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John Blair, agent of the Union Fish Company, is now in the city on the way outside for a visit for the bene- fit of his health. The company's plant is at Pavlof, Sanak Islands.
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famous murder cases which the state
has prosecuted:
ARTHUR WARREN wAITE-Trial
commenced May 20. 1915; one half day
TO get jury; trial lasting six days.
HARRY X. THAW trial corn
menced January 20, 1907; five days to
get jury; jury disagreed; trial lasting
forty-two days. Second trial com
menced January 8, 1908; acquitted;
trial lasting nineteen days.
ROLAND BURNHAM MOLTNEUX-
First trial, November Ii, 1893; twelve
days TO get jury; trial lasting thirty
two days; convicted, murder first de-
gree. Second trial. October 10, 1907;
four days TO get jury; acquitted; trial
lasting twenty-one days.
CARLYLE HARRIS Trial started
January IL. 1892; three days 20 get
jury; convicted. murder in the arst
degree; trial lasting fourteen days.
ALBERT r. PATRICK-Trial COM
monced January 20, 1902; three days 70
get jury; convicted. murder first de-
gree: trial lasting forty-six days.
ROBERT BUCHANAN-Trial com
menced March 20, 1893; six days. TO ret
jury; convicted. murder frat degree;
trial lasting thirty-seven days.
CHARLES BECKER-Trial com
menced October Z, 1912; three days 70
get jury; convicted; trial lasting six
teen days Second trial, May 8. 1914;
four days to get jury; convicted; trial
lasting fourteen days.
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guilty AS charged in the indictment
or In such lesser degree ms you Will
Waite had luncheon in a room IN tno
courthouse while the jury was dehoeI
ating. His appetite was not nnec,eu,
ether and he had rather better
snread 10 satisfy IL than did the Jurors
From n restaurants large porterhouse
steak coffee and apple pie werc
brouoht TO him. Waite cleaned tire
mates. also eating six slices OF rye
bread and drinking two glasses OF mix
Family Remains In Court.
The defendants father and brotners'
Miss Clara Louise Peek, VINO was "rs
Waite. and Percy Peck, her brotner, re-
NAMED in the courtroom while the jury
delibcrated. e,.d
back into the courtroom. lie dld not
resume his seat. but stood OUTSIDE '6e
railing. ,,a
"Have you reached verdictT asked
Clerk Penny.
1--WE have" replied the foreman
"Whnt is your verdict
"Guiltv as charged in the indict-
ment."
After a poll had proved the jury
q,
sponse to the clerks questions he sara
no was Twenty-Five years old; that ne
was born in Michigan; that his parents
wore natives Of the United States; tnnt
his last residence was at ABS RIVERSIDE
Drive. i'm this city; that he was
dentist by occupation, married
Protestant. of temperate habits and
first offender
"This is great relief" was Waitrs
only comment on the verdict IL was
made TO his sheriff shadow.
The defendant had not expected the
Jury to stay out so long.
"The Jury should be back in Ave min
utes" he told his brother Frank be-
fore he sat down to lunch. III was
n long drawn proceeding
Then. half an hour later and the jury
still out. Waite remarked:
al can't understand this"
Don't talk that way" said the
brother "They may be deciding you
are not guilty" ~
right" asserted Waite.
When the verdict had been read JUS
tice Shearn said he would sentence
the dentist on June /. The day set for
his execution will probably be two
weeks later. II is not expected there
will be any move toward appeal, for
Mr. Deuel. remarked while the jury was
cut that if twelve men decided his
client was sane the extreme penalty
was none too great. Pending sentence
Waite will remain in the Tombs.
"The jury has spoken the last word,
was District Attorney SWann's comment
on the verdict. "The case has broken
all records for CELEBRITY"
Newspaper men who followed DR..
Waite back TO the Tombs received a
note from him. He said in it that he
had nothing TO say Eat this time, but
later might write some Impressions.
