The evening world. Newspaper, July 24, 1912, Page 1

Tas SILENCE MURDER WITNESS IN COURT: | WHITMAN ARRESTS HIM FOR PERJURY | ee Showers “To-Night and Thareday, FINAL wrarne NaShowers To-Night and Thuraday, INA; be EDITION. Wwrat EDITION. _— | “ Circulation Books Open to All.” PRICE ONE CENT. Aboot ty ty Circulation ‘Books Open to All.”’ | NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1912. 16 PAGES PRICE Balt CENT. ARS ea Brea i Stecea mn AED BY GANSTERS | ee mmm AT HERG FEL BY ALITIGANT LOSES HIS MEMORY Joseph J. Conroy Shoots |“John the Barber,” Fearing for His Life, Retracts Sworn Statement That He Saw Webber Run From Murder Sc Scene. ARRESTED FOR PERJURY ape AS HE LEAVES THE STAND ine ark Morte Conan, os he ai ee 2 ae Pee Whitman Tightens Grip on Webber ing at Pays Coa niath floor of te oMce to Force Contession—Police Seek STEAMER SINKS No. 41 Park Row, to-day shot Joseph Fettretch, the senior partner of ie ae i | Gunmen Who Fled Town. MORGAN RETURNS, | EIGHT DAYS have elapsed since Herman Rosenthal | was assassinated before an assemblage of half a hundred | a NT BATTER, | ANGRILY NG persons in front of the Metropole Hotel and the men who committed the crime are foidien AT LARGE. e oMve, Fettretch, who was years old, a well known Staff Artist.) ‘ ialthesieaeeaad jknown among theatrical Faia el sporting men the einen over as atk | John the Barber,” refused to answer questions on the witness stand, da candidate in 1897 for a Judgship, died an hour after : WHT SAV FR LAWYER W Ge SUE E R THOMAS Thrilling Rescues of Women | Money tie Tells Reporters | ina he the. Rosenltal assassination kis tenets | SHOT AT HIS OFF bg Children When Old , He Will Pay Salary Raises if lang st charged with jury. : Wi | RP relied: and dildren te ; He ) y se and arrest charged with perjury. The Vento ait ete AND WIFE CLAIMING | Colony Runs Down Kler. | They Cease Annoying Him. j incident illustrates the widespread terror the lawless gangs of New ah with ofl SENT 10 SING SING | — | , Pit mE aa | York have instilled in the minds of persons who know their malicious bullet > He was shot during | Wd The flahing ! A pov ch and Wounds His Clerk. ENRAGED OVER A SUIT. Several Terrified Women See the Tragedy in a Park Row Skyser, the shootitg in St Gregory's Hos- pital from a bullet through his ab- Jomen. The as of No, Was a t was Joneph J. Cogroy rst place, Brooklyn, ho (Photographed Especially for TI The Evening World | bya ed as ory's Hosp face and head, and with Pierpont) Morgan return ‘atic to-day on the Whit Olymple after an abs whieh has the 5 after Conroy fived at the Almont | of an examination in the cases of “Bridgie’ Webber and Sam Paul, who ged with complicity in the assassination of ler to ve 2) out members of gangs, Coroner Feinberg fon was to be had to the Special Sessions court room, where the proceeding was held, only by ticket. The precaution proved futile. Long before the hour for the be- ginning of the examination the corridors of the Criminal Courts Building and the streets oulside were thronged with swarthy, hard faced, nervous ning men—typical gang members, a YGS OF THUCS BOUGHT WAY INTO COURT. and her} These persons began offering money for tickets and succeeded In lating as ent number to make the courtroom seem like home » Webber and P: when they were brought in from the Tombs. There 4 n Mr Morgan went on deck he| were between seventy-five and one hundred men in the room who looked ’ hegerear lal ue] 48 though they might be willing to start something, | the Reisler, who had not expected to be called upon to testify IN a *[henolews task of Rotting a homecomire | court of law, was terrorized by the hostile atmosphere In the courte 1 that he is, he gave them nolroom, He was face to face with “Bridgie’ Webber and Sam Paul and a Wine alee warm of their followers, and his nerve was not equal to the task of cing from his lips statements he had previously made to the Distriet- It was moen the satin ution. | Rosenth sal In 07 te had arrange Bartender Gels the Limit for