New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-29

the city. It is believed that he inocu-
lated his mother-in-law with all four
of the above mentioned diseases.
Evidence obtained by Assistant Dis
/ trict Attorney Mancuso in Grand Rap
ids. home of the Pecks, from Mrs. Clara
Peck Waite tends TO show That waite
killed Mr.. Peck by an arsenic impreg-
mated eggnog prepared by the Man
from Egypt.
Mrs. Waite told Mr.. Mancuso that
on the night before her fathers death
Sunday. March l1-she vas about TO
20 out. when she stopped to prepare an
eggnog for the old man, who was
lying i'll in his own room. Her hus-
band, seeing her busy with the drinks
preparation, asked her what she was
doing.
GO on out" she quotes him as say
ing, an FIX IT myself"
This he did. Shortly after drinking
the mixture Mr.. Peck became violently
/ sick at his stomach and later tainted.
When Mrs. Waite returned she found
her parent in a collapse. In the egg
nog were found bits OF solid sub
stance, like partly dissolved tablets.
81 saw DR.. Waite put something like
them in fathers tea" the wife told
T.
large as a penny. don't know what
color they were. | saw one dissolving
in the bottom Of cup. II changed the
color Of the tea
The next day the old man died.
Mrs. Horton, Waite's Juliet" and
her husbands "dove among the crows"
not to mention "the most innocent
| little thing that ever came out of the
/ West" preened her dove-like nlumage
in the District Attorneys Office for sew
eral hours yesterday. She left at 4
! o'clock sVathed to the eyes in n
gorgeous set OF white furs.
"Mrs. Horton is still simplifying and
enlsrging her statement" was the only
comment the prosecutor made upon her
presence.
Harold Spielberg, lawyer to the wom-
an, said yesterday that in all her ac-
/ quaintance with Waite she had never
received any gift from him. When
. questioned regarding a diamond ring
/ the man was supposed 10 have given
/ her Mr.. SDielberg admitted that Mrs.
/ Horton had received the gift.
"But she gave it back" he added. at
cost $1,000, but she gave it back"
! Recently" he was asked.
4, "No," the lawyer replied. Almost
as soon as Sne GOT II.
He then continued by saying that, al
though the District Attorneys Office
had inspected both Mr.. and Mrs. Hor-
tons bank books, they had been un-
able to find single instance when .
/ large amount of money had been paid
/ TO them. Mr.. Horizons income during
/ the last year amounted to $4,000, he as
/ serted. This was paid In small sums
by the De Forest Wireless Company, in
which the man was interested.
/ With the departure OF the Man
from Egypt Waite's condition yester-
/ day seemed slightly improved. At 3:15
yesterday afternoon he was taken
from the prison ward, where he has
/ lain since brought 20 the hospital, and
wheeled on a stretcher TO the alcoholic
ward, where, it was believed, thing,
would be quieter and he would have
more privacy.
/ As harbinger OF this quiet time to
come a patient in the alcoholic ward
/ five minutes after the prisoner was put
I 70 bed there smashed the glass on one
OF the window panes and was well on
the way TO cutting off his own head
with a splntered fragment before he
was overpOwered.
The canvas screen placed about
Yates cot prevented his seeing this.
The prisoner made no objection TO the
change Of rooms. A sheet was laid
over his face as he was wheeled across
the yard. so that no one Of the onlook-
ers could see him.