The sun., 1900-10-20
TALE OF A STOLEN COHEN.
ALL TINE EAST SIDE STIRRED UP
BY KIDNAPPING SCARE.


Cohen. Furniture Dealer. Horse and waFon
Wert-Hc Put Up $50 to Get Them Back
an q hen, Jr.. Disapp, ,ared-Note for sAOO
Made out, Then He Turned Up Again.
The entire East Side was In roment yester-
day over the report that a gang OF kidnappers
had stolen q horse. a wagon and young He
brew. and that ransom had been paid at the
rate Of So cash for the horse and wagon and
$40 on a tme note for the Hebrew. The po-
lice were stirred UP, and last night there were
three prisoners in the Madison street station
charged with doing the stealing They we're
Jacob Godga Of % Hester street, who has
an express and dried fish business In Canal
street: Samuel Schwartz. a Jeweller OF 1877 East
Broadway. and Samuel Goldman Of isi Henry
street. who runs a soda water stand In Essex
street. and said to be a partner Of Godgals
In the dried fish business az well
Wolf Cohen. a furniture dealer OF Esser
street. Is the complainant against the three.
On Wednesday night Max Horwitz. hls driver,
ran into Cohen's store in a great state OF ex-
element
% Mister Cohen. Mister Cohen he cried.
Il vas a maddress dellfering py IS Rudgers
blaze undt While am on der inside Of der house
der horse undt wagon somc tleves has daken.'
Cohen. hatess and coatless. ran out OF tho
house and dashed around to the Madison street
station. Capt Hammond was behind the desk.
Mister Mister" shrieked Cohen. Mine
single horse undt wagon Is stole
Ever know married horse asked the
captain. "Or maybe he was a widowcri"
DIS Ia no choke" walled Cohen. Il want
deteCatlves put on der case ride now,
lie told about the mi sing horse and wagon
and Capt. Hammond promised TO DO MS utmost
to recover them. Cohen went home lie ne
Godgu mad called on him and had offered 70
recover the holse and wagon ior sIq. and ana that hat
matter under con liberation and had invited
hun to call again. On Thursday morning
Cohen called at the station and reported that
that he was going 10 deposit a check for $50
with friend Of Godgals =. lie again returned
home only to return in two hours TO say that
Godga had sent a man named Meyer solomon
around 10 his house and that hi son, Harry
Cohen, had gone with solomon TO Long Island
II was quiet in the Madison street station
for few hours because Cohen made no cal
Yesterday morning, however, he apreaT,eed
declared to CA Il Hammond that late on Thurs
day night Godgal and Go Oman had come TO
return of Harry. and he had theyeuI n gone
70 SChvartzs lewelTy store ana there had Ce.
wagon and note for siOO. payabl in, IA month,
for the return of h Is son. The boy, horse and
wagon were a 60 have been at tsscN street
AZ 10 O'Clock In the morning. so Cohen tod
Cart Hammond. but at that hour Goldman
had come to the house and had said that they
cor d not arrive before 90 ock. .
When Capt. hammond heard this he sent Detec-
tiveS Deyancy and Baxter around 10 theJew Try
store and they ARE ted schwartz onsusI icion.
the captain and his detectives went around
to the Cohen house 70 hear what Godgal and
Goldm'n would have to say. They found
with the berelved father and mother Miss
Cohen was out in the middle Of the street.
4 ed der dwo houses We own go" she was
L ed der bilginpeg ed all der
morey 60. led der soda water stands We has
mortgaged 90; but eif me my poy. wants
IT, the midst n the excitement Godeal and
Goldman appeared at the house on seei g
a. d taken to the Madison street station, where
they were locked up as suspicious perso =
but could find no trace OF horse. wagon or boy.
but at . O'Clock the lamentations of tie Cohens
were chlnsed 70 grelt REJOICING which was
r,ep etured he did Tot w brig n" back the horse ana
wagon. The tribes Of Cohen fell upon him
ore by ore, embr ICED and kissed him and then
' 20 'v tnst j h. II ns all dav in
the Qcishborh?Gd .; " hite.. tone with a man
si 3 ey S, Gds nS qE.s &d. eT for 2s es .hs h de-
cared that he didn't know the mans name.
but wh.eyer he ya5 tte man had made an |
the elder Cohen decl,red that he ha never told !
the roli?e that the sioo note was Intended IA a |
"vat / saiid % der Cahtain.- he explained.
was dot Godral dsmartei dot but DIT note !
ub as a pond dot ! vuldn't hat him arresded |
after | god der wagon undt der single horse |
pack"
The rolce refused 70 believe thls statement
and with some troub bic they found a witness
to tho transaction with the check and note In
Schvarty's store lie was Henry Rather, a
salesman for Wholesale ievel or at al Nassau
tho nerotlations we're In IroCress, Rather
posi'iH civ declared 10 the police that he had
heard Godqa and Goldman ssy that the four
hundred dollar note was all that would ever
ca"ee the return of Harry Cohen, and that the
eide Cohen had therelron drawn up the note
and had dapusited Il with schwartz
The poll g held all three prisoners, and last
night they were hunting for Never Solomon
de I lie Of Harry Cohen'- assert ion that he was
not the man who had taken him to Long Island.
Tho prisoners " III be arralgred IN FS-eN Market
court to-day. Can't. Hammond snid last night /
that GodRal was profes ional crook and was 1
now ont on hllI for a robhary which occurred |