New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-01
Bored, He Remarks There
Is No Chance - Not
Afraid of Chair"
GERM MENAGERIE
TAKEN FROM HOME
Enough Bacilli Captured to Wipe
Out City-Broken Mother
Sees Son.

Arthur Warren Waite earned yes
terdsv that he had been indicted for
murder He received the news with
the same cold blooded, Indifferent air
that was his while he killed his wife's
parents The young surgeon dentist
rolled over on he cot in the alcoholic
ward Of Bellevue with an air OF sbso-
lutte boredom when his attorney, Wal
ter +. deuel.. informed him, late yes
terdsy afternoon. that the grand jury
IN the morning had charged him with
poisoning John +. Peck, his father
inlsw.
His unshaven face. darkened by
siubble which is rapidly becoming a
beard. wore an almost disdainful look.
as the lawyer paused after breaking
the news.
Just As ! Expected
Just as I expected" he said almost
carelessly.
To whatever words Of comfort Mr..
deuel. ventured to offer him he replied;
"Oh, you know am as sane as you
are. There is no chance Of that ar
gument being accepted. I'm not afraid
Of the electric chair" Then he turned
his head away.
Yesterday morning. the grand jury
I returned the indictment charging
+ Waite guilty of murder on two counts.
/ Judge Mott received it in General Ses-
sions II is now the intention Of the
state to arraign the prisoner before
Judge Grain on Monday morning.
/ After his arraignment Yates at
torney will move that ne be recon-
lnitted to Bellevue, instead Of the
the prisoners family will be able 10 in
vestigate his mental condition thor
oughly. DR.. Morris J. Karpas, will be
in charge Of the testing of Yates
mind. lie will be aided by two assist
ant alienists. not yet named. The en-
tire procedure. Mr.. deuel. says, will re-
quire six weeks.
Late yesterday afternoon. after the
prisoner had been informed Of his in
dctment, his two brothers, Frank and
Clyde, and his parents. ;ir. and Mrs.
Warren ". Waite, visited him at the
hospital.
The mother, old and portly, with a
] f,,f ral
the limousine BY her husband. She
walked feebly. supported on the other
side BY Frank When she came out
Of the room where her son was held
her bent shoulders were shaking with
sobs and tears were streaming down
her face.
Again the men returned 10 the ward,
and the old woman remained in the ma
chine. Mr.. Deuel. then informed her
that her son had been indicted.
MY boy. my boy!"
That was all she replied. In few
minutes her husband joined her and
they drove away. This was her second
visit 20 her son. She is old and weak
and sorrow has broken her.
Each Of the indictments two counts
charges murder in the first degree. The
first accuses Waite OF having killed
Mr. Peck with arsenic. The second al
leres murder Of the old man with a
poison 20 the grand jury unknown
Yates Germs Captured.
Dwellers in the Colosseum apart
ments, az 10th street and Riverside
Drive. are now breathing with fewer
hygienic scruples. for Ray c. Schind-
Ter. n priavte detective, removed from
Waites apartment yesterday a whole
menagerie Of disease germs, totslllng
among them sufficient evil 20 have in
! fected all Of New York City.
SCHNEIDER fearlessly bearded the
bacillus in his lair and emerged, after
T. long hunt, with $50 microscope
slides, on which bits Of germ culture
| had been spread, and one hundred test
tubes Of the cultures themselves.
The bacterial zoo was carried 20 the
detectives Office. For all he knows,
/ however, il may be a germ graveyard
I By now No one was certain whether
the bacilli were alive or dead, and no
one tried 10 find out. Not even Mr.
+ SCHNEIDER cared to start anything with
! them. He was content 20 let sleeping
/ germs lie.
Besides the old standbys Of illness
+ tuberculosis. diphtheria, typhoid, teta-
nus. influenza, pneumonia and typhus
the amateur poisoner possessed such
exotic bacilli as As'atic cholera and
anthrax.