Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1912 — GOTHAM GAMBLER IS SLAIN [ARTICLE]

GOTHAM GAMBLER IS SLAIN

Herman Rosenthal, Who Made Sensational Charges Against Police, Is Shot by Men in Auto. New York, July 16.—Herman Rosenthal, the gambler who a few days ago made sensational charges against the police, was shot and killed in front of the Hotel Metropole, at Broadway and Forty-third street, early today. Rosenthal was standing near the entrance to the hotel when six men in a slate-colored touring car rode up. One of them jumped out and opened fire on him. Rosenthal’s assailants, it was reported on the street, was whisked away in the car a second after the shooting. The car was followed by the police in a taxi-cab, but the men made their escape.