The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-13
STUDENT |S HELDFOR 'DEATHOF YOUNG GIRL Wisconsin University Junior Charged With Murder THE SAME OLD STORY Youth Told Prospective Mother of Coming Marriage to Another Girl;
 Saw Her Take Poison and
 Watched Her Die
THE SAME OLD STORY

Chicago, February 12.-william H. Orpet, University of Wisconsin junior, who is said to have left Marian Frances Lambert, whom he had tilted, to die of poison in Helms woods at Lake For est, suburb, was charged with mur- der today and held in the Waukegan jail without bail
 Orpet, who is 20 years old, is said by Ralph J. Daley, states attorney at Waul<egan, to have admitted to him that he had been intimate with the girl. who was but IS years old. He is said to have stated further that Miss Lambert had feared for four months that she was to become a mother de- spite drugs which Orpet purchased for her, and which made her ill
 SAW HER DIE
 Orpet, it is charged, made a secret trip from Madison to Lake Forest last Tuesday night. It is said he called the girl on the telephone and made an appointment which was kept in the woods next morning. At this interview Orpet said that he told her he was to marry Miss Celestia Youker. It is said that she then took a quick acting poison and that Orpet saw her die. Frightened, he rushed away and re- turned to Madison. The next day, Thursday, the body was found
 Before leaving Madison Orpet is said To have tried to arrange an alibi lie wrote a letter to Miss Lambert and left it in the hands of a friend to be mailed Wednesday afternoon. At that time he was on his way back to the university. He had left his room at a boarding house in a condition to sug- gest that he had occupied it Tuesday night.
 Miss Youker is said to be an in structor in chemistry at a normal col leSe at Dekalb, Ill. It is said she was schoolmate of Orpet at Lake Forest, before he went to the university.
 The prisoner is an athletic looking young man. To reporter he said:
 STORY TO REPORTER 7.
 T met her by appointment in the woods. I told her not to tell anyone was coming. I mussed up my bed in the boarding house at Madison so my landlady would think had been there arrived at Lake Forest late Tuesday night. l called her by telephone at her home I told her I would be waiting the next morning at the Sacred Heart station of the Chicago and Milwaukee electric line.
 the station with her chum, Josephine Davis. was hiding behind a tree and beckoned to her. Soon she came back
 We started walking. I told her was through with her. She cried and begged me not to give her up. We walked and talked in the woods about two hours
 401d Ia, +l,o,o talking any longer-that I had made sup my mind was going to marry Miss Celestia Youker. I started away.
 T heard her cry out for me to come back. I kept on walking
 T was quite a distance away when I turned again. I saw her fall to the ground. I ran back. I saw she was dying.
 WITH HER TILL DEAD
 q remained with her until I was sure she was dead Then I hurried to the station and took an electric car and came to Chicago caught a train right out for Madison. Then sent a letter to her. I didn't tell anyone about what had happened, because I feared it might reflect on her good name'
 O. F. Orpet. father of the prisoner and superintendent of the Cyrus Me Cormick estate at Lake Forest, retained James H. Will1erson, former United States district attorney here, to defend his son.
 States Attorney Dady at waukegan said, toni ght;
 ''We had to charge Orpet with mur- ders because it was the only way we could hold him. He is the man who was with the girl, but there are .other things to be cleared up. We haven't found where the poison came from: we have not fathomed why Orpet was so careful to frame an ilibi; we can't find the container in which the poison was kept"
 Miss Youker's home was called over the long distance telephone tonight but elicfted only the statement that she was too i'll to answer the telephone It was learned that Miss Youker was taken i'll last Sunday.