The sun., 1896-10-18
MRS. COX IN A SAD PLIGHT.
AN ECCEHTRIC WoMIN TICTL1fIZED
HYA GANG OF TOUGHs.

0sv. Her Parents Give Her Money to Pros
ecuts Mission Work, but Prefer 20 Have
Her Keep Away from Thsn-wod After
o 0hort Courtship In New Brunswick
Mrs. Andrew L. Cox was arraigned on q
charge of vagrancy in the Long Island City
Police Court yesterday morning. She wore q
black cloth gown, . blue felt hat. and veil.
She came.in tho hands of the police at noon
Thursday. A young man ran mp TO Policeman
Charles Cassidy In jackson avenue and said
that as no passed Clancys stables on Sixth
street, between jackson and Van Alst avenues,
he heardsa woman screaming. In the rear OF
the stable Cassidy found tho woman lying on
q bundle of hay. At sight OF him abe managed
TO get to her feet. She.cried:
''Oh, save me! Oh, take me away. from this
dreadful placew
Then che swooned. Cassidy called an am
bulance, and the woman was taken TO st.
ohn'slHosptal. There the physicians examined
her and found her. to be intoxic ated. A thor
ough examination proved that the woman was
bruised and injured. She was dclirous and
unablc.to tell q cohereht story. The least ref.
eronce to the stables sent her into paroxysm
This morning she was so much improved chat
abe was taken to the Police Court and ar
ralgned for vagarancy. The police took this
action because sevcral.hremen in engine house
No l. oa jackson avenue, mud said that the wo-
man came TO them begging money, explaining
that she was divorced woman ana without
means of support.
ticc Ingram asked Mrs. Cox II she had any
thing to say She said her husband was Al
Brunswick, \. J.. She had been married four
months She and her husband lived with his
years old, and she is %. Work had been scarce
In New Brunswick, and her husband. who sa
chance % rV for enployinent tt in % Sew YORK city. lie
had a job for day on Tuesday In New bruns-
wick, but he told his wife to 20 to New York.
Street Ferry that night. Mrs. cox said her
trunk was now ut the ferry station. She said
she walked from the ferry to the station of tho
Third avenue elevated road, and went up TO
Thirty-fourth street. where she had heard
there were desirable rooms TO let.
Alighting al the station she went west Sec
ing card on n house advertising rooms to rent.
she rang the bell: A Moman % %Gpensd I'd the door. nor.
was stricken with pains in the region of her
heat. ''That.I was subject TO them" she said.
will be attested by DR.. Long OF New Bruins
wick, who is my physician"
She asned the woman for drink OF water,
Cox says she was in too much pain to notice
what It. was After that she became dizzy.
is all she docs recolect, until she found herself
being dragged along by man on street that
seemed TO be ined with stables In a stable
She became unconscious and knew no more un-
I'll Thursday. when she was awakened by the
sunlight streaming through dusty window.
She said she was a member OF the American
Volunteers, that she had had pin OF tho organi-
sad % s. %
chal. ge which also was taken.
your M story. go mnSSm SS said JUSTICE M
II find 1t 70 be true assure YOU that those
thorities can bring them there
New brunswick. N j.. Oct. 17.-Mrs. Lizzie
Cox OF III Throop avenue this city. is the wife
this city some time ago, and said that she was
attached to tho Rescue Mission in New York
ings around town, and made a very favorable
impression. She got acquainted with Cox. who
asked her to marry him after an acquaintance
h.a aa ssrn9 m G1z the d best tskff lsss
marry me- Alter living with h her sfe9 for aef few
woman, particularly about religion. She got
70 wrought up at times that she tainted away.
Early this week she left home. saying that ta she
was going to rent rooms in New York city. l
did nc not ,l have any idea that she was in Long
Mrs. Cox has been married twice. When
she game here she gave her name as Mrs. Liz
zie Ensign. and said that she was the daughter
OF John Davis of Columbia Heights. Brooklyn.
She said that her parents were very wealthy,
but that they objected to her mission work.
and while they gave her money to prosecute il,
they preferred to have her keep away, from
very rapidly. and at first she was believed. but
she made SO many conflicting statements and
SOt INTO Sucn queer esCapaGrs that people lost |
confidence in her. She was not known to drink. |
One day rhe was Walking up Throop avenue |
and noticed the members of the Raritan En- |
gno Company at work on their apparatus. She |
persisted on going into the engine house and |
began to help clean the apparatus. When q |
policeman was called to remove her she fed
out the rear door, and never stopped running
until she reached her home. Il Is not known |
here whether her parents live on Columbia
Heigh g or not.
According to the Broo tlyn Directory. no
John Davis lives on Columbia HEIGHTS