tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502312000087595701.post5911467205226640421..comments2024-03-28T05:18:25.792-07:00Comments on Daytonian in Manhattan: The Made-Over Coleman House Hotel -- Nos. 1161-1175 BroadwayTom Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13542224816886418433noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502312000087595701.post-19650120124962657522013-10-03T05:41:54.243-07:002013-10-03T05:41:54.243-07:00There was yet another well-publicized scandal in t...There was yet another well-publicized scandal in the Coleman House. In 1893, a young woman-about-town named Alice Cozzens was found dead in the room she had recently taken in the hotel. She had swallowed laudanum and been shot to death. It was ruled a suicide, but the whole affair was dodgy enough to make one wonder.<br /><br />Her, um, "great good friend" at the time, a wealthy playboy named Maurice Mendham, was involved in another scandal a few years later when his latest pretty young protegee, Dolly Reynolds, was found battered to death in her room in another NYC hotel. That murder was never solved.Undinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16214242522330278662noreply@blogger.com