Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-10
JAIL SENTENCE AND FINE
UT S1UO for John J. Weaver-CIaims He Never Married Mary Lacroix and Is Wanted for Non Support in Wa, terhury--T aken to Brooklyn.

John J, Weaver, alias John J. Man lon, was arralgned in police court on luesdn" morning before Judge Will 'eih A. Arnold. He was before the coIrt Monday, but upon request of the prosecuting attorney the case was continued until Wednesday morning to permit getting together of witnesses m the case. but they proved available Iuesuay morning, so the case was tried The principal witness was a young woman from Providence, whr arrived in Willimantic with Chief hlchmond Monday evening
 me accused was charged in one complaint with assault on his wife, Mary Lacroix Weaver, on September g, also with breach of the peace and car rying a concealed weapon on the same date. 1he second complaint charged hiDd with assault with intent to kill hlS wife, Mary Lacroix Weaver, on October IS.
 Weaver pleaded not guilty to the assault on September g. but guilty to the breach and carrying a concealed weapon on that date. At the time the second charge was read, the accused said that he was alone and without friends here, and rather than have
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 Mary Lacroix, the woman assaulted, was next to testify. She is a comedy woman, and told her story In straightforward and unhesitating banner, She stated that on October IS she was coming home from work in one of the thread mills and met the accused who asked her if she was going with him. She said that she would not, and then he grabbed her, and she felt an acute pain in her right arm. She ran to the doctors office to have the arm treated. She had been married to the accused about five years ago and at the time of the assault wac not living with him. Dur ing the time that she did live with him she left him a number of times because of his drinking and the way he abused her.
 Following the assault, the accused eluded the police and she began to receive obscene and threatening let ters, in which he stated that he would put cold steel through her heart or blow her brains out. The letters were turned over to the authorities.
 Here the accused stood up, and said that the woman was not his wife, and that he had a wife and two children in another part of the state. He claimed that he was wanted by the authorities for non-support.
 Prosecuting Attorney Bugbee asked the woman if they were married and she replied that they were and that the ceremony was performed by justice of the peace in New York, on Ninth street. a few days before Thanksgiving, five years ago.
 When asked if there was anything he cared to say, the accused took the witness stand and told his story. He said he wanted to throw himself upon the mercy of the court, He was want ed in another part of the state for uon-support and would be punished there. He had just recovered from delicate surgical operation, and for the past four or five months had been endeavOring to live good life. Last Christmas he sent the girl a gold watch that cost S22.50. He said that he was deeply infatuated with her, but was not married to her. He claim ed that he met her on the street in New York, and she had asked him for money to pay her room rent. There was absolutely nothing immoral about their first meeting. He discovered that she came from Connecticut, as he himself did, and thus became bet ter acquainted. He said, "as for the assault on October IS. l did not use 8 knife. It was a morphine syringe. I had been told that if I gave her an injection of the drug she would do anything l desired to have her" He said that he wanted her to go back with him. He claimed to have thrown the syringe into the river at Hartford.
 Judge Arnold imposed a sentence of six months ill jail and fine of S100 and costs on the October IS charge and suspended judgment on the other charges. Weaver was taken to the county jail Tuesday forenoon; he will have to serve about 10 months