1919: Not Joseph Cohen

ExecutedToday.com ^ | December 10th, 2015 | Dogboy

[CheshireTheCat]

This day in 1919 was the closest Joseph Cohen came to the electric chair in Sing Sing. His walk may have been 7 minutes, or possibly 11 minutes, away, but Cohen was not to die this day at the hands of the State of New York, nor at the hands of any state on any day. Instead, he would be gunned down 13 years later as a free man.

Cohen was a wealthy, influential poultry merchant in New York City, and he had a bone to pick with fellow poultryman Barnet Baff, also known as the “Poultry King”. Baff had repeatedly rebuffed other poultry merchants in their efforts to fix prices and charge an exorbitant per-truck fee for poultry handling. That was probably because Baff was making this kind of bonus cash by feeding starving chickens sand and gravel immediately before slaughter. His shady practice was great for sale and terrible for resale.

This did him no favors among other poulters of the city.....

[CheshireTheCat]

This would make a good movie. Anyone know if one has been made since 2015?

[MikelTackNailer]

I perked up thinking Steve “Chicken Boy” Cohen was meeting justice but no. All in due time on the Lord’s schedule.

[Verginius Rufus]

If he had just lived a few more years he could have gotten in trouble with the New Deal and the NRA.