Evening Star, 5 November 1928, page 11: Rothstein, shot, maintains silence

Page 11 of the Evening Star, Monday, 5 November 1928, carries near the top of the fourth column a story headed “ROTHSTEIN, SHOT, MAINTAINS SILENCE,” with the deck “Police Hear He Was “Marked Man”—Seek Alleged Card Game Operator.” It is credited “By the Associated Press” under a NEW YORK, November 5, dateline.

The dispatch says that police wanted to question George McManus, “reputed to be a Broadway card game operator,” against whom “No charge has been lodged.” It reports that Arnold Rothstein, “in a serious condition in Polyclinic Hospital with a bullet wound in his abdomen, gave the police no aid in their search for his assailants,” and that detectives said “he was shot in a room of the Park Central Hotel, alleged to have been occupied by McManus,” after he left a restaurant on Broadway near Fiftieth Street in answer to a telephone message.

The story repeats Broadway gossip, attributed to police, about a gambling debt. This archive takes from the page only the hotel and the date as the paper printed them. It does not repeat the gossip, and the page does not say who fired the shot. A later page reports the indictments that were expected.