Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-11
A GIRL YATES NEMESIS
when Doctor Cornell Feared to Voice
SuspirIon Then Young
Woman Acted.

SOMERVIL.E.. y. Jim no. sorry
that | sent the X Adams telegram. l
am glad 10 have had hand in bring
ing Doctor Waite 10 Justice"
A girl with direct. Implying. young
eyes. Miss Elizabeth Hardwick. the
first person who dared TO say that she
suspected Dr.. Arthur Warren Waite Of
murder. was the first 10 take step
toward bringing him 10 the electric
chair through her mysterious message
10 Percy Peck, learned his fate with
no CULVER Of compunctiun
81 am sorry for him. OF course"
she said But ne must suffer for his
rhine. II Justice is 70 he done. do not
'eSrct my part IN the matter"
II IL had not been for this slim. pink
checked girl. the body OF John L. Peck
probably would have been cremated
without an autopsy, and Arthur War.
rem waite would have heen left free
perhaps TO add TO his list OF murders
Her uncle. Or. Jacob r. Cornell came
home from the Waite apartments the
day after MIR Peck's death. and deciar-
cd that the young dentists actions had
orouscd his suspicious.
Doctor Afraid to Accuse.
"He acted mighty funny" he told his
niece. HE asked what made me come
and didn't seem to want me TO come
In. told Clara that II were she
| shouldn't have anything done too
hiuSu III - SHe asked me Wh:,
md couldn't tell her. with him right
here in the room"
Why don't you send telegram to
'ercy Peck" asked Miss HardwIck.
I'm afraid to-" said Doctor Cornell
They all think everything OF him, and
they trust him. They might pay no
attention to 1t. and I don't know hut
that he could get everything ! have for
making n statement like that"
His young niece said nothing, but
she took the next train for New York
and promptly wrote out the telegram
her uncle feared to send. She has
now explained the significance of the
*" Adams. Al first she had meant
to sign il merely *" thinking that
the family would probably infer that
IL came from Miss Katherine Peck,
and would have the autopsy performed
IL the officials would permit such a
telegram to 20, signed by only an
initial. for she was not accustomed
to sending messages OF any kind.
Uncle Did Not Know.
So she added Adams, the first
name 10 come into her mind, the name
OF a man school friend of hers had
just married.
She didn't tell me about it," her
uncle says. THE district attorney
tried to make me say that I was X.
Adams, and laughed at him. When
she found that they needed her so
much and were trying everywhere t.
| find her, she let them know. But I
did not know who sent the telegram
until just before I went on the witness
stand
Arthur Warren Waite looked into
| the pretty. girllsh face OF rs. Adams
when she took the stand the other day
and laughed outright, she said. with
his peculiar sense of humor more often
, than not directed against himself, the
dentist no doubt found II amusing that
a slip Of girl. one with whom he
| had often dined at her unclcs, one
whom he had no doubt supposed adj
mired him. should have been the ono
to bring him to justice.
81 couldn't bear to look at him In
! the courtroom" said kindly DR. Cor
nell. who had first suspected the pris-
oner OF murder.
Waite "Took Them In"
| "f hated to think that { had anything
TO do with putting him In the electric
| chair. but do not think that my niece
and ! may have saved Miss Clara
Louise Peck. Percy Peck and Miss
| Katherine Peck from death. hut I'm
not Hike Percy Peck. who said that no
could zoo Doctor Waite killed, and
presn the button himself II liz JUS
tice. hot Il Is hard"
| He Haid that he was particularly
concerned because he had advised Miss
clara Peck to marry Doctor Waite.
''Nc took me in" said tho doctor.
III told har- that IL she waited n hun.