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Show GAMBLER'S FUED IS BEING PROBED Bartender Closely Questioned by District Attorney's Office Of-fice in New York. WHY COHEN WAS SHOT Affair Has Aspect of Private Quarrel Among the City Gamblers. NEW YORK, April 2. In Ml effort to obtain further ramifications of the I gamblers" feud in New York, ottlcers of the district attorney's office ques-I ques-I tioned closely Morris Rothenburg, waiter and bartender who was arrest-j arrest-j ed last night charged with the mur der of jTatry Cohen, known as "Harry the Yot," 3 notorious gambler and burglar. Cohen was shot in his apnrt-1 apnrt-1 ment house on the upper west sidp yeH terday morning, an hour and a half after he alied on James L. Smith, assistant as-sistant district attorney, ii:d promised to give testimony against men "higher up" in a "gambling ring." r-V. nuirlnr rn the PVP of hlS LUUCIl iuuiuii " Y promised disclosures bears a close re sehblance to the sensational Rosenthal murder case here In 1912 for which Charles Becker, police lieutenant, and four gunmen were electrocuted The facts, so far as known, however, do not implicate the police, officials say, and the affair has the aspect more of a private quarrel among gamblers. |