The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-27
KILLED WOMAN AND HIMSELF.
PAIR WHO PASSED AS MAN AND
WIFE SHOT IN MORTON HOUSE.

hit the woman--POlice Think That Slno
Was Trying to Escape From tho Room.
What appears to have been a murder.
followed by suicide, occurred at about
4 O'Clock yesterday afternoon In the Morton
House. at Broadway and Fourteenth street.
The two persons were a middle-aged man
supposed to be Charles Weiss. Swiss,
from Schenectady, N Y, and handsome
young woman. to whose identity there is
no other clue than the entry on the hotel
register. According TO this she was Weiss's
wife.
The reports Of three shots fired in quick
succession gave the first warning of the
tragedy TO the hotel people. Both the man
| and the woman were dead when entrance to
their room was gained. The position of
the bodies showed plainly that the man
had shot down the woman while she was
trying to run away from him and then had
killed himself with single bullet.
The couple arrived at the hotel and asked
for a room about 10 o'clock yesterday
| morning Both were we'll dressed. The
| man was tall and Of an Enthusiastically for
cign type; his companion was strikingly
well gowned and 80 attractive that she drew
the attention Of the loungers In the lobby.
| The man registered for both as &C. Weiss
and wife, Schenectady, N. " A 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 to their room and
bottle OF Sauterne with 1t, and sat down
to their meal apparently in the best OF
| spirits.
A chambermaid who passed along the
| hallway shortly after clock heard several
| shots fired in rapid succession. She ran
| downstairs and notified Mr.. jackson, one
of the proprietors, of what she had heard.
jackson called in Policeman Bell ard,
when the latter and the hotel engineer
| reached the room from which tho shots had
been heard, they found the door locked
from within. The engineer finally sue
ceeded in forcing the transom open and
raising himself up 80 that he could look
| into tie Dom.
"Th.} lead. and / can't get in without
steppi,S. IN her body" he exclaimed.
He was told that he must get in anyhow
and when the door was opened two dead
| bodies were seen stretched out on the floor.
| That OF the man was unclothed and that
| OF the woman was nearly SO. Her body
was lying in front OF the door. His WAS
found few steps away. Near him on the
floor lay .32-calibre revolver containing
three empty shells and two loaded cart
ridges.
passed through the shorax 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
quarreled and that, when the man showed
| the weapon the woman ran to the door
nd hnl ~ ha wit
| hands and found the door locked. Then,
| they think, she turned with her back to the
door and the man fired the first shot, hitting
her arm, after which he placed the YEA pom
against her breast. The chamberm aid
said sho heard no voices and the furn iture
In the room was not displaced.
The hotel people Immediately notified
| the Coroner's office. Word was also sent
to the Mercer street police station, and
two detectives came up on the run, Almost
every piece of clothing bore marks showing
that 1t was bought in Schenectady In
the mans pocket were found two tickets
for round trip between Schenectady and
Albany. The coupons for the trip from
Schenectady to Albany had been torn on.
His pockets also contained an Elk button
| with the number 324 on it; solid gold
watch, chain and locket, 582 in money
and a letter addressed to Charles Weiss
The letter had not passed through the mails:
On one corner of the envelope was printed
ARNOLD Moser, 80 East Eighth street"
The letter was dated yesterday. written
In German and signed with the name OF
Arnold Moser II told Weiss that the writer
| had gone to the seashore for the summer,
| but that his rooms in this city stood open to
| Weiss Just the same. Moser also prom
| Used to meet Weiss at the foot OF Canal street
| at the landing Of some boat presumably
the Peoples Line. II they failed to meet meet
there, the letter said, the writer would
| surely expect to find Weiss at the Belvedere
| House at noon yesterday.
In the woman's clothing was found $47
In cash, a ticket for a diamond ring pawned
on July 81 at one Of Simpsons stores for
addressed to d. Hugo by Annie which
said that the writer had felt obliged to leave
the hotel where she had been employed
because she had seen patrol wagon at the
door.
Coroners Goldenkranz and Scholer viewed
the bodies late last evening and had them
removed to the Mercer street station
Arnold Moser la a manufacturer OF en-
broideries who has an Office at 80 East
Eighth street He Ia well known at the
Belvedere House, Eighteenth street and
Fourth avenue. At this hotel 1t was said
last evening that Moser had spent large
part OF the afternoon there waiting for
some friends of his own nationality and that
he had been in again later in the day asking
for them. He could not be found last
evening.
According to Syracuse despatch G;
Weiss was a member Of Lodge No. 32t OF
the Elks, which is in New Brunswick, NJ.
About seven years ago. Christopher
Weiss, his wife and three children lived IN
New Brunswick. They moved to South
| River, about seven miles away, where Weiss
got Job with the American Enamel Brick
and Tile Company. He was intelligent,
! and, although he started In as an ordinary
laborer he soon became bookkeeper. He
often got letters and money remittanoes
from Germany.
He got into some trouble with the firm
and was discharged about two years ago,
| Then he came to this city and, il is thought,
went to Boston While there he gave up
his membership in the Elks at New Bruins
wick.
Persons who knew Weiss in New Bruins
wick say that the description Of the suicide
Is not unlike him
Dispatches from Schenectady last night
reported that there were two men named
Charles Weiss living there, but that they
were both at home.
Train Hits Electric Car; Three Men Killed.