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.
