The Savannah morning news., 1902-07-04
KICKED DEAD BODY
SUSIE ROGERS SHOT AND KILLED
BY ABE COHEN.
JEALOUSY CAUSED THE CRIME.
COHEN FIRED FIVE SHOTS AND
FOUR TOOK EFFECT.

Fled From the Scene of His Crime
Cohen Received IA Letter in Fer
nandina Telling Him the Woman
Was InfaithfuI to Him-He Came
to savannah. He Said, to Put HeI
out of the Way-The Shooting
Took Place in Cooper Shop Lane
Cohen Under Arrest.
Infatuated by jealousy at the sup
posed unfaithfulness of the woman
with whom he had been living, Abe
Cohen. shot and killed Susie Rogers,
about IS years of age, at No. sos Olive
street yesterday afternoon. Both par
ties were colored.
After the shooting the negro placed
the smoking pistol in his pocket and
went off down the street at lope.
Policeman Knox, of the Ocean Steam
ship force, who lives in the vicinity,
had heard the shots and scaling a
fence came out on Olive street, and
saw Cohen coming towards him. The
officer drew his revolver and ordered
the negro to stop and throw up his
hands Cohen gave up and was taken
to the police station and locked up.
Cohen fired five shots at the Rogers
woman. Four of them took effect in
her right side under the shoulder. She
died instantly.
Came From Brunswick.
Cohen and the woman came here from
Brunswick two years ago. They went
to live together at No. 642 Cohen street.
Cohen is a cotton handler and was en-
ployed at one time by A. F. Churchill.
Some time ago he got a job at Fer
nandina, Fla. He worked there for
several weeks and returned to Savan-
nah last Sunday. The Rogers woman.
in the meantime, had been living at the
house on Cohen street where Cohen
went on his return to Savannah. They
remained there together until Wednes-
day. when they quarrelled. Cohen left
the house and the woman went to
spend the night with a cousin, Stella
Washington, who lives in the neighbor-
hood. Yesterday afternoon the woman
went to the home of another cousin.
Mary Marion an old woman who lives
at the house on Olive street, where the
shooting took place. She told the wo-
man that she had quarrelled with CO.
hen. and said that she was not going
back to live with him. She had been
in the house about two hours when
Cohen came in. He had been told by
some negroes in Cohen street that she
was there.
QuarreIIed to Death.
Cohen went into the house. which
has only one room. and addressing the
Rogers woman said. Susie amt you
going homer" Il didn't know 1 had a
home until rent ROOM" she replied.
AT that Cohen became enraged and
without any warning pulled a pistol
and fired. The old woman, Mary Ma
rion, was ironing clothes at the other
end of the room and the Rogers woman
ran to her and tried to get her be-
tween Cohen and herself. Cohen ran
to where the two women were stand
ing and fired two shots, which took
effect in the Rogers woman's right
side. She screamed with the pain, but
still held on to the Marion woman.
Cohen then tried to get her away, but
she chung with a grip of death and he
then attacked both women, beating
them and kicking them. He finally
felled them to the floor.
While they were lying there the ne
gro bent down on his knees and
holding mis- pistol close to the Rogers
woman's right side emptied the re-
manning two chambers. The woman
died instantly, and with a final kick
at the two PROSTATE forms the negro
;,,t, ~ r
the house Anna Jones, Joe White and
Rosa Barnes, all colored. were stand
ing. They had seen the shooting and
scattered in fear when the negro
emerged.
officer Heard the Shots.
On the next street, directly in the
rear of, the house where the tragedy
took place, lives Patrolman G. Knox.
He was at supper and upon hearing
the first shot fired he thought it was
some child playing with firecrackers.
The other shots, however, coming in
rapid succession alarmed him, and
seizing his club and revolver he ran
out of the back entrance of
his house. To get out on
Olive street he had to run diagonally
across a lot and scale a fence. When
Knox got on the other side of the
fence he saw the negro running to-
wards him at a slow trot. When
Cohen had surrendered the officer
searched him and found the revolver.
still hot from its use in the murder,
in his right hand coat pocket
When the officer learned the details
of the shooting he asked Cohen why
he had killed the woman. i've been
putin up for her long enough" was
Cohen's reply. Il came here from
Fernandina to put her out of the way
and 1 am glad 1 done it,
The negro admitted to the officer
that he had committed the crime out
of jealousy. He told the policeman
that while he was working in Fer
had written him a letter telling him
the attentions of several other ne
groes. He said that he then decided
to come here and put her "out of the
way"
Tho killing Planned.
That Cohen fully intended killing the
woman when he we't to the Olive
street house is aim rtain. as yes
~terday he told her ina, If she didn't
have my neck to broke" The Rogers
woman repeated this to her cousin
Mary Marion shortly before the shoot
ing
Cooper Shop lane was in a wild
state of excitement over the murder
last night. and hundreds of negroes
fiocked around the house where the
dead woman was lying. Mary Mar
ion, the old negro woman who was in
the room at the time of the shooting
was seen by a Morning News reporter