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prayer. The verdict was announced ~
her daughter. Mrs. F. W. DAVE.
mother" she began, "they have
found Arthur guilty"
mo! Mol" cried tho white-naired
woman. at can't be possiblel 1t doesn't
She collapsed A few minutes later
q physician ordered that she be put 10
bed.
Mrs. Davie had kept her mother IN
formed Of the progress OF the triai;
Mrs. Waite insisted that her son would
be freed. But as adverse reports kept
arriving her hope and trust grew less
sanguinc. -,
at any rate" she said, "they will
never find him wholly guilty"
This morning Mrs. Waite arose early.
She refused a newspaper. Then, with
out eating breakfast, she fousd her
Bible. Noon came, and she was still
reading and praying for the welfare OF
her son, hundreds Of miles away. She
was praying when her daughter came
in with the verdict.
"Neyer mind, mother" Mrs. Davie
told the broken woman. ut Is all Tor
the best. God has willed that Arthur
should pay the penalty. There Is moth
ing left now for us 10 do"
~ can't believe It," Mrs. Waite
sobbed, tossing feyerishly on her bed.
81 hoped il would come out all right.
But now Arthur has gone from me for
all time. On, my boyl"
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Fourteenth Street in search Of mssie a
masher approached. His descriptiy.
adjectives met with quick rebuff. H.
retreated under the we'll directed Al.
tack Of handbag. Masher No. 2 az.
peared a moment later, and a properly
handled umbrella adjourned him. When
a third man appeared with fatteriny
remarks Miss Hofer was bit annoyed
She allowed him TO walk beside her and
occasionally squeeze her hand while
she kept a weather eye out for police.
man.
At Second Avenue Policeman sarrsn
doomed up. The appeal Of the comsly
Young woman-she's eighteen-hsd the
man escorted to the Fifth Street sta.
ton, where he said he was William
Schroeder, Of 3i2 Lincoln Road, Flat.
bush.
"What do you do?" asked the lieu.
tenant.
81 sing nthe Grace Church. in Bed.
ford Avenue, Brooklyn" was the reply
Mercy" squealed Miss Hoffer, I'm
a church singer, too"
"a duet in Night Court" was The
lieutenant's verdict.
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Somerville, n. j.. May 27.-"1'm not
sorry that I sent the *. Adams tele-
gram. ! am glad to have had hand
in bringing Dr.. Waite to justice"
A girl with direct. Implying young
eyes, Miss Elizabeth Hardwick, the first
person who dared to say that she sus-
pected DR.. Arthur Warren Waite Of
murder, and the first TO take step
toward bringing him to. the electric
chair through her mysterious message
10 Percy Peck, learned the verdict this
evening with no culver of compunc-
ton.
He Must Suffer, Says Girl.
81 am sorry for him, Of course" she
said. "But he must suffer for his
crimes if justice is to be done. do
not regret my part in the matter
If Il had not been for this slim.
pink-cheeked girl, the body Of John
L. Peck would probably have been
cromated without an autopsy, and Ar
thur Warren Waite would have been
left free, perhaps to add TO his list OF
murders. Her uncle, Dr. Jacob B. Cor
nell. came home from the Waite
apartments the day after Mr.. Peck's
{ death, and declared that the young
dentists actions had aroused his sus-
picioas.
ale acted mighty funny" he told
/ his niece. "He asked what made me
come, and didn't seem 10 want me TO
/ come in. ! told Clara that If | were
/ she | shouldn't have anything done too
much in a hurry. She asked me why,
and I couldn't tell her, with him right
there in the room"
"Why don't you send telegram 70
Percy Peck" asked Miss Hardwick.
pm afraid to- said DR.. Cornell
"They oil think everything OF him ano
they trust him. They might pay no at
.tention 10 il, and ! don't know but wha'
he could get everything have for max
ing a statement like that"
His young niece said nothing, but she
took the next train for New York anC
promptly wrote out the telegram hel
uncle feared 10 send. Last night sh'
explained the significance of the tx.
