptown and first stopped at Jack's, where one of the passengers got sick, Shapiro supposed from too much drink, suddenly ordered to go around into Forty-third street and take a position at the curb in front of Acker, Merrall & Condit One of the passengers remained in the c: Just weat of the Cohan Th and the others left, telling int =.) mans DROVE. t happened after tha more, and his fares ca peed, ft 1s sald. Shapiro was car was keeping watch on the When the three crossed to the Metropole they He running back He realized a few moments later that they were being pursued, but the man at his side put the muzzle of a revolver to his neck and told him he was a dead man if he faltered, turns and twists northward he was able to throw off his pursuers and drive ” point five why the own was A man, who at first gave his name as John Bergen of Chicago, Ill, and ‘who to-day on the"witness stand tokd Magistrate Butts, in the West Side Cuort, that his name was John Dezane, thirty-five years old, and that he was a Catholic priest of Jackson, Neb, was arraigned on the charge of following a young girl and trying to speak to her. He had been arrested on Thursday night last on the complaint of Cath- erine Kavanah, twelve years old, of No. 645 Tenth avenue, who said that he had followed her for several block: and accosted her. On the stand to-day the man said that he had arrived from Buffalo on Thursday last and registered at the Hotel Belmont. He sald that he has been @ priest twelve years. After he had been at the hotel for a short time the priest said he went out for a watk along Forty-second street. He said he first saw the little girl when she was standing talking with a man at Sev- enth avenue and Forty-segond street. He sald as he passed them he saw the child look at him in such a peculiar manner that he felt that he should in- vestigate and, if his conclusions were true, to speake to an officer. of By a few] At Forty-second street and Tenth avenue the priest said he saw a young Washington Square South, woman of about twenty years speaking automobile shortly before Rosenthal{ with the little girl and then turn to was shot, When he heard of the mur-| some men who were standing on the der at his home, Becker said, he waited | corner and talk with them . to Ket something to eat before going| He remembered, he sald, that he had downtown, $1,060 In his pocket and Atrald of “After leaving the office of my law-| being held up, He said he started away yer, and some men started after him, He 15 10ng Nes Ma Be es sy enoad: |turned into Tenth avenue, he suid. and to hi : ok Mr. Hart} ran toward a drug store at Forty- o his home in West Ninth street. eighth street and Tenth avenue, He Then IT went in the machine to the} stumbled and fell, he said, and then © at N Went Fiftleth street. some one struck him, buf he managed "With the chauffeur and a friend,|to get to his feet and reached the drug leaving the machige, boxing bout at Madin went to the Prince George where with Jack I went to the Square Garden. We left the Garden at about eleven and Tiotel, Sullivan, a friend, and @ newspaper man, we waited until the chauffeur went uptown and brought store, where he asked that a policeman be called. Joseph Miller, an actor, said that his was first called to the matter ng Woman, about twenty-two years old, who said that @ little girl had told her a man was following her Miller said he 1f1 not n the man back the car. From the hotel we went} xpeuk to the litte girt at any time. to newspaper offices up and down town. {Several character witnesses were It was not until after 1 o'clock, in} called, all of whom testified to the Park Row, ™ that T ning paper I wanted x home we dropped Mr. van at Sixth avent street and went in Washington Helghts, "LT had scarcely gone to bed when newspaper called me Rosenthal had been killed. went out and got reported at the station,” Rosenthal's closest friends w , the former newsboy f newsboys for newspape stood among 1 and Reoker as able to get the | Ro Suit. | t° and Forty-second wough Forty-second street to Broadway and up to my home up and told me I dressed, something to eat his ac 1 character of the priest, Catherine Kanavah was then called the witness stand and told her story that she was followed by the man, John J. 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