New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-03-14

pera,ion. An autopsy. performed by Coroner Mes
semer last evening in tie undertaker's shop in First
ave. where the young woman's body had been kept
after It's removal from the hotel. showed that fear
Of shame had been motive for suicide.
Her body was claimed by her father at the under
takers shop yesterday He said that she had not
been fond OF the society of and had not received
any marked attentions from ans man. She was oil
Q lively disposition naturally. liked to 60 TO places
Of amusement and was fond Of music and rectations
at home. She had patty on her eighteenth pir'n-
day months ago. To her mother she had said
that she tired OF her hundrum existence at home
and would like t. have a stirring lifc but her
parents did not know that she dreamed of being an
actress. In playful manner she had said some time
ago that she might commit suicide bnt her parents
did not imagn that she meant what she said When
she left home on saturday, she said TO her mother
that she might return early. and perhaps not at all
Her mother thought little of the remark at the time.
Mr. Cozzens said he not well on Saturday night
and went to bed early. but his wife sat up all night
expecting the return OF their daughter. On Sunday
they made inquiries the homes OF several friends
and acquaintance but could get no trace OF Leonie
At length they home. thinking that their daugh
ter might have gone visit friend sunday,
and they decided wait until yesterday before ap
pealing TO the police for aid In search. AT break
fast Yesterday they read OF the suicide at the Coleman
House. but could not believe that their daughter was
the woman who had shot herself there. Mrs. COL
said she would make some calls on acquaintances
and asked her husband to go 10 the underaker's shop
TO make sure that their daughter not dead. Mr..
said that he failed 10 recognize the BODY OF
his daughter at first but later he convinced He
said he could not explain how she obtained the pistol
with which she shot herself, or the poison which she
also used but it was evident that she had gone to the
hotel fully prepared for suicide
Mrs. Wood, Gressmaher, OF No. 143 West Thirty
sixth.st.. who recently made the dress which the
~ Cd ar.ah IA
Identified the body yesterday. The coroners autopsy
showed that the young woman had shot herself d.
rectly through the heart, after taking morphine.
young man, who said his name was Clark. but re-
fused to tell where he lived said TO the Coroner tha'
he had seen the young woman in Sixth-ave. ON sat
urday.
A visit to a number OF theatrical agencies and
dramatic teachers disclosed the fact that young
woman presumably Miss Cozzens. had been maing
strenuous efforts to get on the stage. Charles Leonard
Fletcher, a dramatic teacher at No. 2lo broadway,
aid that although he had not had time to see the
young woman's body he was certain that Miss COZ
zens had visited him to secure engagement as All
actress lie said the descriptions he had read ana
head q her. PICTURES he had seen and her address
removed all doubt In his mind as 10 the ldehuS Vi
bis visitor Of few weeks ago
Mr. Fletcher said "She first called on me on
February 90 and asked for n private convera tioh.
She said she did not care to give her namc' ici
aunt gave her all the comforts and necessaries OF
HE but she wished 10 be free and earn her own h's'
She said she had had experience ON the stage
but that she felt she could take part told her
that unless she had her parents written consent or
unless some one responsible for her called on me III
person could neither give her lessons nor heP ie
10 an engagement She begged ana entFeaun. unu
offered peeaiaIy inducsmel,s move me ,e but told
her what my rules and remained nrni. -
@AbOut two weeks later she came AGAIN, ana VIZ
more desperate than ever: In sinct, nave n1
gii more ',tagesruck' than she was. ca"Snr
her In contradiction, and finally grew iro'n ,r
The confession that she lived W,tn T Th,s made me
insist all the more srenously that must nave d
written permit from her parents before "omdu Nv
anything for her She became hysteneal ana o eH
claimed: If can't get on the stage there Is on,s
one place for me- and that Is the nveI.
She impressed as girl VINO ~oa iu,, y"
well professionally from the beginning.
held to nv original conditions. and told her II shc
could not comply with them she would nave 10 ""''
until she was OF age" 49,. Mice f,ox
The rouge box found in the room whers M HS 20 "a
died came from a drug store nj one-hundrednIua
thirty fourtl-s and seventhavc There IL VA
that Miss Cozzens had bought one ounce OF lanaahnm
The the books OF the Druggist s"Dm .
" dose prescribed was ton to fifteen drops LOT Po"
Tee ana Underneath is written. "habitual."