Adams. At first she had meant to slgr
II merely "K.." thinking that the fam
ily would probably infer that 1t came
from Miss Katherine Peck and woulC
have the autopsy performed unques
/ tioningly. Then she wondered If th'
officials would permit such a telegram
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Waite. one was his wife and the other
Mates father. In Mrs. Horizons tes-
timonv | took little stock. Il did not
enter al all into my consideration Of
the case, and believe i was the same
with the rest of the jury. We we're
singularly Of a mind.
THE woman's betrayal Of the man
who had loved her, scoundrel and muir
derer though he may have been-the
very fact Of her willingness TO be a
witness for the state -discounted her
words.
"Waite's wife was a most impressive
witness. What hit me hardest in her
testimony was the evident depth Of the
love she had for Waite. One little
point that brought it out came when
she told Of giving him the stone for
her own engagement ring.
"Old Mr. Waite. the father, won our
svmpathies for himself, not the
defendant. could see back Of his tes-
timony the pride he used to have IN he
boy who was different from his broth
ers: who wasn't content TO stay on the
farm; who wanted better clothes and .
better class Of friends and better
prospects for future.
when Justice Shearn told US we'd
never forget the Waite case he WAS
right. Believe me. the casual stranger
with the charming smile is going TO
make me think OF DR.. Waite and his
germs whenever | run across him after
this"
Rebuttal occupied the early part Of
the morning session Of the last day Of
Yates phenomenally swift trial. DR..
smith Ely Jellife. DR.. William Mabon
and Dr.. Menas s. Gregory, testifying
for the state. swore that in their opin-
ion the dentist was mentally respon-
sible when he murdered the Pecks.
Closing for the defence: Mr.. Deuel.
pleaded that Waite, 70 whom he re-
ferred in no complimentary terms, be
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to 60. signed by only an initial, for she
was not much accustomed 10 sending
messages of any kind. So she added
Adams" the first name to come into
her mind, the name of man a school
friend Of hers had just married.
"She didn't tell me about IT, her
uncle said last night. "The District
Attorney tried to make me say that
was X Adams, and ! laughed at him.
When she found that they needed her
so much and were trying everywhere to
find her she let them know. But did
not know who sent the telegram until
Just before ! went on the stand
Arthur Warren Waite looked into the
pretty. girlish face OF X. Adams when
She took the stand the other day and
laughed outright, she said. With his
neculiar sense of humor, more often
/ than not directed against himself, the
dentist no doubt found it funny that a
| slip of a girl. one with whom he had
often dined at her uncle's, one whom
he had no doubt supposed admired him,
/ should have been the one to bring him
/ 10 justice.
DR.. Cornell Sympathetic.
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. 81 hated to think
that I had anything 70 do with putting
him in the electric chair, but do think
that my niece and ! may have saved
| Miss Clara Louise Peck, Percy Peck
and Miss Katherine Peck from death:
+ But I'm not like Percy Peck, who said
/ that he could see Dr.. Waite killed, and
press the button himself. Once ! saw
/ a chicken killed when | was boy, and
/ have never eaten one since. 1t Is
/ Justice, but it is hard"
He said that he was particularly
concerned because he had advised MISS
Clara Peck to marry DR., Waite.
"He took me in" said the doctor.
81 told her that if she waited hun
bred years she'd never find nicer
man. Every time he came out we liked
him better. used TO think that ! was
Judge Of humanity, but he had me
beaten. Didn't | pick out nice hus-
band for Clara her mother said to
me a little while before she died"
Miss Hardwick, the calm, thoroughly
American girl, who had known how TO
keep her own counsel and who had not
believed in letting any feminine thrill
of pity interfere with the course OF
Justice, said that she had always liked
| DR.. Waite and had never had any oc-
casion to suspect him before Mr.. Peck's
death.
