The evening world. Newspaper, July 20, 1912, Page 2

i accused him of ieteing | idformation regarding the murder—which Reisler hag not done. “All right,” said the barber's visitor. “You know too much anyway. You keep your trap closed or you'll get what ‘Hermie Rosenthal got.” Assistant District-Attorney Moss, who was in charge of the investiga- tion of the charges made by Herman Rosenthal against the alleged} alliance between police and gamblers in the absence of District-At- | torney Whitman, who is out of town, said to be in conference with, De- fective Burns, felt ‘sure to-day that he was possessed of full information regarding (he actual facts of the assassination of Rosenthal. Under his directions the police and a squad of subpoena servers were sent out to compel the attendance of witnesses before the Grand Jury on Monday and to atrest witnesses who were needed for the investigation over Sunday and who could not he made subject to subpoena. His first setback was a delay in finding Samuel Schepps, otherwise known.as Schaaps and Schafel, a gambler and associate of Jack Rose, who, Mr. Moss believes, is the man who rode in the gray murder car with Rose from Sharkey’s to Webber's poker rooms, at Forty-second street and Sixth avenue. Schepps, who is a jewelry peddler by business, but a gambler by choice, has been separated from his wife, who is a milliner at No, 22 Lenox avenue, since May. She is suing him for a separation and told the subpoena server she knew nothing of his whereabouts. A subpoena was served on his mother, Mrs. Rebecca Schepps of No. 555 West One Hundred and Forty-fourth street, requiring her to go before the Grand Jury on Monday to tell what she knows of her son's recent movements and where he is. Up to the time The Evening World found the address of Mrs. Schepps, “there had been no information given to the District- Attorney's office by the police to aid in finding him. Every link in the crime is known to the District-Attorney’s office to the full satisfaction of the men handling the investigation. The name and description of every man who rode in the gray murder car from Sharkey’s uptown and where these men got out, if they did get out, before the scene of the murder was reached; the same is true of every man who got into the car on its trip about town. POLICE ORDERED TO ARREST WITNESSES. } The name of the man who called Rosenthal from ihe Metropole Cafe to the street where the murderers were waiting to shoot him down is known, The place from which that man went on_ his Judas errand fs known and his movements immediately after his deadly message was given and he ran from the scene are known, Most inrportant of all, in the estimation of the District Attorney, theré are within reach a number. of eye-witnesses of the murder who will De'able to tlinch these facts so that they will make, not only a connected narrative, but. will be available as evidence to send the murderers of the ler to the electric chair. The Evening World learned, in an independent investigation yester- day, that no effort had been made by the police to secure witnesses who were in the houses on either side of the Metropole along Forty-third street in the four;days which had elapsed since the trial. This was news to the District-Attorney, who assumed that this work had been covered by the department responsible for it, the police, and was without results. ‘Three witnesses, at least, who were Interviewed after Mr. Moss got! this information showed ‘that they could help the case materially. One of them was a woman past whom the man who shot Rosenthal ran under the full glare of an electric light with a revolver in his hand, All these witnesses are reluctant to tell what they know to the point of terror. The menace of the fate of Rosenthal hangs over them. They re- fused to obey Mr. Moss's request that they accompany him voluntarily to the District-Attorney's office, They refused to give their nam They fled from their homes over night. But they were back again to-day DIRECTS HUGHES TO GET EVERYBOBY. Because the District-Attorney has no power to compel tho attend- anée of witnesses when there is not a court in eession—as there is not on Saturday—it was necessary to enlist the ald of the police to force these people to go to the District-Attorney’s office to-day. Mr. Moss seat’ for Inspector Hughes of the Detective Bureau, with whom he has! most friendly relations, and directed him to send a squad of detectives to West Forty-third street to arrest as “nec: ry witnesses” everybody could be pointed out as having knowledge of the crime. These per- As can then be sutpvenaed to appear before the Grand Jury on Monday, m@ with their names in the possession of the police and the District- _ Attorney their attendance can be ai sured, The man who gave the vivid narrative to The Evening