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Show MISS PHOEBE COUZINS, first United States marshal mar-shal of her sex, and, first woman lawyer, who dies in poverty. phdebe mm IS CflLLEOJY DEATH First Woman Lawyer Passes Away at the Age of 73, in Dire Distress. By International News Service. ST. LOUIS, Dec. 0. Miss Phoebe Couzins, who was the first woman lawyer, law-yer, tho tho ilrst United States marshal mar-shal of her eex, the first female gradu-ato gradu-ato of "Washington university and. a pioneer suffragist, who in later years turned, against woman suffrage, died hero today in abject poverty. Sho was 73 yeara old. Miss Couzins camo back to her old home from "Washington, D. C, Boveral months ago to press her claim for $100,000 which she declared certain breworB owed hor for making anti-prohibition spocches. The claims wore denied de-nied and, Instead of a mansion and luxury lux-ury such as sho hadi been aocustomod to in othor days, sho was forced through poverty to poorer and poorer quarters. For tho last several weoks sho has been living in squalid rooms In a tenement section whore old friends who learned accidentally of her plight gave assistance and whore death, due to tho infirmities of old) ago, came this aftomoon. |