New Britain herald., 1916-05-24
FATHER IN GOOD HEALTH, WAITE'S
 WIFE TESTIFIES
Dentist Accused of Murder Sees
 Her for First Time Since '. His Arrest
MYSTERIOUS K. ADAMS, WHO
 SENT WARNING, IDENTIFIED

SENT WARNlNG, IDENTIFIED State Forging Strong Chain of Evi- T dence. Idnk By Eink-Prisoner
 Pointed Out By Garage Employe,
 Undertaken and EIbalmer-Rela-
 tives in Law Also Take Witness
 Stand to Aid Prosecution.
 New York, May 24.-The trial of Dr. Arthur Warren Waite for the mur- der of his father-in-law, John E. Peck of Grand Rapids, Mich, advanced to- day to an exposition of motives sup Technical evidence to prove that the young dentist killed MT. Peck by dos ing him with arsenic was virtually fin fshed when court convened this morn ing.
 To support the contention that Dr. Waite committed murder in the hope of gaining possession of the Peck for tune and that his character and career were such as to lend color to this hy- pothesis the district attorney was pre- pared to call to the stand the defend ants wife, her brother, Percy Peck and Mrs. Margaret Horton, the young woman with whom Waite shared a "studio" in a New York hotel.
 The district attorney holds that Mrs. Waite may testify to any material facts relating to the alleged murder of her father so long as she does not disclose a confidential communication made by her husband. Mrs. Waite has avowed her willingness to appear as witness for the prosecution.
 Plans for the defense have not Deen disclosed, but those who attended the trial yesterday believed they gained an inkling from the persistence with which Waite's attorney developed every bit of evidence showing that the defendant always had conducted him self as a person of refinement and breeding. An inference gained from the cross examination was that one of the theories to support a plea of in- sanity would be that a man such as Waite was described could not commit the crime alleged except under the impulse of a diseased mind.
 It is believed that the defendants counsel will put him on the stand.
 Mrs. Horton in Court.
 Mrs. Margaret Horton, who was ex- pected to be an important witness for the state today, arrived at court early, accompanied by her husband and her sister, Miss Helen Weaver. Waite's brother-in-law, Percy Peck, the lat7 ters wife and Mrs. Catherine Peck, Mrs Waite aunt, also were on hand promptly.
 William Licieley, paying teller in a bank where Waite cashed a check for S9,3OO, after suspicion first was di- rected at him, and Jack Pooley, an employe of a garage where Waite kept his automobile, were the first wit nesses today. Eugene O. Kane, who embalmed Peck's body, and who sub- seuuently received $9,000 in bills from Waite also was recalled.
 Pooley identified him as one he had seen talking with Waite in the garage about the time it was said the check was cashed at the bank.
 John Cunniff, a special officer at tached to the district attorneys of flee, recalled, told of having received from Kane bottle containing a sam pie of the fluid which, Kane said, was used in embalming the body of Peck. Cunniff also identified several medical books found in Waite's apartment. One of them, he said, had been marked at a passage dealing with arsenic po1s- oning.
 Dr. Perry Schurtz of Grand Rapids, Mich who performed the first autopsy on the body of John F. Peck was the next witness.
 "K. Adams" Identified
 The sender of the mysterious "K. Adams telegram, which has figured in the Waite case was identified as Elizabeth B. Hardwick of SOmerville, N. J., at the trial today. This is the telegram sent from New York to Grand Rapids, urging Percy Peck that an autopsy be held on his fathers body.
 Mrs. Clara Louise Peck Waite faced her husband, pr. Waite, in the court for the first time today when she took the stand as a witness against him. Mrs. Waite, dressed in mourning, came into the court room so quietly that few observed her as she took seat be- hind the jury box as her brother, Per cy Peck, was testifying.
 pr. Waite who had been Slttlng with bowed head all the forenoon looked at his wife but she appeared not to see him.
 Mrs Waite testified concerning her fathers visit from Grand Rapids to New York and said that Waite sug- gested that pr. Albertus A. Moore be called to see her father.
 'We-that is, father, pr. Waite and 
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