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Buffalo NY Courier Express - 8/31/1929

Dramatically selecting a story In a
cheap magazine entitled The Scum
jof the Tenements on which to place
his farewell note reading, "I meet
the end of the trail-forgive a fool.
Dutch," John Weiss, one-legged and
' about 29-years-old, 190 Walnut street,
last night slew Julia Binga, 33 years
j old, by slashing her Jugular vein with
a razor and then attempted suicide.
He is in the Emergency hospital under
police surveillance and will recover.
Weiss, an ex-convict, is believed $o
have murdered his companion, and
then, realizing the enormity of his
crime, wrote two notes and then attempted
to take his own life.
One Addressed to Father
The "end of the trail note" was not
addressed to anyone. The second
note-both incidentally were written
in an excellent hand-was addressed
to the father of Weiss. It read.
'My last request. Bury me and
Julia, my first love, together. My
government insurance will cover expenses."
Weiss, apparently drunk for several
days, carefully searched through several
lurid magazines, police say, until
he found the two titles fittingly
dramatic enough for murder and suicide.
The second one was Danger
Rides.
Find Woman Dead
A dark, squalid room, Uttered with
bottles and papers, on the second
floor of the apartment house at 181
Swan street was the scene of the murder.
Thoaty mutterings from which
only the word "George" could be distinguished
brought the proprietress
and her husband, Mrs. Anna Miller
and Joseph Miller, and an acquaintance
of Weiss, George Lee, 288 South
Division street, running to the second
floor.
Inside they found the victim and
Weiss on a bed. In one corner was
Weiss's wooden leg, which he had removed
and carefully placed upright
before the slaying. Hurried examination
of the woman showed she was
dead, a deep gash in her neck completely
severing her jugular vein.
Find Liquor ln Room
Weiss was in a state of coma. A
doctor was summoned from Emergency
Hospital and first aid was given.
Captain John Driscoll of the 8outh
Division street precinct. Lieutenant
Alfred Gardner Patrolmen Nolan and
O'Mara and Acting Chief Detectlvt
Sergeant John Whalen Investigated.
Available information last night indicate
Weiss had been rooming at the
Swan street house about a month.
The dead woman lived at 186 Cedar
street, but for the past week had
stayed frequently with Weiss ln his
room. The slaying was committed
shortly before 8 o'clock.
A half-pint bottle which had contained
moonshine liquor was found
near the bed while a drawer of a
ramshackle bureau near by contained
numerous empty whisky bottles.
Both Have Police Records
Lee, one of the trio who found
them, had gone to the house to see
Weiss. Before going upstairs he
stopped to talk to the Millers. While
doing so the groans were heard and
the investigation made. The razor
used in the slaying was found on the
floor. The note, scrawled on a piece
of cardboard, had been meticulously
laid on the open magazine from
which stared the lurid title.
Weiss, Bertillon records show, has
been arrested several times and has
served one term in Auburn prison
and another in the Erie County penitentiary.
He was released from Auburn
prison, where he served two
years for robbery, in 1922, and has
not been arrested since.
Julia Binga is also known to police,
through eight arrests for intoxi-
cation and other misdemeanors. She
served one 60-day and two three-day
terms in the penitentiary.