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MURDER IKftUESTtOmtbmod From Page One.) 'at the house live tunes Saturday to press 1i 3 ^ mu it that she return and l.vo with linn. Tin lad til-o called at the* house several tunes FucUiy. aha said.TVanunl Of Danger.Returning from an affair given by the Red Men Smirday ni iu. Mrs. Rl-uivelt raid’pho tried to prevail upon hey sister 'Jtu speii 1 the night at her home, but Mrs Redyciv Insisted that she would be safe at home, and said that it her ex-husbnad called she would refuse to let him In.Morgan testified that he sold Weeks the revolver with which thecrime was committed and a box oft jrtrhlgos on March 1*. Weeks told him, he said, that he had had t.ru w bit? with some peop e around the clock, and that he wanted the weapon for protection.Weeks was arrested shortly afterLi o’clock this morning aboard the hou°,o-foo«it by P«'j.ts olmen “Wallace Sanjrais and Robert Rainer, following' receipt of Information by 1M-roll nan Sammis tint th‘\ allegedsiay$r had returned lo Norwalk from Stamford on a tiolley mto Sunday night.The officers rowed out to the house-boutr which is anchored about 2j tect off sbort*. Weeks was awak's when the offici r.s stepped abroad the craft. To the officers’ greeting Hello George,” he rephed: T suppose you fellows warn me,” He ofRiod no resistance.Tie was told hy the office ra, upon inquiring* as to his ex-wife's condition, that she was In a hospital and that everything would bo all r_rlP. “My God, I am tn a lot of trouble/’ lie muttered, as he turned over the revolver and a h.mdCu! ot' cartrid-,^3 on request of the office*^ The revolver, which vvr rnth*r the pUJoW of his hunk, vhh t’uliv loaded.On Jus way to Roll to headquarters Weeks muttered umiuoufiJy about women, and how they cannot T trusred. Moat of his mutterlngs vereincoherent, anlt;l the man wap, It was easily apparent, laboring under a great strain, ft was not until late this morning that he was told that his former wife hucl died of her sounds.Makes Confe.sti1on.Weeks has made a eon I on of the crime, which police dec me to make public It 5s Loomed, howevT, that be told of goin^ to ]us uJfe't* home Mu ml a morn ng, rji i\leir having cot ft c together* a* d of how he j shut her ns she fled downstair-, i ; when she refuted to return to live, with liuu., Weeks f«rod three shots, one of1 j n. h rh « ntoiv J Uie woman’s Jvmi I the temple, t raising death, A a* her | ] struck her ur» the right sho* ♦hi*.:*, j | and another el •h went wiJd ami wu | found by police embedded in tti*= j • wall on the stairway. The poly \\ is) .found by George FJjnn. who Jives' I in the do a nstnirs iunenuiH, and i !8ilt;i\e Tlnnl*', U )]« J'lV'W or UO* !j ia?3, who Jives ft ft \ d007fl away. j iilen Rlt; d .lt; K and Wo'U ’wye’ 1 mai riert on Aj ,M JFJOi, i;lt;\ Taijna.i'f rj Dure , of Die First Rnptlid dhjoh. On DjcmdPr ^ last, the woman obtained a divorc oe-Liep on grounds i*f info’ ,i/doc achy. Judge K( llon.^ hear I iho esse m the s?upi nor court .it Hr^dg port. The action was filed on July Li 3 Inst, by At toi ney William A. Griffin. Jr.* of this city\\e*.hi*t n is suid, aufltTM halhi-idnatlons that be was behig pursued by enemies, and that other men were Lecpng company ivlth his wife Prior lo the fi -ng of the divorce action by his w ife, A11orne\ Griffin 11ietl 1 o reason with Weeks, and told him that he was unjust in lrs a ecus i-tion. For a tune after this ilio couple lived together, hui finally .vep.mped.
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Bridgeport Telegram
Bridgeport, Connecticut, US
Tue, Mar 25, 1924
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