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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10742, 13 November 1928, Page 7

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ARCH-GAMBLER SHOT BY ASSOCIATES. MIGHT HAVE LIVED WITH BLOOD TRANSFUSION. TOO LATE InHmSCDOSING wealth; l/nltea Ptcss Assn, by El. Tel. Copyrlßbi (Australian Press., Assooiation.• . - , f new york; Nov. 11. * Arnold Rotlistein was seated with four other friends gambling 1000 dollars at each turn of a high spade when a quarrel arose and somebody shot Arnold through the body. He was known in life as an arch-gamb-ler, and in death as Broadway’s Shyluck. Rotlistein was hastily removed to hospital. Blood transfusion might have 'saved him, but from the first he insisted on hiding the secrets of the, sources or his wealth, even with death staring at. him, and by the time he had ended, a will disposing of his estate of £3,000,000 he was beyond surgical aid., “Who shot you •'’’"'detective's "asked him, but Rotlistein, respecting the Taw of gangland;.,shook ,Ins “head and' died., ’ ..... .. The.-poii.ee learned that m his as-„ Sets are the plunder of famous robberies and swindles. The late Nicky Arnstein’s! £1,000,000 loot is said to repose in llothsteiri s strong boxes, and there is £20,000 worth'of. bonds stolen from a Wall Street messenger by hold-ups. With these clues the police believe that the Rotlistein shooting will rank amongst-. the sensational crimes of the past 50 years. - - -