The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-03-25

tive stepped quickly to the Assistant
District Attorney, who was standing
at the bedside. Ostensib1y he was
whispering, but he did it loudly
enough for Waite to hear.
well, they have found the drug
store that sold the arsenic . said Cum
milf, land the receipt is signed with
the name of DR.. Waite and is in his
! handwriting
! The man on the bed had been in a
sitting posture, propped up with pill
lows AS he heard the words he
slumped off the pillows: Neither
Brothers nor Cunnif appeared to no
tice as they set him in a comfortable
i position again.
Swami Sees Mrs. Yates Aunt.
At this time the District Attorney
was comforting with Miss Peck She
i was telling him of the $4,000 she had
turned over to Waite. She narrated a
Monday night with the young man.
Miss Peck is 20 years old and always
has had a warm admiration for her
fn1ece's 2S-year-old husband
HE said to me- related Miss Peck,
/ What do you think is thesright thing
fora man to do when he is cornered !?
Do You think suicide is the only way
| out p .
/ Waite, when he teIephonet1, knew
affairs In Grand Rapids had reached a
climax that poison had been disclosed
IN Pecks stomach through the au-
topsy- Miss Peck knew it, too. She
asked Waite to meet her and in his
| automobile they drove around the city
from o'clock until 1890 next morn
ing She cheered the young man by
telling him she believed In his inno-.
cence- He gave up the idea of killing
himself, SO she believed.
Meanwhile at Yates bedside
/ ~.<~4iT. = - -
stricken man to recover from the
shock their apparent chance remark
had caused At III o'clock the drug
Ig1st went to the Waite house with
Horace Foster secretary to the Dis
trict Attorney, and turned over his
book to Assistant District Attorney
Brothers
/ .Dr. Waite said Brothers. sis this
your signature in this book ?''
Waite looked at it and laughed
Denies Buying Arsenic.
-tOf course, that is not my sigma
ture, although it is my name why.
! never bought the arsenic this men,
tons In fact, never have been to
that drug store-''
Well commented Brothers, sit
looks pretty bad for you If this is
your signature you will gain nothing
oy denying it, You can be identified
easily =
But didn't buy that arsenic" pro-
tested the patient They left him with
his brother, Frank A Waite. for a
time, and then DR.. Waite called Cum
LII =. " ms Deos1oe-
oppose may as wei tell the
= u. ne SAID weakly Brothers and
91unI1lI STOOD az his bedside and LIST
80 T1ise. - h.iln TOT an hour- They called
ISL rriceai Al1orney SWannfto the house.
He arrived there at 3 o'clock with
h.o 7l eIary roster ana stenographer.
a man nurse and SCHNEIDER, the de-
lec11Ve. were IN the room with Broth
ers anp Cunn1n when he arrived.
~ ATE Ssretched out his hand to Dis
tT1ce attorney Swami
4.e " ,aus +1 sahd me District Attorney.
the arsenic '-e7i-eu Aoi
There We, ~, ,v,e,.va,. 80
in tI,a I,elJ TEX : - = - tAe AA!ah
- s.uhliileeo ne knew the
sa1e ~ ~ - .oo@a 1lsau elneo TO the
80 - 80" ai1u me DRUGGIST
az .eva 1.A oOU -
You told them you wanted the
1851 1851 10 XII a cat! suggested
? III. - " ante noooed-
44e w eei me, ware, the district
100 hoy sAiu. what DID you buy this
aFs sen. Tor
Ten you, but you won't believe |
me me Nopooy. VIII beheve me I got it
Ior my Iather-1n-law, Mr.. Peck. He
was Ill ne was old and the death of
ms Wl1e mad left him Respondent He |
roId me ne did not want to live, that |
NE held nothing for him.
BE said he wanted TO kill himself |
and ne asked me If could get him
some po1sonA-I think he said arsenic |
put am not sure
Wnen ne asked you If you would |