Held in murder of Navyman's wife

International News Photos (New York, N.Y.) · October 27, 1945

Lorain, O... Gordon Wellman (above), 23-year-old steelworker, is held by Lorain authorities in connection with the murder of Mrs. Helen Duffield, wife of a Navy radarman. Mrs. Duffield was dragged into an automobile in Lorain on Wednesday night while on a shopping tour. Her body was found later in a water-filled ditch outside the town. She had been shot through the head. Lorain County prosecutor William G. Wackens has called a special grand jury session for Wednesday to indict Wellman for first-degree murder.