ROSENTHAL MURDER.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1603, 21 November 1912, Page 5

ROSENTHAL MURDER.

* FOUR MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH. Bs Tclceraiih—Press AGsoclatlon-Cosyricht New York, November 19. - "Gyp the Blood," "Lefty Louis," Frank Cirofici, and "Whitey Louis" wero found guilty of being concerned in the murder of Herman Rosenthal, the gambler, who revealed the corruption of the New Tork police. LThe accused have been sentenced to be electrocuted. THE CRIME OF KNOWING TOO ' MUCH. HOW ROSENTHAL WAS KILLED. Tho crime of knowing too much in New York seems to many editors to be about tho most fatal offence on the whole list. On tho eve of tho day when Herman Rosenthal, a professional gambler, was to appear before the Grand Jury to tell all ,'he knew about the alleged' alliance for mutual profit between police and criminals in New York, with special emphasis upon the activities of Police Lieutenant Charles Becker, he was shot to death by four gunmen on the brightly lighted pavement in front of the Hotel Metropole, almost under tho noses of several i policement, his murderers' getting away unmolested in a gray automobile. Then two days before the trial of Becker for instigating _ tho Rosenthal murder was called, "Big Jack" Zelig, a notorious gang-leader and an important witness for the prosecution, was shot and killed on a New York street-car by "Red Phil" Davidson, th© slayer afterwards submitting to arrest without resistance, but giving several contradictory stories of his motive for tho crime and of tho incidents preceding it. While the 1 timeliness, from the.police point of view, of these two killings may, of course, be merely an astonishing coincidence, the press inclino to see in it a sinister meaning., "Suspicious circumstances surround and enmesh the .abominable affair; it darkens with fresh conspiracies from hour to hour," exclaimed the New York "Even-, ing Mail," and "The Evening Sun" remarks that "the crime of muTder pales before the graver suspicion. that fills the publio mind." No man's life is safe who offends the "System," declares the Brooklyn "Standard Union"—the System "whose dire motto has ever been 'Dead men tell no tales.'" "Rosonthal was murdered in the most spectacular manner in order to strike terror into tho hearts of all others who might havo such knowledge as. ho had and contemplated giving it to the District Attorney," charges the same paper, which goes on to explain that suspicion does not attach' to the police force as a whole, but only to "a small and >poweif hi'minority in it, which/with the aid of Tammany Hall, rules tho entire body and divides the many millions of its yearly takings of blaokmail political backers."N