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Show HARRY THE YOT IS SHOT DOWN Witness Who Was to Tell Name of "Man Higher Up" Is Murdered. NEW YORK, April 1. Seven hours before the district attorney's office was to have been informed by Harry Cohen, also known as "Harry tho Yot," of the name of the "man higher up." in the prosecutor's anti-gambling crusade, cru-sade, Cohen was shot and killed at G:30 o'clock this morning. District Attorney Swann immediately ordered the apprehension of a man who was one of the prosecution's star witnesses I against Charles Becker, the police lieutenant who was executed for the murder of Herman Rosenthal, gambler, gam-bler, In 1912. Schepps Is Arrested. Schepps and two men who were with him when the police visited Schepps' jewelry store in Sixth avenue ave-nue were taken Into custody a few hours after the shooting. The circumstances recalled sharply hose connected with the murder of Herman Rosenthal in the summer of 1 1912. Rosenthal, a gambler, about to be a witness in the inquiry which Governor Charles S. Whitman, then district attorney, was conducting into the criminal association between gamblers and certain policemen, was summoned to the sidewalk in front of the former Metropole hotel and there shot and killed by a gang of gunmen who, it was later charged, were hired I by Charles Becker, a poU liputenant. i to commit the crime. Becker and lour gunmen were convicted of murder and died in the electric chair at Sing Sing. Up to the time of his arrest the district attorney withheld the desire for Schepps' appearance. It was not asserted thai he was in the car when Uonen was snot oui tne ponce aeciare that he is identified in the inquiry as a I friend of the woman, who with two, men, was arrested last week upon information in-formation furnished by "Harry the, Yot." Cohen, according to Assistant Dis-I trict Attorney James E. Smith, had fori j several weeks been a secret informer known to the underworld as a "stool I pigeon." Cohen was 38 years old. Inforlation that the gamblers whom: the district attorney is fighting had1 gunmen ready to kill any person who played the role of informer was placed' in Mr. Swann's possession on Saturday night, the prosecutor announced. Gunmen Kill Infcrmor. "It is the same old storv," Mr. Swamm said. "History repeats itself. On Saturday a man whose identity I cannot now reveal, came to me and said, 'Boss, you've got us licked.' This I man has been a gambler for twenty-fivo twenty-fivo years. He said that the gamblers had gunmen ready to 'get any one who rquealed.' This gambler added: 'If it, I became known here my life would notj I be worth a pin.' " Mr Swann said this gambler, who was Cohen .told him the gamblers could summon gunmen with thirty minutes' notice. Sam Schepps was one of the picturesque pic-turesque figures of the Rosenthal murder case. Dapper, suave, faultlessly fault-lessly dressed, he was an associate of the four gunmen who shot Rosenthal "Gyp the Blood." "Dago Frank." "Leftle Louie,' 'and "Wbitey Lewis." who paid the penalty in the electric chair. He was accused by the defense de-fense of being an accomplice in the ci tme S beppa testified freely for the slate in both trials of Becker and in the trial of the gunmen. Another figure in the Rosenthal case is being sought "Bridgey" Weber, We-ber, who was a principal witness for j ih state in the tfiree Rosenthal trials. |