An ailing former teacher from Queens and her troubled daughter were found dead in a Long Island motel after overdosing on pills in an unusual suicide pact, police said yesterday.

The bodies of Judith Weiner, 60, and her daughter, Jessie, 24, were discovered on separate beds in a room at the Royal Inn in Manhasset about noon Tuesday.

A bottle of prescription drugs was found inside the room but no suicide note was left, cops said.

"They had some problems they were wrestling with, and they entered into a mutually agreed upon suicide pact," said a Nassau Police investigator.

Detectives from the NYPD's missing persons squad used credit card information to track them to the motel. It was unclear when they checked in.

The two were reported missing Sunday when Barry Weiner, 57, walked into the 111th Precinct stationhouse in Bayside and said his wife and daughter had not returned to their Douglaston home after leaving Saturday in the family car.

Sources said Judith Weiner, a retired city elementary school teacher, had kidney problems and suffered from depression, and that Jessie Weiner was bipolar. Both had attempted suicide in the past, the sources said.

"She was despondent and had a lot of medical problems," Barry Weiner said of his wife.

Department of Education officials said Judith Weiner worked as a city elementary school teacher in Queens and Brooklyn for 30 years until retiring in 2001.

Mother-daughter suicide pacts are unusual, said Dr. Bob Dicker, a psychiatrist at Long Island Jewish Medical Center and the author of several articles on suicide.

"It happens," Dicker said. "You hear about suicide pacts, but it is a relatively rare phenomenon."

He said Judith Weiner's health problems, coupled with her daughter's depression, could have created "a distorted sense of the future" in which neither felt they could go on without the other.

News of the deaths stunned neighbors on their sleepy, tree-lined block of mews homes just off 58th Ave. and 252nd St.

"Oh, my God," uttered one elderly woman who knew Judith Weiner. "She was a lovely, lovely person. Very soft-spoken."

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