gunmen

From: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=940CE1D9133CE633A... 'November 12, 1912, Tuesday The jury which is to try the gunmen -- "Gyp the Blood" Horowitz, "Lefty Louie" Rosenberg, "Whitney" Lewis, and "Dago Frank" Cirofici -- in Justice Goff's Extraordinary Term of the Supreme Court was completed at exactly 7:10 o'clock yesterday evening after a court session lasting with an hour's recess from 10:30 o'clock in the morning.' According to: www.davidpietrusza.com/Becker-Rosenthal-Case.html 'Arnold Rothstein and Herman “Beansy” Rosenthal were protégés of Lower East Side Tammany Hall boss Big Tim Sullivan. He understated Rothstein's talents; he tragically overestimated Rosenthal. In 1912 Rosenthal was running a gambling house at 104 W. 45th Street with Lt. Charles Becker (1873-1915), head of the NYPD vice squad—and overlord of a widespread system of Police shakedowns. When the two fell out, Becker put Rosenthal out of business. Rosenthal—despite Rothstein's warnings—threatened to blow the lid off "The System," finally taking his story to Herbert Bayard Swope (best man at Rothstein's wedding) at the New York World. In July 1912 the World printed Rosenthal's story. An enraged Becker ordered Rosenthal's death, and a quartet of killers—Jacob Seidenshner (aka Whitet Lewis), Frank "Dago Frank" Cirofici, Louis "Lefty Louie" Rosenberg and Harry "Gyp the Blood" Horowitz—rubbed out Rosenthal as he exited Big Tim Sullivan's Metropole Hotel at 142 West 43rd Street, just off Times Square, on the evening of July 16, 1912. The four gunmen were found guilty of Rosenthal's murder on November 19, 1912.' Becker was tried separately [see http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2349132043/] and convicted. The first conviction (October 1912) was overturned but he was tried again a couple of years later. All five were executed. See also: www.crimemagazine.com/killercop.htm sixforfive.blogspot.com/2007/02/harry-horowitz-aka-gyp-bl... and books.google.com/books?id=29R4MyhnVb4C&pg=PT55&lp...

We'll add a subject note to our home catalog record to identify the event, and then probably link back here for the rest of the story!

Other Bain/LOC photos of characters involved in the Gunmen's Trial:

Curious to see only one woman or girl by herself in the crowd.

rainbow, if you look closely you will see that there are two little girls together -- maybe the judge's daughters?

Possibly related to: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9501E0DA1630E233A... BURNS MEN HOLD TWO AS GUNMEN; Trail Pair from Albany to Fonda, N.Y., and Arrest Them as "Gyp" and "Lefty Louie." August 27, 1912, Tuesday William J. Burns, head of the National Detective Agency, employed by District Attorney Whitman to run down the two missing slayers of Herman Rosenthal, the gambler, announced shortly after midnight last night that two of his operatives had arrested two men earlier in the evening in Fonda, N.Y.

See also www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2405655750/ and www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2423488718/

Thanks! Helpful connections; we'll fix the date and add a subject note.

Below see link to Wikipedia article about Gyp, the Blood also known as Harry Horowitz. Horowitz and his gang were convicted and executed, apparently they were believed to be acting at behest of NYPD Police Lieutenant Charles Becker, and there are photos in this Flickr series of Becker going to Sing Sing also. (see tag for Becker). They killed Herman Rosenthal. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyp_the_Blood

Bain/LOC photos of characters involved in the Gunmen's Trial:

Is it this woman? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alva_Belmont

Alva Belmont was quite a woman! I'm not sure if that's her, though.

Looks like her to me!

I agree that it looks like her. NYT article (August 15, 1912) at query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B05E6DB113AE633A... suggests that August Belmont (my guess is that would be Alva's brother-in-law but possibly her father-in-law - -both were August) was on the list for the Grand Jury for the Rosenthal murder. [See comments for www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2423488718/] Alva Belmont was a widow by now and had taken on the suffragette cause, which might have included an interest in women being able to serve on juries. Attending such a trials may have been her cup of tea. She had been active in the 1911 strike, monitoring trials, and legislative aftermath of a tragic fire in a sweatshop (the Triangle Shirtwaist fire -- see www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/whm/trials/triangle.htm).

Thanks for everyone's input. We'll add her first name to the source data and reload the description.