(3 of 3)
Yet when the country awoke last week to read of the murder of Jacob Rosenthal there flashed at once into many minds remembrance of another murdered man of the same name whose death stirred the country 14 years ago. This man, no relation to Jacob Rosenthal, was the notorious Manhattan gambler Herman Rosenthal who, in 1912, was allegedly operating a gambling establishment in which Lieutenant Becker of the New York police held a silent partnership. They quarreled. Reputedly Lieutenant Becker hired to kill Gambler Rosenthal five gunmen: "Gyp the Blood" Horowitz, "Lefty Louie," "Whitey" Lewis, "Schlaap" Schlepp, and "Dago Frank."
Rosenthal, hearing of the plot, grew frantic, said to his wife: "They'll get me sure as fate!" They "got" Rosenthal next evening as he left the Hotel Metropole. Four policemen stood idly by while the gunmen swept up in a big grey touring car and shot Rosenthal dead.
So indifferent were the police that Rosenthal's body was not moved from where it fell until long after extras describing the crime had been printed and actually hawked within a few feet of where the corpse lay covered by a table cloth from the Metropole restaurant.
For eight days no investigation of the crime was made, then public opinion kindled and Becker and his gunmen were sent to the electric chair.