The Detroit times., 1914-12-11
DECREPIT MAN
FREELY ADMITS
HE'S BICAMIST
Il Was Driven To It," Says NJ.
ID. Weekley, Explaining Pos
session of Extra Wife
CLAIMS NO. 2 INSISTED
ON MARRYING HIM
Dragged From POOrh0use to
Face Charge, Defendant Pre-
sents Sorry Figure

Marion d. Weekley. bigamist, grip
ped the steel bars OF his cell in the
county Jail and told his story.
The grand entry OF Mr. Wsskley
was something long ~ De rememD per-
ed. He was In his cell when the dep
uty and the reporter called. The dep
uty has a large. loud voice that boom
ed "Weekley!"
There was slight movement at
the cell door, and a gray, crouched
figure slid slowly into view.
Mr.. Weekley has snow-white hair,
a yellowish white complexion, asth-
ma, large, watery eyes emphasized by
specs" and the general air OF a man
about to be sentenced to be shot at
sunrise
His voice is a whisper, preceded by
long-drawn asthmatic wheezes. He is
so years old and looks TO be well
along on the shady side of 80.
He was arrested in the county
house, in Eloise, on a warrant sworn
out by Eva Reisener Weekley, who
alleged that he married her in Mt
Clemens, in August, 1913, when he was
not yet divorced from Phoebe Jane
Hall-Weekley, whom he had married
In Essex, Ont, in 1906. Mrs. Phoebe
Weekley obtained her divorce last
summer. and married William Voor
heis, OF No. 364 Sixthst That di-
vorce case was noted by Mrs. Refs
ener-Weekley, who investigated, and
found that her husband. who had do
serted her after two weeks of matri-
mony. was the same Mr.. Weekley.
Recently. she located him in Eloise.
and swore out the warrant. Tuesday.
Yes" wheezed Mr. Weekley. Il am
guilty Too many wives yes, too
many wives. hope the judge won't
be toe severe with me. You see, |
was driven TO It, in way, | lived
with my first wife seven years, and,
Lord, how she worried me!"
He rolled his eyes skyward. gave
an asthmatic sigh that sounded like
the exhaust on a pressure tank, and
continued: "She didn't want to live
In Essex. 80 she kept after me TO come
to Detroit. We bought out a~rooming
house OH Second.ave. But she wor-
ried me so. and kept telling me that
half OF the house was hers. and so we
finally sold the house. She got the
money. went down TO West Vir.
ginia We decided we couldn't get
along She said she would get a di
vorce. and told her to go ahead and
get il,
BUT finally, sire came TO visit me-
and told me the Lord had appeared to
her in tho night, and told her she
wasn't doing right by me, and We
went back 10 live together. bought
confectionery store but she started
worrying me again, so we sold it--and
she got the money. Then we sepa-
rated for good.
81 went TO work in the Sherwood
brass works, and roomed across the
street. Eva Reisener was rooming
there. We got 70 be real friendly.
knew my wife WAS getting divorce,
and finally | told Eva that pretty soon
we would get married. didn't want
TO tell her about my wife and the
pending divorce case.
But one day, Eva mad fight with
the landlady Then she came over
TO my room and said to me. III marry
you now: I've had a fight with the
landlady, and I've got to get out OF
here
IL said to her, We'll, Eva, this is
pretty sudden, you know, and | want
a little time to think 1t over So
fixed things UP with the landlady.
and Eva said she would wait a while.
Then she had another fight with the
-landlady. and she came right to me,
and said. I'm going to marry you
now and | tried to tell her that it
was a little sooner than l had plan
ned, but, pshaw. what's fellow going
to do when a woman says she is 60
ing to marry him right away? So we
got married.
1--WE lived together only two weeks
Eva wasn't satisfied with the highballs
that we used to drink together. She
used to keep a bottle hid In the cup.