The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-05-10
100000 TO WAITE
FROM MISS PECK
Checks Show Enormous FIX
change Of Money to the
Confessed Prisoner.
LETTER TELLS METHODS

1t was announced IN the District At
torney's office yesterday that Or. Ar
thur W. Waite, who is TO be tried on
May 22 for murder. had taken from MISS
Catherine Peck. his aunt through mar
rage. more than 100000. Checks 70
the amount Of >4s.750 we're cashed
through the Farmers q and Trust
Company between July. 1915. and jan
uary, 1915. A new account In a de.
partment store in his name was round
yesterday.
Miss Peck told the District Attorney
yesterday that a few days before the arr
rest OF Dr. Waite for the murder OF John
i. Peck Of Grand Rapids, Mich. he ac-
companied her to Grace Church. where
he took great interest In the singing
services.
Mr.. Dooling. assistant District At
torney. said yesterday that Waite got
most OF his money from Miss Peek
through telling her that he was going TO
buy first mortgages with the money she
gave him. There is no record hat ne
ever bought a mortgage or That ne did
other than merely use the money.
All through her story to the District
| Attorney Miss Peck said she had thought
her nephew to be "a good young man.
She told OF him coming to her a few
day after his marriage to her niece.
! saying that he wanted some money. She
had given him $4,000 as a wedding gift.
| From then on she gave him access To
her negotiable property. Had Re not
been arrested. she says. she thinks che
! might have lost all.
one OF the many letters written by
Waite to Miss Peck Is given az follows:
"t35 RIVERSIDE DRIVE.
NEW YoRK CITY.
January IS. 1916
NJ DEAR AuSr KATE: The name and
address which YOU asked me for as re-
garding the 10000 loan IS
put his name and address In your
check book. counterfeit beneath my name
so in case of any exigency sou could know
to whom 10 60. OF course I have care
fully provided FOR any accident to me
by having proper papers drawn and
legally attested and deposited in dupli-
ca.e-one in my private vaults and one
with the state Registrar. have also
.iven written instructions that all my
papers are to he turned over TO you inn
mediately OF any accident to me. These
Instructions are given to the -
Bank Vault Dept. I am obliged TO
keep these papers instead Of giving
them TO you. as tina, is a clause Of
the agreement. that There shall be no
third party cocuizant ~ the loan That
* to protect the credit of the firm, OF
course.
you will see. dear. | am carefully
guarding your interests-even more are
fully than ! would my own. Doing bust
ness for another is always risky 10
friendship. but you and I get a!onG
pretty wei. | have all the certificates
you gave me. and which YOU have listed,
carefully filed away in my box AT the
bank. and all these, as we'll a. m
private papers. are under the same In
structions. namely. that they shall he
delivered to you II anything happens &c
me. We obtained sufficient money or
the stocks without selling In this bad
market TO make the loan. and I will ad
wise you from time TO time OF any sale
or change in affairs. In the meantime
YOU have made the bonus OF $500.
"Au revoir for the present. dear. and
much love from Yours, ARTHUR"