New Britain herald., 1916-05-26

] der difficult or impossible to trace.
 He went on to tell how. after de- spairing of killing the old man with
 disease germs, he had resorted to l a scheme of his own based on some
 thing he had read in the paper about ! the war. Sufferers from chlorine gas, | he had read. were so weakened that ! they became easy victims of disease. l On several occasion, Waite tried out | this theory by opening bottles of | chlorine gas in his father-in-law's S room, and on the following days gave him heavy doses of germs.
 "It seemed to have no effect on him." he added.
 Had Germs Ready For Mrs. Peck. pr. Waite finally became 50 eager for the immediate death of his father in-law that he gave up the supposedly detective proof methods which he had been following and administered the poison directly. He did not adopt the latter plan, however, he said, un- til he had for several weeks given his father-in-law the contents of a test tube of germs daily.
 Waite said he had the germs ready for his mother-in- law when she made her visit to his apartment at 116th street and Riverside Drive in F'ebru- ary of this year, and that he had be- gun to feed them to her in the first meal she took with them. She sick ened and died within a week.
 Before he came to the murders, Waite told a long story of his life. According to his own tale, he had never overlooked an opportunity to steal, and had been in trouble on that hi his return to this country from South Africa in the Summer of 1915. He has stolen frequently since that time, he admitted but had never been in trouble on that account. He also ac- cused himself of cheating, forgery, misrepresentation of himself as a phy- sician, unprofessional conduct as dentist in South Africa and of null titudes of lies. He said he had been vicious and immoral nearly all of his life. Justice Shearn barred women from the courtroom at the evening session at which Waite told the worst part of his story.
 Took Poison From F1ypaper.
 This whole story came from his lips in quiet tones, and with an accent that would have been regarded as af- fectedly soft because of his broad 'a,'' except that it was explained by his four years in South Africa. He laughed outright once when he was told to raise his voice because the jurors at the other end of the box could not hear him. He smiled fre- quently, usually in the most grewsome parts of the story. Jurors sat back and rolled their eyes after some of his statements.
 On one occasion. when he was asked if he had even given arsenic to his wife's aunt, Miss Peck, he looked pug zled and replied in the negative. Asked again by his counsel Walter Rogers Deuel, if he remem bered any thing about the fypaper, he broke into a laugh, as if vexed with him. self for being slow of perception and said:
 "Oh, yes, of course; that had slipped my mind. I had read of some one getting the arsenic out of poison ous flypaper by burning it. I think I read of it in a newspa per. I tried it, and some of the arsenic, or what ever it was that I got, I gave to Miss Peek but 1t was too weak, I guess, because it had no effect on her.
 How it came that Miss Peck sur
 
 one of the mysteries in the case. Dr. Waite said he wanted to kill her be- fore he was married, because ;le knew that she was wealthy, for she had given him a good deal of money and some jewels and he wanted her niece to inherit a share of this before he married her.
 New Murder Device Daily.
 pr. Waite tried nearly everything on the aunt-powdered glass, arsenic, anthrax, tuberculosis, typhoid fever and other germs During the Sum- mer and Fall of 1915, he said he tried some new device to kill her near ly every day. Through the practice which he obtained by these failures however. he eliminated faulty meth Ods. Just at about the time that he had obtained germs of the most viru- lent sort and perfected the .echnioue of placing them in food, he explained that his attention was taken off the aunt by the visit of his mother-in- law, whom he killed at once
 Dr. Waites own narrative of his life eclipsed the stories told about him by the witnesses for the State. He told it in the detached manner of a man disooursing in technical terms on an abstract science and never once indicated that he experi- enced any moral or emotional reac- ton as he passed in review the facts of his personal history. While his ! own story made the stories told about i him sound insignificant, his autobiog- raphal relation was borne out in many details by the evidence of his rather, his two brothers and other acuuaint- ances, who had said that his infancy had been in keeping with his adult life in that he had delighted in tor