Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1922-03-30
A. NJ. COHEN SHOT BY OFFICERS.

a. M. Cohen. Fort Mill and Gasto-
MA, n. c., merchant, was shot I'm the
right leg In the rear OF the kneecnp
and painfully Wounded Sunday Inorn-
Ing at 2 o'clock near philadelphia
Methodist church, three miles north
OF town, by party Of officers led by
Sheriff Fred Z. QUINN in search OF
liquor runners who were reported TO
be on the way from Charlotte to Fort
Mill and Rock Hill with u load OF
liquor in an automobile. MIR Cohen
was returning to his home In Font
Mill from Gastonia TO spend Sunday
with his family. The party was COM
posed of Sheriff Quinn, State Con-
stable Horace Johnson. Mugistrate
Fred c. Black OF York. ". y. POTS.
Fort Mill police officer, AMI ]. II.
Patterson. Fort Mill magistrates con-
stable.
| A short distance from the home OF
w. IL. Crook one of the officers stand
ing In the road ordered Mr.. Cohen to
stop his car. Disregarding the order.
Mr.. Cohen continued toward Fort
Mil until his car ran into sheriff
Quinn's car, which had been parked
across the road to prevent the pass
age OF other cars coming toward Fort
Mill. While he was aiighting from
his car Mr.. Cohen received the wound
In his leg. He then made his way 10
the home of Walter Mckinney, Z rev
hundred yards away, and was brought
to town in Mr.. McKinney's car The
wound was dressed ~ his home at
O'Clock Sunday morning by Fort
I Mill physician, but the bullet was
not located and removed from his
leg until Monday morning at Il hos
pital in Rock Hill, where he has
since been receiving treatment for
the wound. The fear was said to
have been expressed at the hospital
yesterday that Mr.. Cohen's leg would
be stiff for life.
MY Cohen is said to have stated
while his wound was being dressed
that, he did not stop his car when he
was ordered to do so because he was
positive he was being held up to bc
robbed. After he reached Fort Mil
and before he went to his own home
ne said he went to the home II ID. y.
Potts. police officer, and to that Of
IL. III. Patterson. magistrates coustl-
bic. to report what had happened
but at neither home did he succeed
In seeing either officer. At the former
he said he was told that Mr.. Potts
was not at home and at the latter
that Mr.. Patterson was sick In bed
and could not see him. Mr.. Cohen
1stated positively that he did not have
a pistol and that he had not fired nj
anyone. He said eight or ten shots
were fired at him, one of which
struck the windshield Of his car inn
mediately in front of the steering
wheel, which he had left only the
moment before. The other shot he
was able to account for definitely WIS
the one which struck him in the leg
While the physician was at Mr..
Cohen's home dressing his wound
Sheriff Quinn and officer Potts also
visited the home. Neither seemed to
have known positively until they re-
turned to Fort Mill about an nour
after the shooting that Mr.. Cohen was
the man at whom the shots had been
fired, although they had found in his
car bunch of keys to the ring of
which was attached a metal tag bear
Ing his name. Sheriff Quinn Is said
to have expressed regret to Mr.. Cj-
hen that he had been mistaken for
and shot as the liquor runner the
party was trying to apprehend. He
also Is said to have expressed respon-
is'p'ty tor the shooung.
Between the statement of Mr.. CO.
hen and Sheriff Quinn relative to The
shots that were fired there is wide
variance. Mr.. Cohen states positively
that he was unarmed and did not fire
upon the officers. Sheriff ,,uimn on
the other hand. Is said to be equally
positive that the officers did not fire
at Mr.. Cohen until he had first fired
at them. The sheriffs statement ID
supported by other officers. IL Is said.
The shooting Ok Mr.. Cohen has
caused much TUX In Fo~t Mill. Yes
tefday II was stated by Fort Mill
citizen who visited Mr. Cohen at the
hospital In Rock Hill that he had en-.
gagged Judge Mendel l.. Smith OF
Camden and Mcssrs Herbert Dunlap
and Walter Dunlap of Rock Hill 10
take charge of the case he feels he
has against the county and the off,
, GERS and that developments may be
expected as soon as he is able "a
leave the hospital.