GAMBLER SHOT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 12 November 1928, Page 7

GAMBLER SHOT

DEATH IN HOSPITAL ESTATE WORTH £3,000,000 SENSATIONAL REVELATIONS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph —Copyright United Service (Received 12th November, 9.5 a.m.) NEW YORK, 11th November. Arnold Rothstein was seated with four friends gambling a thousand dollars on each turn of a high spade, when a quarrel arose and somebody shot Arnold through the body. He was known in life as the "arch gambler." and in death as "Broadway's Shylock." Rothstein was' hastily removed to a hospital where blood transfusion might have saved him, but from the first ho insisted on hiding the secrets of the sources of his wealth, even with deatli staring at him, and by the time ho had signed a will disposing'of his estate of £3,000.000, he was beyond surgical aid. "Who shot you?" detectives askecf him, but Rothstein, respecting the law of "gangland," shook his head and died.

The police learned that in his assets are plunder of famous robberies, and swindles, and the late Nicky Arnstein's £1,000,000 loot is said to' repose in Rothstein's strong boxes, and there is 100,000 dollars worth of bonds stolen from Wall Street messenger holdups. With these clues the police believe the Rothstein shooting will rank amongst the sensational crimes of the past fifty years.