Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-25
Sends Word by His Parents
She Believes Him GuiItless
of Staying Her Father.
DENTIST, CLOSE-GUARDED,
HAS A RESTLESS NIGHT
Detective Says Alleged Murderer Of
J.E. Peck Asked Him to Attempt
to Bribe Negro Maid.

NEW YORK. March 25,-Still
suffering from the effects of the
narcotic drugs he began to take
when his troubles overwhelmed
him. DR.. Arthur Warren Waite
spent a restless night under close
guard in the prison ward at Belle
vue Hospital. BY Monday the
district attorney expects to re-
ceive from the grand jury an IN
dictmcnt charging the young den
tist with first degree murder IN
administering the arsenic winch
caused the death OF his father-ln-
law. John F.. Peck, the Grand
Rapids millionaire.
| Waite was cheered today by see
| ing his father and mother, Mr-
aud Mrs Warren W. Waite. who
came here last night from their home
in Grand Rapids. Waite's father was
not permitted to see him when ne
called at the hospital late last night.
"Our son never committed this awful
crime of which they charge him." said
Mr.. Waite. Give him a chance and
we feel certain it will be cleared up.
Wife Has Faith in Accused Man.
Mr.. Waite added that he brought
message to the accused man from his
wife. who is i'll at the Peck home in
Grand Rapids. Mr. Waite said his
daughter-in-law had called him to
her home before he started for New
York and told him to tell her husband
she wanted to come to New ork ana
comfort him and that she did not be
leye a word of all that had been said
about him.
Tell him / have heard what they say
about him and another woman Mr.
Waite quoted the young wife as say
ing. 1T makes absolutely no differ
ence to me. And even If it were true
about that other MomAa- tell MIN that
forgive
Detectives today said they had found
and identified the woman with whom
DR.. Arthur Warren Waite had regis
tered at a hotel here as "Mr. and Mrs
A. W. Walters She was described as
formerly a singer in public and now
the wife of an inventor and electrical
engineer. She said DR.. Waite had fitted
up studio in the hotel, SO that they
could study music and languages there
together DR.. Waite she said. had often
expressed to her his great affection for
his fatherin- law. John f. Peck, of
/ whose murder he is accused.
DR.. Waite's admission to the district
| attorney yesterday that he had handed
to Mr. Peck package of arsenic and
| the young dentists assertion that Peck
wanted it to commit suicide because of
| his Wife's death does not alter the in
| tentiOn of the prosecutor to continue
| his investigation.
| Physicians who conducted the autop-
| sy on Mr.. Peck's body in Grand Rapids
are expected here Monday to complete
| the evidence to be submitted to the
| grand jury.
| Attempt to Bribe Maid Reported.
| statement made to Mr.. Swami by Ray
| mpnd SCHNEIDER, a private detective
| that Dr. Waite had asked him .to at
! tempt to bribe Waite's negro maid,
| Dora Hitler, to corroborate the dem
| lists story that he bought the poison
| believed to have caused the million
aires death at the request of Peck
who was despondent and wished to
| commit suicide.
! IF she will say in court that she
| heard Mr.. Peck ask me to buy the ar
senic." SCHNEIDER told the district at
| torney Waite said. and that she saw
| me give him the package unopened, /
| viii give her a check for $1,000
| Dr. Waite. according to the detective
| thereupon signed what purported to be
| a check for $1,000 to the order of the
| girl written by SCHNEIDER on sheet
| from his notebook. This check" now
| SCHNEIDER said Waite did not know he
| was detective.
| When first questioned by Mr.. Swami
| on Tuesday, Waite is said to have
laughed heartily and declared, ''Why,
| this is rich | never purchased arsenic
in my life and have never had any"
Da. Waite's Statement.
| Dr. Waites statement as repeated by
Assistant District Attorney Brothers
was substantially as follows: 1t is
true ! put something into Mr.. Peck s
soup, but it was medicine. 1 was ad-
| vised to do this by DR.. Moore. The
| medicine was on a prescription by DR..
! Moore and contained a quantity of
quinine. Mr.. Peck refused to take it
because II tasted bitter. | told this
to DR.. Moore and he suggested that l
put the medicine in his soup so that
| he would not know that he was TAX
| ing it.
volving me in Mr.. Peck's death is what
have read in the papers"
/