| Show MISS COHEN IS DEAD S Words Which Startled andS and-S ocked Guests at Weys Hotel S SHE RETIRED TO BED AS USUAL ON SATURDAY NIGHT And Was Found Dead at 1130 Yesterday Yes-terday Morning She Suffered Prom Occasional Attacks of Contraction S Con-traction of the Spine and Passed S Away in a Unusually Severe Spasm Was Stenographer to Superintendent of Public Schools Millspaugh Memoriam In the very thick of the Sunday luncheon hours gay chat at the Wey hotel there came down the corridors the cry of deatha womans voice exclaiming ex-claiming Miss Cohen is dead The hush that succeeded this chilling ling announcement was profound as nearly every guest had known Miss Eva Cohen intimately or by observation i observa-tion There was no loud word spoken again that afternoon in the place where the departed had so often taken a lively interest in nearly every form of conversation She was the stenographer sten-ographer in the office of the board of education Miss Cohens body was discovered at 1130 oclock by Miss Wey a sister of the proprietor after rigor mortis had been at its work for some hours The occupant of the death chamber had retired re-tired at an early hour on Saturday night She probably never arose after getting under the bed clothing The attitude at-titude of the body was that of one who had passed away in the throes of some spasmodic agony The face was distorted with pain thehands raised above the shoulders and clenched until the nails indented the flesh of the palms One knee was drawn up out of sympathy for the excrutiating suffering suffer-ing The woman lay upon her back the head thrown backward into the softness of a pillow Her eyes were glassy and staring and such was the startling sight that brought about the alarm given by Miss Wey A Fred Wey responded to the call but a survey of the remains told him that everything was at an end After the body had been viewed by several physicians and Justice of the Peace Morris Sommer in the function of cor I oner it was removed to Evans undertaking under-taking rooms on the street floor of the same building Some unsatisfactory circumstances induced Justice Sommer to hold an inquest in-quest at S oclock of the same eveqing its outcome being no other conclusion than that Miss Cohen was the victim of an affliction which has visited her for some years past therefore death ensued from what are legally termed natural causes Fromthe external indications in-dications and other reports getting to the ears of the coroner the theory of suicide had demanded some attention but that was not accepted as plausible after a thorough inquiry CONTRACTION OF THE SPINE I would appear that Miss Cohen has had frequent attacks f the malady which undoubtedly produced her death Mr Wey J B Moreton clerk of the I ward of education and Dr Harrison who han been the last nedical attend lasttedical I ant of deceased all agree in describing the disease Its exact technical defini I tion is a mystery to the several physicians phy-sicians who have diagnosed her condition condi-tion but the symptoms were a violent contraction of the spinE and paralysis II of the muscles of the back affecting the brain almost instantly so the sufferer suf-ferer became totally unconscious re I I maining jn that state for some tme i often for 30 minutes and again for ant an-t hour Dr Millspaugh superintendent j of public instruction long before Miss j i Cohens death assigned these attacks I to excessive use of brain power and I frequently warned his assistant of the i results which must certainly follow i such a disregard of natural laws Her capacity for employment was abnormal abnor-mal She pursued every task with the i nervous energy of almost despair and I then complained because those in i authority were helpless to keep pace with such rapacious labor After completing I I com-pleting her daily routine at the office I she carried other material to her home I j and stuck to the performance of not i I only public duty but applied her attention atten-tion tq labor suggested by her secret I ambitions HAD JOURNALISTIC AMBITIONS I Miss Cohen held an overweening desire de-sire to adopt newspaper work as her chosen profession For a time some I two years ago she submitted Her efforts ef-forts to The Herald and while not having the promise of a distinctive writer she won at least admiration for an indefatigable perseverance which had it been properly directed in other channels would have brought her recognition rec-ognition She was an odd young woman wom-an even In the estimation of those who understood her best that is to say she possessed an individuality that attracted attention and often friendship Hardly any conversation at the Wey hotel was wholly complete unless she was one of its participants A person of many moods the deceased de-ceased was often despondent She discussed dis-cussed despondency and the graver phases of life with the relish of a student This probably led to the doubt regarding the manner of her death Fred Wey relates an incident taking place Saturday morning I was suggested sug-gested by the receipt of a letter from Mrs Nfedenhofen mother of Captain I A Niedenhofen the young bridegroom bride-groom who jumped from the roof of the Wey hotel in January I was quite natural that in this communication the bereaved woman should have alluded j to her sons tragic death I started an informal discussion of suicide Like any other person and particularly such a one as the dead woman Miss Cohen asked the others if they considered suicide a sin Later in the day she thanked Mrs Wey effusively for all that she had done for her and remarked ald marked that she could never repay it With Dr Millspaugh she had discussed 1 the problem of whether life was worth living and kindred philosophic questions ques-tions These incidents are however of not much significance when the inquiring in-quiring and assertive character of the young Avoman stand out I Mr Moreton told last evening of an attack Miss Cohen suffered in the office about two years ago She was seated at the typewriter when without the least warning she began to laugh and