KILLED PAL FOR DOLLAR, WILL BE TRIED FOR MURDER--1929
New Jersey Courier for 19 July 1929:
KILLED PAL FOR DOLLAR, WILL BE TRIED FOR MURDER
Thomas Cooper, Negro, Indicted For his Crime
Among the twenty indictments..of last week, July 11, by the April term grand jyr, was one charging with murder Thomas Cooper, negro, of Manitou Park, Berkeley Township. Cooper has not yet been brought in to plead to this indictment.
The shooting occurred on Saturday night, May 24, at the home of Charles Haines. Cooper and Frank Dean, another negro, were playing cards for money. Cooper claimed there was a dollar due him, and Dean wouldn't pay it, so he shot. The .32 bullet went through Dean's abdomen penetrating the intestines. He died the following Wednesday at Kimball hospital.
Cooper, after the shooting, his gun outside the house, and then holed away in the attic. He was taken by officers Spencer, Costa, Brice and J. Evernham. He admitted the shooting.
It was on their way to this crime that two troopers, MacCormack and Leikare, were smashed up in collision with Lakehurst marines. Leikare and one of the marines, Oliver Murray, will be permanently lamed.
Haines, in whose house the shooting took place, is now held for adultery.
KILLED PAL FOR DOLLAR, WILL BE TRIED FOR MURDER
Thomas Cooper, Negro, Indicted For his Crime
Among the twenty indictments..of last week, July 11, by the April term grand jyr, was one charging with murder Thomas Cooper, negro, of Manitou Park, Berkeley Township. Cooper has not yet been brought in to plead to this indictment.
The shooting occurred on Saturday night, May 24, at the home of Charles Haines. Cooper and Frank Dean, another negro, were playing cards for money. Cooper claimed there was a dollar due him, and Dean wouldn't pay it, so he shot. The .32 bullet went through Dean's abdomen penetrating the intestines. He died the following Wednesday at Kimball hospital.
Cooper, after the shooting, his gun outside the house, and then holed away in the attic. He was taken by officers Spencer, Costa, Brice and J. Evernham. He admitted the shooting.
It was on their way to this crime that two troopers, MacCormack and Leikare, were smashed up in collision with Lakehurst marines. Leikare and one of the marines, Oliver Murray, will be permanently lamed.
Haines, in whose house the shooting took place, is now held for adultery.
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