New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-11-28
ST. REGIS GUEST SHOT
WRITER TRIES SUICIDE.
Mrs. E. II. Cooper Wounds Her
self. but Mag Recorer.

Mrs Eleanor Merron Cowper. an authoress and
actress and widow Of Archibald Cowper, Of Mid
dletovn. y. Y. tried TO kill herself yesterday
morning at the Hotel st. Regis where she had
been STAYING for the last two weeks. by shooting
herself in the head with revolver. She was re-
snoved last night from the hotel TO the Presbyterian
Hospital. where il said her chances or recoF-
cry ebo2t even
Employees Of the hotel found Mrs Cowper lying
in bed unconscious shortly before II o'clock There
was a.single wound in the right side OF her head
Her head was buried under pillow as to dead
en- the sound Of the shot Nothing was known
Of Mrs Cowper's condition at the hotel until John
HOOD proprietor OF the King Edward Hotel. where
Mrs. Cowper formerly lived. rushed into the s'-
Regis and. finding the manager, showed him a
letter from Mrs. Cowper reading: when TINS
reaches you ] shall have committed SUICIDE Inc
letter had been mailed Thursday night and reached
Mr.. Hood yesterday morning The door TO MIS-
Cowper's room forced.
Shortly after Mrs Cowper was found, H r
Royce. q lawyer Of Mddletown, arrived al lhe
hotel where he said he had letter similar 10
the received By Mr.. Hood Mr. Royce SAID tilat
be was he womans attorney and would look aiter
her affairs
Among Mrs Cowper's effects in the hotel were
found several letters written just before she az
tempted to take her life In addition 10 uleSe
was : typewriter manuscript autobiosraph9,
giving the plays and companies in which she hao
acted sinee her first appearance In Youth al 'ie
Boston Theatre She said that she was porn III
1867 and continued:
made my first appearance In y ouln f. al that hat
Boston Theatre with Edith kingdom AI.er riI
I PLAYED for two seasons IN stock parts 800 o5
brought forward Later l pIaEe91 ~ -. ~
Frohnans in many pieces. Fiji, Al me S.h
forts Of Home and at the Lyceum "MeTrF Jul a.
am" and The Gray Mare" l have starred 20
Fedora" as Countess Olga, ana P.sFe SfSt..
Caroline IN la Tosca." In ''Twelfth Nlsht
PLAYED with Julia Marlowe. In As You Like II
I took the part OF Audrey
In addition 90 her theatrical career Mrs Cowper
was the author OF four plays-"Dairy Farm IN
Love "A Broadway Favorite" and "A Last he
hea-saf'-ali Of which were presented al Broadway
theatres Il was thought at first that Mrs Cowper
was IN financial trouble. but the police discoVere1
that she had a containing vaiuaoles IN the
hotel safe. They attribute her act TO srlef over
the death OF her husband who died eighteen months
ago IN the State Hospital for he Insane. at Md
dIe4ovr and because Of the suicide last May IN
Nlddletnun Of James H. Wallick, an actor and
producer Of uelodrama-
The Cowpers went TO Middletown about eight
wears ago and settled on the waIlick stock farm
3ust outside the city There Mrs. Cowper went INTO
partnership with wallick TO write and produce
PLAYS waIick suffered financial reverses
and. selling his farm bought another place ana
the Cov-pers went with him short time after
Cowper's death his widow came 10 this city ana
took rooms at the King Edward Hotel. Wallick.
who lost his second place through foreclosure, also
came TO this city, but went back TO his old home
In May and shot himself.
Mrs Cowper has a mother and sister living in
New Hampshire, and they have been Informed OF
her condition