New-York tribune., 1916-05-25
STATE ENDS CASE
AGAINST WAITE
Continued from page I

snub by the dentist. standing guard
az the door Of the apartment in which
John f. Peck lay dead. her uncle and
her cousin. Arthur Swinton. had told
her OF their "odd experience"
In the discussion that followed the
diversion of a lonely evening in the
country-the three had recalled the
equally sudden death Of Mrs Peck
while visiting Waite. IL had struck
them that the passing OF his wife's
parents meant that Waite would be IN
virtual control Of the half million
dollars his wife stood to inherit, and
that the man who married Clara Peck
was. after all. more or less of an enigma.
Girl Sent Mysterious Telegram.
So. with the body Of the poisoned
millionaire already rushing tow
ard the crcmatory, where all trace
OF crime would pass in smoke. Eliza
beth HardwIck arrived al the decision
which was 90 upset all Wate's hair
spring calculations.
The "K Adams signature, which
sent the District Attorneys staff on a
wild goose chase. trying 10 trace con-
ucction between the Peck-Waite and
the Katherine Roland MolineuX
roison cases. proved easy of eXplana-
lion. Although this point was not
brought out in Miss Hardwick's testl-
monv. Assistant District Attorney
Brothers made il clear when she had
left the stand.
Miss Hardwick. he said. had recently
attended the wedding Of a close chum.
That chum's name Kate Adams-waSs
conse0uentlv uppcrmost IN her mind
when She cast about for q way Of sign
inc the telegram so that. without re-
-oalirr her identity. she might yet gain
for her message the attention which
ANONYMITY inevitably would discount
Ends Of Justice Served.
Thus *. Adams" was born. and thus,
on The witness stand. she died, her
cryptic part in serving the ends OF
iu-.ice most fully accomplished.
what is Your name" Mr. Brothers
aFiizabcth Hardwick?" she replied,
,1 voice so low that it scarcely
reached the reporters table. close
against the railing.
"Whcre is your homeF
"I0 Somerviile. y. j."
o With whom DO YOU live there :?
with DR.. Jacob f. Cornell, my
uncle.
O. We're YOU at home when DR.. Cor
rell and Mr Swinton returned from
jheu visit 20 the Waite apartment on
Earch 10? A-Yes.
O.. Did YOU discuss DR.. Waite's ac-
lions at that time? Ave did
O. What did you do the next morn
ing? Where did you go? Al went TO
the Grand Central Station.
@ Did YOU send telegram to Percy
Peck signed *. Adams? A.-Yes.
Miss Hardwicks place in the witness
chair was taken by a woman in a garb
which would have registered her to any
movie directors satisfaction as q per-
son Of sorrow and mystery.
"NIiss Clara L. Peck"
She was the erstwhile Mrs. Arthur
Warren Waite, but that was not the
name the court clerk called in his role
Of official announcer.
"Miss Clara Louise Peck" he made
her
1t was the first time Waite had ap.
peared moved, except by merriment OF
occasional interest. He shifted in his
chair, crossed and uncrossed and re-
crossed his legs, drew in his protrud-
ing lower lip. blinked at the floor, the
ceiling and the black-draped figure on
the stand the whole constituting fol
him an emotional display unparalleled
during the trial
The witness looked straight ahead
40 Mr.. Brothers, as she began her tes-
timony. A big black hat, tilted 10 the
right. and with heavy mourning veil
falling from IT, hid her face completely
from Waite.
Her early replies were indicative OF
the great change which grief has
worked in her A mere girl in all but
years when Waite renewed his sehoo
day acquaintance with her, she had
suddenly run into the mould Of mature
womsnhood and hardened there
The Clara Peck of the cid day5
might have become hysterical al
thought Of the ordeal. The Clara Peck
Of the new, with hundreds Of curious
eyes upon her. with the Surrendered
love physically near. accepted her
situation as quietly as if IL were nc
novelty
As evenly as Mr.. Brothers. questions
were put she answered them, opening
her heart 20 the legal clinic. She told,
as impersonally as If 10 were the story
of another OF her meeting with Waite
when he returned from his years in
South Africa; Of her first recognition
Of the fascination which the man rover
~ strange lands holds for womankind;
Of her admiration first for the man who
had pluckily earned his own education
and then for the brilliant young sur
Reon whose picture glowed through the
deftly deprecating remarks on himself
and his career.
story of Waite's Conquest.
She told. with that same detached