The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-29
SHOT YOUNG WOMAN IN COUPE
GOVERNESS REFUSED TO MARRY
Lad YOUNGER THAN HERSELF.
Bullet wound I'm Her Face May he serious
Man Pretends to shoot Himself with
UnIOaded P~istOI-CrOwd Closes In
when Report stArtIea Broadway.

LOUIS II, brOwn, u uasny anu cAClCaOio
young clerk. spent the greater part Of yes
terday pleading with Miss Laura Osten. a
nursery governeas. TO marry him. She Ia
somewhat older than he and she told the
young man on various occasions that he
should not be silly and that he should forget
about her. After being told by the girl
many times that she would not marry him.
Young Brown shot her while riding in a
coupe up Broadway shortly before 0 o'clock
last night. The coupe was just at Fifty
second street at the time.
The girl is in Roosevelt Hospital with .
bullet in her head and her condition is
critical. The doctors think that The bullet
is imbedded in the side Of her skull. This
belief Ia based on the fact that the young
woman did not lose consciousness. Brown
ia a prisoner in the West Forty-seventh
street station.
Brown, who IL 81 years old and lives at
81 Mitchell place, East Orange, n. j., met
the young woman about a year ago. At
that time she was living with her sister,
Mrs. Lafar, at 100 Greenwood avenue.
East Orange. Miss Osten is OF attractive
appearance. She is about three years
older than Brown.
The young man, who worked as a stock
clerk with the brokerage firm Of F. r. Nose
ley h Co, at 90 Broadway, became violently
in love with the young woman and pleaded
with her to marry him. His family urged
him to forget her, and she argued that they
would not be happy in view OF the parental
opposition. In fact, the young woman
has admitted on several occasions that she
didn't care very much for Brown and that
she had told him so many times
Two months ago Miss Ostsn left East
Orange and went to care for the two children
of Mrs. Alcan Moss, wife of an agent at IL
Broadway and residing in the Hotel Har-
grave, liz West Seventy-second street,
Since coming to thisc city Miss Osten has
frequently heard from Brown and he has
called and met her on numerous occasions,
Brown communicated with Miss Osten
on Saturday and told her he wished TO see
her on Sunday on a very important matter.
She agreed to meet him and secured per-
mission from Mrs. Moss to be away during
the afternoon and evening. just whore sh g
met Brown yesterday afternoon could not
be ascertained last night. The couple
showed up at the Hotel Breslin early in
the evening and dine1 there.
Brown about & o'clock approached the
carriage agent OF the hotel and explained
to him that he wanted a carriage He
made it explicit that he did not want a
hanson or any other kind OF a cab, but a
four wheeled carriage that would have. the
appearances OF a private equipage. The
carriage agent got just what Brown wanted
IL was a large coupe and it drew up at the
hotel, driven by Michael Morris Of 1888 West
lO2d street.
A Brown and Miss Osten stepped out OF
the hotel entrance on T~wenty-ninth street
and walker to the carriage, Brown told
Morris to take them to the corner Of Seventy
first street and Columbus avenue. This
order was the result of Miss Osten's refusal
to drive up to the Hotel Hargrave in a
carriage. She said that she preferred To
walk around from Columbus avenue.
At Fifty-second street Morris heard a
|, shot and was quickly convinced that it came
|, from inside his rig. His belief was made
I certain when a crowd rushed out and sur
rounded the coupe. Drivers Of other car
, riages refined up and wheeled alongside
' Of Morris's rig and so did a~utomobilists
Morris drove to the east curb and just a
= the coupe pulled up the door on the RICH
: hand side opened and Miss Osten fell out
She did not strike the sidewalk, however
for Policeman John Love of the West Forty
= se venth street station house had run uE
a by this time, and he grabbed the younl
2 woman, who was scr canning at the top o.
/ her voice. Blood was flowing considerably
n from a wound on her right cheek or temple.
Policeman James Lynch, who ran to tn
coupe with Love. stationed himself on tn
left side OF the rig and opening the doc
. grabbed Brown. As he did the policeman
a saw that the young mar was swapping tn,
trigger Of the revolver while holding tn,
barrel up TO his right temple. Brown
. hand was trembling like a leaf. He was II
no danger of harm, for he had loosened tn,
, ba rlock that breeches the revolver, the re
! volver had Topped open and all the cart
ridges had fallen 70 the floor OF the car
rage.
Not caring to take chances, Policeman
4 Lynch snapped handouts on he wrists
a OF Brown. The young man was moaning
= and carrying or at a great rate. Th'
9 wounded woman was bundled back into tn
= carriage and hurried to a drug store tive
: blocks W From there ar Ambulance
was summoned from Roosevelt Hospital
/, DR.. Brennan who responded, hurried with
/. Miss Osten to the hospital, where she wa
placed on an operating table and the doctor
n probed for the bullet. II was found lodgeC
. in the bony processes behind her nostril.
That Brown had come to meet the CIR
al with q desperate plan is suggested, the
police say, by the fact that in his pocket
b was a letter addressed. TO whom it maj
. concern" The police read this. and its
:. contents were made known to Assistant
= District Attorney Cardozo, h ordered
that it be not made public and said it was
y matter that concerned the istrict Attorne!
only.
Brown is the son OF Lorenzo Brown, {
retired merchant, who has been an invali'
at his home in East Orange for twelv
years. He has been suffering from chroni
stomach trouble. A { the house last night
q young man who said he had been asked l.
speak for the family stated that Louis
q affection for Miss Osten had been known Il
the family for some time.
4 He said that Miss Osten was a very est
n mabls young woman, but that the family
N lid not think that the young man shoul,
marry. Browns mother ia dead. He ha
a younger brother and a sister living at tn
family home.