The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-03-15
THE DULLyEsy OF HOME.
A Young Woman Becomes Dependent ana
Kills Herself

hElis HtrseH.
The young woman who registered at
the Coleman House on Saturday night
last as mis-. r. Carter. st. Louis. Mo-,
add committed suicide by shooting her-
self after. IS IL is presumed, swallowing
laudanum ard morphine, was. so the
New York Herald says. Identified Monday
as Miss Alice COzzens eighteen years
old. daughter of Samuel ID. Cozzens.
prominent ratent lawyer. living at NO.
go west One-hundred-an d-twenty-siXt
street.
Mr.. Cozzens was reluctantly convinced
after viewing the body at kipp's under
taking shops that 1t was his daughter.
Discomfort with the dulness OF her
home life. spells OF dependency and a
strange ambition TO support herself al
though surrounded by luxury and supplied
literally with money, are the reasons
assigned by Mr. Cozzens for the suicide
There Is reason to believe she wished
10 be an actress If she was not very
badly stage struck, and further motive
for self-de struction was supplied by the
fact. shown by Coroner Messemers
autopsy yesterday afternoon. that she had
been betrayed.
Coroner MESSENGERS opinion Is that she
was deceived very recently. but there
is not the slightest suggestion as 10 the
identity Of the man.
Mrs Cozzens. the mother OF the dead
girl, is In q condition bordering on frenzy.
and it is feared that she will lose her
mind. 4 daughter younger than Alice
died about three years ago. and her only
other child. girl Of four years OF age
died last New Years.
Mr.. Cozzens broke down in speaking to
me Of his daughters death. His trst
words regarding her We're.
"She was good girl"
Before he could finish the sentence he
buried his head in his hands. and his
utterance was choked by convulslve sobs.
Alice Cozzens was a remarkably hand
some girl. Her form. Of medium height,
was well proportional and her carriage
graceful. Her face was of the oval
type. her forehead high and intellectual,
her eyes OF deep blue her mouth small
and her nose straight and delicate.
She was eighteen years old in January
last and ordered from Nine. Wood the
dress-one Of a rich. blue material cord
ed with stripes Of darker blue-in which
she killed herself. for a birthday party.
SO far as her parents know Alice had
no intimate male acquaintances. she
often expressed an Indifference TO the
company Of men. and so far as her pa
rents know. she never suffered from the
maladv so common among stage struck
girls Of infatuation for handsome actors.
I'm the room at the Coleman House
where Miss Cozzens killed herself was
found Yesterday a rouge pot. with the
name Of Albert r. Baltzy a druggist
at Observation-Disclosures irty-fourth street
and Seventh avenue. visit there
showed that Miss Cozzens had bought
an ounce vial Of laudanum on February
9th. "for use in poultices." After the
entry on the poison book was the WORD
"habitual." showing that she had pur-
chased the drug there before. 1t was
said that both Mrs. COzZens and her
daughter had been I'm the habit OF buy
ing cosmetics there.
Mr. Cozzens told me that Alice had not
been addicted 10 the morphine habit 10
his KNOWLEDGE. and he could only explain
the empty pill box found with her body
nv the suppOsition that she had hoped TO
make death certain by this drug together
With tho laudauum.
Coroner Messemar's autopsy showed
that death was produced by a pistol shot
" ound in the left brest. a conical shaped
s2-calibr, ball having entered the fourth
intercortal space and passed through the
liver. stomach and pancreas and entered
The lumbar vertebrae. The sense Of smell
revealed the laudanum plainly in he
stomach. There was no evidence that the
girl was approaching motherhood, but in
di,ations were discovered that she had
been betrayed.
short time after Alice's death n man,
Who said his name was Clark. accompa-
MED by another man, who would not give
his name. called at kipp's undertaking
shop and said that he knew Alice Cozzens
and had seen her last Saturday afternoon.
He would not say where, nor would he
give his own address