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Show TiLSLllS J SHAPIRO Chauffeur Names "Lefty Louie," "Gyp ihc Blood," "Whilcy" Lewis and "Dago Prank." TELLS STORY BECAUSE OP MOTHER'S REQUEST Defies Gangsters, Sealed in Court, Identifying Each jn Turn; Whitman Has Corroboration. By International N'cws Service. jKW- YORK, Xo. 12. AVilliam Sha- piro. chauffeur of tho murder car. ( .day picked out -Lefty Louie" J- Itosenbergr. "Gyp the Blood" Horowitz, Horo-witz, ."Vbitcy Jack" Lewis and '"Daso" I-'rank Ciroliel ns the actual murderers mur-derers of Herman Uosenlhal. It was the supreme dramatic incident or the Itosenthal affair. Like ti shot well placed In the enemv's works. Diatrlct Attorney Whitman buried the Shapiro confession Into the trial of the' four gunmen at the psychological mo-mein mo-mein and literally blew their defense into tile air. Caslinjr aside his fear of death at the hands of the gunmen's friends, responding respond-ing to the tearful jileadingrs of bis mother moth-er and throw-Ins himself on Ihc mercy of Lhc law. the short, swarthy, slocklly-built slocklly-built young man who carried the assassins assas-sins on 'the mission of death faced them intrepidly and told a story which, unless broken down, will inevitably send all four defendants after Charles Uecker to the death house at Ping Sing. For Mother's Sake. "1 did it for my mother's take." was iho low. pathetic refrain of the witness In explanation of his desertion, oXJtbe soowllnfr-acrenaauft; "wh6sa t" wTtlT bifrnV iii hatred in their eyes", listening to the man who had been indicted jointly will) ' them ewcaring- their lives away. 1 It was a tciiso, silent pause, in which ' Shapiro, under the glare of the olretrlr- lights, left tbc witness chair and stepped quickly to the table where the four gunmen gun-men were seated. They bent forward as he approached, and tho eyes of each glowed red. Shapiro did not falter. It was his life against thelrp. phis the aching- heart of an aged mother. Successively Succes-sively he pointed a nerveless linger at etteh of the four defendants, meeting- their snarling- glances with sloady, unfearlng gas:c. Accusation Positive. "These are the men," Iks declared iol-emhly. iol-emhly. 'WhJtcy,' Frank. 'Lefty.- 'Gypf I took them In my car to tbc Metre-pole; I heard the -shots ll red. They came run ning oack, two of them with pistols In their hands; thc.v leaped Into toe car. two on caeli side. 'Gyp' put a revolver to my head and cried: "'Hurry up, you booh, and" drive out of here!' "And then, as the car dashed orf, I heard them say: "'Nobody. saw us. There wasn't a cop around. Decker fixed it all right.' " Defendants Defiant. It Is the entire Becker case in a nutshell. nut-shell. Twelve jurors sat tipped forward in their chairs absorbed hi the recital. Tho spectators were spellbound. The four defendants gui:ed .straight ahead, their Hps curled in scorn and defiance. Yet all four went back to the Tombs tonight to-night white faced and with (he fear of the law in their hearts. ; "Wahle- for the defense went at Shapiro viciously on cross-examination. But the result of his attack was merely to bring Into slrongcr relief the original .story told by the witness. He bore down heavily heav-ily on Snapiro's refusal until recently, after the appeals of his mother had gone Home, to Identify the four accused men as tho occupants of his car on the night of the murder. The questions cracked ! like pUtoI shots. Feared Assassination. "Why old you refuse to Identify these uwiu that day In the coroner's court? "I was afraid.'" came the reply. "Afraid of what'.'" 