The evening world., 1911-03-18
POLICEMAN HELD
AS SLAYER AFTER
WIFE IS SHOT DEAD
Weiss Reported That She
Committed Suicide but Tells
Conflicting Stories.
PISTOL FOUND EMPTY.
First Says She Was III, Then
Admits They Had
Quarrelled.
PISTOL U EMPTY.

CHARLES Weiss, n young policeman OF
the Hamburg avenue station, was taken
before Magistrate Manner IN Manhat-
tan Avenue Court. Brooklyn, to-day,
charged with numbering his wife, the
mother Of his two little children. Weiss
was In a daze when he was arraigned.
lie listened to the proceedings and
turned away without a word when he
was held without bail for examination.
Capt. Becker of the Hamburg avenue
station regards tho charge against
Weiss as moro or less Of a Formally.
lie admits that the grounds for suspl-
cion that Mrs. Weiss did not commit
suicide. as her husband says she did,
are slight.
Nevertheless" said the Captain, "thr
circumstances are such that we would
have had to hold him pending an In
~vestiCatlon had he not been a police
man. II In these days membership
In the department is no reason for ex-
ccpting its mon from tho routine others
have TO endure. I'm sorry for Weiss"
He Reported Suicide.
Tho policeman. who is twenty-seven
years old, ran into the station al 3
o'cloc last night, half an hour after he
had gone home lie went straight to
the captains room and SAID his wife
had committed suicide. lie had called
an ambulance from the German Hos
pltal, but the surgeon said she was
dead.
Capt. Becker sent Sergt. Patteng!ll 10
make an investigation. on the way TO
the house Weiss told him. b~rokenly. his
version OF what had happened.
when I got home he said In rub
stance, IT took of my coat In the
kitchen. ] aid my revolver on the table
beside It and went into the bathroom
70 wash up. had hardly closed the
door when I heard a shot and ran out
and found my vile lying on the floor
with the revolver beside her. She had
sho, hersel. through the right temple.
she has been sick for q long time
and was nervous and unhappy. telling
me that life was not worth living. In
IN. afternoon she Look our little girl
Charlotte over TO her sisters to spend
the night. That ought TO have warned
me that something was wrong.
on arriving at tho house Serst. Pat
tengill examined the revolver. lie found
the chambers empty except for one ex-
yloded shell.
Cartridges Under Table.
"where are the other cartridges"
he asked Weiss. The policeman merely
looked A. LIN stupidity and shook his
head. Patteng.l found four cartridges
under the table. Weiss couldn't tell
how they camo there.
Weiss, in giving reasons why his wife
wished to xii, herself. changed his
story later and said she had been quar-
rellng with him lately because she was
Jealous on account Of her brother. who
was a policeman but was dismissed from
the force. she resented this and they
had many spats about It., after which
she was often moody and respondent
Weiss said.
The sergeant questioned other people
in the house. None OF them had hear,
any uuarrel before the shot. They die
not know that Mrs. Weiss had beeI
I'll. but said tina she was 4 thin, nervOu.
little woman whose h~OusowOrk was TO,
hard for her.
ON tho report OF Sergt. Patteuglll
Capt. Becker ordered the arrest o.
Weiss.