The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-05-15
ORPET TRIAL
BEGINS TODAY
IN VVAUKECAN
UNIVERSITY STUDENT is Ac-
CUSED OF GIRLS MURDER -
SUICIDE HIS DEFENSE = STATE
ALLEGES POISON.

Waukegan, H., May 14.-Win H.
Orpet, University of Wisconsin stu
dent, accused of the murder of IS
year-old Marion Lambert of the su
burb of Lake Forest will be placed on
trial Monday at Waukegan. The de-
fense will contend the girl killed
herself by taking poison, while the
state will allege that Orpet induced
her to swallow the poison by telling
her that it was medicine which
would relieve condition for which
he was responsible.
On the morning of Feb. 10, 1916
Marion Lambert. II years old, was
found dead, half buried in snow, in
a wood near the Sacred Heart Acad
emy at Lake Forest, H., by her faith
err Frank Lambert, employed as care
taker on the Jonas Kuppenheimer
estate, south of Lake Forest.
Beside her were her school books
The body evidently had been in the
snow for more than "a hours and was
frozen. There were no marks of vio-
lence on the body and the cause of
her death until an autopsy revealed
that she had succumbed to a power
full poison.
Early February 9, she left her home
for school as usual, saying she would
not return until late. When she did
not return in time for supper that
night her father became alarmed and
went to find her. He searched the
vicinity all night and next morning
found her body in the snow and
notified the Lake Forest authorities.
Josephine Davis, chum Of the
victim at the Deedfeld township high
school, told OF having met her at the
Lake Forest station of the Chicago
and Milwaukee Electric railway the
she disappeared. They usu-
ally went to school together, but that
the Lambert girl said she
had some business to attend to and
was not going to school. Miss Davis
aid the last she saw of Miss Lambert
was when she waved goodbye to her
and started alone through the woods
toward the Sacred Heart Academy.
The first clew which led to the
knowledge that the girl had a COM
panion in the woods, and might have
been murdered, was the discovery Of
the footprints of a man in the snow
Inquiry showed that VIII II. Orpet,
a University of Wisconsin student
who lived in Lake Forest, had been
keeping company for many months
with Miss Lambert and that the girl
had been despondent because of a
lovers quarrel. The romance was
known to Josephine Davis and others
of the girls friends.
Orpet, whose father was gardener
for Cyrus II. Mccormick, in Lake
Forts, appeared at his parents home
two days after the girls body had
been found, and after being question
ed by the police admitted having met
her in the woods on the morning of
her disappearance. He denied all
knowledge of the manner in which
she met death.
He said he met her by appointment
to tell her he could not keep company
with her any longer because he was
engaged to marry another girl. He
talked with her for a while, he said,
and then left her standing in the
woods. That was the last time he
saw her alive, according to his story.
He said he first read of her death
n a Madison, Wis. paper.
The bottle which contained the poi
son which caused the girls death was
never found, although detectives
searched for it for weeks.
A circumstantial case against Orpet
vas built up bit by bit by the police
md he formally was charged with
murder February II. Later he was
leld without bail as a result of the
,oroner's inquest, and then indicted
" the Lake county grand jury.