The confused live poultry situation took a grim turn Friday, when two men were slain and a third seriously wounded in two separate shootings which police believed were both linked with terrorism in the live poultry industry.
The murdered men are Abraham Cohen, 30, and Max Livingston, 36, shot down from behind in the lobby of an apartment house at 195 Stanton street.
The wounded man is Irving Bernstein, 28, who was in a critical condition at the Morrisania Hospital Friday night with bullets in the head and shoulder. He was ambushed in the courtyard of his home at 602 West 188th street.
Bernstein, a retail poultry dealer, told police he had been warned to “quit handling certain poultry. “
Cohen, who with his slain companions was described as a chicken puller, had been sought as a suspect in the murder of Joseph Cohen, Brooklyn poultry dealer, killed in 1932 thirteen years after he had been pardoned from Sing Sing, where he had been sent for the slaying, in 1914, of Barnett Baff in a Washington Market feud.
Rabbi Nachman H. Ebin, chairman of the Kashruth Association, said that in his opinion the shooting had nothing to do with the recent issur but were the outgrowth of personal grudges.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