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sent to an institution instead OF to the
chair.
ave cannot allow him TO 20 at large
with the awful consequences OF his
crime here before u.s." he said, but
there Is one thing We can do. we can
remove him from society by placing
him in an institution. III that ~ done
gentlemen, | promise you that any at
tempt to get him out. public or private,
will meet my strongest opposition.
will combat IL at my own expense:
Assistant District Attorney Brothers,
who has conducted the prosecution,
summed up for the state. marshalling
before the jury the facts TO which his
witnesses and Waite himself have ties
tilted.
"If that telegram Of Miss Hardwick s
had not been sent to Percy Peck MT
Brothers pointed out, "John Pecks
body would have been cremated as was
that OF his wife. Then Waite would
have been rich and in measure
honored at any rate unsupported.
"The defendant had been premeditat-
ing these murders for months. lie
said himself he was not insane. And
he was sane enough to know that the
city departments were closed on Sun
day and both his victims died on that
day
This is the man you are asked 20
send TO Matteawan. where, some brigh'
summer morn when the milkman comes
in. he will walk out the front gate
Mr.. Brothers proceeded to remind the
jurors Of Harry X. Thaw's escape from
the asylum. A suggestion from the
bench that he confine himself TO the
testimony cut him short
"This smile Of Yates" he went on
got him out Of trouble in South Africa
II ingrntiated him with the Pecks. That
is the kind of smile il is"
The summation took less than halt
hour, as had the closing for the de-
fence. Justice Shearn opened his
charge with a compliment TO the coun-
sci for the avoidance of legal bicker'
ings, which had aided him and the
District Attorney in establishing a
record by disposing so speedily of the
case.
"Often we must warn jury not 10
let sympathy interfere in a case" said
the court. Here. however, I must
warn you not to let resentment enter
into your judgment The horrible
crime to which the defendant has con-
fessed, gentlemen, must not sway you
There is no excuse made that the
crime is justifable. No claim is made
that the killing was in the heat OF
passion. On the other hand. the de-
PENDANT admits generalization.
"The defence contends that the de-
PENDANT is n moral imbecile' No such
Plea rs moral imbecility is admissible
under our law. 1t may be known 10
medicine, but not under the law.
"You are not here TO hold a medical
clinic. You are only TO determine
whether or not the defendant was suf-
fering from defective reasoning wher
he administered the poison. How much
of what the defendant said TO you is
true is for you to say. At any rate
you find him an abnormal man.
"Now. If you entertain REASONABLE
doubt Of his responsibility under th'
law it will be your duty to return
verdict of not guilty because of in
sanity Or you may find him mo
guilty if you find he did not COMM
the crime II the people have satisfied
you rs to his guilt. YOU will find hin
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WAITE IS GUILTY.:
MAY DIE IN JUNE
Continued from pags !

versation with Lieutenant Robert Fay
the bomb plotter.
Comfortable as Old Shoe"
waite is just as he has always
been-as comfortable as an old shoe,
said Warden Hanley.
The jurors had agreed not to discuss
what transpired during their brief de-
alterations. One Of them, however
told The Tribune enough Of his own
courtroom impressions TO make clear
the iury's attitude toward the smiling
defendant-how the friendly grin re-
acted against the grinner.
Waite, put on the stand as the last
desperate gamble OF the defence, had
proved the most telling witness against
himself. this juror said
when he smiled on the stand,
Waite signed his own death warrant"
he went or. Coupled with the horri-
bic story he was reciting to US, 1t was
CHASTITY.
Waite used 10 make friends with
that smile. 1--WE in the jury box knew
why he was smiling He was looking
for sympathy. trying TO persuade some
single one Of US to hold out against
the chair.
THAT had been his game from the
first.
"He started right at il the first
dav Of the trial. When J was Dut
on the stand, talesman, Waite began
making eyes at me even before there
was any definite indication ! would be
accepted. He ogled the others The
same way. when they were in the wit
ness chair and after they had taken
their seats in the box.
zone time when Waite caught my
eve he smiled at me. ] smiled back
and | guess he thought he had me.
