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Show 'GANG' MURDER, IS THEORY OF POLICE By Universal Service. CONTSY -ISLAND, N. Y., Aug. 3. Joseph Jo-seph Cohen, hat manufacturer of Manhattan, Man-hattan, is dead, and Harry Korman, furrier, fur-rier, also of Manhattan, is dying of three bullet wounds in the abdomen received in a shooting affray on West Twenty-second street, near Surf avenue, today, which caused a panic among the crowds on their way to the beach. The shooting is believed by the police to be an outgrowth of the killing of "Johnny Spanish," Manhattan gang leader. Tbe shooting of Cohen and Korman seems to have been well planned. Several began firing at the two men as they were walking with others toward the beach. As the victims fell, one dead, the other dying, the assailants mingled with the crowd and disappeared. Witnesses of the shooting said the shots seemed to come ! from different directions. None could give a definite description of the men who did the shooting. |