Trial of Arthur Preston Nevitt, Jr
United States Of America | Mid Atlantic | Pennsylvania | Levittown | Bucks County Courier Times | 1973-09-14
Man Tried To Poison Wife, Mistress says At New Jersey Trial
Mt Holly, New Jersey-The mistress of accused murderer Arthur P Nevitt, Jr has testified that two years before his wife disappeared, Nevitt told her he was putting mercury in his wife's tea.
Donna Wille, 28, formerly of Delran, mother of seven and two year old sons by Nevitt, told the jury in Nevitt's first degree murder trial that he had told her that his wife had become sick and suffered a rash from cosmetics containing mercury that she had used and that he had placed some of the chemical in her tea.
"About half the time I didn't believe the things he told me, so I didn't take it seriously", said Miss Wille.
Testifying in the third day of Nevitt's trial on charges he murdered his wife, the former Joan Marie Polarsky ??? their split level house on Birch Lane in Marlton, Miss Wille said she moved into the Nevitt home about a week after Nevitt's wife disappeared on Oct 19.
Didn't Know
During the several months that she lived there, from the end of Oct until Nevitts arrest on January 24, Miss Wille said she did not know what had happened to Mrs Joan Marie Nevitt and did not know about the crawl space under the rear porch where he had told police that he had buried his wife's body after he accidently shot her in their bedroom.
Miss Wille, a legal secretary with a Philadelphia Insurance office, says she met Nevitt when she was a sixteen year old junior at Holy Cross High school in Delran and he was a bus driver for the public service on a regular route transporting students from Riverside to the high school.
She says she began dating Nevitt a year later in her senior year and became intimate with him before graduation.
At the time she said she did not know that Nevitt was married, but found out later from a friend of his before the birth of their first child in Nov 1965.
Moved From Home
Miss Wille said that her parents where divorced and that she lived with her aunt and uncle in Riverside when she met Nevitt and moved from their home several years later.
Over the duration of their relationship, Miss Wille said Nevitt frequently discussed divorce and said he would marry her following a divorce.
Although she said she met Joan nevitt several times, she said Mrs Nevitt did not condone Miss Wille's relationship with her husband and did not like the position that she held in the Nevitt and Son Trucking Company.
The corporation was formed in July 1971, with Nevitt as president, his son Richard as Vice president, and Miss Wille as secretary ??????? in that position in Jan 1972 by Mrs Nevitt.
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