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Rosenthal murder case
to May 22, 1914. Other procedural events took place in
1915.
History
On July 16, 1912, Herman Rosenthal walked out of the
Hotel Metropole at 147 West 43rd Street, just off Times
Square. He was gunned down by a crew of Jewish gang-
sters from the Lower East Side, Manhattan. In the after-
math, Manhattan District Attorney Charles S. Whitman,
who had made an appointment with Rosenthal before his
death, made no secret of his belief that the gangsters had
committed the murder at Charles Becker’s behest.
At first, John J. Reisler, also known as "John the bar-
Lefty Louis Rosenberg and Gyp the Blood and their captors
ber," told the police that he’d seen "Bridgey" Webber
running away from the crime scene directly following
the killing. He recanted under duress from gangsters the
next week, and was charged with perjury.[2]
The investigation was covered on the front page of
the New York Times for months. It was so complex that
the NYPD recalled thirty retired detectives to help inves-
tigate; they were said "to know most of the gangsters."[2]
One of these old-timers, Detective Upton, formerly of the
NYPD "Italian Squad," was instrumental in the July 25,
1912, arrest of "Dago" Frank Cirofici, one of the suspect-
ed killers. He and his companion, Regina Gorden (former-
ly known as "Rose Harris"), were "so stupefied by opium
that they offered no objection to their arrests," according
to the New York Times.[3]
Dago Frank funeral after his execution
People
• Charles Becker (1870–1915), police officer involved in
the murder, executed
• Francisco Cirofici (1887–1912), aka Dago Frank,
gunman who was executed
• Harry Horowitz (1889–1914), aka Gyp the Blood,
gunman who was executed [1]
• Whitey Lewis [1]
• Martin Thomas Manton (1880–1946), Becker’s lawyer
at the trial.[4]
• Sam Paul (1874–1927), gambler and owner of the club
at which the police first thought that the murder
Charles Becker (center) being escorted to Sing Sing was planned.
• Jacob A. Rich (1877-1938), also known as Jack
The Becker-Rosenthal trial was a 1912 trial for the mur- Sullivan[5] and Jacob A. Reich, testified for the
der of Herman Rosenthal by Charles Becker and members defense.[6]
of the Lenox Avenue Gang.[1] The trial ran from October • Jack Rose (1875-1947) gambler and informant who
7, 1912 to October 30, 1912 and restarted on May 2, 1914 testified at the trial[7]
• Lefty Louis Rosenberg [1]
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• Herman Rosenthal, murdered gambler [5]"Dougherty Gets Murder Witness". New York
• Sam Schepps (?–1936), also known as Schapps, mob Times. 28 July 1912. pp. 1.
informant who testified at the trial [8] [6] "Becker Witness Dies In The Bronx. Jacob A. Rich
• Harry Vallon, mob informant who testified at the Testified at the Murder Trial as Reich and Defended
trial [8] Police Officer. Former ’King of Newsboys’ Did Not
• Louis William Webber (1877–1936), aka Bridgie Get ’Vindication’ Until Summer of 1936". New York
Webber, mob informant who testified at the trial [8] Times. December 25, 1938.
• Charles Seymour Whitman (1868–1947), district http://select.nytimes.com/gst/
attorney [9] abstract.html?res=F00C1FF93A581A7A93C7AB1789D95F4C8385F9.
• Jack Zelig (1888-1912), murdered before he could Retrieved 2010-12-13. "Jacob A. Rich, who as Jacob
testify Reich or Jack Sullivan was a chief defense witness
in the two trials of Police Lieutenant Charles
See also Becker for the murder of Hefman Rosenthal, died
early yesterday in the Home for Incurables, Third
• George Samuel Dougherty Avenue and 183d Street, the Bronx."
[7] "Baldy Jack Rose is Dead Here At 72. Police Close
External links File on Rosenthal Murder Case Figure Whose
Testimony Doomed Becker". New York Times.
• Rosenthal murder case from the Library of Congress October 9, 1947. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/
at Flickr Commons abstract.html?res=F50F11FA395E17738DDDA00894D8415B8788F1D
Retrieved 2010-11-25. "The Police Department’s
References Bureau of Identification closed its file yesterday on
Jacob (Baldy Jack) Rose. The lanky informer in the
[1] ^ "Defense Rests After Calling Some of Those Who Herman Rosenthal murder case of 1912 died in
Saw the Murder of Rosenthal". New York Times. Roosevelt Hospital on Saturday of an internal
November 16, 1912. http://select.nytimes.com/ disorder. He was 72 years old."
gst/ [8] ^ "Becker Informers Now Ready To Flit. Schepps
abstract.html?res=F70A16F6385813738DDDAF0994D9415B828DF1D3. Vaudeville, Webber to Europe, Rose and
West for
Retrieved 2010-11-25. "Ex-Magistrate Charles G. F. Vallon Won’t Tell". New York Times. November 21,
Wahle, counsel for the gunmen "Gyp the Blood" 1912. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/
Horowitz, "Lefty Louis" Rosenberg, "Whitey abstract.html?res=FB0D11F6385813738DDDA80A94D9415B828DF1D
Lewis", and "Dago Frank" Cirofici on trial before Retrieved 2010-12-10. "Becker’s Lawyer Serves
Justice Goff and a jury in the Extraordinary Term of Notice of Appeal. Sam Schepps, "Bridgey" Webber,
the Supreme Court for the murder of Herman Jack Rose, and Harry Vallon, whose stories
Rosenthal, rested the case of the defense at 5 convicted Charles Becker and the four ..."
o’clock yesterday afternoon." [9] "Death Takes Ex-Governor Of New York. Charles S.
[2] ^ "Murder Witness Recants in Fear". New York Whitman, Hanover, Conn., Native Was Elected in
Times: 1. 25 July 1912. 1914". Associated Press in The Hartford Courant. March
[3] "’Dago’ Frank in the Police Net". New York Times: 1. 30, 1947. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/
26 July 1912. access/
[4] "Becker’s Lawyers Plan Final Move. Application for 897077732.html?dids=897077732:897077732&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS
Federal Writ of Habeas Corpus Discussed with Governor+Of+New+York&pqatl=google. Retrieved
Condemned Man’s Wife. Letter Received by H. T. 2010-03-22. "Charles S. Whitman, 78, former
Marshall from Judge Bartlett Submitted to governor of New York, died tonight."
Counsel". New York Times. July 13, 1915.
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/
abstract.html?res=FA0615FE385B17738DDDAA0994DF405B858DF1D3.
Retrieved 2010-12-24. "Mrs. Charles Becker had a
long conference yesterday afternoon with her
husband’s lawyers, W. Bourke Cochran, Martin T.
Manton and John B. Johnston, in relation to final
stops in the fight to save her husband from paying
the death penalty for the murder of Herman
Rosenthal."
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