Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-26
Equitable Savings Bank
FORMER NUNS STRANGE
STORY Barred IN COURT
PASSED FROM cLoIsTER TO THE
STAGE
Woman Says Her Adherence to Cath
oic Faith Is Cause of Family
Hostility Which Lands
Her in Jail

NEW YORK, Dec. 25.-Mrs. Eugenie
Cox, widow of Theodore Cox, who was
prominent broker, and a daughter
of Carlisle Norwood, millionaire bro
ker and former president of the st.
Nicholas society, and once a member
of the Metropolitan club, has been a
nun, an actress, a teacher wife, a
widow, a writer, and yesterday added
| to her experiences by being prisoner
in II Yorkville police court, accused
| by her mother of disorderly conduct.
Magistrate Crane heard the case, and
when the daughter and the mother
quarreled in the court rebuked Mrs.
/ Cox and paroled her under the super
vision of a probation officer, Miss Alice
Smith. When this action had been
taken Mrs. Cox went back to the apart
ment in which she lives with her two
children, at No. AIS West One Hun
dred and Eighteenth street, and wept
case as she wanted to present 1t. Her
against Mrs. Cox, told the magistrate
that the daughter had been receiving
mother, who had made the charge
an ample allowance, but that she would
not comply with the tearms. In the
court Mrs. Cox, in anger said that
| her mother lied.
Rebuked by the Court
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daughter vilify her mother as you
| have,' said the magistrate. mo one
has ever been so disrespectful to
parent in this court as you have been. !"
"But when l tell you truth you viii
not believe me-" cried Mrs. Cox. ''You
believe the stories that my mother
tells and will not listen to my side
of it,"
/ ta ad W having
your children treat you the way yod
have treated your mother" answered
the magistrate. Then he placed Mrs.
Cox on probation for two months"
Mrs. Cox says that she went yester-
day to the home of Joel V. Rathbone,
vice president of the National Surety
company, husband of her sister jose
phine, at No 1873 East Sixty-frst street,
| to get her sister to intercede in her
behalf with their father, Carlisle Nor
wood, who has an office at No. 6S Will
| lam street She went to tell her SIS
ter, she says, that she was in finan-
cial straits, that her allowance had
been shut off, that her children were
without clothing, and that she could
not pay her board. She had first writ
ten to her sister and made an engage
ment to see her. When she met her
sister a discussion arose in relation to
the family troubles. Mrs. Carlisle Nor
wood, mother of Mrs. Cox and of Mrs.
Rathbone, was there unknown to Mrs.
Cox, so the latter says. In the middle
! of the discussion, according to Mrs.
| Cox. the mother came down stairs and
threatened Mrs. Cox with personal vio-
| lence. Mrs. Cox-this is her version
picked up a lamp to defend herself.
! She was pushed into an adjoining room
| by her mother and sister and the door
locked. She raised window and
/ I,S1,< fcrI,l ,l.fr<c
a policeman. Then Mrs. Norwood pre-
/ ferred a charge of disorderly conduct
against her daughter and had her TAX
en- to the police station. There Mrs.
! Cox. accused her mother of assault, but
the magistrate would not entertain the
charge.
mother has always disliked her, it was
because she embraced the Catholic re-
ligion that the family all turned
! against her. As child she was placed
! in a convent at Sharon Hill, N. Y.
Later she was in the Sacred Heart
convent in Paris. She also took a
course of training in Berlin and in
Bishop Doanes school in Albany. At
| the age of sixteen, she says, she wrote
to her father and asked him If she
/ could become a Catholic. He consented.
! Afew years later she says, he asked
| her to renounce her religion. She re-
fused and she says. her father threat
ened to disinherit her She wrote to
the Sisters at Sharon Hill about it,
and they sent for her.
"I was devoutly religious" said she,
"and 1 could not renounce my belief.
So I went to the sisters and gave up
my family. / took the veil. For over
five years lived that life and they
were happy years. But was restless
| and the life of confinement told on me.
| l asked to be released, and the nuns