The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-09-22
CONFESSES BOX CAR MURDER
OTTO WEISS. TRAMP BOZ. SAYS
NE SHOT HIS FRIEND DICK.
Asserts That II was An Accident--Had
spent the Day In Drink ing-The Youth
Didn't Know the Other Man by Any
Name Than Dicl-NO Identification.

Name Than Dick--No Identification.
A sixteen -year-old hoy. Isaac Weiss
who said that for two years he has had
no home. told the Newark police last night
that he had shot and killed accidentally
the man whose body was found in a locked
freight car in Newark on Wednesday
morning. He said that he shot the man,
whom he did not know by any other name
than that Of Dick. with the dead man q
revolver. which he had taken out Of the
mans pocket while he was asleep.
Weiss said that the revolver went OF
while he was putting it in his own pocket.
As the boy had already told them differ
ent story OF the shooting earlier in the day
the police did not place much faith in this
revised version.
The detectives had been ranging the
Waverly yards of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road near the Plank road crossing in
Newark all morning yesterday looking
for youth with gray cap and a hint
Of stubbly whiskers. Such a one they had
been told by those in the neighborhood
had been seen going away from the car
in which the body Of the man was found
later. They picked up Isaac Weiss, who
looked like the one they were after, lame
youth who had been seen with the man
who was murdered. The cap. the lame
ness, the hint of beard all corresponded
with the general description.
At police headquarters they put it up
to him straight-was he with the stranger
and did he know him? without any ami
nation the boy told his story while the
detectives leaned above him. He said he
met the dead man two years ago in The
Bronx, somewhere in the vicinity Of Is0th
street. he thought. At that time his parents
had been dead two years and he had left
his home at 200 East nth street to find
such lodgings as he could "to cruise
around he explained listlessly. At that
time he heard the man. name was Dick.
On Tuesday Weiss said he met Dick at
Twenty-third street and Dick suggested
a trip to Jersey. They took the Lacka
wanna ferry at Twenty-third street and
walked along the railroad tracks in the
general direction Of Newark on the Plank
road. On the journey his friend, Weiss
said. became pleasantly drunk They
stopped at every place where one could
drink along the road and Weiss said his
companion flashed plump roll Of bills
The drinks included wine. whiskey. and
beer and by II o'clock the siSteen-year-
old. in spite Of his toughness. was ready
to go to sleep. They limped and sta ggered
into the Pennsylvania yards. picked out
one of three cars. the only one that was
and went to sleep.
l.. A. l. - -
dispassionate monotone in the morning
He continued that he had been asleep
for a while when he was awakened by the
bang Of a gun. He sat up scared saw
nothing of his friend in the pitchy dark
ness of the car, climbed out and yelled for
help No one answered. Presently he
crept back. struck a match and looked
at his companion. There was Dick said
the boy. lying on his back, apparently
dead
" eiss said he found rag. wiped the
blood from the dead mans face and ran
trembling from the car He said he
he would be arrested for murder.
The detectives thought this story over
for a while. decided that the boy had been
romancing and had him back in actin &
Captain Conners office last night to tell
them some more.
The indifferent. ragged lad looked last
and then said quite As if he were asking
| for match that he had he'd to them in
| the morning that he shot Dick but that
II was accidental He said that his story
up TO the time they took 10 the car was all
| right " hon Dick climbed into the car,
however. " eis- said he saw revolver
bulge in his rear pocket He made up
his mind TO get that revolver.
Dick fopyad off 10 deep slumber. and
Weiss SAYS that he slid along the black
car. reached carefully in the snoring
mans pocket and slipped the gun on;
As he raised the revolver to put il in his
pocket it went of he says. and the bullet
hit Dick He struck "A match. found that
his companion was dead, wiped of the
blood with rag and 10 the detectives
who asked What rag was dong in an
empty freight car he could give no eA-
planation and then broke the revolver.
He took 8. all the money that lick had.
He took the revolver. climbed down from
The car locked the door and chucked the
gun far out into the meadows, Then he
went 10 the nearest house, which ha says.
was eEpty In the par!or was a iigh'.
however and near the light clock which
pointed 10 the hour Of ?. That how he
knew what time II was he told the de
tectives
The hoy saws that he lmped along
intending to go 10 the house of man
he knew. but his friend was ont He
lived on the dead mans money, he says
To-day the detectives will take the
lad 10 the scene OF the murder and make
him go over the ground with them. There
are lot of things they want cleared up
The murdered man was not identified
yesterday Perhaps forty persons who
had noted his description went to Null
lins's morgue in Lafayette street thinking
they would be able to give the police a
name. They were mistaken. None of them
had ever seen the man before
DIR. JAMES e. HEPBIRN DEAD.