World, telling of seeing “Btidgie” Webber runinng from the acene of the shooting, and of his talk with gangsters who were familiar with the whole plot, to the extent of knowing! that everal men in the murder automobile were compelled by the actual assas- sing to gO with thei to the front door of the Metropole, so that all might share equally in the guilt, has voluntarily given all his information to the District Attorney and has he fot his information. ve employees of the Lafayette Baths in Lafayette street were waiting for Deputy Commissioner Dougherty and Inspector Hughes when they reached their offices to-day. They were interrogated regarding the presence of Becker, Jack Rose and Charis Pitt, Becker's handy civilian, at the baths on Monday night. Becker has said that he was at the baths Monday and there received & message from « “Harry Brown,” not known to him, he said, to the effect that & etatement damaging to Rosenthal might be obtained from the gambler'e former wife, Dora Gilvert. Plitt was sent to Dora Gilbert to get the with Plitt and took the statement. Becker's hands. The object of questioning th bath men was to check up the stories told by Becker and Rose, and also to learn just how intimate the relations of Becker and Rose had been, under the observation of the bath employes Neither tl Police officiais nor the men who had been interrogated would make any sia ment after the conference. BECKER OFF RAID DUTY AS MERE ROUTINE. Commissioner Waldo denied to-day that Lieut. Becker had been deposed from the section of the “strong-arm squad” which he has commanded, and which as deen raiding gambling how It was explained that in the {ne rotation of the heads of the squads it was Becker's weeek for office duty, The Commissioner aid this did not mean Becker might not be removed later if District-Attorney Whitman should show any good reason for such action Becker resented the implication that h ent purchase 8f @ hou Brong denoted improper affluence, He sald he had put into it tus own for nineteen years tn the depa for nineteen years; anyway he said the place repres 9,000, of which he had borrowed $3,000 from his bre he said, was a second-hand barn. ‘The attention of The Hve jatement, Jack Rose visited her later the document found its way into ted an invectment of only ver, His so-called garage, rebuilt and painted over. ng Work has been called to the fact that there are two Meutenants !n the Police Department by the name of Charles A, Becke One of them ts the head of of the raiding squids end ts the man accured tn the statement of murdered Herman Rosenthal of being in league with gam- biers. ‘fhe other, who has never been mentioned jn the Rosenthal matter, attached to the Union M et station. Four Burns detectives were present; He said Libby got the call about 11 when Louls Livby and William Shapiro, |o’clock Monday night from the Cafe the chauffeurs held in connection with! Boulevard starter. wanting to go Rosenthal’s deuth, were questioned in| out,” Shapiro went on, “he turned It the District-Attorney’s office, er to me, sajing that Jack wanted car in front of Sharkey's, 1 got HAD NO IDEA OF MURDER, SAYS | there ‘about 1.30 and Jack was waiting SHAPIRO. Declaring that Libby knew one of them generally as I think hia name t# Isaac, but knows nothing avenue and Forty-third stres ie withheld, pro told Burns inen that there w: ‘ven blm the names of the gamblers and guerillas from whom | * to the Metropol tinui was face eastward from the the Metropole. the car slowly and walked nt and those of his wife as a school teacher | °t t what he has! never heard his last name, The other Shapiro sald: | fellow was Bchaaps, who was employed has been an old customer of) in a poolroom in Fourteent) street be- joney was always good.|(ween Second and Third avenues, ed him for the cash be-| “We went uptown and the boys on ® ride, because pped in several places to get a drink. ‘The trip took use finally to @ house in West One Hundred and Seventyfrth street, where Rose wanted to see some- back pretty tate, end body, We started THE EVENIXS WORLD, SATURDAY, JULY 20, SLA YERS KILLED GAMBLER WITH CURIOUS DELIBERATION GANG KILLED GAMBLER AT LEISURE; DAWDLED IN ESCAPING-- Wd? Did the assassins of Herman Rosenthal have an assurance that they could take their time in killing him and that there would be ho interference with their escape? In the evidence thus far adduced the fact stands out, with glaring prominence, that the gambler marked for death was shot down in the very sight of policemen with a leisurely deliberation most marvellous in the carrying out of a plot that ordinarily would be fraught with perilous chances of capture. Such a deed would call for quick execution and instant escape in a dark and unfrequented street of the suburbs. Here the scene was a brilliantly lighted