The New York herald., 1921-07-03
MOTHER, DAUGHTER,
TRY TO ENDLIVES AT
HOTEL COMMODORE
Doctor Finds Them Side by
Side After One Had Sum-
moned Help.
EACH TAKES 6 TABLETS
Quarrel With Husband Said
to Have Caused Both to
Desire Death.
BOTH IN CRITICAL STATE
Mrs. Mortimer Weiss and Mrs.
Frances Weiss Removed
to Hospitals.
BOTH IN CRITICAL STATE

A policeman who was called to the
Hotel Commodore yesterday morning
because two women had taken poison
twin beds. Between them they had
swallowed twelve tablets of bichioride
Of mercury on Thursday at midnight
They stayed in the room. their plight
unknown to any person outside. all
day Friday and all Friday night. Then
one Of them called a doctor to relieve
their suffering. The policeman and
the physician, upon entering the room,
found under the pillow Of the younger
of the two women a babys shoe, black
and white, and a baby's rubber dog.
Last night one of the women was In
Flower Hospital. the other In Bellevue.
Both we're in critical state.
They are mother and daughter
Mrs. Frances Weiss. widow, 36 year.
old. Office nurse for DR.. Arthur Green
berger Of the Hotel Remington, 12s
West Forty-sixth street. and her
daughter Mrs. Henrietta Weiss, 90
years old. of As Fort Washington ave-
nue., the wife Of Mortimer Weiss, who,
the police said, is a son Of Mrs. Caryll
Weiss. milliner at STA Madison ave-
nue.. The younger woman's marriage
was to a man of the same family name
as her own.
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1t was dre Mortimer Weiss who had
the baby's shoe and the rubber dog. She
told the police that she had quarrelled
with her husband. that the latter had
gone with their son, Robert, two years
old. TO his mothers home at 500 West
End avenue on Wednesday night. and
that she and her mother had decided TO
end their lives. No explanation was
given as to why her mother should have
entered the suicide agreement beyond
the fact that she was devoted to the
daughter. and entertained unusually
strong beliefs regarding parental re-
sponsibility.
Mortimer Weiss visited Flower Hos
pital. to which both women were taken
from the hotel, and seemed asitated by
what they had done. but would not ex-
press any opinion as to the cause of II.
Both Mrs. Weiss and her daughter were
married when very young. The mother
was a bride at Is. according to the po-
lice. and the daughter. although only
90 years old now. has been married sew
erai years.
DR.. Greenberger Of the Hotel Reming-
oh 80
tho attempted double suicide than any
one else. He told the police that Mrs.
Frances Weiss, his office nurse, did not
appear for work on Friday morning. and
he learned that on the night before her
daughter had come to the hotel and had
a two hours talk with her. The mother
who lived at tho hotel, then packed her
grip and the two went away In taxi
cab. DR. Greenberger could not find
out where they had gone. He tclephoned
the daurhter's home on Fort Washing
ton avenue. but got no response Az
II rs Yesterday morning the daughter
phoned him:
please come over to the commo-
aore she said Mother and ! are here
and we haven't been able 10 sleep for
two days"
whats the matter?" Dr. Greenber-
ger asked
Nervous. said the younger Mrs.
Weiss
Taking along some bromdes the ply
oic,an yent to the Commodore. He had
beard that Mrs. Mortimer Weiss and
her husband had auarrelled. but did not
dream that she had tried to end her
life.
roth women Conscious.