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Show HORSEMAN IS FOUiCUILTT J. D. Reed I.s Convicted of Shooting "Rabe" Cohen at Itiiftc. TRAGEDY HAD INCEPTION INr SALT EAKE CITY Rolli Men Were "Well Known lo Local Followers of j (lie Turf. ' UbJTTi;, Mont,, Dec. Tho Jmy ln the easu ngaint J. D. need, a stockman and race track man. charged with assault as-sault Jn tiio tlrst degteo on William Coheti, known a "Hubc." Cohen, this evening in .lodge Donhm's court ro-turncd ro-turncd a verdict finding tho defendant guilt of assault In tho .second degree and fl.Ing tho punishment at ono year in the states prison. Tho case was given to the Jury at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon and tho verdict was returned at S:."0 tonight. Attorneys for the defendant. Heed, relied re-lied to a great extent upon tho "unwritten "unwrit-ten law ror a dofen.so. claiming that Cohen had ulienated the affccllous of .Mrs. i:ecd. The defendant, to the aur-prlHe aur-prlHe of all. 'admitted that he way never regularly united in matrlmonv with the woman he called IHm wife, out a legnl union was attempted to be .et up by a claim of a tuiittnil agreement to live together. to-gether. Heed accused Cohen of taking the woman from him while he was in Salt Lake City, nnd stated that her affections af-fections had so far been allonatud that she now refuses u return to him. Self-defense Self-defense also wns claimed. Urcd Miihl lie feared he might be shot bv Cohen when he .shot the latter August 13 lust. wh"U they met face to face on Park .street On the wliticBJi stand thy woman Involved In-volved In the case denied that she was the wife of tho defendant. Shu said her true name was lllrdle Holknun and j accused Heed of mlMtreatlng her and compelling her to make her own living! by cooking while they were living to- i get her. The woman denied the accumi- Hon that .she had been living with "Itabe" , t'ohfn. and claimed fhe left He.eil be- ! chubc of his eriiel treatment of her, . Borrowed Chief's Gun. Tlie shooting of t'ohen was one of the most Honsallonul uffalrs la Hulle In re-1 cent venrji and oceuriod in the heart I of the biiHliie.sH district In tho early evening, while the at root was tilled with people. Heed, twenty minutes before the tragedy, borrowed a revolver from Chief of Police .hick Qulnn. tolling tho latter that he wished "to hill a dog that had inreste, his neighborhood." When Heed wa brought brfore the chief after I lie shooting- ho drKinatlcallv cclulmetf (IihI he "hud shot tho dog." Heed exproa.sod regret- that he had lo kill Cohen, telling the policeman to whom he surrendered that Cohen "hnd broken up his home." i:e.!'.s law vers made a dramatic attempt at-tempt at a defen.se hinged upon the unwritten un-written law and preserving the sauclltv of the home, and the disclosure of tho propeeotlon. made through cross-exnml-n.itlou of Heed himxelf. that he never had lieen legally married to the woman involved, caused a gen.sallon. Cohen has wasted away since the shooting and Is so feeble that slight chance of his surviving tho" wound is held forth, although he has been able lo leave the hospital. lUdce Donlan set next Thursday Tor the. passing of sentence upon Heed. Both Ueed and Oo'hcti were well known lo turfmen and other In Salt Lake. Thty were heie at several nice meets and wen', familiar llgurcs at the track and in tho poohooms. |