New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-25
Tries to Send Maid
a Bribe and Buy
Her Help.
WOMAN FRIEND
IS MRS. HORTON
Fathcr-in-LaW Wanted to
Die, Is Plea-ParentS'
Faith UnShaken.

DR.. Arthur Warren Waite con-
fessed Yesterday afternoon that hP
bought the arsenic which killed his
father-in-law, John f. Peck, Of Grand
Rapids Mich. lie did not admit he
murdered the old man. Mr.. Peck
wanted TO die, he explained to Dis
trict Attorney Swami. So he bought
the drug, he said. gave it to his wife's
father and allowed him TO commit
suicide.
The man still chngs to the asser-
tion that the liquid that the negro
maid saw him put in Mr.. Peck's soup
and tea was a prescription-a tonic
given bv DR.. 4. \. Moore, the ply
sician i'm attendance. Concerning the
identity of the "Mrs. Warren Wal
ters." with whom he lived at the
Plaza. he is silent, and resents any
question concerning her.
The other woman in DR.. Waite's
life has been identified as Mrs. Mar
garct Horton, a young contralto
singer. She is the wife of Harry
Mack Horton. an inventor and dealer
IN war supplies. Of 56 West Elev-
enth Street. Mrs. Horton admitted
last night that she saw DR.. Waite
daily at the Hotel Plaza from Feb
ruary % TO March Is. But she de-
clared that she was merely studying
music and foreign languages there
with him. She admitted also that
he had registered as "Mr. and Mrs.
Walters. New Rochelle but said
that she did not know of the entry
until she saw it in tho newspapers.
Her husband heard her statement
and believes his wife innocent.
Attempt to Bribe Maid.
Before Dr.. Waite was taken TO
Bellevue Hospital. where he spent the
night, he made a frantic attempt
70 bolster up his story. He gave
10 RAYMOND G. SCHNEIDER, a pri-
vate detective who has been investl-
eating the death Of Mr.. Peck, a check
for 81 900. This, he begged SCHNEIDER,
was 70 be used 20 bribe Dora Hitler,
the negro maid, into confirming the
story he had just told the District
Attorney.
Section 1904 Of the Penal Code
provides that any person aiding or
a5ett.ng another person in the COM
mission Of suicide is guilty of man
slaughter in the first degree.
The father and mother of the ac-
cuscd man arrived in the city after
hurried trip from Grand Rapids late
last night. Warren W. Waite, the
father. and his son Frank went I'M
nediately 10 the hospital, but were
not allowed 20 sec the prisoner. Il
am confident in my boy" the father
said. u do not believe that he has
done anything wrong"
State Closes on Dentist.
Weak from the effects Of the sleep
ing medicine. which almost had end
cd his life. the young surgeon-dentist
.ay Ike a trapped thing in his apart
ment al 38J Riverside Drive, while
the state drew Us net closer and
closer about him. Hour by hour,
ahi.c he was stretched limp and
feeble on his bed, detectives ques-
toned aim. He must have known by
'heir queries that they were getting
rear 20 the truth.
De- pcratcly he stroye 20 find some
way out Of the tangle. Silence
evasion. outright lying were useless
against the steady stream Of ques-
tons directed against him by Dis
tuc, Attorney Swami, by Assistant
District Attorney Brothers, by De-
tect.vc Clnif, who stood guard over
him.
slosIg b1t mcfc.lcssly his weak at
tempt a. defence we're beaten down.
When r1n.a told Waite that The drug
t'ore in Which be- had bough, the POI
'oh hsd been Identified be admitted the
psrefafo. When Mr. Brothers Was hur-
red ~ the house the stricken man had
gfipped his sclf-control again aud
would s4y nothing Later he raid 10
isMf "Ihcyec got me. ] might 49,
sfli feiI the truth and the detective
s'fi fOr District AttorDcy Swami.
Tof almost fWO hours yesterday