Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-14


Parents She Seeks Oblivion With Poison
and Pistol - Hearing the Truth Her
Mother Tries to End Her Own Life.
NEW YORK, March I4-At Kip's I'M
tertaking rooms No. 1876 First avenue,
yesterday lay the morta remains of q
beautiful woman. Her features, hands and
feet were evidence thai she was a woman
of retinement She was the woman who
on Sunday afternoon in her room az the
Coleman house made self-Iaurder doub:y
sure by drinking laudanum and then fir
Ing 32-calibre pistol bullet into her heart.
And that was what Coroner Messemer
found and officially declared the cause Of
her death to be. She had registered at the
hotel as Mrs f Carter. st Louis Mo y
The identity OF the dead woman was stiH
in question yesterday morning. \ reportef
found that after the first cursory eXanl;ra-
zion OF her clothing discovery was mata
that will furnish clue.
Thought 1t Wa. Mrs. Leslie Carter
Il was card. but so blurred as to max
:he addres. very indefinite L was
thoroughly examined by several persons.
and the CONSENSUS OF opinion reduced its
address to one of two readings. either "235
West One Hundred and Thirty-sixth
streets" or '23S West One Hundred and
Thirty second street" The name it bore
was simply Leonide. Yesterday morning
by permission of coroner Messemer. man
came to view the body and see if he could
identify it. The association of ideas in his
mind and that he had a bend toward sen>a
tionalism was suspected when he announced
his notion that the body was that of Mrs
Leslie Carter This theory was perhaps
tod t.b h 1It1fr
paper accounts of the suicide, and the fact
that the woman had registered as Mrs.
Carter. AT any rate the man tdidn't know
who the unfortunate was
Identified His Daughter.
But as the day wore on there came to
the morgue an elderly and frail looking
man who had been for two days looking
for his daughter, who had mysteriously
disappeared. His name was Cozzens, and
as his eyes rested on the face of the corpse
he staggered. He quickly recovered, how
ever, for he had feared the worst while hop
ing for the best Miss Cozzen belonged to
wealthy uptown family. The girls
father is Samuel b. Cozzens He is law
yer of ) Beck man street. and is also presi-
dent of an institution at l65 Duane street.
The girl left her home about 4 O'Clock on
Saturday. She did not tell where she was
going. Her parents searched around
could be found. They read the story
yesterday morning in the newspapers. and
then thus found her.
Wanted to Die Unknown.
With all the expensive clothing, includ-
ing seal skin sacque and muH and a hat
of the latest fashion not a trace of under
clothing could be found in the room. She
had evidently destroyed all such effects
with the teal that by some oversight sue
might overlook some marking that might
lead to tracing her identity. She had ap-
parentiy taken Iaudanum, and not finding
that quick enough, had shot herself
through the heart. \ sad feature in CON
nection with her uutimely end is that her
father has been seriously i'll and confined
to his bed for month. He had only been
up couple OF days when his daughter dis
appeared. When she did not return home
on Saturday night he started ont in search
of her, and lad been looking for her con-
tiDuously until yesterday morning. Mis-
Cozzens left school only about two or three