Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1916-05-26
MRS. HORTON WITNESS
STUDIO MATE OF DR.. WAITE ON
STAND IN MURDER CASE.
Woman Tells of Her Relations With
Alleged Poisoner of Peck-Wife
Also Testifies.

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clusion of gripping story Of her re-
lations with DR.. Arthur Warren Waite
told by Mrs Margaret Horton, studio
companion" and the "other woman" in
the Peck poison case, the state unex-
pectedly rested in the afternoon.
Earlier in the day Doctor Waite
heard his wife, Mrs. Clara Louise Peck
Waite. give testimony which may send
him to the electric chair for the muir
der of her father, John 2. Peck.
The unusual motion of the defense
for a dismissal of the indictment on
grounds of insufficient evidence was
promptly denied by Justice Shearn.
On motion of Attorney Deuel., coun-
sci for Waite, the court, however,
ordered all evidence with regard to
germ cultures stricken out as having
no bearing on the death of Peck.
Mrs. Horton in her testimony re-
cited in detail her acquaintance with
Waite.
She said that in addition to study
ing languages together they took up
dramatic art and read Romeo and
Juliet" together.
This was in the Studio" at the
Plaza hotel She said they spent
about an hour each day there.
On the day Peck died Mrs. Horton
said Waite telephoned that he was
going away for a few days. On re-
turning from Grand Rapids he tele-
phoned her and told her not to call
him any more as they are after me-"
Meeting Waite at the Berlitz school
few days later, Mrs. Horton said
Waite told her he was being shadowed
THAT same day | had seen the pa
pers. said to him, Doctor, see they
are accusing you. Did you do it?
eyes, did, he replied.
HE said: 'Good-by, perhaps l will
never see you again."
On cross-examination Attorney
Deuel. said:
What was Doctor Waites demeanor
toward you when you were alone?"
Very gentlemanly."
Were your relations with Waite al
ways pure and platonic?"
They always we're"
Mrs. Horton also told of receiving a
letter from Waite after his arrest in
which he wrote that he supposed that
he would "get the chair" although he
might be put in an insane institution
for while and then get out.
Mrs. Waite testified concerning her
fathers visit from Grand Rapids to
New York and said that Waite sug-
gested that DR.. Charles A. Moore be
called to see her father.
Some time after her fathers arrival
here, Mrs. Waite said, he developed
fainting spells.
The witness told of an occurrence at
dinner three days before Mr.. Peck's
death, when Waite served her father
with some oysters, and later he re-
marked that he felt unusually drowsy.
When asked if she noticed anything
unusual in Yates manner, Mrs. Waite
broke down and sobbed, but finally re.
piled, mo, only what my maid told
me later"
She said her fathers condition grew
gradually worse and she called in Doc.
tor Moore several times.
Two weeks before Mr.. Pecks death
Waite told his wife, she testified. that
no wished to put a tonic" in Mr..
Peck's soup.
Mrs. Waite said Waite slept on the
sofa in the parlor the night before
her father died and wakened her to
tell her of his death. when Doc.
tor Moore arrived" the witness said
Doctor Waite suggested that the body
be cremated."
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