The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-24
WIFE WILL APPEAR
AGAINST HIM
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Louise Peck, emitting Waite. He said
his fathers health was good up to the
time of death.
! "Dr. Waite" the witness declared,
lin talking to me February 10, 1915,
said to me, your father Is suffering
much from grief over the death OF
your mother. Do not be surprised If
his life is Of short Duration
March 10, prior to the arrival of
the body. received the X. Adams
telegram.
''Dr. Waite, about that time, asked
me If 1t would be possible for my sis
ter Clara, his wife, to have the in
come from my fathers estate before
the will was probated.
II replied that it was not
Mrs. Clara Peck Waite, wife OF the
defendant followed Peck on the
stand.
Mrs. Horton. with her sister, Helen
Weaver, and her husband, Harry
Mack Horton. arrived in the court
room just as the trial was resumed
and were seated within the rail. Mrs.
Horton gazed steadfastly at the pro
file Of Waite. She seemed almost
fascinated. DR.. Waite's eyes to the
floor, apparently did not see her. The
Princess Mtskfnof and her husband
were again among the spectators.
The state gave over large part of
the morning to getting corroborative
evidence from minor witnesses.
Wife on the Stand.
NEW YORK, May 24-Mrs. Clara
Louise Peck Waite, wife Of DR..
Arthur Warren Waite took the stand
in his murder trial today and gave
testimony which she hopes will aid in
sending him to the electric chair. She
followed her brother Percy.
Dressed in black and yelled, Mrs.
Waite walked firmly to the stand and
gave her testimony in a low, firm
voice. DR.. Waite who has confessed
to the poisoning of her father and
mother, Mr.. and Mrs. john E. Peck
of Grand Rapids, looked first toward
her and then to the floor. He partly
covered his face with his left hand
and didn't move it while she was on
than at any time since the trial start
ed. Mrs. Waite will continue on the
stand this afternoon.
A second thrill Of the Gay was fur
nished by TX. Adams, the sender of
the telegram which resulted in the
investigation which disclosed that
John Peck died of arsenic poisoning.
tx. Adams" is Miss Elizabeth =.
Hardwick. "a, niece of Dr. Cornell.
With DR.. Cornell she was visitor
in the Waite apartment March II,
the day before Peck's death.
After identifying the telegram to
Percy Peck, which read:
Suspicious aroused; demand
autopsy" she was excused.
When Mrs. Waite came to the 4
stand she was entered in the record
as Clara Louise Peck. Her testimony
relevant to the trial started with the
arrival in New York Of her father
several weeks before his death His
health was good, she testified.
1.-THE evening Of March g." she
said, 'the maid was away and l pre-
pared supper. DR.. Waite placed the
oysters and the soup on the table.
Father was sleepy afte- supper. He
went to bed early. DR.. Waite hur-
ried out right away.
"On Friday father made \ codicil
to his will. It was Witnessed and
signed Saturday. Father arose Sat.
urday morning feeling very sick. Dr.
Waite was in the room with Inn
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prepared some egg nog for him and
gave him some. He complained that
it made him feel sick. l placed it
In the ice box and did not see it
1t was intimated in the early inves-
tigation of the case that arsenic adj
Peck was given in egg nog.
Mrs. Waite testified that DR.. Waite
was at home nearly all day Saturday.
During the morning Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Brothers read a letter
to the jury written by Waite to his
Mrs. Peck, in October,
1915.
1t was full Of terms of endearment
and said again and again that he
(Waite) did not wish any Of Peck's
In the letter Waite said he
was making money at the rate Of