The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-03-25

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Tries to Buy Evidence
a. few minutes later he had falle1
lsback on his pillow-he still is suffer,
fsing from the effect of se1finf1ictet
drugsand sought to buy with checl
for $1,000 evidence to support tbs
story he had told to the District At,
torney.
Waite begged Raymond C. Schind
Ter. q private detective, to bride Dora
/ HELLER, the coloredt maid who has
| been in his employ, to bolster up his
verzton->>f how Peck procured aadm al
4 an agent to help In suicide
Waite worked a deception to obtain
the arsenic, he admitted He per
suaded a physician friend TO give him
the right TO purchase the poison TIC
/ the druggist and the physician he said
he wanted to kill a cat
II twas the tracing OF the poison
purchase and the receipt signed with
I DR.. Wa1teps name that forced the
young man to- speak But proof has
been obtained by the detectives that
ever since December 21sa DR.. Waite
+ has been ba1Xirg deadly poison. He
accunaulated in The period between
/ that date and the date of his father
dn-law's death enough drugs and
powders to XIII several persons HIS
mother n-Iaw died under suspicious
circumstances on the night of De-
cernber 80, six weeks before her hl1s-
| band was skilled
Contemplated Suicide
Between a laugh over the way he
had deceived the district attorney in
his talk with that official last Tues
day and serious concern over his pres
ent plight Waite decried the fate that
let him I've after his orgy Of drugs
"wednesday night
talk with his wife's. aunt, Catherine
Peck, on Monday. he confessed he was
cOrnered- He asked her If self-de-
struction would ofrer 4 solution
Fearing he would XIII himself she
rede with him in his automobile for.
four hours to dissuade him
Last night the youne. man was
taken to the prison ward In BELLEVUE
hokpftal- His bed IN his home, Wa
TOO snear window for a man with
suicidal tendencies, in the opinion of
the districs attorney.
Probably not until Monday WIN he
be able to stand at the bar to answer
TO the charge against him 1t Is the
expectation Of the district attorney
that by that. time the grslnd jury will
have found an Indictment for murder
IN the first degree.sS - e. Is -
Under a new statute In the Penal
Code tbs er1uaesfo which Waite plead
commit suicides punishable only
as manzlaughter in the first degree
The prosecutor has no Intention Of
letting the prisoner escape under this
statute in the belief Waite person.
si1lyN administered the fatal doses.
belief that District Attorney Swami
says is supported by much evidence
here and In Grand Rapids, the pris-
oner In a.baztEied for his life.
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Hours before Waite yesterday came
butA or the stqpor in which he has been
sunk since "Wednesday, the detectives
working from police headquarters
and the district attorneys onice had
put the finish mark to their case
against the dentist and tennis player
This was accomplished in finding
laae had purchased arsenic. Ever since
Monday detectives had been working
on that angle Of the case They took
fWaitesg home at Riverside Drive and
f116th street as radius and worked
IN ever widening serni-c1rcIes seeking
the source OF the poison found when
Peckss body was exhumed in Grand
Rapids. Mich. last week
Early yesterday they found the
drug store, several miles from Waite's
Nome On it's books they saw regis
4ered the sale Of one and a half drains
OF arsenic to DrWaite on March 9. It
4
reornpaxison with his own handwriting
proved
Through the druggist they learned
1R the physician who had authorized
the aa1e-a DIR. Muller, whose initials
ARE yra4hheIds The telephone book
mxld admissions could be gained from
neither by reporters However, both
4zae druggist and the physician made
statements TO the District Attorneys
Ass1s4ants.
ON March 9. three days before Peck
died. DR. Waite came into hfg office.
the physician said. He told him he
wanted to buy some arsenic to kill a
cat.
s-reaephone q druggist he said.
'-arad tell him it Will be all right for
me to get the arsenic
The physician. friend of DIR. |
Waite. had no misgfvtngs. He in
gtructed the druggist to give DR..
Waite whatever quantity of arsenic
he asked for DIR. Waite called at the
drug store within a few minutes.
why don't you use strychnine If
sAe druggist.
mo, this is a tough cat" replied
DR. Waite, and am afraid strych-
nine would not be powerful enough
He carried away the arsenic in pow
der form.
The detectives conveyed the infor-
nation to District Attorney Swami I
as soon as he reached his office yes
terday morning. He in turn informed
George N. Brothers, Assistant Dis
1rfct Attorney. and John Cunnfff, his I
detectives. who were at Waite's bed
side.
Brothers and Cunnin decided to let
Waite hear what had been learned
They waited until the telephone rang
again. and Cunnfn replied when he