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Show Witness Identifies Two As Rosenthal's Slayers (Br TntrnUoiiil Newi Bprrioet) EW YORK. July 26.- P o i tirely identifying- Brldsy vTebber and Jack Bulll-ran Bulll-ran as the two men who ran to tbe automobile tn front of the Metro-pole Metro-pole hotel immediately immediate-ly after the shooting of Gambler Herman P.OBonthal on the night of July Ui, Loads Krez a. waiter, today presented the most damaging testimony yet adduced against the alleged slayers of the man who had threatened to expose pollr graft. Krez told his story before Coroner Feln-berg, Feln-berg, at the latter's examination of Webber, Web-ber, and, as a result, Webber was committed com-mitted to the Toniba without ball until August Au-gust Charged with blng an accessory acces-sory to tbe murder, Jack Sullivan also wn. arrested, o h a r g ? S against him being based on Krea's nton' Krez declared that the street was nleared In preparation for the assassination by a band of forty men. He told how hf was ordered or-dered to move on by 'me of the gnnsrsters when he stopped to BRIDGY WEBBER. see what a group of four or live men were doing In the middle of the street. ThssS men. he said, went to the entrance of the Metropolis et a signal from a man In the doorway. Immediately thereafter the shots which killed Rosenthal were fired and the same four or five men hurried hur-ried tn the waiting automobile and disappeared. dis-appeared. Identifies Two. "Did you see. anyone standing In this sroup of men who Is now In the courtroom?" court-room?" asked Mstrict Attorney Whitman Whit-man of the witness. "Yes. there he la." aiJ Krez's long forefinger pointed straight af the face of Bridsy Webber. Tho scene wa dramatic In Hp intensity inten-sity and for a moment not even the court officials spoke. Then sensation followed sensation when Krez identitled Jai-k Sullivan. Despite the arrant of Finnic GHrOfflcI, alias "Dago Frank," and hi6 arraignment. District Attorney Whitman this afternoon after-noon admitted that the case against the murderers of Rosenthal was weak. He-attaches He-attaches little Importance to the arreat of GHroflcl. Whitman Explains. "The statement that I have evidence enough to convict four or fivo men In the Rosenthal case is false," said the district dis-trict attorney. "I have enough evidence, I believe, to convict two men, but the one man I would like to get hold of is Sain Scthepp. With hliu In the Tombs we would have the key to the situation." It transpired today that the police of New Haven, Conn., had Schepp under arrest two days after the murder, but released him because the New York police po-lice said he was not wanted. William Shapiro, who made a complete com-plete statement to the district attorney, has established the Identity of the men who used the gray murder car on the night of the tragedy. His evidence Is 6trong against Jark Rose, Harry VaJlon and Brldgy Webber, as well as against the missing Schepp. Three other vttnessee whose names have not been made public declared they saw Vallon at the Metropole before the murder. This shatters VaJlon's alibi. Mayor Warns Waldo. Mayor Gaynor today wrote to Police Commissioner Waldo a 200(1-word letter. In which he asks the commissioner not to suspend Lieutenant Becker, alleged t he the man who received the gambling graft, except on evidence strong enough to convict. In this lotter the mayor said- 'This is the third attempt of bunted gamhlers and other criminals ro break down the police administration inside of two years through their paid press agents. Do nol suspend Lieutenant Becker and put him on trhil without evidence evi-dence to justify his conviction and dismissal dis-missal by you. Do not bend a single bit to clamor and especially to clamor chiefly created by the hired press agents Of the gamblers with whom you aro at war, ' We have tn this city tho largest foreign for-eign population of any city, and a large number of thorn are dcnegeratcS and criminals. The gambling of the olty Is almost all In their hands, not to mention men-tion other vices anil crimes. The published pub-lished names of every one conncotf.-d with Rosea thai and his murder shows them to tie of this same cites of lawless foreigners to which he belonged When the police arrest one after another and close Ihelr places, they open others. And so the endless struggle of the police commissioner com-missioner and his forces goes on agnlnst them." "Use Axe," Says Mayor. Regarding the writs of replevin, by Which In the past vear gamblers have secured the return of more than $70,00u worth of paraphernalia confiscated by the police, the mayor says- 'Treat these gamhling Instruments hereafter as absolutely contia.ba.nd and, upoij seizing flic gamling places, where they Hre. knock them into splinters with an axe.." The mayor adds that the. courts might as well "restore dynamite bombs to an assassin." as gambling machinery to a gambler. Formal charges were made at police headquarters today against William J. Pile the patrolman who wa In tho Metropole dining room at the time of the shooting lie is charged with neglect of duty In falling to catch the murderers and also In falling to report all the facts In his possession to his superior officer. Ti Is hinted that the real reaion for the suspension is the fact that File has col-U'rtud col-U'rtud evidence to show that, on of his superior officers Irnd shared In the grail from a- big -irises-tapping swindle. |