The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-09
she TOOK TWO LIVES
NOTORIOUS WOMAN KILLED HER
PARANoUR AND HERSELF.
BULLETS FIRED IN BED.
BLOODY WORK OF NANoN GOLFER,
ALIAS COUNTESS" CLARA.


Prominent Massachusetts Family
and a WeII-Known Trombone
Player Her Victim-BulIet Sent
Through His Head While He Slept
by the jealous woman's Side-The
Weapon Then Turned on Self and
a Misspent Life Was Ended-Awful
Discovery Made Several Hours Aft
err Death-The Confer Woman
KNOWN to Police in Many Cities
and Killed a Woman in Kansas
City Several Years AgO-Heming-
ways Body shipped to south
Framin ham, Mass.
Frank E. Hemingway, a well-known
trombone player, was shot to death
yesterday morning as he slept by the
side of Nanon Cozier, alias Countess
Clara Stuart, at the woman's home,
No. SIP McDonough street, east. The
woman sent the ball crashing into the
musicians brain, and then fired a shot
snto her own head. Death in each case
must have been instantaneous.
Hemingway's head was resting in an
easy position with his face turned from
the woman. The pillow was stained
with his life blood. and the expression
on his face could not be traced through
the CONCEALED blood. The muzzle of the
pistol had been placed over his right
eye, and the trigger pulled as he slept.
Judging from his position when found
he did not move after the shot was
fired. The woman probably sat in bed
while she killed her paramour, and
when the weapon was placed against
her own head she must have been sit
resting on Hemingway's back when she
was found. Both the man and woman
were in their night clothes, and were
covered with a heavy blanket.
A brief note to Harvey Howard CO.
zier, probably the woman's father, was
found on table by the coroner. 1t was
probably written while Hemenway
slumbered, as he believed, in perfect
safety. The address of Cozier was not
given. but he is known to be a tobacco
and grocery dealer at Oswego, N. Y. 1t
was at that place that the woman was
bern.
The note explains the cause of the
homicide, and is as follows:'
He says he loves me and cannot
live without me, and still he wont be
true, and can't stand his deceit He is
all l live for Clara"
No one heard the shots fired, but it is
probable that the killing occurred sew
eral hours before the discovery was
made. A woman known as Helen &C.
cupies a room on the first floor, and in
the western wing of the house, which
is a double tenement. She was
aroused shortly after 5 o'clock by some
thing and woke with start. She had
been feeling ill and went back to sleep
little thinking that probably at that
time the two misspent lives were pass
ing into another realm.
Shortly before noon a domestic en-
ployed in the house arrived and then it
was that the sickening discovery was
made. 1t had been the custom of the
Cozier woman to open the door for her,
and when she did not appear the wo-
mans suspicious were aroused. The
other inmate of the house, about whom
little is known by the police, went to
the Cozier woman's room with the ne
gro domestic. The women only glanced
at the two figures in the bed and rush
ed from the room. A boy was sent for
a physician and was told to stop first
at police headquarters.
Patrolman Umbach hurried to the
house, and was the first person in the
room. He found a Harrington & Rich
ards 32-calibre revolver on the floor.
about two feet from the bed. Two of
the cartridges in the pistol had been
exploded, and accounted for the two
on the man and woman. SUI
Reilly reached the house
a minute later and took charge. An
officer was stationed at the door and
no one was permitted to enter, until
the arrival of Coroner Keller. After
reviewing the bodies the coroner gave
permission for their removal to I'm
dertaker Goette's place on Broughton
street.
The residents of the Tenderloin dis
trict were stirred up by the double
tragedy and the streets in the vicinity
OF the house were crowded with wom-
en- of the half world. They stood in
pairs discussing the tragedy and Of
fering comments of all sorts. While
the residents of Crawford ward lived
separate and apart from the Cozier
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by sight and reputation, as was Hem
ingway. Some of these women are ia
miliar with the history of the Cozier
woman and it was from them that the
police secured their information in de-
tail.
The CoZier woman was a notorious
but Hemenway was of an
different stamp. He came
to Savannah about five years ago to
go into Icons orchestra and was a
musician of some ability. He played in
the Theater orchestra. and has been
heard at the resorts. Hemingway was
a man Of education, and was popular
with his associates. He was known as
a good fellow, and his tragic and
shameful death under circumstances
such as have been related, greatly
shocked his friends.
Hemingway came from a good fam
lily in Massachusetts, and the Chief Of
Police at South birmingham was noti-
ned of his death, and was asked for in
structions as to the disposition of the
remains. A telegram was received ask
ing that the body be shipped to that
place for burial. Hemingway stated TO
a woman resident of the Tenderloin
district, when he first came TO Savan-
nah, that his father was a prominent
attorney Of Boston. and the law part
ner OF Secretary OF the Navy Long.
This statement could not be verified