Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-06-09
affairs concerning a young lady named
Sarah Wilkins and had used threatening

affairs concerning young lady named
Sarah Wilkins, and had used threatening
language. led to the supposition that ne
was the nun who fired the ba IN and shot
Mr.. Greene. Subsequent discoveries
proved this s1pposition to BE- correct.
About noon the report Of Il pistol was
heard in the rear of the barns of \. l..
Skinner, who lived across the street from
Weeks home, and abolt thirty rods from
/ Mr.. Greccc's place. Parties went at
once to the spot and found Weeks just
breathing his last, with his throat cut. and
bullet hole in each temple-one revolver
| lying by his side and another in his hand
A butcher knife and fresh blood were
! found Il little distance from the body,
which showed that he had made Il previ-
Gus attempt to take his life by cutting his
throat An inquest has been commenced.
and the testimony of Mr.. Green and Miss
wilkins been taken. The impression is
that Weeks has been partially insane for
some time past, owing to his inability to
"ain the affections of Miss wilkins. The
affair has created great excitement there,
and thousands have visited the scene Of
the tragedy to-day.
| Weeks was in his thirticth year, the eld
est son of the late Phlo Weeks, WIS I'M
married and had always lived at home.
having carried on the farm ten years and
| been the only male member Of the family
| living ut home since the death of his faith
er last winter. A younger brother is Il
clerk in the village. He always u
quiet. steady, industrious and perfectly
peaceable person.
The family were in good circumstances.
and he seemingly had nothing to trouble
him, except that he WIS badly afflicted
with the salt -rheum. DIR. Clark, the fam
! ilv physician. who knew the young man
well. is of the opinion that this disease, af-
! ftctinr his brain, had tended to make him
retiring and moody, AMI less able to bear
trouble of any kind. which, when 1t came
with the death of his father and the dlsap-
pointment in his love aif,ir, was too much
for him, AMI drove him mad. Why he
should have suspected the Grccnes. no one
knows, as none of them ever knew that
there was such a lady, had never had the
least trouble with him o. his family, We're
near ncirhbors and warm friends. and did
not know that he WAS ever intimate with Il
lady in his life.
His family is one OF the best known and
most respectable in town. 1t consists of
Mrs. Weeks the widowed mother, who l.
sister Of Hon. VIM. l.. Sowlr> of Swanton.
and Mrs. DIR. Clark, and the late Hon ii.
| b. SowleS of s.. Albums: of a sister, Mis-
Helen Weeks, who is Il highly esteemed
Young lady; of a Younger brother. Arthur.
who i, ia popular irlerk for McGowan
n Jones' and of Il half brother. Capt. {. H.
Reynolds Of Chicago. the son of Mrs.
/ Weeks by 4 former mtrrlaTr. The greet
and sorrow which has come upon them IN
the shock Of tragedy and the humiliation
of what would have been crime If the de
ceased had been responsible. cannot well
be measured and they have the sincere
sympathy of the entire community, and OF
nobody more than Mr.. Greene, who has
suffered 50 much from the calamity.
The testimony. at the inquest. of Mis-
Sarah Wilkins. who i, a bright eligcnt.
ladylike Young woman. is to the effect that
She bcclme slightly acquainted with
Weeks while sewing Ut his fathers house
two years aro; that ;,fterwarl he took her
: to ride on four or tivc occa >ion>, and wait
ed upon her to two entertainments; tn It
no advances toward a more intimate ac-
quaintance were made by him until, ~ She
was about to 20 home last Christmas. h.
asked her to write to him, which She d, :
cllncd to do. or ut any rate until he had
written to her. He wrote her twice, III the
second letter mailing Il confession OF his
tenderness for her, which was the first
She knew of it, After some time. III,
, briefly rcplicd. asking him to call and see