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...quickly entered on the Board's books as a "hostile witness." A strikebreaker for 20 years, he had worked for two months last summer at Remington Rand's Middletown, Conn, plant as a $9-per-day-&-expenses "night watchman.'' Asked what references he had offered, "Chowderhead" Cohen grunted: "They never ask for no references in this line of work. Tell 'em anything. Tell 'em nuttin'!" Witness Cohen flushed angrily when asked if he had ever been convicted of crime. "I got a right to earn an honest living," he shouted. "I refuse...
...ground to hold me. They are just driving me to do something wrong. You don't gimme a square deal for my wife and children." "Of course," added the witness thoughtfully, "if the Police Department see I don't make an honest living, it is all right." "Chowderhead" Cohen's police record was found to include 16 arrests for such offenses as receiving stolen goods, burglary and grand larceny; one sentence to Elmira, N. Y. Reformatory, one to a Federal penitentiary, two to Sing Sing...
...Manhattan's Claridge Hotel, Editor Frank L. Palmer of the People's Press discovered notorious, 260-lb. Sam ("Chowderhead Cohen'') Harris busy hiring strikebreakers. Calling the police after Chowderhead became rambunctious. Editor Palmer yelled: "Here's the hiring man for the finks! This ex-convict is working for the steamship owners and they have the nerve to complain to Dewey about racketeers!" Bellowed beefy Chowderhead: "I'll take no gump from anybody! I'll talk to no -- reporters!" Six policemen then dragged him off to jail...
...Bischoff, business manager of the Federal reformatory at Lorton, Va., was cleared of complicity in the crime. The motive of robbery suggested itself, for a ring and fur coat worth $5,000 which she had been wearing were missing. Immediate police attention was directed, however, toward one Sam ("Chowderhead") Cohen, onetime burglar, and John A. Radeloff, the dead woman's Brooklyn attorney. These two were held in $50,000 bail following a disclosure in her diary: "I fear only one man and he is Radeloff . . . who, if he wanted, could get Cohen and a couple of his henchmen...