Washington Times, 5 November 1928, page 1: Gambler near death, won't squeal

The front page of The Washington Times, Monday, 5 November 1928, Home Edition, is mostly election news. At lower right, in the second column from the edge, is a story headed “GAMBLER NEAR DEATH, WON’T SQUEAL,” by Theodore B. Goetz, under a NEW YORK, Nov. 5, dateline. It continues on page 2.

Goetz writes that police, “hampered by the code of silence,” searched for “the gambler’s gunman assailant.” He reports that “At 9:30 o’clock Rothstein lapsed into a coma” at the hospital (the OCR reads “Polytechnic”), “with a probably fatal bullet wound in the abdomen,” and that “Surgeons operated but failed to locate the bullet.” The story says police were looking for a man under several names about his recent dealings with Rothstein, and asks whether “another Rosenthal case” was in the making.

The story is a reporter’s account written while Rothstein was still alive. It does not say who shot him, and this archive does not repeat its descriptions of Rothstein’s career. The rest of the page is unrelated news.