The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-03-06
Siicide or Murder is Question to Be Dsci-
ded; Indictment Of Accused Young
Man for Girls Deaih
Expected
ADMITTED FACTS IN
CASE ARE SET FORTH
Body Of Hiss Lambert Discovered in
Woods; Arrest OF Student Follows;
Crystals Of Cyanide on Fingers
Of Deceased
BY United Press.

BY United Press.
WAuKEGAN. lll. March eth,
Lake county grand jury met today tt
hear evidence concerning the TRACED,
Of petty Marian Lambert an 1s-year
old Forest high school girl in whose
mysterious death William r. orpet
University Of Wisconsin junior, is il
jail charged with murder.
States Attorney Ralph J. Dady plan
ned to reveal a chain of circumstantal
evidence Before the grand jury. with
a request for speedy Indictment Orpei
and his counsel admitted the probabil.
ity Of Orpets indictment. but added
that they were reserving their strength
for the triaI OTpct and his attorneys
predicted it will be established that
Marian committed suicide. Facts IN
the tragedy admitted by the defense
and the state, are
Young Crpet and Marian, friends
for wears had trodden the primrose
path lr their love idyl. a romance
of the forests on the great Cyrus r.
Mccormick estate near Lake Forest
Marian had written Orpet mat she
feared the consequences OF their in
irieue on The morning Of February
.. Marian left her home on the Kup-
penheimer estate. where her father is
chief engineer On the evening %
February young Orpet left Madison,
Wis, the university town. after ar.
ranging an abb 10 conceal his depar-
lure. On the morning OF February 3.
Marian and Orpet met in the woods
near The three trees" a fayoriie tryst-
ing snot for Lake Forest youths and
maidens. On the afternoon Of Febru-
AIRY 10 Marians father, Frank Lambert
and a friend. William Marshall. found
Marians body in the woods. II lay
in the snow. apparently undisturbed.
as If Marian was asleep. Ore hand
was ungloved. The other held her
school books. On the evening OF Feb
ruary III, Orpet vas arrested At Madi-
son. The next day he was formally
with murder An autopsy dis
clorea that cvanide OF potassium, taken
clthcr In LIQUID OF powder form, causee
Slarian's death. Crystals Of this same
poison were found beneath Marian's
finger nails. Cyanide OF potassium was
used in erardening by Marian's father
and by Orpets father William Orpet,
" no is gardener. on the Mccormick es-
tate. in fighting garden insect pests.
The poison also was easy of access to
Marian at her high school laboratory !
and to crpet at the University of Wis
ronsin laboratory. Young Orpet hoped
10 marry Miss Celestia Youker an IN
structor al the state normal college !
Al DeKaIb. I'll. Miss Lambert was net
IN the condition she feared Qrpe'
tory is that Marian killed herself
aben he lef; her in the woods aftef
.elinc her he was through, and plan /
ned To marry Miss Youker. He said
,s left Marian crying. that she called /
10 him and he returned and found her
Iy,ng. Dady's theory is that Orpet
ave Marian poison instead Of the abor'
i've medicine her letters showed she
lsd received from him before, aud that
10 gave il to her with wilful intent
% clear his path of a light Glove
The question for the grand jury to de-
sde is the same that faced the coro-
,er'e Jury: Murder or suicide
h hich ?" The coroner's jury though
,olding Orpet because of cireum-
aantial evidence. made no attempt to
answer the question in its verdict ren
tered February 81.