New-York tribune., 1919-08-04
Companion Is Three Times
Wounded; Slayers Escape
Leaving No Clew; Motive
of Crime Is a Mystery
Cabaret Singer in Case
Three Men Quarrelled Over
Girl; Another Was the
Victim of the Tragedy


q straw hat manufacturer in business
at TOT Broadway and living in Rocka-
way Park. was shot down from behind
at Coney Island yesterday by a man
who made his escape. The killing oc-
Cured in Twenty-second Street, be-
tween Railroad and Surf Avenues.
Cohen was dead, a bullet through
his heart, by the time his body was
carried to the Seaside Hospital. Harry
Norman, furrier, of 19 Clinton Street,
Manhattan, who was with Cohen, fell
with two bullets through his thigh and
another in his back, an instant after
Cohen was hit.
After Assistant District Attorney
Wilson had interrogated Emmanuel
Cohen, brother of the murdered man,
he ordered Norman put under arrest
at the hospital Mr.. Wilson was in
clined to think, after taking with En-
manuel Cohen, that the quarrel in the
restaurant had little or nothing to do
with the shooting; that Cohen was
victim to a business feud, as was Bar
net Baff.
Old Quarrel Recalled
Emmanuel Cohen told him, Mr.. Will
ron said, that Barron, the partner of
Norman, had obtained $1,000 from his
brother, Joseph Cohen, as the result of
a deal entered into last February, when
there was strike at fur shop owned
by Joseph Cohen. His brother, En-
manuel continued, was vexed at giving
up the money and had brought a
charge of extortion against Barron,
which resulted in the latter's indict-
ment. Barron, h said, was awaiting
trial upon the il .4ctment.
The shooting .ook place about 1
o'clock. From he street throngs the
police got .r ETY. of stories in which
the number f persons who shot Cohen
and Korman anged from one to three.
Korman's tory, as told by the police,
is that he Max Barron, his business
partner, girl cabaret singer, whose
name tn police do not give out, and a
musicis whom Norman was able to
identj ! only as Sam" passed Satur
day .ght and the early hours of Sun
day in wine cellar near Eldridge
ar. Houston streets.
Quarrel Followed Arrival
Later in the morning, says Norman,
the three men and the woman hired a
touring car and drove to Coney Island,
arriving at restaurant, which he says
was only few blocks from where the
shooting took place, at about 10 O'Clock.
There, Norman says, they quar-
relied. The alteration started over
the cabaret singer, who wanted to
quit the party, according to Norman.
"A stranger took the girls part"
said Norman. "He grabbed a knife
and chased us all out of the place.
Then Sam, the musician, and the girl
reentered the automobile and left us.
| think they started back for New
York.
Norman says Barron and he then
telephoned Cohen at his Rockaway
Park home, and the manufacturer
Joined them at about l o'clock. Barron
disappeared after he shooting.
A new instance of ruffianism took
place early yesterday morning, when a
crowd of twelve men mobbed Patrol
man Cullen when he attempted to ar
rest highwayman. one of gang of
six men who held up Louis Abramowitz,
I, baker of 1865 Park Avenue, while the
latter was bound for his shop at 2
O'Clock.
The highwaymen dispersed when
one of the bankers employees blew q
police whistle that brought Cullen
running to 18th Street and Park Ave.
nue.. The policeman caught one of The
gang in 18th Street, between Park and
Madison avenues. Twelve men sur
rounded the policeman as he place !
the hghwayman under arrest. Then
the mob tripped Cullen, who fired his
revolver three times.
Five of Gang Arrested
Patrolman Ames chased the escap-
ing tug while the roughs took Gut
lens cartridge belt and holster. A
detail of policemen and detectives
from the East 1O4th Street station
came to the aid of the belabored pair.
Five arrests were made. They included
John j. Kyle, Robert Goldstein and
Arthur French.
Magistrate Sims, in Harlem Court,
held these men in $4,000 bail on a
charge of robbery. Against French an
additional charge of felonious assault
was lodged by Patrolman Heppen-
heimer, who says French hurled a
milk bottle at him.
The others arrested were Leon
Brautman and Rubin Rosenberg, who
were charged with felonious assault
on PatrOlman Cullen.