Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-24
WEE
FACES ACCUSED
Takes Stand to Testify
Against Confessed Muir
derer Of Father.
MYSTERIOUS MESSAGE
: SENDER IDENTIFIED
Author Of Warning Telegram Sent to
Son Of pr. Peck Revealed as Woman
Lawyers in orpet Case Wrans'e
Over Value Of circumstantial Evil
dence-Prominent Business and Pro-
fessional Men Summoned For Jury. y

| 0AotbSSO 0s'A E'S
fessionaI Men Summoned For Jury.
New York, May 24.-The senderof
the mysterious tx. Adams" telegram,
which has figured in the case Of pr.
Art hur Warren Waite, accused Of the
murder OF his father In Jaw, John e.
Peck, millionaire Grand Rapids drug
manufacturer, was identified as Eliza
beth X Hardwick. of Someryille, N. j,
at Waite's trial today. s.
This was the telegram sent to Percy
Peck urgins--hi to have an autopsy
performed on his fathers body.
Mrs. Waite on Stand.
Mrs Clara Louise Peck Waite faced
her husband, DR.. Waite, in court for
stand as q witness against him.
Mrs. Waite, dressed in mourning,
came into the room so quietly that few
her brother, Percy Peck, was testi-
flying. Z .s 4.
DIR. Waite, who had been sitting with
/
wife, but she appeared not to see him.
Mrs. Waite testified concerning her
fathers visit from Grand Rapids to
New York. and said that DR.. Waite
suggested that DR.. Albertus A. Moore
be called to see her father. !.
r 1--WE, that is father, DIR. Waite and
myself. had planned to 60 ITO Hot
Springs on a VISIT. Father appeared
RI Ia m vary craod hooth &
Tells Of Peck's lllnass.
Some time after her fathers ar
rival here, Mrs. Waite said, he de-
has admitted that he inochlated him
as well as Mrs. Peck with disease
germs. ~; So 49, +. 2. i
The witness told Of an occurrenc
ats dinner three days before Peck,s
oysters and her father Complained Of
feeling drowsy. 's,:Sg.' - ;sssSf, =
Miss Elizabeth D. Hardwick was on
She testified that she sent the tx.
Adams" telegram, on March 12 from
the grand central station in this city,
warning the Peck family that Peck
might have suffered foul play !, "a
Miss Hardwick said she lived in
the home of Dr. Jacob Cornell. of
somerville. N. J. She testified that
she sent 1.-THE telegram to Percy Peck
after DR.. Cornell returned from the
Waite apartment, and that some one
told her to send it. A question as to
who directed her was ruled out, ~ 1t
Mrs Clara Peck Waite, in cont1hu-
ing her testimony, said her husband
went out on calls at all times of
the day and night. The. night before
her father died, she said, Waite gave
him an eggnog and Peck complained
that it made him Ill. Next morning,
she said, her father was dead. n =
E Paid Undertaken 5000. !.
Eugene O. Kane, the, embalmer who
received $4,000 from DR.. Arthur War
rem Waite to swear he had put arsenic
in the embalming fluid used upon the
body of John E. Peck, the millionaire
father in law Of Waite, repeated the
story he told the district attorney be-,
fore the jury in court yesterday at the
trail Of Waite. D 5as3 S
Kane. testified there was no arsenic
in the fluid used. 1T q
Kane said Waite asked him if he
could not put arsenic In sample of
embalming fluid, but he CKane) res
piled this was against the law. N Il
Z @ Check For $1,000.
"'The next day ! saw Waite at the
garage where he kept his car Kane
went on. 'tHe handed me q piece OF
paper / opened 1t and found it was
a check for $4,000. tried to give Il
back, but he said something about
putting me on teasy street for life and
would not take It. The episode ended
by my keeping the check.
".On the next day / met him at "a
cigar stand He pushed a bundle of
paper into my pocket saying For
Gods sake put some arsenic into that
fluid and get some down to the district
attorney.
When I got-s home found the
bundle was paper money. tried to
count It. but was too nervous
nm.ied Cash Eift & 500
Kane then told how he hid the
money in q cupboard. returned to 1t
several times and tried to count 1t
but couldn't because he was too ner-
vous. A week later. he said, he buried
the money in the sand on the shore
near Greensport, j.. ]. Il
a After describing his visit 20 the
spot with Detective John Cunniff ana
digging up the money, Kane. testified
that he had furnished the district
attorney with a sample of the em-
balming ftid, but swore there Was no
arsenic In Il.
Counsel for Waite, on cross-exami-
nation. asked only one question Of
Kane It was: s3 &
wsrs !, sou ever convicted y ot i:
Yes replied Kane, who then was
excused, Is. "a az.
xRANGLE IN 0RPET cA AsE.
Lawyers Argue Over Question 81 Vaiue
@ 80 ct C;retse stasftiai Eyidsncs. 35i
Waukegan, HI May n A ruling
that is expected to ent er largely Into
the trial OF Will orpet charged with
the murder of Marisn Aambart and re :