The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-10-27
CANT name SLAYER
CORONER'S JURY SAYS COHEN
KILLED BY UNKNOWN PARTY

| KILLED BY UNKNOWN PARTY
some MORE TESTIMONY
Bullet Found in Body of Young Re
porter Proves to be SO, Thus Clear
ing Brown and Mcdonald, From
Whose Pistols it Could Not Have
Been Fired-Quiet Reigns.
The coroner's jury investigating
the death of Sidney J. Cohen return
ed the following verdict ct 1.Ol
o'clock Thursday morning:
THAT the said Sidney, J. Cohen
came to his death October Is, 1915,
at Roper hospital, Charleston County
from a. SO calibre pistol shot wound
said pistol having been fired from
vicinity of doorway between ante
room and executive committee room
| on the southwest corner King and
| George streets, Charleston county, by
party or parties unknown to this
| jury, on October Is, 1915 !.
According to the report Of the cor
respondent Of The State Wednesday S
testimony was so voluminous that
| only the high lights can be indicated.
Kivy Pearlstine, M. D., who perform
ed the autopsy upon Mr.. Cohen, said
death resulted from hemorrhage, due
to a gunshot wound entering the
right hip, ranging forward and up
ward across the body, piercing the
small and the large intestine, sever
ing the internal lilac artery and pro-
ducing hemorrhage into the abdomi-
nal cavity.
The bullet lodged in an abdomi-
nal muscle on the left side, about
three inches above and a like dis
tance forward Of the point OF en-
trance on the other side. The only
external bruise was one on the chin
made by use of pulmotor N an at
tempt to revive Mr.. Cohen:
Dr.. Pearlstine produced the bullet
he had removed from the body, winch
he said was Of lead and in calibre
was 80. He said he had kept it con-
stantly under his own eyes until he
had given it to the coroner under
seal in an envelope Endorsed in his
handwriting. He opened this en-
velope in court and identified the bull
let.
This bullet had assumed great i'm
portance, because testimony had been
given from which either Henry J..
Brown or Edward R. Mcdonald, the
men under arrest, might have been
suspected of firing the shot that kill
ed Mr.. Cohen. But the police Thurs
day identified as Browns weapon a
Colt revolver OF 80 calibre and as
McDonald's Colt automatic pistol OF
the same calibre, but carrying steel
jacketed lead bullets.
Other testimony was that all the
police officers present we're armed
with revolvers carrying lead bullets.
Some of these officers, among them
Chief Cantweli and Special Officer
Frank Hogan, had 3S calibre guns.
Some of the testimony indicated that
both of these officers discharged
their revolvers in the melee. Wheth-
<er or not any of the other SO callDre
revolvers taken from persons in the
committee headquarters Friday had
been fred did not appear in evidence.
John Murphy, a Grace committee
man, said that Brown hred north
westward. Mr.. Cohen fell IN the
southeast corner. He said he could
positively swear that the bullet from
Chief Cantwell's gun, when the Wea-
pon was discharged in the scuffle
with Brown, went through a window.
He said he could see both of Win
gates hands while he and Brown
were struggling but saw no pistol IN
Wingate's possession.
William O'Brien said he saw Win
gate on the floor bleeding, While
Brown stood nearby, gun in one hand
and box of cartridges in the other,
apparently reloading. -
Max Goldman said ne saw Hogan
disarm Renters in the anteroom.
THAT started the whole trouble" he
declared. The witness said ne was
not armed. ''.' .-. -
Frank Hogan, for two years a spe-
cial plain clothes police officer, and
generally known in the community as
"Rumpty Raffles," was on the stand
for some time. Much of his testi-
mony had been anticipated in that OF
other witnesses. He said he saw
Brown run into the room, wheel and
ire back into the doorway upon Win
gate. He himself covered" and dis
armed several persons, he said,
among them Harry Steencken, George
Renters and John Healy. He de-
MED that he fred at any time his own
gun. a. SO police revolver.
"Brown fired the very first shot
he asserted. "It went into the side
of the door frame and is there yet. y
"John Healy, former sergeant OF
police, had stood guard over the pal
lot boxes stored in the commlttee
headquarters overnight.
Hogan was there. apparently
drinking" he said. The witness de-
clared he saw weapons in NOBODY S
hands except those Of Chief Cantwell
and Hogan. 81 saw Private quinn
deliberately start to shoot into the
committee room," said Healy. Il
said, For Gods sake, man, don't
shoot and he did not fire" He saw
Hogan and Chief Cantwell come in
with drawn guns. He saw the chief
fire at Brown. This was about the
last shot. w. Turner Logan didn't
shoot, though he had his pistol out.
There must have been Is to Is shots.
W. S. Moore. a restaurant keeper
testified as to threats he said Brown
| had made in his place to turn a
trick at the committee meeting
; with a pistol which he displayed.
Moore admitted he served Brown
with beer and whiskey. The witness
said he knew both Brown and Nc
| Oonald He identified them when
they we're produced Thursday.
]. K. Livingston said he saw
Brown burst into the committee
room, whirl around and fire on Win
gate. THAT was the first shot he
said. Brown, he said, fired hVe
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