The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-26
DR. WAITE TELLS HOW HE PLANNED
 DEATHS OF MANY
Dentist Held For Murder of Father -in-Law Under
 Sharp Chilling.
GROUND GLASS AND
 GERMS HIS TOOLS
Didn't Expect As Much As $2,O0O,OOO By Death of
 Father-in-Law.

New York, May 26-Dr.- Arthur Warren Waite, accused of murdering his father-in-Iaw, John B. Peck, to- day completed his gruesome recital, unparalleled in the annals of crime in New York.
 Waite showed no emotion as he answered the questions of his cross examiners, and told with apparent nonchalance of his plans for the death of Peck and other relatives. His tes- timony left nothing to be done toward proving that he committed murder. The question that confronts the jury was whether his aots were those of a normal person.
 Women were excluded from the courtroom when Dr. Waite resumed the witness stand today. Hundreds of persons in the corridors vain1y tried to gain admission to the courtroom.
 Waite appeared pale but seemed to have braced himself to face the or deal His counsel, Walter R. Deue1, said he had only a few more questions to ask the dentist before the cross examination will be begun.
 Did you ever try to kill your wife?' asked MT. Deue1. tNo," re- piled, Dr. Waite.
 Did you ever plan to kill her?'' 'tNo, never"
 You never thought you might kill her?'' 'I am not sure that would not have killed her." said Waite.
 Assistant District Attorney Broth CTS then began the ion of pr! Waite. The attorney first asked prisoner:
 DO you recall telling me that you did not want your wife to learn of your relations with Mrs Horton ?'' 'tNo,''1 replied Waite.
 Waite folded his arms and regarded any general conversation with MT. Brothers in Dr. Waite's apartment The dentist said he was surprised to learn that he had given a ring to his nurse He denied also that he feigned insanity in Bellevue or in the Tonbs or that he deliberately planned a false defense or read books on nerv- ous diseases.
 Waite declared he did not tell Dis trict Attorney Swann and MT. Broth CTS while in Bellevue hospital that the man from Egypt" had killed John B. Peck.
 Are you crazy?'' asked MT. Broth CTS. 'tI think nOt-''
 After. you took MT. Peck's life you could not sleep, could you?' t'I slept perfectly said Waite.
 'tYou wanted to kill yourself, did you2'' "Yes''
 why didn't you kill yourself?'' ''1 made a pretty good attempt at it, ' replied Waite.
 You planned Pecks death to win $2,000,o 900, didn't you ?'' ''No, not that much-''
 The prisoner denied that he had schemed to kill John B. Peck as early as last February.
 Questions\ by the ross-examiner were framed with the evident intent to show that the crimes to which the prisoner had confessed were of a na- ture that did not call for personal daring.
 Waite denied that his evidence yes terday was devised with the purpose of developing a defense of insanity.
 Justice Shearn, before whom Waite is being tried, then took up the ques- tioning, and asked him if he knew it was wrong to steal. Waite said he did
 You were a member of a Chris tian Endeavor Society? You learned it was wrong to take human life and against the laws of God ?'' ''I don't remember
 MT. DeueI then resumed redirect ex- animation Waite said bis memory was not perfect, he supposed, because of drugs. The prisoner identified sew eraI letters he wrote in Bellevue hos pital and a poem, saying he had writ ten poetry for several years. He said that when he wrote the poem he sus- pected that he was charged with mur- der.
 Waite having been permitted to leave the witness stand, Miss Gather inc Peck, sister of the late John B. Peck, was next called. MT. DeueI said he wanted to corroborate by Miss Peck's testimony the statements made by Dr. Waite that he placed ground glass in, her marmalade and germ cultures in fish that she was to eat.
 Miss Peck said she accepted Waite as what he appeared to be, and told of giving her business matters to him to look after. Miss r'eck smiled as he recalled her narrow escape from death.
 '~I ate some of the marma1ade,'' she said. When I opened the jar again I found it full of something like sand. I took it back to the store and the proprietor apo1ogized."
 After answering other questions in corroboratfon of Waite's testimony, Miss Peck was excused.