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Show 00 COO HAVE CAUGHT HIM ! Detectives Hunting i' Schepps Met Him in i : the Catskills ' New York, Aug. 12. This week ! jg promises to unravel much of the ' I n mystery that still surrounds the mur- I J der of the gambler, Herman Rosen- 1 I thai, who was shot down In front j 1 of the Hotel Metropole nearly a I month ago. , I With the coming of Sam Schepps from Hot Springs, Ark., and a possi- i bleble confession from Jack Sulll- f van. the district attorney's office prepared itself for new and important eidence that would corroborate the ; confession of "Bald Jack" Rose that J j Police Lieutenant Becker instigated g$ the murder fl ;j Schepps according to Rose, rode I ?i, In the murder car up town and later j J : paid the gunmen for their work. The I I public prosecutor has sent an officer i 1 . to bring Schepps back, and also has I ' requested the Hot Springs officials R not to turn their man over to anyone 1 fl without instructions of the district jg . attorney's office a Mr. Whitman wants his own men i to see Schepps before the New York jj police get to him. ft The aldermanlc investigation , I committee was scheduled to meet to- 1 day to select its counsel. The pub- fl j lie prosecutor's office is said to havo I ': obtained information that Becker had ' accounts in no fewer than eight I -' banks here and there are indications, I it was reported, that since the mur- I der of Rosenthal several thousand - dollars have been withdrawn i 1 Deputy Police Commissioner j N Dougherty said he purposed to inveB- 5 tigate the story of Schepps, that the ; H j police found him In the Catskills and ; ; tailed to arrest him. Dougherty said j he would "break" the detectives if thoy were found guilty. Sohepps, in 1 WJ his story of his flight from the Cat- j rv skills where tho New York detectives 'J were searching for the gunmen, is ; ,j quoted as saying: 1 'J "In Sullivan county I was asleep . ' In a gymnasium when five of the j m New York detectives that I knew j I r,l came In and lifted tho cover from I ;J me. One asked me who I was and 1 I j grinned. I said my name was Smith and I grinned right back. They , 1 " went away after kindly replacing tho ! I f cover Half an hour later I was on 1 r mv way to Buffalo." I I n From Buffalo. Schepps said, he I C wont to Hot Springs. 'id? Attorney Max S Stcur wont to the I I c West Sldo court prison today, where , I ' "Brldgio" Webber, his client, and t ono of those charged with the mur- rf ' der of Rosenthal, is locked up. The jL lawver admitted ho received an ur- I S gent telegram from Webber. Shortly IL aitif-ward Harford T. Marshall. I counsel for "Jack" Sullivan, arrived. f He refused to talk and hurried In- I t. 3lde. I |
