The Seward gateway., 1916-05-29

Nameless and intangible and pos sessed of the fendish resourcefulness of ten thousand devils, The Man From Egypt never has been found. Nor is he expected to be.
 Another story Judge Swann report ed as having been told him by Waite was that his father-in-law was tired of living and asked him to get the arsenic for him so he could die.
 It was only a few days after the death of Peck at the Waite apart ments on Riverside drive that the first hint came to the authorities here and in Grand Rapids that all was not as is should be.
 This hint took the form of mys- terious telegram from "K. Adams" in New York to the authorities in Grand Rapids, advising an investigation be- fore Mir. Pecb's body was inferred.
 It has since developed that when Waite saw this in the papers, he went to Margaret Horton at the school of languages where they first met and, according to Mrs. Horton, asked her to buy him certain sleeping pow ders," which she says she did.
 Mrs. Horton, who at once began giving out columns and columns of interviews, insisted that the "studio" she shared with Waite in the hotel was used only as studio, that Waite never was anything more than friend ly with her and that they had to regis ter under an assumed name, as man and wife, to get the suite.
 Harry Horton, husband of The Woman of Mystery, at first declared that Margaret was so utterly innocent of the way of the world and so in- capable of any wrong that he felt her association with Waite was entirely condoned.
 Horton said his wife was "an in- nocent dove among a flock of crows.
 Since then, however, Horton has been credited with the statement that he knew his wife was getting money from someone, but that he didn't know who and he didn't like to put a detect i've on her trail.
 Mrs. Dorothy van Palmenberg, a friend of the Hortons who staunchly supported Mrs. Horton's story at first later quarreled with her and gave out long interview in which she told how poor the Hortons were when she knew them a couple of years ago and how suddenly and luxuriOusly atfluent they were when she met them after Mrs. Horton had met Waite.
 Mrs. Van Palmenberg told of find ing lingerie and silk kimona and articles of male attire in a suitcase Mrs. Horton brought to her house from the Studio Apartment" the night after the first hint of the Peck poisoners became public and Waite had locked himself in his Riverside Drive apartments.
 When the police went to arrest Waite the following morning they found him in bed apparently dead, with the poison containers beside him, Waite was not dead, but he lay in a sturor for days, being transferred to Bellevue when he was recovered suf- ficiently to be moved.
 Should Waite mantain his innocence in court today, the trial will proceed, so far as the defence is concerned probably on the theory that Waite was temporarily insane when he com mitted the crimes charged against him.
 The state vii try to prove that he was at all times sane and that his alleged crimes were planned and car ried to their conclusion in cold blood
 Should this situation arise it will develop a battle between alienists such as has not been seen since the Harry Thaw trials.
 The courtroom today was jammed to the doors with curious men and women and hundreds of others were turned away to the line of police guarding the entrances to the build ing.
 A venire of 25O men is drawn from which to start choosing a jury, but