The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-25
DIR. A. w. Waite, Charged
with Murders is Closely
Guarded in Hospital
MADE CONFESSION TO
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
Admitted Buying Drug Which Caused
Death of His Millionaire Father-in-
Law-Mysterious "other Woman
in the Case Identified.

Deatn OF his millionaire Father-1n-
Law-Mysterious ''other Woman
in the Case Identified.
NEW YORK, March 25.-Stin suffer
ing from the effects of the narcotic
drugs he began to take when his troub-
les overwhelmed him DIR. Arthur War
rem Waite spent a restless night under
close guard in the prison ward at
Bellevue hospital.
By Monday the district attorney ex-
poets to receive from the grand jury
an Indictment charging the young den
tIst with first degree murder in admin.
istering the arsenic which caused the
death of his father-in-law, John Z.
Peck, the Grand Rapids millionaire.
According to the district attorney
DR.. Waite confessed yesterday that he
bought the poison which caused Mr.
Peck s death, but he asserted that he
made the purchase at the request of
the millionaire, who was despondent as
result of the death of his wife and
wished to commit suicide.
Another sensational development late
in the day was the statement made to
Mr. Swami by Raymond SCHNEIDER, a
private detective, that DR.. Waite had
S9hSo AAi1i " lblGiIipt ~ bIADS w ate
negro maid, Dora Hitler, to eorrobo-
rate the dentist s story.
! If she viii say in court that she
heard Mr.. Peek ask me to buy the ar
senic,' SCHNEIDER told the district at
torney Waite said, "and that she saw
me give him the package unopened ]
will give her a check for $1,000 DR.
Waite, according to the detective
thereuPon signed what purported to be
q check for ST 900 TO the order of the
girl, written by Sehindler on a sheet
from his note book. This ''eheek'' is
now in the possession of Mr.. Swami
SCHNEIDER said Waite did not know he
was a detective working on the case
against him and evidently mistook hin
for a friend.
The parents of the accused man came
here from Grand Rapids yesterday anC
saw his last night before his remova
from his apartment, No. 435 Riversid,
drive to Bellevue hospital, where HI
was put in a prison ward under a for
NAL charge of homicide.
The receipt which Waite signed foi
the arsenic and documentary evidence
as to a speculative account he carried
with Spaulding, Mcclellan & Co., stocl
brokers, of No. "A Broadway, will b,
evidence that District Attorney Swanl
believes will complete the case agains
the young dentist. who lived luxuri
ously without gainful occupation.
Developments Of yesterday indicates
that the "a fivegrain tablets of SUI
phonal taken Wednesday morning b.
Waite were taken with suicidal hope
His removal to the hospital was has
tened because his bed at home was be
side a window opening on pave
court.
In Mrs. Margaret Horton, n young
beautiful contraito singer who aspire
some day to become q star of the Met
( ropolitan opera, the police yesterda
found the ''woman of mystery in TIA
life of DIR. Waite. She is the wife Q
Harry Mack Horton, an electrical er
gineer, inventor and dealer in wa
Isupplies, of No. 65 West Elevent
street.
Mrs Horton last night gave fu
, account of her acquaintance with ID
Waite, while Horton, firm in his belle
that his wife is innocent of wrongd'
ing, sat by and nodded approval as sh
told her story.
; Mrs. Horton freely admitted she
l the woman who was seen daily wit
DR.. Waite in the Hotel Plaza frol
, Feb. % to March IS. She said d
: Waite had fitted up 90 studio'' in I'll
!, hotel so that they might study mus
: and foreign languages there togethe
That DR.. Waite had registered Nj
and Mrs. A. A. Walters, New Roche
Ile,'' when he took the room, Mrs. Ho
ton admitted, but she maintained wit
!. the utmost earnestness that she di
[ not know of that entry on the regi
: ter until she saw it in the newspaper
; The bags which DR.. Waite brought
e the hotel, she said, were filed wit
ll.nol-- rrd naict1Irns for the % StlllIn-