New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-01
Sara Cowen, Divorcee
and Rich, Found Dead
in Hotel; Said To
Be Registered Addict
Powder i'm }ioon1
Believed Morphine
Man Companion, Called
Husband, Finds Body
ON Floor in Their Suite

Miss Sara Campbell Cowen, thirty
hree years old, daughter of the late
John K Cowen. former president of
s the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and ex-
member of Congress, was foulsd dead
Of morphine poisoning in the Hotel
Maryland, 1o4 West Fortieth Street,
yesterday morning. She was worth a
half million dol ars ir her own right.
Police say she was registered drug
aadit t.
A mysterious feature Of the case is
that al unknown man registered at
the hotel with Miss Cowen last Friday
night as as Cowen ans wife" 1t was
said at the hotel that iiss Cowen had
been out all Saturday ght with man
and two women and eturned to the
hotel at o'clock yesterday morning.
! Once Social Fayorite
/ Miss Governs home was in Baltimore,
land dispatches report sac was once a
great social favorite there. Her
friends have not see ner in years.
lShe was considered one of the most
beautiful girls in Baltimore when she
made her debut. Both her parents
died shortly after she entered society.
In April, 1909, Miss Cowen eloped
| from Baltimore with Charles Monson
IT., son of q capitansr OF New Haven,
/ Conn. They were married in the Little
Church Around the Corner, New York
City. In 1919 a divorce was awarded
70 Mrs. Monson, with the restoration
Of her maiden nalnes by court in
Seattle She charged Monson with
drunkenness and non-Support.
Her father was powerful in politics
1 and in business. He took an active part
lin the successful political fight waged
against German and Rasin in Maryland
in 1895. In the financial battle for con-
troll OF the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
! he worsted the late ]. P. Morgan. He
died in 1904.
IN New York City Miss Cowen was
pital, where she was a probationary
nurse for nine months. In the nurses
directory at the hospital she is regis
tered as tho "daughter of the late
J. 4. Cowen, former president of the
Baltimore q ohio Railroad Company
yhel was described by Miss Jeanette
Mardock, supervising nurse at the Post
r Graduate II oepital. as being beautifui
higAly educated and an accomplished
pianist.
Mourned at Hospital
Miss Murdoch said last night:
"We remember her we'll here and
Swe feel sorry for her. She had q
keharming personality. Our records
Ehsre state that her father and mother
Fare both dead. She told me she had
Eno children. She often spoke of aunts
Sap| uncles, but never of brothers and
Il ers.
q There is 70 doubt in my mind that
Esne, was wealthy. She dressed richly
Rand always had an abundance OF
hsnoney. She came here in April and
Nett last January. While she was with
4s she was we'll liked, and she did not
tase drugs or alcohol while she was
Elere. believe she Just fell into bad
f@ Tipany after she left. She was just q
kz9f bationary nurse, hut she always did
'tfhi work well. She was well liked, but
1s ever saw her alter she left. That is
y ! | know about her"
The police say their records show
l-at Miss Cowen had taken the cure for
Morphine addiction at the Blackwelps
& 'iand Welfare Hospital in March. Dr..
4 . 'Jamln Schwartz, East Fifty sixth
& :. eet, acting chief medical examiner,
B. sr an autopsy said that Miss Cowen's
tn was due to an overdose of the
/, g to which the police assert she x,ls
q Arrival at Hotel
4 Eugene Halthuisen le Horst, clerk
~ duty at the Maryland when Miss
5teo'ven reg. stored. said that she came in
s'sh man and carried six pieces of
1 baggage. 1T was all rich baggage he
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