New Britain herald., 1916-05-23

Other Relatives Are Prescnt-Com-
 panion of Mrs. Horton May Be
 Pressed Into Service As Witness
 for Prosecution-Physi Testify
 Today.
 New York, May 23-The state con- tinued to offer medical testimony to- day as the foundation of it's case 'against Dr. Arthur Warren Waite, charged with murdering his father in-law, John F. Peck of Grand Ra- pids Mich. MT. Peck was reputed to be a millionaire and the theory of the prosecution is that the defend ant committed murder so that he might fall heir to the Peck fortune.
 Dr. Albertus A. Moore, the phy- sician who attended MT. Peck before his death at the Waite apartments in New York, had not finished his testi- mony under cross examination when the first session of the trial adjourned yesterday Upon direct examination he had declared that Dr. Waite ad mitted he had purchased arsenic for his aged father-in-law for the reason that "the old gentleman did not want to live.'' In his opening address , District Attorney Swann declared that Waite hastened his victims last moments by appling to his nostrils handkerchief soaked with chloroform.
 Upon cross examination Dr. Moore was questioned regarding the mental condition of the defendant after he had taken drugs on the night after MT. Peck died.
 Other medical witnesses summoned by the prosecution today were Dr. Perry Schurtz of Grand Rapids, the Peck family physician, Dr. Otto H. Schultze, county medical examiner who was sent to Grand Rapids to investigate the case, and Dr. Victor Vaughn, patho1ogist of the University of Michigan.
 The defense has announced that it will call one or more alienists. and indications are that Waite's attorneys will try to prove that when he com- rnitted the crime he had several times confessed he was insane.
 Dr. Vaughn on the Stand.
 Dr. Vaughn, dean of the medical department of the University of Mich igan at Ann Arbor, was the first witness called today.
 It was Dr. Vaughn who made an analysis of the organs of MT. Peck, after the autopsy was ordered at Grand Rapids. He described in min ute detail the effects of the arsenic poisoning on Waites aged victim.
 Mrs Dorothy Van Palmenberg, former intimate friend of Mrs. Mar garet Horton, with whom Waite shared a "studio'' apartment, arrived shortly before court convened.
 Mrs. Clara Louise Peck Waite, wife of the prisoner, was not in court when the hearing was resumed to- day but it was said she would prob ably be called to the stand tomorrow to testify against her husband.
 Mrs. Horton may go on the stand today She has not appeared at The criminal court building since the trial began.
 Percy Peck, son of John E. Peck, his wife and Miss Catherine Peck, the aged aunt from whom Waite is al legged to have obtained more than $40,O00 for purposes of Investment" were in court today, as were also War ren Waite and Frank Waite, respect lively father and brother of the pris- Oner.
 Prisoner Nervous.
 Dr. Waite set with bowed head and his gaze directed at the floor while Dr. Vaughn was testifying. His pallor betrayed his nervous tension when glass jars containing the or gans of John E. Peck's body were placed on the table in the court room.
 Dr. Vaughn swore he found two and half grains of arsenic in MT. Peck's stomach and amounts of it too small to weigh in other organs He described the effect of poisons upon the body.
 Dr. Stanley R. Benedict, professor of chemistry at the Cornell Medical mony of pr. Vaughn, and to the presence of arsenic in MT. Peck's body.
 ChIoroform in Brain.
 Dr. Benedict added that in eXamin ing a part of the brain of the dead man he found an unmistaka ble trace cf chloroform. Later he examined the embalming fluid used on MT. Peck's body but found no trace of chlorOform or of arsenic. Waite, ac- cording to the district attorney, paid S9,000 to the Peck undertaken to swear that the embalming fluid con- tained arsenic.
 Expect Orpet Jury Completion.
 waukegan, H., May 23-Comple- ton today of the jury to try w. H. Orpet for murder of his former