Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-14

v,,uKEGAN. ILL.,, Feb. 4.-Whether
=. ,..rsvsterlous death of Marian Lambert
" plot paralleing the death of Miss
W.. Tinnell. for which the Rev. Clarence
n,.Ssson of Boston, died In the Massa-
iss.stts electric chair, or a suicide under
.,rsnqe circumstances, was still unsolved
today.
rvon the Lake County officials who
.sve preferred n charge OF murder
.sa,nst william II. Orpet, University Of
vvlsconsin junior, in connection with Miss
iamberts death, admitted today that
they cannot tell
states Attorney Dady, though contend
Ing that Orpets arrest was justihed' ad-
nit,ed that he is still uncertain.
Efforts may be made to free young Or
al before night. Miss Lambert's mother,
4, was said, believes Orpet innocent, and
has added her plea to that of orpets
mother.
The orpets and Lamberts, who are care
takers of adjoining estates of millionaires
~ lake Forest, have been friends for
many years.
ASSERTS HIS INNOCENCE.
orpet. in his cell at the Lake County
ali revealed the story of his relations
with Miss Lambert, but constantly reiter-
sted that he is innocent of murder.
Marian, he said. committed suicide be-
cause she thought she was to be publicly
6seraced They had been intimate for
several months, he said, though he did
not love her and did not believe she loved
him.
Authorities today planned to question
closely Miss Josephine Davis, n chum
Al Marian, who, Dady said, acted as
Intermediary between the student and
Mss Lambert. Miss Davis, according to
Orpets parents, will give testimony in
dleating Miss Lambert planned suicide
Baslng their activities on the murder
theory, the officials pointed today to a
strange similarity between the deaths
Of Miss Lambert and that of Avis Lin
nell
Both were choir singers, both feared
that they were to be dlsSraced. and both
died Of mysterious poison. 1t was con-
tended by Prosecutor Dady today that
II murder theory Is carried out the
fact that Miss Linnell took the poison,
believing 1t medicine, would be strilk-
ingly borne out in the Lambert case.
4 HAD ACCESS TO LABORATORY.
Mss Celestia Youker. Orpots fiancee at
De kalb. is a chemistry instructor at a
normal college there. Prosecutor Dady
said 0rpet had access to her laboratory.
The poison which killed Miss Lambert
had not been definitely determined today,
but authorities said 1t evidently was a
strange combination of cyanide OF potas-
SUM and sulphuric acid. These chemicals
we're used In killing garden insects by the
elder Lambert and the elder Orpet.
The analogy between the Richeson and
Orpet cases, as viewed by Prosecutor
Dady was still further emphasized by the
presence in each case of "the other
woman" In the Richeson case the "other
Erf' was Miss Violet Edmunds. In the
Lambert tragedy, Dady said, Miss Youker
might have furnished the motive for
Aarian's death, as orpet hoped to marry
her,
In their search for the poison which
saused Miss Lambert's death officials to-
cay encountered a tangle of possibilities.
ioung orpet himself had studied chemis.
Wy at Madison and had access to the lab
oatory. Miss Lambert studied chemistry
Miner high school and could have obtained
me poison there. The parents of Orpet
ana OF Marian had poisons in their pos.
session. used In horticulture in the gardens
VI ue estates where they are employed.