GANGSTER SHOT

Southland Times, Issue 20641, 13 November 1928, Page 5

GANGSTER SHOT

ARCH GAMBLER ESTATE VALUED AT £3,000,000 PLUNDER FROM ROBBERIES (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) New York, November 11. Arnold Rothstein was seated with four other friends gambling 10C0 dollars on each turn of high spade, when a quarrel arose and somebody shot Arnold through the body. He was known in life as an arch gambler and in death as Broadway’s Shylock. Rothstein was hastily removed to the hospital. Blood transfusion might have saved him, but from the first he insisted on hiding the secrets of the sources of his wealth, even with death staring at him, and by the lime he had signed his will disposing of his estate of £3,000,000 he was beyond surgical aid. “Who shot you?” detectives asked him, but Rothstein, respecting the law of “gangland,” shook his head and died. The police learned that in his assets are plunder from famous robberies and swindles. 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 hold-ujxs. With these clues the police believe the Rothstein shooting will rank amongst the sensation crimes of -the past 50 years.— —United Sendee.