New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-20
HIS LIFE REVEALED
AS SERIES OF LIES
victims Daughter Says He
Couldn't Play a Note" in An.
swer TO Studio Stories.

That she only speaks Of him as Waite"
believes that he should be punished to
the full extent Of the law, and will take
the stand as a witness for the state.
His Studio companion" has said that
she will take the stand. Whatever emo
tions Mrs. Horton may feel on seeing
Mrs. Waite. the latter will remain abso-
lutely Indifferent in her presence.
"Mrs. Horton will mean nothing more
to me than any of the other witnesses"
Mrs. Waite said yesterday, in speaking
of the trial. "My purpose in coming TO
New York was to be a witness for the
state.
Mrs. Horton Stranger.
Naturally, | never heard of Mrs.
Horton before the horrible truth Of the
cause of my parents death became
known. l think, however. that | have
talked with her on the telephone. A
woman who said she was a nurse for a
doctor with whom Waite was expert
menting with germs called up once or
twice TO say that the doctor wanted TO
see him at certain time. ! think that
was Mrs. Horton.
"Once | read in the paper about
nurse being found dead, under pecu
/ liar circumstances, in an apartment IN
West Eleventh Street When | re-
marked on it Waite said That's funny.
was down in West Eleventh Street
| Just this afternoon. | had case down
/ there day | learned that the apart
ment house where the nurse was found
was the very one in which the Horizons
live.
The day Waite returned TO New
York after my fathers funeral | went
to the station in Grand Rapids with
him. ! left before the train went. and
ho called up the house to learn II |
had reached home safely. In the mean
time he wired Mrs. Horton. asking her
TO meet him at the station IN Ne"
York. or. il that wasn't possiDle, ne
would 20 at once TO the flazs' men
he added: we can bunk BerHtz lot 10,
morrow Something must have aroused
his SUSPICION during Niit Ni'ff
mediately on his arrival ne cailed heF
up and asked her TO move ~,
an signed newspaper article mrs.
Horton SAYS that Waite told her mat
he would accompany her while she
practised singing in the studio lie
cannot play note. ,,,
"Mrs. Horton says that the studio
was furnished with books and pictures
and flowers. Some of those pictures
and furnishings came from the apart
ment on Riverside Drive. They are
now in the possession Of my aunt,
Miss Kate Peck, to whom they were
given after Yates arrest.
"The way he got them from the
apartment was an instance Of the de-
ceit he practised on me daily. lie
never claimed to have an Office, but he
did saw that he and several doctors
with whom he worked shared room
at Bellevue. He told me that all the
other men had contributed rugs and
pictures to furnish it.
"Haven't you something around the
house | can take down. he asked. |
told him that ! didn't care about hav-
ing any of my things knocking around
an Office. but he said they would get
excellent care, so | let him take three
small oil paintings and a vase which
had been one Of my wedding presents.
Took Clothes by Trick.
"He took the clothes away by de-
ception, too. He had talked very often
about a trip that he must make to
Albany. One morning he announced
that he was going that day and would
have to stay over night. | wanted to
pack his suitcase for him, but he
said he had found time 20 pack 1t him
self the night before. That night he
came back, saying that his trip was
postponed. | suppose his suitcase was
empty.
ION his birthday | had a pair Of
lavender silk pajamas made for him.
Now | learn that they were found at
the Plaza"
/ Mrs. Waite is firm in her conviction
that her father realized that he was
the victim of his son-in-law before he
died. Waite has confessed that in his
last moments Mr.. Peck suffered so
intensely that he administered chloro-
form on a handkerchief. Father was
a druggist and am sure that he recog-
nzed the odor of chloroform," Mrs.
Waite said. 81 am also sure that he
called for me and struggled and that
it was then that Waite held him down
and put pillow over his face-'to ease
his sufferlngs, he says.
81 have just been reading that his
mother is too sick to come on for the
trial. | feel very sorry for her, and
particularly so for his brother Frank,
who lives here in New York. He is
good, honest man.
Prepared for Trial Ordeal.
"My family never for minute
thought Of aiding an insanity defence.
What kind Of a daughter would be to
support such a proceeding? The trial
will be a terrible ordeal for me, but
shall 60 through it for my parents"
Mrs. Waite is daily receiving letters
from strangers, some Of them sympa-
thizing with her in her trouble, others
Of the freak variety, offering sugges-
;ions for her future.
While Mrs. Waite does not know who
sent the famous tx. Adams" telegram,
she feels sure that it came from a rela-
tive.
Signs Of nervousness on the part of
DIR. Waite were discerned yesterday.
He no longer laughs and jokes, as he
has done since the first week of his cell
life. The prospect OF trial next week
has apparently broken his spirit. He
has admitted in the last day or so that
he was lonely.
Mrs. Horton will be witness against
Waite. She probably will testify on