corner in the heart of the city, people passing in every direction, The section was studded with police- men on fixed post and one was in the hotel itself. Yet William Shapiro, driver of the car, says the killers lounged in front of the* Metropole, before and after they shot Rosenthal, with no apparent fear of arrest. In his statement to the Burns detectives he declares: “Three of my passengers stopped in front of the Metropole and stood there for several mindtes, They spoke to somebody who ap- peared to have come out of the restaurant just about the time they got there, “Pretty soon the man they were talking to went back into the restaurant and was gone two or three minutes, Then another man came out and looked around. And just as he glanced from side to side the shooting began. “The men that shot Rosenthal walked away with their revolvers in their hands, They put the guns in their pockets without any rush and they stood In the middle of the street half a minute before they started back toward me. “They strolled back, walking as slowly as I do now (Shapiro took a few steps to ill irate what he meant), and they got in the car the same way, as easy and quiet as you could imagine. “By that time we had been in the street twenty minutes or more. I wae over a minute getting the car started. 1 thought sure that policemen would appear and grab us all and I hoped they would. “It has been said that we went out of Forty-third street at sixty miles an hour. We didn’t do anything of the kind. I put on 1912. second speed, and on that old car—it is a 1907 model—the best I could get with second speed was fifteen miles an hour. “That was the best we did. If there was any race I didn’t know ft, We rolled out of the confusion and yelling as easily as if we had been leaving a picnic. “at Bizth avenue we had a clear path and we kept straight on to Fifth, where we turned north. I didn’t see any police taxi be- hind us. After the car had reached Fifth avenue, Shapiro says, one of the men said to him: “The cops are all fixed; nobody will bother us. It’s clean getaway.” A wilness o the shooting named Richards says in his testi- mony: “The men who killed Rosenthal did not run away. They just dawdled across the street from the Metropole after the shooting. They did not seem in the least hurry. It was a full minute or more after the last of the shots was fired before the automobile started away with them. “There wab a policeman there where they had been not later than a minute after the shooting.” started, but tending I couldn't gi it that didn't make any hit with THEN MAKE-UP OF PARTY | orien. One of them srosd uy, Paes | CHANGED. pointed a gun at me and told me to ‘The exact information following this but it Is known that Shi the District-Attorney a chang the make-up of the party at th's point. an stepped out and addi- Kers, Who seemed to be appointment, taken quit monkeying and roi along. “I did the best I could then, but T wot a wallop alongside the head that in| Made me see start I was sick for twenty-four hours beca of that lick, confusion and an easily as if we had been leav- ing a’plente,” he sald. He deciared they didn't see any police tax! behind them when they turned north in Fifth avenue and went out. “Going up Fifth avenue the man who had banged me over the head told me I wus a damned fool to get scared, He said that nobody was going to get into j trouble because the job had been fixed and that the policemen weren't doing anything. “And then T was warned to keep jfrom talking if T didn't want so get a hole bored in me. WARNED HIM TO KEEP MQUTH SHUT, “I dropped my passengers at Third avenue and Forty-ninth street and then @rove down to % Stuyvesant eo: and woke up Libby, who was asleep. was knocked out from the blow on the head and didn't feel like taking the car *;to the garage, so Libby atiended to pber's, near Sixth nd street. d to drive down wiy,"" Shapiro con 4, “and to turn tho car so that it acrovs the street Metropole, but not too far So I picked out a postion just tof the Cohan Theatre, whirled the “I was then around and ca The whole from F Jugt about as ght as eto read by that kin: out the faces of w several pol ceman not far from Why, Thad no suspicion hat somebody was about to be killed. Three of my passengers got out Metropole, They d!dn't that Went just an If they were after a drink| Mr, Whitman rounded up the man and had all night tit in known only as Richards, who told of unex ere nauaraly in the bright | gecing a man point the pistol at Sha- 4 and any of twonty or thirty | pro and coro! ed him about the f Uae Who were in th art of the| leisurely way fair was carried out street, ether near the or the pod to be a theatre Metropole or the Cohan tre, should been able to dese tiem per- fectly. | from the Shapiro told which of the men was| They dil min the least