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U.S. NEWSSaturday 13 February 2016
Autopsy reports of Valentine’s Day massacre found Cosby lawyers
try again to get
James Sledge, an executive officer at the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office in Chicago, want to have them read- case dismissed
holds one of the original autopsy reports from the infamous Valentine’s Day massacre 87 years ily available,” Sledge said.
ago. “But we don’t want them MARYCLAIRE DALE
so accessible that we in Associated Press
(James Foster/Chicago Sun-Times via AP) some way anger some part PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Law-
of the population who feel yers for Bill Cosby tried
CHICAGO (AP) — The au- Sledge, a local history fan Shortly after Sledge joined we are not paying proper again Friday to have his
topsies on the seven bullet- and a Chicago native, said the medical examiner’s of- respect to the deceased.” criminal sex-assault case
riddled bodies vividly de- he felt a chill down his back fice in 2014, he asked for The victims of the Feb. 14, dismissed, asking an ap-
scribe why the Valentine’s when he first read the doc- permission to look at the 1929 massacre were five peals court to consider
Day massacre of 1929 is uments outlining the attack autopsy records. His staff men who were known whether Cosby had a
still considered Chicago’s at a Lincoln Park garage took multiple trips to a gov- gangsters working for Ca- binding agreement that he
most infamous gangland that left seven men dead ernment warehouse to find pone rival George “Bugs” would never be charged.
killing. and more than 160 ma- the reports, which were Moran, an optometrist who Defense lawyers argue
The hand written reports chine gun casings littering tucked away in a metal file was friends with Moran’s that Cosby had a prom-
were recently unearthed the scene. cabinet. crew and a mechanic at ise from a former prosecu-
with inquest transcripts from The attack, carried out by Sledge is weighing where the garage that served tor that he wouldn’t be
a warehouse after eight men dressed as city police the documents should be as Moran’s headquarters. charged over the 2004
decades, and the medi- officers, is widely believed stored and how accessible They were gunned down encounter with a Temple
cal examiner’s office is now to have been ordered they should be, he told the by four men, two of whom University employee and
considering how best to by famed Prohibition-era Chicago Sun-Times in a sto- were wearing police uni- should therefore testify in
preserve and display them. gangster Al Capone. The ry published Thursday. forms. the woman’s civil lawsuit.
Executive officer James crime was never solved. “On the one hand, we Since there was no evi- He did, in a deposition
dence of a struggle, it’s unsealed last year that
believed that Moran’s men prompted a new prosecu-
thought it was a police raid. tor to reopen the case be-
The documents that are fore the 12-year statute of
now in Sledge’s posses- limitations expired. Cosby
sion offer insight into the said under oath that he
87-year-old investigation of gave the accuser three
the unsolved crime. pills before engaging in
“The reports are very sexual contact that he
graphic about what hap- called consensual. He also
pened,” Sledge said. “You acknowledged getting
read about history, you talk prescriptions for quaaludes
about it, but to have some- so he could give them to
thing in your hands — it women he hoped to se-
gives you an odd feeling.” duce.
Those documents include Montgomery County Dis-
an inquest interview with trict Attorney Kevin Steele
the optometrist’s mother filed felony sexual assault
in which the coroner pre- charges against Cosby
pares her for the grisly state in late December, based
of her son’s body. q on new evidence that in-
cluded the deposition tes-
Ohio: timony and the dozens of
other accusers who have
Diners’ quick response helps cops find attacker come forward since to say
that Cosby drugged and
KANTELE FRANKO Witnesses even took video unsuccessfully to use a stun himself there. molested them. Cosby has
Associated Press Thursday evening that pro- gun on him, then shot him Police haven’t released denied wrongdoing.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — vided partial information when he lunged at them, their names or identified A key question if the crimi-
Witnesses of an apparently on the license plate of the he said. No officers were the man who was killed. nal case goes to trial is
random machete attack getaway car, Columbus hurt. It’s unclear what mo- Police said the man walked whether the other wom-
at a restaurant helped au- police spokesman Sgt. Rich tivated the attack. into the restaurant, left af- en’s testimony or the
thorities track down the Weiner said. Police said four people ter a conversation with an lengthy Cosby deposition
fleeing suspect, who was The man got out of the car were treated at a local employee, then returned could be used in court.
fatally shot in a confron- holding a machete in one hospital, one in critical con- about a half hour later and But defense lawyers hope
tation with officers, police hand and a knife in the oth- dition, two in stable condi- started attacking two peo- the case ends long before
said. er, Weiner said. Police tried tion, and a fourth who took ple sitting in a booth.q then.q
