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COCHRAN DID IT IN SELF DEFENSECORONER'S jt'RY FINDS RIM RE* HFONSlBF FOR DEL«H OF 1IOQLANIN A DRUNKEN ROWBoth Men Drank a*. .Center Point lit ibe Eari Houra'flf’Suiidif Mbni* Ins—Hotbui Itotf'-Knlle and lt;rcxh-nm a Rivotw..1 ,H was Lee” Cochran who kttld Wiynt Hojlan. but he did It In self* defense. because Hoglan was after, jhirh with an open knife. intending to'kilt him.That wan th* gist ©f the testimony at the coroner's inqUret held-in £*n-t«r- Point yesterday afternoon. Eight-. witiaesee* war* “examined by Coroaef D. IV. King-. Several ut them aald 11m#* there had been bad blood be Lot ten th* two men for the past two of three ! years. Saturday night both wow badly under the Influence of liquor. Where they obtained the Uauor may hr aacor-;t* Inert by the county authorities lator. jlfoth of them became abu«Se, call-lt;iilg ear.h other vile name*. They mad a': frequent. threats what they wet© going to .do each other. They attracted, a l*rge following and when they went .to a restaurant at 1:9ft-o'cwk Sun* j.day morning tney nan . a large | crowd with them. It was expected that something would happen..Crowd Heard the ShotBecoming extremely offensive, both men were asked to leave thq restaur*, larff. As they stepped outside Coch-Rortfc. a pionHr. Horan 99 year* atcountry in id! unuiudi honoi Sinclair and years without an honored, a th$ packing t teem among t pony and amf Horak also ha rbarter meml VolRy, f?. 8- P. No. 51, I. O. CThe dacmflj wife, one claug nf Cedar Rapii ,J., of Cudar B M pities.Th© funeral from, the C. S. terpoon - at -2: J. Hajek offlcifi In oak Hill CtCEDARRMAKEGeorte Malic hut six monthi station at Ore home on a ten hla parent®, Mlchar of -1624thia' short vaca the east where on the U. S.
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Cedar Rapids Republican
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US
Tue, Jul 27, 1915
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