hurry. left behind with him in the ear, but] it was af re after the the name cannot be revealed at pres-| last of the before the He went on: automobile with them, “T wax only a stopped tn front stood. th, they did come thr fro nt ase. tHe ugh Forty-third street Mowiy roadway and stop at the urb st in front of me, The men in it we out slowly and strolled across the tty soon the man they were talk-| street and down the sidewalk, One of Ing to went back Into the restaurant] tiem did not Ko far and seemed to be and was Kone twe three mir keeping an eye on the driver, who be- Then another man » out and Ie gan to foo! with the engine.” arouna, Anc from side to side the ehontine » {SEVY -HAB RROBIVER. REATH HOW ASSASSINS LINGERED THREATS, TOO, AFTER SHOOTING, Assemblyman Aaron J, Lev ust about the time they got counsel for the chauffeurs, who Induced “The men that aot Rosenthal waiked| cients to tell ail’ they. knew. to the evey with thelr In thelr | Diatric pleased to-day : in thetr| with dev ald; Dockets without any rush and they| “This case bas taken so strange a stood in the middie of the street haif & minuce before they started back to- ward me, “They strolled back, walking a ly as I do now (Shapiro took steps to illustrate what he meant) they wot in ibe ear the same way, as easy und quiet as you could imagine. ‘By that time we had been in the taiety of policemen, street twenty minutes or more, I was “No little gamblers’ fued brought about Over a minute getting the car started, | Rosenthal's death. The gamblers who I rong a wure that policemen would] hated him (and there wer and ered us all and I hoped they|bave slain him months ay 1 atalled with the motor, turn that [am bound not to reveal evi- det which the Distriet-Attorney now has as pointing to the connection of po- slow- bre-' secretly and safely, WARITNESS SEA GIRT, July 20.—The spe bearing tage, two hundred yards away. Gov. members of the party. Spea! behalf, containing the When Mr. replied: 4 with the greatest pleasure than are paying me in Sea Girt, something I am not resp the inaccessibility of the place, yon to draw you to Sea Girt; mer. “The Speaker has sald yosidents of the have not kept ave been unabl utles they the people. f wa: ity to It keems to me that the tirely consumed in its delibe In those thngs that happe sessions, when the mem freely regarding the intere purposes of ir fellow e! ngside one another, in do. mon council,’ almost impossible. that without common council. “You can, opportunity. to-day to meet that United States n close and intimate tonch with the two houses of Congress to fulfill properly the to themselves and to ‘This is only another way ng that they lost the opportun- have done eal valu the House of Representatives ia not ¢ but Woman Shot to Death in Hotel And Her Companion in Tragedy 116 CONGRESSMEN, HEADED BY CLARK; : CALL ON WILSON Democratic ote Present Nominee With a Book and He Makes a Speech. the Democratic Congressmen from Washington to Sea Girt reached here at 1 o'clock and the delegation, headed by Speaker Champ Clark, walked from the station to the Governor's cot- Wilson met the Speaker half way down the walk, returned to the porch with him and there received the other 7 Clark made a little speech in which he told the Governor he was glad to present to him most of the Demo- crats in the House of Representatives. ‘There were in all 116 in the party. also gave the Governor a book on their autograp! nearly all the Democratic Congressman. Clark had finished speaking and the cheering had died away, the Governor took off his soft brown hat and “Mr, Speaker and Democratic Major- ity of the House of Reprerentativee: that you for this great courtesy you pming to see me I must apologize to you for sible. for— I also um sorry that there 1s only one per- generally we have a camp here during the sum- culty of politics tn our modern days is that men have not laid their minds having a common interest in What they seek to You cannot accommodate interests by having these interests held off and any, ‘We are not going into the com That moment the fui. | bam, ment of the common interest becomas x You cannot have in a common partnership of council, bring all the people of the United States Into partnership with one another, and therefore it ie with particular pleasure that I welcome the you. Many) could} hope this is only the beginning of a 0 1€ they had | long acquaintanceship which will be a Wanted to, They could have willed him wnion in @ singularly high undertak- He of at those who ‘SHOT KILLED HER IN HOTEL ROOM AS ated on her. We tried to get this book and could not. A littie later she picked | up the gun and sat on my knee. Bhe asked me to show her how it worked. Now and then she kissed me. I ‘was explaining the way the gun worked when it went off. She fell from my knee and