Harry A Franck on Morris “Two-Gun” Cohen, 1925

I happened to be reading Harry A Franck’s Roving Through Southern China (1925). Franck was known as “The Prince of Vagabonds” and spent a lot of time travelling all over China, Hong Kong and Macao. Visiting Canton (Guangzhou) in 1923 he spent some time with Sun Yat-sen and noted the ominous and looming prescence of Morris Cohen, Two-Gun Cohen, SYS’s famus bodyguard. The legends about Cohen started young – already in the 1920s Franck is talking about Cohen’s boxing exploits and time in the Wild West (neither of these was quite true – admittedly he did brawl a bit and he spent time in Canada).