The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-29
Talks About Little Man
from Egypt" Dominating
Him in Crimes
KILLED BOTH OF
PARENTS-AT-LAW
Disease Germs Used on Mrs. Peck and
Poison On Her Husband - Paid IN
dertaker $4,000 to Swear Arsenic
Was Used in EmbaIming.

uerUaKer $4,000 to Swear Arsenic
Was Used in Embalming.
NEW YORK, March 29- DR.. Arthur
Warren Waite late yesterday confessed
that he killed his mother-in-Iaw, Mrs.
Hannah Peek, with disease germs. and
murdered his father in-law, John Z.
| Peck, with arsenic.
| In making this confession he repre-
sented himself as the victim of an evil
alter ego which dominated him in his
crimes, and which he called ssthe man
from Egypt. Almost in the same
breath he told Dist.-Attv Swami a per
fectly coherent story of how, when he
first feared that his poisoning Of his ia
| ther-in-law would be discovered, he
bribed the man who embalmed the body
to say that had used arsenic in the
emhalming fluid.
The part of DR.. Waite s confession
relating to the man from Egypt >
! was taken by many who heard of it to
be ground work for q plea of insanity,
and his admissions concerning the un-
ldertaker seemed to the same persons
to show that, before his arrest, he was
| making what plans he could to establish
a plea of not guilty
The confession was made in various
! conversations with different persons
! who went to see him at Bellevue hos
! pital He first talked to his brother
q Frank A. Waite, and r. c. SCHNEIDER. q
private detective employed by the PecB
. family Later he talked to George \
! Brothers and Francis X Mancuso, an6
I Detective Cunniff, and to Walter r
e Deuel. of 30 Nassau street, who appear
). ed rs his counsel.
Dist.-Atty. Swami and his assistant
Q saw DIR. Waite in his bed in the pri
!. vate room of the alcoholic ward al
n Bellevue to which he was removed to
day from the prison ward When thp
: party entered the room DR.. Waite sal,
Il that he was ready, willing and cage
. to make full and complete statement
4 but Mr.. Deuel. interrupted, saying tha
Y in his opinion the patient was too veal
! to talk. complete statement wa
therefore prevented, but Mr.. Swan
proceeded to ask few questions II
first asked the dentist whether any on
had assisted him in his crime, and h
said
: eyes, / returned from Grand Rapid
> on Saturday, March IS, after havin
taken Mr.. Peck's body there I kne,
:. that an autopsy had been performe
- and that arsenic had, therefore bee
discovered.
1.-The next morning Eugene Olive
Kane of 427 West Fifty-seventh stree
r, an embalmer employed by the unde1
Ii taking company which had charge c
he Mr.. Peck S remains, came to my apar
H. ment to collect his own and the unde
Id takers bills. l told Kane that
# would give him $4,000 if he woul
swear, whenever questioned, that
A-lhad used arsenic in embalming NJ
of Peck IS body, and if he would prepal
an an embalming fluid containing arseni
m sample of which might be shown I
rd the district attorney as similar to tn;
Al used on Mr. Peck.
r F'Kane agreed and the next da
We Monday, 1 went to the garage of Gu
of tave Cimotti, at 2906 Broadway, whe
ws kept my automobile, and gave Cir
iotti a check for $4,000, which l askt
him to cash at the University bran'
of the Corn Exchange bank, next doc
Cimiotti did this, and brought the mo
gs ey to the garage, where l waited f
it.
81 then went in my ear to Gig
ire store on the south side of Fifty-nin
IN street, near Ninth avenue, where,
be- appointment, I met Kane There q
he two telephone booths in that store, a
en I nassed the money to Kane iii one
led them. He went out and went one wa
land | went out and went another