New Britain herald., 1916-05-02
DR. WAITE INTENDED
 TO COMMIT SUICIDE
Took Sleeping Tablets Expecting
 Never to Awaken

New York, May Mrs. Margaret Horton. studio companion of Dr. Ar thur Warren Waite, admitted to As sistant District Attorney Dooling ycs- tsrday that the dentist had taken an overdose of sleeping drugs on the night before his arrest with the in tention of never waking up On that very afternoon they met in the cor riders Of the Berlitz school, where they were studying foreign languages r together, and pr. Waite asked her to buy some sulphonal and trional tab Jets He was very nervous, according to Mrs, Horton's story, and she feared to irritatc him by refusing his re- quest.
 Less than an hour later she return ed to the school. where the dentist was waiting for her, and gave him all the sleeping tablets which she could purchase, several dozen packages. Dr. Waite, displayed anger because she had bought 50 little." and Mrs. Horton told him, she said, that the drug stores in the neighborhood would not sell her any more.
 Observing that pr. Waite was under intense mental strain. Mrs Horton asked him whether tho stories she had seen in the newspapers about
 
 E. Peck, were true.
 He replied that it was all truc,' Mrs. Horton told Assistant District Attorney Dooling. But he said they would never get him because he in tended to end his life that very night"
 According to Mrs. Horton'e account the dentist then drew from his pocket roll of bills, less than $100, and the diamond torQuoisc ring which hus since attracted the attention of the customs authorities because of an uncontirmed rumor that the dentist had smuggled quantities of uncut da- monds into this country from Africa After giving her the money and the ring, Mrs Horton says the dentist seized her by the arms and said:
 Kiss Goodbye Forever.
 NOW, kiss me and say goodbye, | for good"
 They kissed and parted. On the fol- lowing day Mrs. Horton was motoring | along Riverside Drive with her friend | Mrs. Dorothy Palmenberg. On passing the apartment house where Dr. Waite lived. Mrs. Horton says she looked | up at the window. and seeing tie shades down, remarked to her friend:
 "Well, I guess he must be dead"
 Mrs. Horton told the Assistant Dis trict Attorney that it must have been great disappointment to Dr. Waite that the overdose of sleeping powders did not kill him. At the time she gave them to him. Mrs. Horton sad she was not aware that he intended to commit suicide with them, al- though this was known to her when they parted.
 While in the office of Assistant Dis trict Attorney Dooling yesterday Mrs. Horton was confronted by her friend. Mrs. Palmenberg, who last week told MT. Dooling all she knew about Mrs. Horton's relations with pr. Waite, Mrs. Palmenberg's story In the main was not denied by Mrs Horton. Although Mrs. Horton would not say that Dr. Waite spoke to her about eloping to Egypt she did ad- init that he often discussed Germany as being a place worth visiting as soon as he had his affairs properly arranged.
 Mrs. Horton was accompanied to the District Attorneys office by her husband Harry Mack Horton, who took no part in the conference in MT. Dooling's office. He did wait outside, however, until he had chance to tell Mrs. Palmcnberg what he thought of her for telling tales on his wife The encounter occurred just as Mrs. Palmenberg stepped out of MT. DoolingS office. When MT. Horton angrily accused her of making false statements, Mrs. Palmenbers turned on him in a rage and called him several strong names, concluding with a remark, that he was the kind of a man who beat his wife and then I resumed friendly relations with her.