New Britain herald., 1916-05-25
DEFENSE STARTS
 ID PROVE WAITE
 WAS INSANE MAN
Claims He Was Under Influence of Other Personality When He
 Killed Father-in-LaW
FAMILY ALWAYS LAUGHED
 AT HIS DEFORMED HEAD

AT HIS DEFURMED HEAD Counsel for Dentist Expected to Finish
 Case This AfternoOn-''NIan From
 Egypt His Phantom Nemesis and
 Bad Angel' Introduced Into Case
 Mrs. Waite in Courtroom Again
 Today
 New York, May 25.-The fight to save Dr. Arthur Warren Waite from the electric chair began today before Justice Shearn in the criminal branch of the supreme court. The prosecu- tion closed it's case yesterday, and this morning counsel for the defense mar shalled alienists and relatives of the insane when he killed his wealthy father-in-law, John F. Peck of Grand Rapids, Mich, by giving him repeat ed doses of arsenic
 It is understood that the defense will make no claim that Waite is in sane at the present time. An effort will be made to show that he was in highly nervous state for several months preceding the death of MT Peck; that he was subject to "Obses- siOns" and the victim of mental suS gestions coming from another self, which the defendant called "The man from Egypt"
 Among the important witnesses for the defense are Drs. Morris J. Karpas and Allen R. Diefendorff and Frank Waite, the prisoners brother, who. is is expected, will tell of the defendants early life and family history Waitc's attorney has announced that the de- fendant will take the stand, and he may be called before the end of to- days proceedings.
 Almost the only testimony .?irectiy relating to Waite's mental condition brought out by the witnesses for the prosecution came from Mrs. Margaret Weaver Horton, who asserted that Waite told her he killed Pcn}1.
 Walter R. Deuel, counsel for Waite, began his opening address for the defense when the hearing was re- sumed this morning. Mr. Deuel sai1 he expected to finish the case for the defense by 4 o'clock.
 History Shows UnsOund Mind
 Mr. Deuel announced in his opening address and told the jury that Waite's history would show that he was men, tally unsound and the father and two brothers of the prisoner would testify as to his mental condition and con- corning circumstances in his early life. to oJi ,ictc to show that Waite's mind is dis eased.
 Attendance at the trial was some what decreased today. Mrs. Clara Peck Waite, the prisoners wife, sat near the jury box Warren W. Waite father of the young dentist, was in court.
 Frank A. Waite, the dentists brother, was the first witness for the defense. He said that because Dr. Waite had a large head, the other members of the Waite family "poked fun at him."
 Waite Cruel as Boy.
 Waite as a boy was cruel to animals, developed a habit of lying and used to steal from boarders in his home and from classmates at school and college, according to Clyde Waite of Grand Rapids, an- other brother of the defendant
 On cross examination it was brought out that the witness had heen short $500 in his accounts with concern in Grand Rapids by which he had been employed. The witness said he had made up the deficit.
 The prosecution introduced a check tor $30,00O drawn by pr. Waite to the order of the witness. The prose- Cution also read a letter from Dr. Waite promising Clyde $15,O0 if he needed it to buy farm and telling him he could have more if he wanted it.
 Relatives Insane.
 Warren W. Waite, the dentists father, who, next testified, said Miles Waite, the prisoners grandfather, disappeared from his home in 1871 and was never seen again by his family. One of the witness aunts died in an insane asylum, one of her sons is now in an asylum and an- ether was for a time in a psycho- Lathic hospital in Ann Arbor, the witness said adding that a cousin was deaf and dumb.
 Just before the birth of Arthur w. Waite, his mother was in a weakened condition, the father testified. Arthur
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