The evening world., 1916-05-18
0RPET'S MOTHER
TORTURED BY HINTS
AS TO SONS FATE
Continued from First Page.

and minds. Of controlled HOUSEHOLDS
and passions. OF respect from her own
consdence and from her neighbors.
That stronger thing II love for her
children. especially love for her sons.
REFINED TORTURE FOR MOTHER
IN DAYS OF WAITING.
And % Il Is that this homsly
woman, homeiy in the words real
and beautiful sense. Ands the oour-
ass to cit every day beside WIN
Orpst in the court room. and endure
with him the speculative gaze Of
casual sightssers. the sombre con-
fession Of . "nxed opinion" by Juror
after Juror. . confession which In
variably elicits from viii Orpet's
lawyers the one word. Excused"
II must be the sheerest refinement
Of torture for this woman to hear the
tAcit condemnation Of her son from
the lips of farmers, teamsters. shop
keepers. all the simple folk among
whom sf,o has lived for years. whose
eyes she has always been able to
meet with serene dignity. She un-
doubtedly has an implicit belief in
WIN Orpet's Innocence Of the crime
for which the State 10 trying him.
But although she does not think Of
him a. the smaA-t town Lothario-the
white handed. soft voiced. effeminate
'.fusser'' whom sentimental school
girls of a certain ago consider Just
sweet" the chocolate fudge Romeo
cauGhk N . thundr storm Of tragedy
-she cannot but know Of his relations
With Marian Lambert and cannot but
realize that. even though Marian
Lambert committed suicide. she
propably would be alive to day were
Il not for win Orpet.
Then finally she must listen. hour
after hour. to those two questions,
with their undercurrent of ghastly
sfgnif1cance. which States Attorney
Dady puts TO every one of tho venire-
men: Are you opposed to capital
punishment" ! watched Mrs. orpet
carefully all day and every time that
sentence was uttered she WINGED
Sometimes there was merely ar
extra tightening Of lips that in the
last few months have taken on a
book Of colorless compression: some
times the generous bosom haaved In
. deep. quiet sigh: sometimes the
maternal shoulder edged protectingly
toward the pale boy beside her.
oRPET TO BE A WITNESS IN Hie
OWN DEFENSE.
She could not school herself TO
hear that question unmoved. nor tho
following one. with an application
even more poignant: do you believe
in capital punishment in n case which
rests wholly on circumstantial evi-
| dence?"
1t has Just been locally announced
with considerable eclat. that win
Orpet will tell his own story OF the
death OF Marian Lambert on tho wit
ness stand. although the procedure
has been generally assumed from the
beginning. But doubt II, even dur
Ing that recital. his mothers agony
is 80 keen a. In these days OF wait
Ing.
At the autopsy on Marian lambert
crystals OF cyanide Of potassium were
found In her stomach and under her
finger nails. The night before she
died Marian. II was discovered to-
| To- 1Asn In p1,a iatt-
which dealth with the fatal proper
ties OF cyanide salts.
| A cla4ssmate, Raymond G. Russell
Of No. 704 Sheridan Road, Lake For
est. pointed to-day 10 the page IN
their text book which contained the
following paragraph:
| AT high temperature carbon unttes
with nitrogen from the colorlcss and
very poisonous gas. cyanogen (C2N2)
with hydrogen and nitrogen II forms
hydorcyainc acid. often called prussic
acid. This Ia n colorless liquid, boil
ing at &c degrees, and Is one OF the
most poisonous substances known
It's vapor IL often used to Kill In
known as cyanides. They are like.
wise very poisonous. Sodium cysnid,
,N2NCI and potassium cyauid,
tkNC) are white solids. their som
tions readily dissolve gold and AZ,
used IN extracting gold from it's ores
| Marian would have rccitcd ;hl!
lesson had she lived on tine day he
father found her half- frozen corpse
II ~ said that when Prof A. Craegc
apokc 81 the quoted section OF th'
lesson ne had assigned for tutur,
prepare tton Marian evlnced sudder
and intense interest, although sh,
had previously been liughug an,
whispcrins.
| Although neither lhe prosecutor