I caught her in my arms and jaid her on the bed, Theg I telephoned for a doctor and went down ai the clerk what had happened, out and got @ policeman, “She was twenty-five years old and her maiden name was Florence Figler. I met her first on Oct. 16, 1911. I am inarrted and have alittle boy, My home is on Locust avenue, Sea Cliff. My wife knows I have been with this girl, I met my wife Inst Wednesday we went in bathing at Brighton. “She told me she hoped I would turn over a new leaf. I promised to try. bought the revolver last April in Pitts- burg for $1% I had in cash at the time. I do not know how t: bi marks came on Florence's chin and arm, I OW! not strike her. WOULD HAVE GIVEN HIS LIFE TO SAVE MR§$. HOPP. taken to the West Thirty- street station Harkness de- tenant Woodbridge given his life a nd times before he would have harmed Mra, Hopp. He admitted that she had broken up his home, but said he had been frank with his wife, ant that she had promised to take him back if he severed his relations with Florence Hopp. IWISBURG, Pa., July 20.—Mra. Flor- ence Hopp parted from her husband here about six years her husband left this city and has not been heard of since. Mrs, Hopp made home here but frequently left, saying she w: employed as a clerk in a store in Phila- delphia. She returned to her home last week on a short visit. The woman was the daughter of Allen Fagley, who con- newsstand and bookstore here. ry son of Mra. Hopp, seven years old, also resides hei ASQUITH TARGET FOR BAG OF FLOUR SHE KISSED MAN Mrs. Florence Hopp Fatally Wounded While With George Harkness in the York. handsome young woman who hed Veta up the home of George Ray- mond Harkness of Sea Cliff, L. 1., se killed by @ pistol shot while with him to-day in the York Hotel, Thirty-sixth | street and Seventh avenue. An autopsy performed on the body of , ‘the dead woman convinced Coroner's Physician Weston that @ struggle had preceded the shooting. When Dr. Wes- |ton reported this to Coroner Winterbot- |tom Harkness was remanded to the | Tombs for forty-eight hours without | bath, Harkness, who !s twenty-seven years old and was formerly president of the Oucawana Real Estate Company of No. 21 Hansen place, Brooklyn, immediate- ly notified the police of the shooting and had the viorim removed to the New York Hospital where she died an hour later. He declared that the tragedy was due to an accident; that bis pretty companion had been siting on his knee in the room they had occupied at in- tervals since July 1 when the automatic magazine revolver exploded. On the body of the siain woman, who is described as Mrs, Florence C, Hopp, a divorcee, of Lewisburg, Pa., twenty-flve years old, No, $8 Martin street, there are two bruise and one on the right arm, The revolver that fired the fatal shot 1s provided with a safety-clutch to prevent just such accidents as the young Sea Clift man alleges. occurred. hen arraigned before Coroner Win- terbottom after the h of Mrs, Hopp Harkness swore that she was kissing him up to the moment the steel bullet was fired from the revolver into her left ear. They were about to part to-da: she to return to her mother and he to return to his home in Locust avenue, Sea Clif, to beg ored to his wife's affections. He 1s the father of a little boy four years old. SHE WAS SORRY SHE HAD TO PART FROM HIM. The shooting occurred at t o'clock is morning. ‘The couple iad returned to the hotel at 9.89 and went immed!- ately to thelr rooms, ‘Th's ts what happened, according to the stateme! made by Harkness to the Coroner “We had supper at the Bristol. When we got back to the hotel Florence sait she was going back to her mother to- day, She an packing up her stuff ax soon as we reached the room, While she was rummag.ng ‘n @ drawer she found my revolver. Bhe took tr out and sald she wanted to know how | worked, I tool {t from her and sie be- an kise!ng me “She sald she was sorry to leave me and go hone, She talked about what a good woman I had made her, Then she wanted to get @ Philadelphia tele- to be re It 1 DiscomtortAfter Meals epling ouprhased ith 9 sensation of Siu ani‘bei hig of ind: age 2) of An Wits these itiere will be Constin y peas of the Hood im the Head Headache, Disgust of len” Bury ei mot 8 si thy shore eee, q OF SUFFRAGETTE, Phone book #0 she cauld telephone to ala corner beyond the time allowed sdwan Ae) Philadelphia physician who had opere| ordinance. Tn court Dr, warned John several times to move, es | plaining his business interfered with, physician’ home: this morning Dr. +2 RASH SEEMED TO. - | Red All Over. “and Ointment. fi Kore ny fl Flint told of ha tuty patients on thelr way t ‘The peddler paid no heed, and Flint hath a police- had the mau arr ITCH ALL THE TIME Would Scratch and Dig the Skin Till It Bled. 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