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Show uu GIP THE BLOOD IS SURROUNDED New York, Aug. 7. "Glp the Blood," wanted for the murder of Herman Rosenthal, the gambler, as one of the actual assassins, Is surrounded sur-rounded at Phoenicia, twenty miles Inland from Kingston, N Y , In the Catsklll mountains, according to the belief of the police, who expect his capture within the next twenty-four hours. Headquarters men stationed at Kingston were hastened to Phoenicia late this afternoon and at the same time more detectives started from New York for Phoenicia. Mrs Horo. profited with him from gambling wltz, wife of the fugitive was trailed by detectives today from Kingston to Hunter. 'Jack" Rose, collector of police gambling graft, grilled by District Attorney At-torney Whitman late today in his cell In the west side prison, handed over to that official a complete list of gambling houses from which Rose, acting for Becker, collected protection protec-tion money At the same time he amplified his original confession In writing. It covers 100 pages of business busi-ness size writing paper One paragraph para-graph reads Enforced Graft Collection. "The majority ai the houses on my list were rated to pay ?200 a month for protection. When I would turn in less than Becker thought we ought to get. he would send me back for more. IT a gambler failed to 'come across' on the second appeal we would manufacture a 'raid' tip and scare him." Another Important development late today was the corroboration by a Burns detective of Rose's statement state-ment that a few minutes after the shooting of Rosenthal. Rose rushed to a telephone In the Times building and Informed Becker oer tho telephone tele-phone that tho murder had been done. The Burns detective has produced the original record of the call The telephone tel-ephone operator w-ill be a witness before be-fore the grand jur EUdenre showing the existence of graft In the police department, it was learned tonight, will be presented to the grand Jury by the Burns detectives detec-tives in the form of erbatlm records of officers of tho lnw demanding tribute tri-bute from two pseudo disorderly houses opened and operated In tho tenderloin district by the BurnB detective de-tective agency Led Police Into Trap. Every employe in these two houses was a Burns dotecthe, men and women, wo-men, white and colored. When tho furnishing of the houses had beon completo and the doors had been op ened, a representative of the police called and told the proprietors that they must pay or close up Tho lengthy conversations that followed were copied by stenographers or recorded re-corded by dictagraphs. Three police officials and one civilian, ci-vilian, a lawyer, have boon trapped by this ruse Harry Horowitz, cousin of "Gip the Blood," and for many years a well known Harlem gamblor, declared today to-day that he and fellow gamblers had always felt themselves Immune from police Interference except where Lieutenant Costigan and former Deputy Dep-uty Commissioner William J. Flynn were concerned. He said' "All the Harlem gamblers are tipped off hours before a raid .comes. We always paid .our money to Sam Paul He was the money man, the man who split with the cops. "Do I think the cops were getting 'sugar?' Don't make me laugh, Copb don't work for nothing any more than other people. "I sec Gaynor says a copper shouldn't dine with a gambler. Let me tell you, no half way honest gambler gam-bler would be seen with a cop if he could help It," j Lieutenant Becker, held I on a. charge of murder, heard from a mysterious mys-terious source that those who had profltedf with, him from gambling graft had deoided to make him the "goat" and that he would have to mako the fight for his life without outside help and keep his silence on pain of death should he be acquitted. The storv that $50,000 had been raised within the police department for the defense- of Becker wau denied by John F. Mclntyre, the noted criminal crim-inal lawyer, after he had accepted a retainer from Becker's family to defend de-fend the policeman |