New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-03
Daughter Tries,
With Mother. to
Die by Poison
Pair Engage Room in Hotel
Commodore, Divide Con-
tents of Glass of Bichlo.
ride and Lie Down to Die
Call Physician to Room
Younger Woman Has Baby's
Shoe and Toy Clutched in
Hand; Recovery Doubtful

Two women, Mrs. Frances Weiss and
her young married daughter, Mrs. Hen
rietta Weiss, engaged room at the
Hotel Commodore on Thursday night,
dissolved twelve bichloride of mercury
tablets in a glass of water, divided
the drink between them and then went
to bed, expecting to die before morn
ing. They lay abed all of Friday suf-
fering from the agonies of poisoning
and lapsing into periodic unconscious
ness, and did not weaken in their reso-
luton to die until yesterday morning.
Shortly after II o'clock yesterday
morning DR.. A. J. Greenberger, of the
Remington, 129 West Forty-sixth Street,
received telephone call from the Com
n,odore. A woman's voice came family
over the wire, saying that she was
Henrietta Weiss, daughter of his office
MUSE and assistant; that she and her
mother were both i'll and wanted Kim
to bring over a hypodermic and give
nerves.
When DR.. Greenberger entered room
648 at the hotel they told him they had
phine so that they could die without
further suffering. DR.. Greenberger,
against the women's protests, called an
ambulance. When the surgeon and
policeman arrived they found a baby's
shoe clutched in the daughters hand,
and toy dog, of soft red rubber, un-
der her mothers pillow.
Small Chance for Life
Both women were taken to Flower
Hospital, with small chance for life,
and last evening the daughter was
transferred to Bellevue.
Mrs. Frances Weiss, the elder
woman. is thirty-six years old and has
been widowed for sixteen years. She
came from Albany with her daughter
few years ago and has been DR..
Greenberger's office nurse for about
two years. Henrietta, the daughter,
who is twenty, married when she was
sixteen Mortimer Weiss, of the same
name, but no blood relationship. They
have little boy, Robert, about three
years old They live at 46 Fort Wash
ington Avenue. 1t was a shoe and
piaything of Roberts that the women
kept beside them when they took the
poison.
According to the story told by DR..
Greenberger to the police, the elder
Mrs. Weiss had been respondent for
some time. To guests at the Remington
she had remarked several times that
she had nothing to live for except her
daughter and that she would just as
soon kill herself as continue to live.
QuarreIed With Husband
On Thursday afternoon the daughter
called at DIR. Greenberger's Office to
see her mother. They talked for some
time together. The mother told the
doctor and others that Henrietta had
'ouarreled with her husband and that
he had gone to his mothers, Mrs.
Carryl Weiss, at 500 West End Avenue
Late in the afternoon DR.. Greenberg-
er was called from his Office in the
Remington, which he shares with his
brother, William, who was out, leaving
Mrs. Weiss in charge. When he re-
turned she was gone. She was away
all night and the next day, Friday,
DR.. Greenberger found that Mrs. Weiss
had changed her clothes at the Office
and that she had taken her handbag.
The desk clerk told him that Mrs.
Weiss and her daughter had called
taxicab Thursday evening and had
driven away.
Yesterday morning DR.. Greenberger
tried to locate his nurse, he told the
police, by telephoning to the daughters
house. Central informed him that the
house did not answer. He had decided,
he said. to notify the police when the
call came from the Commodore.
By the time the desk at the Commo-
dore had been notified and the ambu-
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