The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-30
SHOTS MEANT TO KILL.
HARMON COHEN PUTS A BULLET
IN JOSEPH COLSON.

A Fight Over a Handkerchief Ends
! in a Probable Murder-Cohen Ar
rested at the Scene of the Shooting,
and in jail Awaiting the Result of
| His Victims Wounds - He Claims
! that the shooting Was Done in Self
Defense.
Harmon Cohen, who shot Joseph Colson
Sunday night Is in Jail for assault with in
tent to murder He was arrested by Sergt
Killourhy and Officers Morgan and Collins
at o'clock yesterday morning and was
lodged in the barracks. He was given pre-
liminary hearing before the mayor, and
was committed to Jail.
Cohen is a butcher in the market, and was
passing the house of Jennie Payne at No.
Ann street Sunday night, when the woman
invited him in. He went in, and found
John Nolan, q boarder, and Joe Colson,
there. They were drinking, and Cohen
Joined them. The party drank together for
some time.
FIGHTING FOR HANDKERCHIEF.
Cohen and Colson finally began to lose
their heads, and began quarreling over a
handkerchief that Cclson had given the
Payne woman. Cohen grabbed the hand
kerchief from the woman's hands and
started out of doors with it. Colson told
him that the handkerchief belonged to
him, and he turned and tossed it
to him, remarking that he did not want to
see the woman with it again. AS soon as
he had given the handkerchief to Colson the
latter gave it to the woman. Cohen gritted
his teeth and walked out of the room. He
returned in few minutes and the quarrel
was resumed.
Shortly afterwards Cohen stepped into an
adjoing room, and finding the Payne wo-
man there, he began to beat her. Colson
rushed up and told him to stop. The fight
between the two men then began,
DREW A REVOLVER.
They scuffled for few minutes,
when Cohen ran to bureau and
took from the drawer re-
volver. Colson drew dirk.
There were two shots fred but one of the
balls went wild. After tho shooting Colson
turned and ran into an adjoining room, and
jumping out Of window, ran up Harrison
street. He reached Broughton street and
was assisted by colored man from there to
his room, at the corner of Bryan and JEFF
ferson streets. Drs. Norton and Lincoln
were summoned They probed for the ball,
but were unable to fiud it. 1t entered the
left side, below the ribs, and ranging down
ward, entered the liver. Colson is not ex-
pected to live.
OFFICERS ON THE TRACK.
Sergt. Killourhy, who went on duty at
3 o'clock. was notified that a shooting had
occurred, but the particulars and the local
ity were not known. The sergeant on his
rounds found the wounded man. He was
told where the difficulty occurred and sum-
moned two other officers and went in search |
of the would-be murderer. At the Payne |
woman's house the officers were told that |
Cohen had not been there and that they |
knew nothing of the ARRAY. The house was |
thoroughly searched and also the adjoining |
house, but Cohen was not found Before |
leaving Sergt. Killourhy directed his |
men to look under the houses and Cohen |
was found there crouching in q corner.
FOUND wELLuARMED.
He was dragged out and two large knives |
and the revolver were found on him. The |
officers think that Cohen was secreted in |
the house of the Payne woman. and when |
he heard them coming, he ran under the
house.
Colson is a WAGNER, and is a brother-in- |
law OF Peter Sampson, a fruit dealer at |
Bryan and jefferson streets Cols1n was |
seen last night, but he denied having |
knife. He said that after Cohen shot him |
Cohen, he said, shot at him twice
in the yard. but neither ball took
effect. Colson ran back into the house
and into the room, where the Payne woman
was, closing the door behind him. Cohen
followed him, he said. and in trying to
push the door open Cohen thrust his hand
in the partly open door. In his other hand
he held a butcher knife. Colson said that
he wrested the knife from Cohen, but did
not use it.
Cohen said he will be able TO prove that
Coison attempted his life, and that in
shooting him, he shot in self-defense. The
physicians pronounce Colson's condition
very critical and but little hopes of his re-
covery are entertained. He will be taken
to St Joseph's Infirmary to-day