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Indict Witness in Baff Murder

Item

Title
Indict Witness in Baff Murder
Source
Evening World
Date
20-Feb-20
page
2
Identifier
Image 2 of The evening world (New York, N.Y.), February 20, 1920, (Final Edition) | Library of Congress (loc.gov)
Crime
Murder
Subject
Indictment, witness
Gender of alleged offender
Male alleged murderer
Gender of alleged victim
Male alleged victim
Stage of the Legal System
Court
Length of story
123 words
Description
The Grand Jury which has been investigation charges of perjury and subornation of perjury in the trial of Joseph Cohen, who is serving a life sentence for the murder of Barnet Baff on the Nov. 24, 1914, to-day filled with Judge Mulqueen, in the Court of General SeesionsPresentmetn Against Walter R. Deuel, attorney , and his clerk, Phillip L. Mus'ea. An indictment against Joseph Soro. one of the principal witnesses against Cohen, was also filled with a benen warrant for Soros arrest. Thorough investigation of Deuel's conduct of the case by the New York Bar Association is demanded by the grand Jury, which asserts that the attorney acted for the defendant, although he had been for many months one of the District attorney's investigators.