'That I would be killed." "And do you Identify them now be cause you are afraid that you will bo killed?" "No." "You know that you are under Indictment Indict-ment for murder in the first degree, the penalty of which is death. Js It because you are afraid of that death that you Identify thorn now?" "No." replied Shapiro, a soft light coming com-ing Into his eyes. "Then why did you identify them;"' "I did it for my mother's sake." came tho answur in clear, ringing- tones, and through the courtroom there swept a. suppressed sup-pressed sob from tho throats of half the spectators. "Dago Frank" sneered. "Gyp thn Blood" looked mystified and the others oth-ers continued to stare straight ahead. Told Story Before. And then AVhltnmn let loose the connecting con-necting link, which Mcemt: to put the slorv beyond oil cavil, Shapiro swore that on the date that he was nrrcMed. (Continued on Tase Two.) CHAUFFEUR IDENTIFIES EOWBI AS SLAYERS (Continued from Pago One.) which was on the morning that Rosenthal Rosen-thal was Jellied, he told Aaron Levy, his attorney, the story he recited today from the witness ehnlr. And Aaron Levy stands ready to lake the stand to corroborate his client and drive the last clinching copper rivet into the case of the prosecution. On Fatal Night. Shapiro told of the telephone message he received from Jack Rose at J I p. m. on the night of the murder calling him to Tom Sharkey's saloon on Fourteenth strocl. whore he mot Rose. Schepps and Vallon. He drove from there to One Hundred and Forly-llfth street and Seventh Sev-enth avenue, where "Dago Frank" joined I the pnrty. He then brought the party down to "Biidgey" Webber's poker room In Forty-second street. Fifteen minutes after reuchlng Webber's "Dago Frank" came down and told him he was to take himself and three others around to Forty-third Forty-third street. Frank euld Jack Rose had i reouestod this. The men with Frank were "Whitey" Lewis. "Gyp the Blood" and "Lefty" 7-ouie. "Do you sec them here In I he courtroom?" court-room?" asked Whitman. "Yes. air, there." o.nd he pointed across the Inclosure to where the defendants Were seated. Hero It w that the Identification waa made, while the chauffeur and the gunmen gun-men faced each other amid deep silence across the table. At the Metropole. Resuming his story, Shapiro told how at the direction of Frank he had driven past the Metropole, turned around and repassed the hotel. Frank, he testified, said; "Everything's all right. There are no cops there. Becker said so." The men then got out of the car and crossed the street. Fifteen minutes later la-ter he heard three or four shots and the men ran back to the car. 'T saw them coming toward me. The same four," he said. "Two had revolvers In their hands. They were 'Dago' Frank and 'Lefty' Louie. They got in on one side, 'Whitey' and 'Gyp' on the other 'Gyp' put a, revolver to my head und cried. "Hurry up, and drive away from here.' I took his orders." Becker Had "It Fixed." Shapiro then described the route which was taken until the men abandoned the car. "Did you hear anything said while they were atlll In the car?'' asked Whitman. "I heard whispering.", replied Shapiro. "They were saying 'All right. Nobody saw us. There were no copa around. Bcckor fixed everything." " Cross-examination failed to shake tho teetlmony of the witness, who, after admitting ad-mitting to Whitman that he had told the same Ktory to his counsel Immediately after his arrest, stepped down and passed from the scene, leaving four leaden faced gangsters huddled in their scats, looking neither to the right nor to tho left. All tavo "Gyp tho Blood." With his eyes he followed Shapiro until the latter had disappeared dis-appeared from the room and with what thoughts, who shall say he, "Gyp," who on tb.it night had a revolver at the head of the man who had just told so damning a story and didn't pull tho trigger! Other Witnesses. Jack Rose will follow Shapiro tomorrow. tomor-row. Jacob Hccht. a. waiter at the Metro-pole, Metro-pole, testified that he heard three or four shots and saw Rosonthnl fall to the slde-waljc. slde-waljc. He could not Identify any of the m'-n who did the shooting. Loulx Kratisc. another wlter, said: "I Paw a man come out of tho .Metropole. 1 Inter learned he was Herman Rosenthal. A man back of him raised his hand as a sort of a signal and four mrn with pistols pis-tols In their hands left the south side of the street and llred at him." iCmuse identified three of the prisoners ns having fired the shots. "Dago" Frank, he iid. was the only ono who did not fire. |