But. you see, he didn't. My smile was
as much Of property smile rs his
with a very positive loathinS for the
inhumsn monster back OF 10.
No Heed TO Mrs. Horton.
There were three who stood out
Among ALI the witnesses. One was
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Conference Passes Drastic
Rule Regarding Re
marriages.
WOULD HAVE SUNDAY
DRY IN WASHINGTON
Suggests Freedman's Day Near
Lincoln Anniversary for
Uplift of Negroes.

Saratoga Springs. n. Y, May 81
ANY minister Of the Methodist Fps
eopal Church. according TO law
passed bv the General Conference this
afternoon. who shall marry divorced
persons in violation Of the established
Church rules shall be held guilty Of an
act OF INSTRUMENTATION and be sub
iect 10 dismissal from the ministry.
The rule is that no divorce, except for
adultery, shall be regarded as lawful,
and that no minister shall solemnize
marriage in any case where there is a
divorced wife or husband living. But
the rule is not applied to the innocent
party TO a divorce for the cause Of
adultery, nor to divorced parties seek
ing 10 be reunited in marriage.
A question from the floor concern
ing the conflict of the Church rule with
the laws of certain states was met by
the Chair with the ruling that minis
tiers shall observe the Church law.
On the declaration tnst the saloons
OF Washington we're open on Sunday,
setting a bad examr!s 80 the entire
nation" committee was created to
take action with the government 10
bring about a proper observance OF the
Sabbath Day in the national capital
BY a rising vote the conference
adopted a report for a world pro-
gramme of Methodism, the statement
being made that "Methodism is no
longer a national Church, with foreign
missions, but an international Church,
with international membership, re
sponsibility and opportunity"
Rapidly changing social. economic
and religious conditions In foreign
lands call for immediate recognition
and assistance. to meet which more
than double the funds regularly con-
tributed TO foreign missions must be
forthcoming. The reports from all OF
the foreign missions are that they are
UNEQUAL TO the demands upon them and
that funds for extension work are I'M
perative.
Hereafter all funds set aside for
European countries and called mis-
sion funds" are to be called Meth
odist extension funds" The centenary
Of Methodist foreign missions viii be
celebrated in 1918. In recognition Of
the suffering in Europe due to war a
special Sunday service is TO be OBJ
served in all Methodist churches IN
the United States in June.
To meet complaints Of many pastors
that they do not receive their pay on
time, the conference adopted a rule
that district stewards should set pay
day at least quarterly, on which "
meet the church's obligation 10 the
preacher.
An annual freedman's aid day, to be
celebrated bv emphasizing the desira-
bilitv of additional religious work
among the negroes, was authorized,
and Il was suggested that it be OBJ
served on the Sunday nearest TO Lin
coins Birthday.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-28
N. Y. EXCHANGE RATES
IN BERLIN IMPROVE
Dollar Is at 5.175 Marks-Was
5.46 Marks Few Weeks Ago.

Berlin, May 27.-New York exchange
has been undergoing marked i'm
provement for several weeks. The
dollar, which in April cost $40 marks,
has now been quoted for more than a
week at 5.175 marks.
This notable improvement has oc-
Cured, curiously enough, during the
period when German-American rela-
tons were strained. A director of one
of the biggest Berlin banks said to-
day to The Associated Press:
"The improvement in rates is due to
three causes-frst, increased conf
dence in Germany's military position;
second, the efforts Of the Reichsbank,
IN conjunction with the great banking
houses, 10 regulate dealings in eX-
change, and, third, the reduction Of
German purchases abroad.
$50 far as the food situation is con-
cerned, we in Berlin feel it much more
keenly than the people outside, owing
10 the difficulties Of transportation and
defective organization. II Germany's
crops yield as they now promise, Il
may make the Entente see the hope
lessness Of starving out the Central
Powers"