The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1916-02-17

identical with that which Is be-
lieved to have caused the death of
Marion Frances Lambert, was
found today in the basement of the
Lake Forest home of Will H. Arpet,
the university student accused Of
numbering the young woman, his
former sweetheart, according to
States Attorney Dady OF Wau-
kegan.
Madison, Wis. Feb 15.-Admission
that last August he sold William Or
pet a drug to be used in connection
with the condition Miss Lambert was
believed to be in, was made here to-
day by w. Hassinger, clerk IN local
drug store. according to private de-
tective agency that Is investigating the
case. Detectives assert also that last
Tuesday. a few hours before going to
Lake Forest to see Miss Lambert, Or
pet purchased from Hassinger a bot
tie Of medicine. Hassinger denied SELL
ing Orpet any poison at that time.
Reports that they had consented to
the release of Will H. Orpet, the uni
versity student accused Of numbering
their daughter. Marion Frances Lam
bert, and that they favored leniency
in his case, were denied today by FranA
Lambert, father of the girl, speaking
for himself and Mrs. Lambert.
"On the contrary" said Mr.. Lambert,
both my wife and myself believe Or
pet guilty of causing our girls death.
whether he actually poured the poison
down her throat or not, and we want
justice to be done"
States Attorney Dady was willing to
admit today that unless he can prove
that Orpet gave his former sweetheart
poison, he cannot convict the student
of murder.
Cannot Convict Youth.
Although the nature Of the poison
which caused the girls death has been
determined by a partial analysis of the
stomach, the officers are at a loss to
account for the container Sheriff
Griffin said his men had searched
every section Of the woods where the
body was found and have visited every
drug store in Madison and in towns
along the lake shore from Waukegan
to Evanston. Pictures Of Orpet were
shown, but no evidence was found that
he had purchased poison.
Sixty letters exchanged between Or
pet and the 18-year- old school girl are
in possession of the authorities. Thirty
five of them were written by Orpet,
and the remainder by Miss Lambert to
him.
They unfold, step by step, the love
woman's death. The letters trace the
romance from its inception, when the
two were friends at Deerfield school at
Highland park, until it came within the
shadow of the girls unhappy condition,
which was the direct cause of the
tragedy. The autopsy. however, has
failed to reveal anything against the
girls character
Her Letters Devoted.
Orpet's letters to Miss Lambert in
the first phases of the affair when he
was a freshman at Madison, are filled
with tender sentiment. From begin
ming to end hers to him were all ten
derness and devotion.
The letters are said to indicate that
the girls condition alarmed them last
September. Ills letters became cooler
and less frequent. Finally came the
letter in which Orpet told of his love
for Miss Celestia Youker, a normal
school teacher of Dekalb, Ill. Miss
Lambert wrote several letters after
that begging not to be cast off. The
last Of his letters made arrangements
for the fatal tryst at Lake Forest.
Miss Youker is said to be seriously
i'll of valvular heart trouble. She haI
not been told OF Orpet's predicament.