New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-23

George A. Helme, 35 West Fifty-sixtf
Street, capitalist.
James ii. Belts, 44O Riverside Drive
/ sales manager.
/ Edwin VI. Friedlander, 20 Broad
| Street, banker and broker.
/ Thomas Widdecombe, 1872 West l26tt
/ Street, accountant for the New lorH
/ Central Railroad.
James ". Jeffares. POI West Seventy
ninth Street, manager at 2o7 Wes'
Street.
Stephen A. Douglass, 56l West l79th
Street, electrical engineer with Gen
eral Electric Company.
Hugh +. Donnelly, 42S West 1880
I Street. real estate.
Joseph II. Trant, 1o6 West lo5th
Street, writer.
OF the twelve all ere married except
Friedlander and Trant.
Peck Faces Fathers Slayer.
When the afternoon session opened
| Percy Peck and his wife-he wearing a
mourning band on n sleeve of his
sombrc spring suit and she in black
sat directly facing Waite, with only
empty benches, lately occupied b. wait
ing talesmen. between them. Peck
looked steadily at Dr. Waite during
Mr.. SWANS opening address, but the
defendants eyes were on the prose
cutor.
Mr.. Swami spoke dispassionstely,
/ frequently consulting typewriter notes
for dates. But tho story he told in
setting forth the facts which the state
hopes TO prove needed no artificial
color. It is q story already familiar
I 70 . a
country.
"The state will show" said the
prosecutor, that the defendant was
born near Grand Rapids in 1886; that
in 1909 he was graduated from the Uni
verslty Of Michigan after taking a
course in dentistry; that he went TO
Scotland and took there what he says
was a two-year course in the College
of Glasgow a course Of few months,
the state holds.
Eve will show that he was sent TO
/ South Africa by the Dentistry Com
pany OF England I'm 1910, and in 1914
returned 10 Grand Rapids, where lived
his father, brothers and a certain
young woman named Clara Peck, whom
he had known in school. John +. Peck,
the girls father, had been a Wholesale
dr. ggist. At the time of Yates re-
tu' he was retired.
Story of Pursuit and Wooing.
Eve will show that Waite paid court
10 Clara. got into the good graces of
her mother and followed the Pecks TO
Palm Beach, and that there, assisted
by the mother, he won the girls con-
sent to marriage.
1--WE will show that since his return
I frfr daf ia.
had no visible means of support. We
will show that he cashed a life insur-
ance policy to pay his tuition of S225
in the medical school of Cornell Uni
versity and that later, after his mar
riage and when he was established in
a New York apartment, he obtained a
rebate of 5000 of the tuition by plead
ing he was forced TO leave town.
1--WE will show that on September 9,
| 1915, the defendant married Clara Peck
in Grand Rapids and that on that very
night, in Detroit, he expressed disap-
pointment that his brides father had
given him only an income of $500 a
month instead of a lump sum Of $50,
! 900, which he had expected.
I'VE will show that the defendant
I came TO New York, TO find that his
wifc's parents had provided luxurious
/ home for him in an apartment at 1l6th
/ Street and Riverside Drive, and that
/ his wife's aunt in this city gave the
/ couple $4,000 each and turned over
$4,000 TO him for investment"
Dir. Swami then dwelt on the inter
change Of letters between DR.. Waite
and his father-in-law on his
part expressing delight with Mr.. Peck's
| generosity and insisting that he come
D L.
occupied himself in studying deadly
/ germ cultures.
Mrs. Horton Enters Case.
christmas came on" he continued.
"Mr Peck did not come 20 New York,
| but Mrs. Waite went to Grand Rapids
70 spend the holidays with her family.
Before he followed her DR.. Waite met
q young woman named Margaret Hor-
ton, who is 70 play conspicuous part
in this case. And when he did 20 20
Grand Rapids he professed 20 have re-
ceiyed a call back 20 New York TO per-
form an operation. In New York, on
January II, he registered at the Hotel
Plaza with Mrs. Horton as Or. A. W.
Walters and wife"
Mr.. Swami told Of Mr.. Peck's arrival
here, of Waite's purchase OF yirulent
typhoid cultures, Of Mr.. Peck's sudden
and peculiar illness, of Yates insis-
tence that the patient remain in New
York, of Yates purchase Of arsenic,
of his administering a mysterious med
icine TO the patient. of Peck's death, Of
Yates anxiety that the body be Gre
mated, of his warning 10 Mrs. Horton
10 desert the Language studio" in the
Plaza. ard OF his payment of $4,000 OF
Miss Clara Peck's funds 10 the under
..inr rrhnr, Ia had aaLch 70 nranara