ing Cheek Selling an Ignorant Immi- grant Girl, Both Edward R his father at Quarantine Morgan Joined have s who pass thr y this shabby: man swaggering unannounced through the big room to Fettreteh’s office and) noted something stamped on the man's face which was ominous, He climbed | down from his stool—for he knew the | stranger for one who had visited the| office before and disturbed {ts calm with loud language and threats—and | *” started to Intercept him. ing and @ tin which, at the usual rate, means about thirteen years, Milt many previous ¢ vad, to be irritated bull, he nan of t But the man with the paper collar was| | : | sion and slight cuts about the Men hee that he had “Bridgie’ Webber running away from the ieaeguick for Bisby: SINE & ‘ en, Wc ring Up) gy ‘y arine, and was burried to th Hotel immediately after Herman Rosenthal was shot dead, ing, he pushed open the door o “fi eo bs els i en tfetch's oftce and began to address ” "4 PLATE ( BEANS | Lorenso : ' want to mixed up in this,” wailed Reisler, “I've got a nea renee a auld | ATTELL- MURPHY FIGHT rp St inet | OFFERS MONEY TO REPORTER | x children me ‘ | } A f | Rolsler was arrested as ho was edging bis way o \ MAKES A COMPLAINT AGAINST| ON AGAIN FOR AUG, 3. HK § WALDORF peat ve tat | WHO TRAILED Him =| lor was arrested as he was edging bis way A of the court room, LONG DELAY. | wa ‘ an of slenter |after he had excused from the witness stan e was first taken to Whon's all thig—delay and putterin: SAN ‘ J | § 6 y's Offic 1 from there to Police Headquarters, aFqund inthis mK tO && | nee W ir d Fea 4 iy Reisler was told by the District-Attorney that Mecdks heard tt \f i . : tosdny if - NEA Ad G 1 th or go to ja The quiet vo ; r aa mala r 4 ‘ i Mt , Der Police Commissioner Dough y took an active part in the of the firm ” rie J ad begun | * s 1 . | ! ug) that led to Reisler's arrest, When “John, tho a sit stalls long en " Iw ey ‘ F Wa ‘“ tcl Bash ly behind loors at Headquarters Dougherty said: SUP IE ant ren Aven NATIONAL LEAGUE, roars. [3 : | DOUGHER ry cor RALS OTHER WITNESSES. doors "A ise ene piney i Alhasaah sata take To hiava du 1 to the Disirlet-Attorney several very {mportant He stood half-way in the Joo 1 } Mm i witnesses who will not only substantiate what Reisler originally told the ohaking bis Aas at Fett 100 baad raattiaatign es Distriet-Attorney and wa: ald to in the courtroom, but will alse i Nel 8 oe Ne NA | mitted 6 con A 4 «| sstablish the presence of Webber at the scene of the murder when Rosen- sald iam 2 ad ale, transferred by T W . . , for soime minutes try eal 1] ua ree eee oO thal @an uilad \ man, Brooks and th BROOKLYN— slant at me A yuo s owt Rejsler has a barber shop at No, 169 West Forty-fifth street, and has Wee, Sielee BOATS Ein 0000 = | auper 1 it on me sud ute ive A Jknown Webber, Jack Rose and others mixed up in the Rosenthal killing ou j | Ne eee tN seiter nantite inn | GCAG Oe Jon't remem- Tre cibea }for ty five years. He was a close frlend of Rosenthal, permitted Everything was being don 3101 > : MPEP te Seer era 1 ant the | The 1 fon of Reisler as a witness wa sa surprise, He had been that could bi | — ee ee pean iene’ Opens \ wren) | yrought to the Distriet-Attorney’s offiee by Assistant District-Attorney Mose ‘Then when Conroy—for by such name AMERICAN LEAGUE. st 4 bh ae "% land was not under subpoena, After betng quesioned in Mr, Whitman’s alone was the man known in the law J 1 I aba forge aid w ” ee ; office—grew abusive Fettretch rose trom | CHICAGO— ; Ka yun foftice he was taken downstairs to the fal Sessions court room, where his seat and started gently to push the 100 ata mg ae. | he hearing was under way and put on the witness stad, intruder out of his place in the doorway, HIGHLANDERS. T t a" . M H anout } ner Feinberg wa tting as a Magistra n the proceeding, whieh LANDERS-- -——_—_—- | | srenumoiia >a Mc y (Continued on Fourth Pese) oll i | (Coptinued op Fourth Page) (Continued on Last Pagey | Was & resumption of a hea Monday. When Reisler was ushered fi ue ‘