The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-07-27
Handsome Young Woman Found
With Bullet Through Breast.
SLAYER COMMITTED SUICIDE
Couple Had Reg stored as Man and Wife
end usath Fol owed QIarsl Firm
All lldcatlo S.

New York. July 27.--what appears TO
have been a murder. followed by a sui
\ eide. occurred at about o'clock yester-
day afternoon in the Morton house. at
Broadway and Fourteenth street The
two persons were a mddle-aged man.
supposed To he Charles Weiss, a Swiss.
from Schenectady, and handsome
young woman to whose Identity there is
no other clue than the entry on the hotel
register. According 10 this she was Weiss
wife.
The reports OF three shots fred in quick
n succession gave the first warning of the
tragedy to the hotel people. Both the
man and the woman were dead when en-
trance to their room was gained. The
1 position OF the bodies showed plainly
that the man had shot down the woman
while she was trying 10 run away from
/ him, and then killed himself with a single
bullet
The couple arrived at the hotel and
A asked for a room at about 10 o'clock
yesterday morning. Both were we'll
dressed. The man was tail and OF an un-
mistakably foreign type: his companion
wac strikingiy we'll gowned and so at
fractive that she drew the attention OF
the loungers in the lobby. The man regis
tered for both as &C. Weiss and wife.
schenectady. y. Y" bellboy then took
them TO one OF the best rooms on the
third floor and nothing further was heard
from them until about noon. when they
ordered dinner sent 10 their room and a
bottle Of wine with IL. and sat down TO
their meal apparently In the best OF
spirits
MAID HEARD SHOTS
A chambermaid shortly after 4 o'clock
hesrd several shots fired I'm rapid sue
cession and the police were notlfed
When the policeman arrived he found
two dead bodies stretched out on the
moor. That OF the man was unclothed
and that OF the woman was nearly 40.
The bullet that killed the woman had
passed through the :horsx and the powder
had burned her clothing Another bullet
had passed entirely through her left wrist
The man was shot through the heart.
The police think that the couple may
have auarrelled. and that when the man
showed the weapon. the woman ran TO
the door and grabbed hold OF the knob
with both hands. and found the door
locked. Then they think she turned with
her back 10 the door and the man fired
the hrst shot. hitting her arm. after
which he placed the weapon against her
breast.
fhe chambermald said she heard TO
voices and that furniture In the room
was not displaced The man had only IS
In his pockets. In the woman's clothing
was found $3.50 in cash: a ticket for A
diamond ring. pawned on July q. at one
OF the Simpsons stores for SIS. in the
name Of "Greatner"
According to Syracuse. -. Y. dis
patch Weiss was a member Of Lodge No
Sci OF the Elks which is In New Bruins
wick. n. J.
About seven years ago Christopher /
Weiss. his wife and three children lived
IL New Brunswick. They moved 10
Sruth River. about seven miles away.
where Weiss got a Job with the Ameri-
can Enamel Brick and Tile company. lie .
was intelligent and although he started /
In as an ordinary laborer he soon be
came bookkeeper. He often got letters
any many remittances from Germany
Members Of Lodge No. 32t Of Elks. at
New Brunswick. n. j.. are confident that
the man who killed himself and his wom-
an companion in the Morton House I'm this /
city. Sunday was Christopher Weiss who
disappeared from New Brunswick two
years ago. after having been discharged
from his position with the American
Enamel Brick and Tile company OF South
River. because OF charges that his ac-
counts were not square.
II was eight years ago that Weiss came
from Germany. With Weiss when he
left here were his wife and three chill
dren