New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-04
Death Gaining
On IwOWO Women
In Poison Pact
Mother and Daughter Will
Not Live Unless Change
in Condition Comes in
"a Hours, Says Physician
Both Silent ON the Cause
Husband Visits the Younger
Victim and Couple Are
Reconciled at Hospital

Still clasping a baby's shoe and q
soft red rubber toy dog in her arms
Henrietta Weiss, the twenty-year-old
wife who entered into suicide pact
with her mother last Thursday night
lies at Bellevue Hospital battling 70,
her life. Her one thought is for the
older woman, Mrs. Frances Weiss, who
is at Flower Hospital and whose
chances of recovery are still more slen-
der. Unless there is q change in theil
condition within the next twenty-foul
hours, both women will die, DR.. A. J
Greenberger, of 129 West Forty sixth
Street, said last night.
Although strenuous efforts are being
made to counteract the effect of the
twelve tablets of bichloride Of mercury
taken by the two women, the poison
has been gaining in the fight for life
Mrs. Frances Weiss, the older woman
was too i'll to be moved to Bellevue
with her daughter. When it was pro-
posed yesterday that Mrs. Henrietta
Weiss should be taken to sanatorium
the Bellevue authorities decided that
her condition was too serious to permit
her departure.
Both Women Are Silent
Both of them are obstinately silent
on their attempt to commit suicide at
the Commodore Hotel. DR.. Grcenber-
ger, who employed Mrs Frances Weiss
as office nurse and assistant, said last
night that he could not understand
what led them to take this action. The
mother always had seemed to him to
be quite cheerful and had worked for
him up to the day she tried to take her
life, he said.
Ill i
tween Mrs. Henrietta Weiss and her
husband, Mortimer Weiss, of 46 Fort
Washington Avenue, is at the bottom
of the trouble The mother told DR.
Greenberger and others that her
daughter had quarreled with Weiss. He
left home on Thursday night, taking
with him their little son, Robert. In
her delirium the young mother has
called for her child and has cried pite-
ously over any attempt to take away
from her his shoe and his toy dog.
Mortimer Weiss, who has the child
and is staying with his mother, Mrs
Carryl Weiss, at 500 West End Avenue
went to Flower Hospital, and later to
Bellevue, when she was moved there
to see his wife. 1t is understood that
there was a reconciliation between
them yesterday and that as soon as she
is we'll enough her little son will be
brought to her bedside. Mortimer
Weiss refuses to discuss the matter
His mother is also silent as to the
cause of the quarrel.
Mother Worries Over Daughter
Neighbors of Mrs. Frances Weiss
who lived at the Hotel Remington
said yesterday that she had appeared
to be worried about her daughter for
some time past and that she was con-
tinually saying that a mothers sole
care should be for her child. There
was a strong bond of love between the
two, which is regarded as the only ex-
PLANTATION of the mother entering into q
death pact with her daughter. Each is
now filled with anxiety lest the other
one should not recover.
The daughter lies white and quiet
taking little interest in anything Ir
the first stages of her illness she be-
lieved that her baby died on Thursday
night. She now knows that he is alive
and she asks for him frequently. Or
their way to the hospital both mother
and daughter vigorously protested tina
they did not want to live and that i
they recovered they would do the same
thing all over again.