MILLIONAIRE GANGSTER

Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1928, Page 5

MILLIONAIRE GANGSTER

SHOT AT GAMBLING TABLE

(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).

(Received this day at 9. a.m.) NEW YORK, Nov. 11

Arnold Rotlistcin was seated with . four other friends gambling a tlious- I and dollars at each turn of a high spade, when t a quarrel arose and some- | body shot Arnold through the hotly, j He was known in lile as an arch j gambler and in death as Broadway’s j Shylock. Rotlistcin was lustily re-| moved to the hospital. Blood trails- , fusion might have saved him hut from j the first lie insisted on hiding the secrets of the sources of his wealth, oven with death staring at him and by the time he had signed his will disposing of his estate of three million, he was beyond surgical aid. “Who shot you.” detectives asked him. hut Rotlistcin respecting the law of gangland, shook Its head and died. The police learned that in his assets are the plunder of famous robberies and swindles. The late Kicky Arstcin's million sterling loot is said to repose in Rothsteiu’s strong boxes and there is one hundred thousand dolhr's worth of bonds stolen from Wall Street messenger hold-ups. With these clues the police believe the Rotlistcin shooting will rank amongst the sensational crimes of the past fifty years.