New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-02
Gambler Slain
For Squeaing;
Suspect Is Held

ond Avenue. the District Attorney
learned that Cohen after leaving his
home sat in a crap game until day
night in hotel somewhere in the side
streets between West Forty-second and
West Fiftyfourth streets and was
Cleaned out" at o'clock Zinck said
he was in the game and lost all he had
with him.
Gave Slayer Money
The rest of the story was told by
Cohen's young widow, Dorothy Cohen,
who told the prosecutor that Cohen
came into their apartment about 6:45
yesterday morning and inquired where
she had placed $50 which had been set
aside for the rent She said she was
in bed, but directed him to look for it
in certain bureau drawer Then, she
said. he went out of the apartment and
closed the door behind him. After the
shooting she discovered that $50 had
been taken from the drawer.
Joseph Edney, negro elevator boy,
told the District Attorney that Cohen
and his slayer went up in the elevator
about GAS and in few minutes they
reappeared, and on the way down Cohen
handed the man bill. Edney said he
thought it was a SIS note. He said he
heard the man say:
as that the largest you have?"
Instead of passing out into the street,
Edney said, Cohen asked him to cali
the Cafe Royal, 1873 Second Avenue.
Edney made the connection and
put the call in the little closed recep-
ton room to the right Of the elevator.
He said Cohen got somebody in the
restaurant and asked for Jake
Fischer" a waiter. While waiting for
Fischer to get on the telephone, Edney
said, shot rang out. Edney jumped
I'm and saw the stranger with his over
coat over his left arm blazing away at
Cohen with a .3S-calibre revolver. Four
shots were fired and two hit Cohen,
one OF them passing through his heart.
Slayer Chased by Boy
Edney said he started in the dire,-
ton of the slayer, but the man was
too quick for him. He darted out tho
door, letting it slam in Edney's face
BY the time Edney got outside the
man was hailing a southbound Eighth
Avenue car. Edney said he ran after
the car screaming at tie top of his
voice. The car stopped at the next
corner and the men jumped off and
ddarted west through Ninety-first
CeASCC' L1uHSy Sdiu lie chased MN as
lar as the corner of Columbus Avenue,
but when he got there the slayer hai
disappeared in the crowd. Later De-
tective Mccormick, of the 4th Branch.
discovered the revolver in an areaway
in front of S West Ninety-frst Street.
There were two loaded shells in It.
Edne,y said he supposed the slayer's
revolver was empty all the time he
was chasing him.
Sam CobopOc <l;I,,,& ..1..I
drawn into the case. He didn't p m;nd
saying that the conviction of his
friend, the Leslie woman, was "an out
rage" and he didn't deny that he
knew Cohen, but as for his knowing
anything about the shooting Bah!
"Window dressing; that's ALL" he
said to newspaper men while waiting to
be questioned for the third or fourth
time by Mr.. Swami and Mr.. Smith
Pm brought into this thing like so
much ribbon to lend color to the case
It's damn shame to rake up a lot of
mud and slime and smear it on a man
who is doing an honest business Just
to use my name. Do I know Cohen :?
Slightly, yes. But actually only bv
reputation--just as know Jesse
James,"
1t was learned yesterday that
Schepps had attempted to inject his
personality lnlO the LeSlle WOman'S
case when it was pending before Mag.
istrate Groehl in the Night Court. 1t
also was reported that he had sent
word to District Attorney Swami after
her conviction that he would make a
personal appeal to Governor Whitman
to obtain pardon for her. Schepps
denied the story yesterday, but Dis
trict Attorney Swami did not.
Silent on Leslie Feature
1t also was learned that Inspector
Costigan's men found three checks in
the Leslie woman's apartments which
had been cashed by Schepps. She was
taken from the workhouse yesterday
afternoon and questioned by the Dis
trict Attorney. She said the checks
represented money she had given to
Schepps for jewelry Outside of that
she gave little information about her
self beyond what she has already given.
The District Attorney said, however.
that she was born in Bavaria and lived
at l06 South Clinton Street, Baltimore
before she came to New York, about