Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-02-14
Parents Of Lake Forest
Student Do Not Wish to
Prosecute Accused.
APPEA' . STATE
s. TO DROP CASE
ace Of Poison containsr Found
Md orpst Not Connected With Pur.
chase Of Acid Which Killed oirs-
Love Letters Reveal Romanes Which
Ended In Betrayal Of Miss Lambert
and Her Trassdie Dsath.

Chicago. Feb. 1&.-The mother -
Marian Lambert, the Lake Forest high
school girl found dead in the woods
near the suburb last Thursday. has
appealed to States Attorney Ralph
Dady. OF Lake county. to release Wii-
liam H. Orpet the University OF Wis
consin junior. held at waukegan on q
charge of murder. Frank Lambert.
father Of the girl. assented to the plea
Of his wife. Tho Lamberts told the
states attorney they had doubts OF tho
guilt Of young Orpet and they had no
desire to push the case.
states Attorney Dady was willing to
admit today that unless he can prove
that Orpet gave his former sweethcare
poison he can not convict tho student
Of murder.
Can't Trace Poison Purohass.
Altho the nature of the poison which
caused the girls death has been de-.
termaned by partial analysis OF the
stomach, the officers are at a loss 10
account for the container. Sheriff
Griffin said his men had searched ey.
cry section of the woods and had vis-
tied every drug store in Madison and
In towns along the lake shore from
Waukegon to Evanston. Pictures OF
Orpet were shown but no evidence was
found that he had purchased poison.
( The inquest. It IL expected. viii be
resumed on Wednesday. BY that time.
1t Is believed. the analysis Of the or
gans will have been completed.
Letters Reveal Romanes,
Sixty letters have been seized BY do.
tectives in Lake Forest and Madison.
Wis. which unfold step by st1p the
love affair which culminixed IN th6
death OF Miss Marian Lambert. che H.
year-old high school girl whose bodr
was found In the snow in Hshsya
woods, ct the edge Of Lake -Fonsss. laStg
Thursday.
Thtrty-fve OF these letters we're
written to Miss Lambert by william
H. Orpet. the University OF Wisconsin
Junior under arrest In waukegan.
charged with her murder.
Twenty-Five were written by Miss
Lambert to Orpet and were found in
the young mans rooming house In
Madison when he was arrested.
Letters Trace Romance.
iheSS ietteES truce tne romance
from its inception. when the boy and
girl were pupils at the Deerfield high
school In Highland Park. until it came
within the shadow Of the girls un-
happy condition which was the direct
cause Of the tragedy.
The missives breathe the passion OF
the two when the romance was at its
height. They disprove conclusively the
young mans cold assertion since his
arrest that he did not care for the girl,
and that II there was any love 1t was
all on her side.
His letters to the young woman In
the first phases OF the affair are filed
with tender sentiment and words OF
endearment. From beginning to end
her letters to him are all ardor and de-
votion.
Crisis Last September.
From the letters 1t was plain the
romance reached n crisis last Septem-
Der. It was evident that soon after
ward the girls condition caused alarm
TO both these tyros in forbidden pleas
ures. She wrote of her fears and he
attempted to nllay them. The climax
passed and with 1t the panic that had
seized them.
From that time the young mans
ardor began to cool. He wrote less
frequently. His letters. which former
ly had been caresses In pen and ink.
became mere formal epistles, only
casually friendly.
Tho Other Woman Appears.
Finally there arrived the time when
the shadow OF the other woman fell
across romance. Miss Celeste Youker.
the assistant teacher OF chemistry in
the De Kalb Normal school had
stepped into young orpet's life. He
wrote to Miss Lambert and told her
OF his change OF affection. He declared
he no longer loved her and must break
off all relations with her.
The girls letters were pathetic In
their pleas not to be cast of. She
begged him to continue to be her
:weeiileart. 10 io~e her as he had he-
FORE
For time there Is break in tho
continuity of the letters--a hiatus in
which both ceased to write. Then
letter written by Orpet seems almost
like blow in the face In its direct at
tempt to rid himself of the girl who
had ceased to interest him. There
must have been meeting between the
two about this time. A later letter
refers to clandestine tryst In Helms
woods
Motherhood Fear Again.
Then came the final phase. Fear of
the girls approaching motherhood
again aroused them both. The last
letter was mailed from Madison In a
letter to Miss Josephine Davis. and
was delivered to Miss Lambert the day
before her death. It arranged for the
fatal meeting in the woods.
In its intimate revelations TINS re-
markable epistiiary history shows how
orpet won the heart Of the maid.
ruined her life, tired of her at last
and tossed her aside for another. The
tragedy in the woods was the end Of
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