cry in the same effort Suddenly herb her-b ck grew rigid her arms were elevated ele-vated with contraction and she became comatose and continued so until alter Mr Moreton had conveyed her to her boarding place THREATENED BY AN ATTACK Not later than last Thursday Miss Cohen evidently had a premonition of an impending attack and visited Dr Harrison who prescribed On Friday he called at her apartments found his patient a trifle worse in respect to pains in the muscles of the back and at the base of the brain He administered adminis-tered an opiate and again on Saturday 1 saw the patient She was very much improved and full of spirits Saturday evening she inquired of rTe r-Te whether she could have hot water for bathing in the morning at 930 He promised it at a later hour and she said it would answer a she desired to take a good rest Sunday morning That was the last seen of her until the discovery dis-covery of the remains The fatal attack at-tack was the third one in the series seres which the dead girls friends can recall re-call in Salt Lake The generally approved ap-proved impression Is that she wearied I 2 herself Into the grave by overtaxing a frail physical constitution The brain snapped for want of proper nourishment nourish-ment from the body Miss Cohen was 3 Poll Tiiwesshav ing been born in the p lot itt of Warsaw just 28 years ago ir pa nts came to these shores while She was > eta et-a child and settled in Denver where Eva received her education graduating from the Denver High school She sought Salt Lake as a field for her labor la-bor four years ago and was first engaged en-gaged as a stenographer in the office of exCounty Attorney Whittemore where her first attempts at journalism were made I was about this time that she secured the position occupied by her at the moment death overtook her The only known relative in this country is a younger brother Nathan Cohen who resides at Pueblo Colo On I the Sth of the present month the deceased de-ceased took out a life policy for 52000 drawn in I favor of this brother who has been notified by wire of his loss for they were said to have been deeply attached Other than those whose knowledge of the sad case has already been drawn upon Dr W T Dalby and Dr A T Hosmer were examined at the inquest as to an expert opinion regard ing the cause of death Neither could furnish any satisfactory conclusion Disposition of the remains will be made on the receipt of instructions from the brother In Memoriam Life what is life But the Immediate breath we draw Nor have we surety for a second sale A frail and fickle tenement it is Which like the brittle glass which measures time Is broke ere half its sands are run I The messenger who brought to the newspaper offices the tidings of the sad i ending of Miss Eva Cohen whose melancholy mel-ancholy fate is recorded above little recked the sadness His intelligence would cause those whose duties have brought them In contact with this bright little woman from day to day during the ast two or three years That she whose smile was ever so sunny whose deportment deport-ment was always of that kindly character char-acter which made a visit to her department depart-ment a pleasure should be called so suddenly sud-denly from earth to her everlasting rest while yet In the blossom of early womanhood was something at first incredible in-credible But the stern truth forced itself it-self upon the unwilling ear and conveyed to the reluctant heart the words which caused a pang There is a balm for the grief of those who stand by and watch the last spark die in eyes which for years have slowly lost their lustre and from whose face the bloom has faded We watch them disappear in the mists which shroud the jasper walls and In fancy hear the welcome wel-come given them by those who stand waiting at the portals The sound of the clods falling upon the coffin lids are to us but the echoes of the chargers which draw the golden chariots from earth to leaven The breezes which blow across the neo made graves bring to us the whispers of peace and comfort from the letter land where free from care old j faces again become young and erstwhile tremulous voices sing the glad new song of sanctified love Memory wanders back through the long avenues of years and pictures the trials and struggles the fears and sorrows and returning breathes consolation that all Is over that rest obtains But when youth withers and dies when I the blossom falls iiI all 3a beauty when the sweetest song is hushed and bonny orbs grow dim in the agony of the premature summons of the angel who in the evening of life is a messenger of bliss but In its springtime a herald of terror then indeed are heartstrings torn while tears of sorrow flow I is so piti ful so sorrowful The light from glorys parapets with Its message of hope fails to pierce the Stygian blackness and the soft All is well with me is lost in the surging waves of the ocean of grief So with her who this morning sleeps the sleep which comes to all of earth That she will be missed by all who knew her Is repeating words but by none will her absence be felt more keenly than ve who from day to day have had occasion to ask her for information Never too tired or busy to stop and grant all favors asked always ready with a winning smIle and pleasant word by her conduct she won the esteem respect and confidence dence of all Away out somewhere In the great white eternitys realm there Is a land where friends are once more united Though years may come and years may go though the vicissitudes of time may sear the fond recollections of early days and the pictures on the canvas of reflectIon become dimmed and blurred still when I the mandate which shall call us home shall come and the brightness of life be extinguished by the sable unconsciousness unconscious-ness of death there will come a vision I of times which have vanished In the clouds of rolling days and the reuniting of the crcle will be all the more joyful because on earth she came into our lives I Farewell a word that must be and hath b erA I er-A sound which makes us Hnser yet I Farewell |
