The Archive · 1912

The New York Police

SCANDAL, 'A Chauffeur's Confession.

In a telegram from New York published in this issue it is stated that police Lieutenant Becker and gang of aliens had been indicted by the Grand Jury for the murder of the gambler named Herman Rosenthal in circumstances which have already been reported. "i, According to the American news: papers received this week the police appeared to have secured very damaging evidence against several persons. The public prosecutor told a reporter that he had smashed the alibis of three of the persons under detention, and that the investigation by the Grand Jury of the relations between the police and gamblers was proving more than satisfactory to the prosecution.

The testimony of Lieut. Costigan, known as The Honest Cop" has created a sensation in police circles. Costigan flatly declared that he did not believe that any gambling house could remain open without—police protection. He said that the gambling squad took orders from a Police Commissioner and no one else. The chauffeur who drove the car that carried the party which murdered Rosenthal in the vestipule of a hotel, has given valuable evidence to the authorities and de-tactives hope to arrest all who had hand in the kurds

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