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...know of a drunken revelry, a wild party, given by Dennis Murphy, a gambler, at a Grand Avenue roadhouse near Detroit on the night of Nov. 5 last at which a governor of Michigan, a chief of police and four judges were present with gamblers, criminals and bootleggers. The revelry included dances by naked hootchy-koochy girls - and all the rest of it. It was a Bacchanalian orgy...
Street of Chance (Paramount). Arnold Rothstein, famed gambler whose murder more than a year ago kept the front pages of Manhattan papers lively for months and has never been solved by the police, was a man of scrupulous habits, who paid his debts promptly, was faithful to his wife, and stooped to cheating in a card game only once and then in an effort to make an honest man of his young brother. Thus, at least, the producers of Street of Chance have worked out his character in a picture shrewdly designed to profit by still active popular interest...
...traffic situation and they discussed ballistics (study of bullets, firearms, etc.) as an aid to crime detection. And the New York Bar Association prepared to investigate the career of Magistrate Vitale. They had secured a folder inscribed with his name which was found among the records of the murdered gambler Arnold Rothstein (TIME, Dec. 24, 1928). Magistrate Vitale, finding himself enmeshed in a case which involved three of the most unsavory names in recent New York history-Marlow, Yale, Rothstein-kept his peace...
Ever since the murder 13 months ago of Arnold Rothstein, one of its most amiable gambler-racketeers (TIME, Dec. 24). Manhattan has been kept acutely Rothstein-conscious. Last week, when the State's sole suspect in hand-burly, big-jawed Gambler George A. McManus-was acquitted, the Rothstein spotlight seemed likely to flicker out, leaving another famed Manhattan murder in unsolved darkness...
...State's attorneys outlined their case against Gambler McManus. He had lost money to Rothstein at poker. Later he had taken a room at the Park Central Hotel, ordered whiskey, summoned Rothstein by telephone. Rothstein was seen staggering away from the room clutching his belly, was found at the servants' entrance of the hotel with a fatal bullet wound in his groin. He refused to name his assailant. An automatic pistol was picked up on the street under McManus' window, in the screen of which was torn a big hole...