Broadway’s Shylock Dies, Shot in Gaming Quarrel

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 509, 12 November 1928, Page 9

Broadway’s Shylock Dies, Shot in Gaming Quarrel

GREAT ILL-GOTTEN ESTATE

Received 9.5 a.m. NEW YORK. Sunday. Arnold Rothstein was seated with four friends, gambling for 1,000 dollars. when each in turn threw a high spade. A quarrel arose, and somebody shot Arnold through the body. He was known in life as the archgambler; in death he is known as Broadway’s Shylock. Rothstein was hastily removed to hospital. Blood transfusion might have saved him; but from the first ne insisted on hiding the secret of the sources of his wealth, even with death staring at him. By the time he signed his will, dis-_

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posing of his estate of 3,000.000 dollars, he was beyond surgical aid. “Who shot you?” the detectives asked him; but Rothstein respected the law of “Gangland,” shook his head, and died. The police learned that included in the assets are plunder from famous robberies and swindles. The late “Nicky” Arnstein’s 1,000,000 dollars’ worth of loot is said to repose in Rothstein’s strong-boxes, and there is 100,000 dollars’ worth of bonds stolen from Wall Street by messenger hold-ups. With these clues, the police believe that the Rothstein shooting will rank among the sensational crimes of the last 50 years.