The Detroit times., 1916-05-22

1 ~ na'A VII haRfShSos
Chief among these WAS the fable
OF The Man from Egypt.
This mysterious and sinister spir-
Il. Waite is said TO have assured
District Attorney Swan. was with
him night and day. goading him on
10 evil deeds.
Nameless and intangible. and pos
sessed, OF the nendish resourceful.
ness OF 10000 devils, The Man from
Egypt never has been found. Nor
is be expected 10 be.
Another story Judge Swan report.
ed as having been told him by Waite
was that his father-in-law was tired
OF living and asked him TO get the
arsenic for him so he could die.
II was only few days after the
death OF Peck az the Waite apart.
ments on Riverside drive that the
first hint came TO the authorities
here and in Grand Rapids that all
vas not as IL should be.
This hint took the form OF q mys-
FERROUS telegram from TX. Adams, .
In New York. to the authorities In
Grand Rapids. advising an investi-
CATION before Mr.. Peck's body was
inferred
IL has since developed that when
Waite saw this In the papers, he
went 10 Margaret Horton at the
school OF languages. where they FIRST
met, and. according TO Mrs. Horton,
asked her 20 buy him certain sleep
ing powders" which she says she
did.
Mrs. Horton. who at once began
giving out columns and columns of
interviews, insisted that the studio"
she shared with Waite in the hotel
was used only as studio, that
Waite never was anything more than
friendly with her. and they they had
TO register under an assumed name,
as man and wife. 10 get the suite.
Harry Horton, husband of The
Woman OF Mystery. at first declared
that Margaret was so utterly limo
cent Of the ways OF the world and
so incapable OF any wrong that he
felt her association with Waite was
TO be entirely condoned.
Horton said his wife was ian in
nocent dove among flock OF crows
Since then, however. Horton has
been credited with the statement
that he knew his wife was getting
money from someone. but that he
didn't know who. and he didn't like
10 put a detective on her trail
Mrs. Dorothy van Palmeuberg. a
friend OF the Horizons. who staunch-
~ supported Mrs. Horton S story AT
first. later quarreled with her and
gave out a long interview in which
she told how poor the Horizons were
when she knew them a couple OF
years ago and how suddenly and lux
uriously afhuent they were when
she met them after Mrs. Horton had
met Waite
Mrs. van Palmenberg told of find
ing lingerie and a silk kimona and
articles of male attire in a suitcase
Mrs Horton brought 10 her house
from the studio apartment" the
night after the first hint OF the Peck
poisonings became public and Waite
had locked himself in his Riverside
drive apartments.
When the police went 10 arrest
Waite the following morning they
found him in bed, apparently dead,
with the poison containers beside
him. He lay in stupor for days,
being transferred to Bellevue when
be was recovered sufficiently TO De
moved
The state will try TO prove that
he was at all times sane and that
his alleged crimes were planned and
carried 10 their conclusion in cold
blood.
This is expected TO develop a bat.
tie between alienists such as haw
not been seen since the Harry Thaw
trials.
The court room today was JAM
med to the doors with curious men
and women and hundreds OF others
were turned away by the line OF po-
lice guarding the entrances TO the
building