NEW YORK CRIME.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14015, 24 June 1913, Page 7

NEW YORK CRIME.

“BRIDCIE” WEBBER STABBED. WITNESS IN THE ROSENTHAL CASE. MAN WHO WAS THREATENED. Sydney Sun Cables.) ‘NEW YORK, Juno 18. “Bridgio” Webber, one of the principal witnesses against Becker, the police oflicer who was convicted in December last for the murder of Herman Rosenthal, was yesterday found lying in a street in Broadway staubed in tne shoulder. Although the victim was suffering seriously from loss of blood when taken to the hospital, the doctors say that he will recover.

It is believed that Webber knows who his asrailant was, but that he is afraid to

“squeal." He declares that he was stabbed by a little boy with a penknife, but the wound is altogether too big to have been inflicted with so small an instrument.

It is not forgotten that the victim wan one of the witnesses who were threatened at the time of Becker’s trial for the evidence that they had given. Mo arrests have vet been made.

Rosenthal was the man whose disclosures concerning the relations existing between the police of New York and the gambling fraternity of that city created such, a big sensation about. twelve months ago. Rosenthal himself was the keeper of a gambling-house, and had been summoned as a witness at the inquiry into the police “graft” scandals. Shortly after 2 o’clock tn the morning of July 18 he was having a meal in the Metropole Hotel when he was told that some friends were in a motor-car outside who wanted to see him. He left the tabic and, going outside, was crossing the pavement, when six men in the car simnltancnously fired their revolvers at him, and Rosenthal, pierced by four bullets, fell, and died almost instantly. Webber was. one of the witnesses called- by the prosecution, and the evidence ho gave against Becker was highly incriminating. DEATH AFTER A SHAVE. A DOCTOR’S ADVICE. LONDON, Juno IS. At an inquest at Fulham, London, yesteerday, on the body of a man who died after contracting barber's rash, the jury added a rider saying that the- law should make it imperative that all brushes and razors should be sterilised. The doctor who gave evidence said that dipping the shaving implements in boiling water was insufficient. FRILLS AND FURBELOWS. SPOILING FEMALE BEAUTY. LONDON, June 18. A Loudon expert states that the modern woman is overdressed. ' Frills aud trimmings added to the costume, he claims, destroy the beauty of line of the natural figure. EPIDEMIC OF DIPHTHERIA. SUPPOSED CURIOUS ORIGIN. LONDON, June 18. An epidemic of diphtheria that has occurred at Epping, in Essex, is believed to have resulted from an outbreak of tuberculoids in chickens.