GAMBLER'S DEATH.
SENSATIONAL DISCOVERIES. (UNITED TRESS ASSOCIATION —B? ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—-COrYRIQBT.) NEW YORK, November 28. George McManus, a six-footer "weighing 240 pounds, capitulated voluntarily to the police, who immediately arrainged hiiii without bail on- a chargeof the murder of his gambler friend, Arnold Rothstein. McManus left his overcoat in 'P® room where Rothstein was murdered on November 4th. Clues to 40 per cent, of the l»g crimes in New York in the last five years were disclosed in the search of J6OO letters, which Rothstein left behind him—United Service.
FArnold Rothstein was seated with four friends gambling 1000 dollars each on the .turn of a high Bpade "when a quarrel arose and Rothstein snot through the body. Rothstein refused to tell who shot him, and made a wiU disposing of his £8,000,000 estate bofore ho died in hospital. The police have learned, according,to a previous cablegram, that his assets are tho plunder from famous robberies and swindles, and it is believed that the case will rank amongst the most sensational or the past 50 years.]
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19481, 30 November 1928, Page 9
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