The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1893-03-15
| HER RASH ACT A MYSTERY,
RUT THE IDENTITY OF THE SUI.
eide HAS BEEN DISCOVERED.
The Young Lady Found Dead in a
New York Hotel, Having Taken
Poison and Then Shot


Poison and Then Shot
Herself.
New YORK, Mvrch IA AT Kipp's
undertaking rooms, No. 136 First ave.
nue., lies the mortal remains of a beauti
full woman. Her features, attire, and
hands and feet are evidence that she was
woman of refinement. She is the
woman who yesterday afternoon in her
room in the Coleman House, made self
murder doubly sure by drinking lauda-
mum and then firing 80 caliber pistol
bullet into her heart. And that is what
Coroner Messemer found and officially
declared the cause of death t. be.
The identity of the dead woman was
still in question this morning, but after
the first cursory examination OF her
clothing discovery was made that furn
ished a clue 1t was card The nsme
it bore was simply ''Leouide "
A man came to view the bjdy and see
if he could identify it. The association
| of ideas in his mind and that he had
| bent toward sensationalism was suspected
| when he announced mis- notion that the
body was that of Mrs Leslie Carter.
This theory was perhaps suggested to
him through reading newspaper accounts
of the suicide.
The woman when sha registered at the
Coleman House late Saturday evening
inscribed herself as MRS F Carter, St
Louis, Mo" A little later the body was
identified this morning as that OF Leonide
Cozzens, eighteen years old, of 24O West
13Sth street. The i3eIt fication WAS
made by Nine. Wood. dressmaker,
who made the dress the young woman
wore when she killed herself Nine
Wood could give no reason for the girls
action. The dress the dead girl wore,
Nine Wood said, was made two months
ago Miss Cozzens BELONGED to q wealthy
family aud lived with her mother at the
address given. Her father is Samuel B
Cozzens He is a lawyer Of No 5 B-ek
man street and is also president of an
institution at No 165 Dusne street.
, The girl left her home about o'clock
on Saturday She did not tell where
she was gong Her parei IS searched
around among their friends, but no trace
Of her could be found They resd The
story this morning in the newspapers
and about II 80 Mr.. CoZzeus visite(
Klpp's undest king establishment a
! First avenue t, identify the body TIL
girls parents were about to ask the pO
lice to send out general slarm for her
after having exhau ted all private mean
\ of findir g her
+ The ad girl was an only daughter
q About tn ce years ago another daughter
) six year II age, died, and 1t 81 berieve
:, the mOttur that LeOnie was thought c
! all the D4 re Tae mo- her is so distra tie
E that it IS feared that she will comm
. suicide
There was TT 3 t-sce Of iiss;pat;o1 {
- sorrow upon the face of the handspm
young woman when the b. dy was We've
70 by many persons, who, from vaIlol
mot YES, called at the undertaking e
4 taoiishIaent this morning
g ,le mystery and TIE beauty Of tt
J. girl. VINO had given her name as ''Mr
:, F. Carter, st Luis, Mo ;" when 81
20 took room POI about II O'Clock on Sa
20 u day night ad ded interest to the s'or
~ Sac was txpens vely DIR, ssed, had pieu
,a Of money, and wore valuable jewelr
10 and bore every evidence of having BET
of delicately nurtured, and no motive "
- apparent for her taking her hfs.
From the time the woman went to n
,. room, No. 2Ol on the ST con3 floor, at
O'Clock saturday evening, the hotel p
Of pie say tina. nothing was seen OF heari
~ ner until O'Clock Sunday afterno DO
~ when bell by took her milk pune
- At O'Clock, as the chambermaid cou
~ not get any response to her raps at t
~ dool, it was forced and the suicide d
49, covered.
o sr The face of the girl was strong or
sty and the evidence of her will power "
shown by the exceedingly car, ful ras
20 ner in which she had prepared for ms
no ing certa n of success in committing s.
,ea eide. as we'll as the elaborate prepa
~ ions to conceal her identity.
~ With all the expensive clothiog.
M cluding a sealskin sacque and muff a
- a hat of The lateet fashion. not a trace
.an underclothing could be fund in
1 20; room. She bad evidently destroyed
- such effects with the fear that by SO
40 oversight she might overlook SOM ma
w ,cN ing that might lead to tracing her id'
Z, tity. She had apparently taken ls,it
,on nun, and not finding that quick enou
IA shot herself through the heart.
A sad feature in connection with
untlmely end is that her father has b
seriously i'll anil confaed to his bed ft
rec month He had only been up a cou
up If days when his daug ghter disappear
oo. When che did not return home on Ss.
on on day nignt he started out in search Of
oo. and had been looking for her corti
lers ously until this morning
ur' Mrs Leoni Cozzens, the mother
ioa Alice Cozzens, VIII, since the ider til
SO, OF tion of the DO ~ now lying at K'pp's
'ne dertaking establishment as that of
no' daughter has been hysterical atteml
ion. to take her own life at o'clc ck ton
ave Early in the afternoon she tnrestea
auo -, kill herself, and when the result of
dea autopsy told her that her daughter
'haS not pure, she eluded her friends,
'oio were seated around her trying to con
mug the heart broken mother, and runnin
eas, closet in her boudoir snatched h'
5o'o of laudanum from the shelf and after
Aue7 ed to drink the contents. The bottle
: ZOE taken from her, and she was taken
any to tho bed where she had been lying
we'd
Indian and white Soldiers.