A DANCE OF DEATH.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 15, 17 January 1914, Page 17

A DANCE OF DEATH.

| :,i.:- ■ [ '• ,RTB__X-SHOOTING AFFBAX IN NEW TOEK. ,v-E KILLED AND ONE WOUNDED. f Hal Cohen, of No. 159, Delancey Street, slot and killed at Madison and .Tef7ferson Streets, New York, by Policeman r Eiwanl Sclimltzler, of the Madison Street > c a t)(JD, on Saturday night, November 20. njg j.punE man had aimed his revolver r V.the-policeman, but the second time sa pnlled the trigger there was only a jljct Schmitzler gave warning to Cohen tr sending two bullets over bis head. ctfli Cohen stood and clicked his weapon at the policeman. According to eyewitnesses Cohen was - sjirotmiled by about a dozen men, alleged t V belong to the O'Roorke band .rivals of tie Galary band. The men picked out -.-'. Cohen iod told him that they wanted to !•.' jju low he could dance the turkey trot jnil the tango without a companion. At .• jist'Colien langhcd, but an instant later tier told Cohen if he did not dance they • wold "pnrnp a littie lead into him," that - mild..-prevent him dancing altogether. ■'*■ cbheii saw that the rowdies wore serious. jilt when the revolvers were fired he '•' began to. dance. Men. women, and ehil•dren hastened away from the scene, and V shrieks and shouts caused a panic, Cohen was dancing when Policeman ~- Schmitzler ran up. When the rowdies i saw the poUce uniform they disappeared -/■ )n different directions. Cohen was stand--8 ing alone. Schmitzler had his revolver in - hiDd,'-'and -when he looked at Cohen he i jtr the -young man had levelled Ills | weapon at hiui. A second afterward a vT" bnllet pierced the cloth ot tile policeman's I irpnsers without injuring him. Thereupon | Schmitzler fired two shots in the air, belier—s Cohen would, drop his revolver, :„t Cohen pointed it at the policeman i «ad polled the trigger. There was only Vi : faint cljck. Policeman Schmitzler then j {red'two shots that sounded like one. r One of the bullets struck Cohen in the ' neck and the other in the abdomen. r Cohen fell lifeless in the street. \; Scores of men and women then made a |, turtle from the synagogue when they saw "".tier were protected by the uniformed '.man.' Schmitzler told one of the men ; to telephone to Gouverneur Hospital for S to ambnlance. Dr. Moore found Coh->u ■\ tad. been killed instantly. He was niueI teen years old. .1 So great was the throng then that the I reserves were called out, and then it was -covered that David Levine, of No. 22a Broome Street, a bystander, had been bit Ij.one of the bullets fired by the rowdies , Trio started the trouble. Dr. Moore found ; ihat Levine was badly hurt, and hastened r "triui him to the hospital. \ ;; Commissioner Waldo and the District ; Attorney's office were notified of the rtothig, and Schmitzler was parolled in ' custody of his captain.