San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-10-22
MURDERED IN THE DARK.
A Frenzied Jew Murders the Mother
of Five Children and Kills
HIMSELF

Himself
Last evening at about s o'clock the
neighborhood OF Frio and Perez streets
was aroused by the report of several pistol
shots. Immediately came the telephone
message to the police headquarters that a
man and woman had been shot in front of
Joe WOeltz's grocery store. Officer Brown
Immediately started for the spot and
found that woman lay dying in the
above named store and man found dead
a little distance from the same place.
Investigation showed that Mr.. Mehlin, a
machinest at the |. e q. n. shops had
driven to Woeltz's store with his
ticles preparatory to going home,
living near the West End. The party
stopped before the store and Mr..
Mehlin entered. leaving his wife with her
children in the ambulance. He had scarce
ly entered the store when two pistol shots
and wOman'S cry were heard. Rushing
to the street he found that his wife had
been shot twice in the back. With the
assistance of Mr.. Woeltz the injured
woman was taken into the store, and
medical aid was Immediately summoned,
Immediately after the shot was fired, a
man was seen daShing from the ambu-
lance towards Erio street, and while the
woman was being taken into the store
and attended to, two more shots followed.
When the officer reached the spot the
body of man, living dead and stark was
found upon the street a short distance
from the spot where the woman had been
killed. 1t appears that when the woman
had been killed, the murderer dashed
away, and killed himself. by putting the
pistol into his mouth and sending bull
let through his brain.
The murderer and suicide proved to be
Russian jew by the name of Isaac
Weiss, deserter of the army. He has a
wife living at 9l4 w. Houston street, who
was Immediately sent for and identified
her husband.
The murdered woman. Mrs. A. Mehlin,
was hard working lady and the mother
of five children. several of whom are very
young, none of them being over thirteen
years of age. Her loss is great blow to
her husband and the children.
The sight presented at the time of the
murder was almost .unbearable. Said one
of the officers as he appeared on the
scene: There were three children in the
ambulance, one girl of thirteen, holding
in her arm a baby, all three of them cry
ing, close by lay the dying woman in the
arms of her husband. The scene was
something almost unbearable to even the
hardest hearted man on the force"
Isaac Weiss, the murderer, lived with
his wife Hannah Weiss, in New York
state where he deserted her. She never
heard from him for some time, when she
received letter from him saying
that he was in thiScity, and well fixed.
She sold out her boarding house in New
York state and came to this city when
she found that her husband was a soldier
in the army. They lived here ashort
time together when he deserted and was
not heard from since, until last Sunday,
when he suddenly showed up and asked
his wife for some money The money was
given to him and he reappeared Monday
night, bright and sane, but while eating
supper he began to talk irrational and be-
came very frenzied. At last the woman,
to protect herself, closed the door on him
and he left, threatening to murder him
self. Since then she had not seen her
husband until when summoned last night
to identify his body. The woman is an
industrious woman, making an honest
living and supporting four children.
The body of the suicide will be
taken to the poor house for interment
this afternoon, as the Jews refused to
take any interest in the case, whatever.
The only cause assigned for the bloody
and mysterious crime, is that the fren-
zied man took the unfortunate woman in
the ambulance for his wife, the resem-
blance being very great, and murdered
her. The pistol of the murderer has not
yet been found. 1t is thought that some
one picked it up, and is afraid to pro-
duce it.