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Show FRISONER IN GRIEF CNLY FOR HIMSELF Flcrxzrl:ab!e Calloizsr.ess Is Zhown by Fratricide. New Britain, Conn. Making it clear to police that he was sorry, not for his victims but for the predicament in which be has placed himself, Samuel Weiss, thirty-two years old, confessed to putting cyanide in several bottles of home brew from which his brother, John, and two neighbors, John Stein ami John Sleiir, died after drinking. Weiss' confession was as heartless ns his action. He told the police he was in love with his sister-in-law and had long ago determined to do away with his brother. He regretted that the poison had worked so quickly, telling tell-ing police he had hoped his brother would "die like a dog in the yard." After his confession, which came after five detective sergeants had questioned him throughout the night, Weiss began to sob, but he quickly assured his .questioners that his tears were not for his brother or the dead neighbors, but for himself, as he feared he would he hanged. Weiss lias a wife and family In Czechoslovakia, but he said he promptly prompt-ly forgot them when he went to live with his brother and sister-in-law, who also is being held as a possible accessory acces-sory before the fact. His affair with Mrs. Weiss came to a climax last Easter, Eas-ter, he said, when the woman took $500 from her husband's savings and eloped to Boston with him. Lust July she returned to her husband and when Weiss reappeared she rejected his advances. ad-vances. His confession did not implicate impli-cate the woman. |