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Show TO IDENTIFY MURDERERS Jack Rose Says He will Point Out Rosenthal Slayers New York, Aug. 8. Cumulative evidence evi-dence piling up before the grand jury Investigating poljee blackmail, is said today to Involve mur or five high police po-lice officials, atyjjthat Indictments soon will be dranl Assistants of t District Attorney Whitman have furnished much corroboration cor-roboration to the testimony of "Jack" Rose, who gave a list of gamblers upon, whom ho charged Pollco Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Becker leved blackmail. Several gamblers were before the public prosecutor and unwillingly admitted ad-mitted they had paid blackmail to certain inspectors One told Mr. Whitman he hadi been threatened with death if he? went before the grand Jury and Sfgave information about the polIceA These witnesses said the Inspectors In question dealt directly with the bfg gambling houses, leaving Lieutenant Becker to attend to the smaller places. The district attorney said evidence would be presented to the grand jury against several police inspectors One of these is said to have kept such close watch on the gambling houses that he oven examined their books and made them pay blackmail according accord-ing to their profits. "Brldgle" Webber now admits he also collected toll from certain uptown up-town gambling houses for a police inspector. Webber's life has been threatened and District Attorney Whitman has provided him with a special guard. Rose has sent word to the public prosecutor that he is prepared to identify the four murederers of Herman Her-man Rosenthal. Until now Rose was not ready to say that he could positively identify the gunmen. oo |