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Coroner Holds InquestInto Norwalk MurderAs Weeks Is CapturediFormer Husband of Slain Woman Purchased Revolver March 12, Witnesses Declare at Hearing—Had Been Bothering Victim for Four Days |n an Attempt to Effect a Reconciliation, Testimony Shows.NomVALK, March 2 4.—(Special to The Telegram.) Coroner John J* Phelan, of .Bridgeport, this after* noon roud noted an inquest hear mg into the slaying Sunday of Ellen Hedycfc Weeks, flr by her divorced ; husband, U-eorge Weeks. 42, who waa i arrested for the crime shortly tifter 1! o’clock this morning aboard a: house-boat ut the dock of the North Atlantic oyster fHfma company, by which concern he Was employed*Prior to the hearing, tv hie h was adjournal -until next Monday at Bridgeport by Coroner Phelan, Weeks was examined hy Dra. Stevens and irarUck, of Bridgeport, to fUtermine his sanity. He is being- detained without bond at City halLTestimony of witnesses examined indi cases that Weeks has been mentally unbalanced for some time, and Chat he ahot his former wife, when she refused to return and live with him. The revolver with Which tho crime was committed was purchased by Weeks on March 12* it was brought out.'Witnesses Examined.Wtil esses 8 examined wero jvrrs, Jennie Blauvelt, an aunt of Mrs, ttedyck; Madeline Blauveit, a niece: Mary Bonis, wife of Steve Bonis, a nebhew: Mrs. Charles Weeks, a sir* ter*in-taw Xt Weeks*: George FLynn, a neighbor; Sam and l*ottte Kaplan, who saw the slayer after the crime: Chief of Police Pennington, Medical Examiner Ir, S. H, Huntington and A, IX Morgan*- who sold Weeks the pistol with which he shot his former wif«.According* to Mrs, Weeks* story, i her brother-in-law came to her home* on the day he purchased the r*vol-J ver, and* tin wrapping a pack^po 2ro~; - w:* MBS*GKORGE WEEKS, an oystermoii, believed demem edv »wld in Xctmalk wtthout bonds tor «la,ving his divorctxl wife Sunday vnomiiis after ids pica for a reconciliation had hoen turned dowii,dtieed the gun and proceed to load i1. He showed her a wedding rlncr, i«he said, and ioid her that be was /sOir.er to ask hi5 wife to rot iri and Hva with bin;. In rejily to a question, she said* Weeks told her he had purchased the gun because,’’people wetfe bothering him down around the house-boat v.Thero he lived, and that he needed the revolver for protection as he halt;l money hidden on the boat.Mrs. Blauveit, sister ol? the slain woman, testified that 1 reeks had been “bothering1 9 his ex-wife since last Thursday and that he had called(Con tint tod mi Pn^e 13.)
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Bridgeport Telegram
Bridgeport, Connecticut, US
Tue, Mar 25, 1924
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