The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1915-10-22
Sidney Cohen Killed
and Four Others
Wounded.
AHray Prevents Canvass of Vote.
Democratic Executive Body
Meeting TO Declare Result in
Mayoralfy Election, Broken
Up BY Shoofing-Six Men
Arrested.

Charleston, Oct. 15.-Animosities
arising out of the municipal campaign
which ended in a primary election
last Tuesday with the apparent NOM
ination for mayor of Tristram T.
Hyde over the incumbent, John P.
Grace, by majority of 10 votes,
famed into bloodshed when the city
Democratic executive committee met
at noon today to canvass the returns.
Hardly had the chairman, Joseph A..
Black, a Hyde man, declared the
meeting open before shot struck
down Sidney j. Cohen, a young re-
porter of the Charleston Evening Post,
and in the more or less general ex-
change of shots which followed four
men, all of the Grace faction, were
wounded, two of them seriously.
During the affray club books were
the ensuing scramble in the streets
two men were clubbed.
w. A. Turner has a bullet in his
right lung, w. E. Wingate is wounded
in the hip and has a scalp confusion,
Harry L. Wilensky is shot in the arm
and Jeremiah O'Brien is shot in the
ankle. Max Goldman and Tristram T.
Hyde, Jr., suffered minor bruises.
Then men were arrested and after
ward released on bail, but of these
none is charged with. actual pafticipa-
tion in the ARRAY. Soyne of them are
held for carrying concealed weapons,
the others being merely detained.
Stories of the clash differ widely
and no dependable account in detail
as to just how or by whom the shoot
ing was done is procurable tonight.
A jury of inquest which surveyed the
body of young Cohen this afternoon
has been indefinitely adjourned.
Forty naval militiamen guard the
committee headquarters and $50 9TH
er men are held in armories under
command of Col. E. M. Blythe of the
First infantry. Troops will police the
meeting tomorrow of the executive
committee. There is no immediate
danger, it is said, of deaths among the
wounded.
City Tensely Quiet.
Charleston is tensely quiet and few
persons were on the streets this
evening.
State constables were especially ac-
tive today. If illicit liquor dealers
were operating tonight they did so
most discreetly. All the dispensaries
were closed at noon by John Mar
shall, secretary of the Charleston dis
pensary board, acting upon orders
from Gov. Manning.
Two rooms, neither of them large,
make up the headquarters of the city
Democratic executive committee. They
are on the second floor Of two-story
building at King and George streets,
admission being through George
street. Only members of the COM
mittee, counsel for the two factions
and for challenged voters and several
newspaper men were in the front
room. Gathered in the back room were
witnesses, partisans and policemen.
Accounts obtainable at this time agree
that a disturbance in the ante-room
preceded by a few seconds the shoot
ing of Mr.. Cohen. After brisk furry
of shots policemen grappled with the
men welding pistols and within few
minutes gained control of the situa-
ton. Deputies from the sheriff's of
flee came up on the run and hard on
their heels marched militiamen, head
ed by Capt. Harry o. Wilmington. The
troops formed a hollow square, estab-
lished a patrol and rolled back the
crowd. The injured. were removed to
hospitals and several suspects were
arrested by the police were taken to
cells at headquarters. Affidavits of a
sensational nature are said to be in
preparation and these may or may
not become public in the course of the
coroner's inquest or other official in
quiries that are TO follow.
Two ballot boxes retrieved by po-
lice from the crowd in the street out
side committee headquarters are said
to be held at police headquarters. The
committee at a brief session this af-
ternoon decided to meet tomorrow
morning to resume the work inter-
rupted by today's disorder.
Gov. Manning at Columbia, immed-
lately upon being Informed of the
shooting, ordered the Washington
Light Infantry, a Charleston company,
to the scene. The company, with bay