Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-13
Wisconsin Junior Admits He
Saw His Sweetheart
Take Poison.
TELLS OF HER GRIEF
WHEN HE TILTED HER
W. H. 0rpet Confesses, Chicago Of.
ficials Say. He Met Marion
Lambert in Woods.

CHICAGO. February 1..-william Fl.
who is said to have left Marion Fran
ces Lambert. whom he had Tilted. to
die of poison in Helms woods at Lake
Forest, suburb. was charged with
murder today and held in the wau-
kegan Jail without bail.
Orpet. who is twenty years old. is
said by Ralph J. DAILY, states attorney
at Waukegan, to have admitted to him
that he had been intimate with the
girl. who was but eighteen years old.
He is said to have stated further that
Miss Lambert had feared for four
months that she was to become a
mother. despite drugs which orpet
purchased for her. and which made
her ill.
Orpet, 1t is charged. made a secret
trip from Madison to Lake Forest last
Tuesday night. 1t is said he called the
girl on the telephone and made an APP
pointment, which was kept in the
woods next morning At this inter-
view Orpet said that he told her he
was to marry a Miss Celestia Youker.
1t is said that she then took a quick
acting poison and that Orpet saw her
caught a train back to Madison. The
next day, Thursday. the body was
found.
Tried to Arrange Alibi.
Before leaving Madison orpet is said
to have tried to arrange an alibi He
wrote letter to Miss Lambert and
left it in the hands of friend to be
mailed Wednesday afternoon. At that
time he was on his way back to the
university. He had left his room at a
boarding house in a condition to sug
gest that he had occupied it Tuesday
night.
Miss Youker is said to be an in
structor in chemistry at normal COL
lege at De Kalb. Ill. 1t is said she was
a schoolmate Of Orpets at Lake Forest
prisoner is an athletic-looking young
man, dressed in regulation college garb.
To reporter he said:
Net Her by Appointment.
Il met her by appointment in the
woods. 1 told her not to tell any one
I was coming. / mussed up my bed in
the boarding house at Madison so my
landlady would think 1 had been there.
l arrived at Lake Forest late Tuesday
night. / called her by telephone at her
home. / told her I would be waiting
the next morning at the Sacred Heart
station of the Chicago and Milwaukee
electric line. saw her when she passed
toward the station with her chum, 10
sephine Davis. I was hiding behind a
tree and beckoned to her. Soon she came
back.
I'VE started walking. I told her I
was through with her. She cried and
begged me not to give her up. We
walked and talked in the woods about
two hours.
Finally. told her there was no use
IonRer-thaf I q
up my mind i was going to marry
Miss Celestia Youker. 1 started away.
II heard her CRY out for me to come
back. l kept on walking.
II was quite a distance away when
1 turned again. ] saw her fall to the
ground. l ran back. I saw she was
dying.
Stayed and Saw Her Die.
II remained with her until I was
sure she was dead. Then / hurried to
the station and took an electric car
and came to Chicago. I caught a train
right out for Madison. Then | sent a
letter to her. I didn't tell any one
about what had happened, because
feared it might reflect on her good
name"
Q. f. Orpet father of the prisoner
and superintendent of the Cyrus Nc
Cormick estate at Lake Forest retain
ed James H. Wilkerson. former United
States district attorney here, to defend
his son.
States Attorney Dady at waukegan
said tonight:
I'VE had to- charge orpet with muir
der because 1T was the only way we
could hold him. He is the man who
was with the girl but there are other
things to be cleared up. We haven't
found where the poison came from.
we have not fathomed why Orpet was
so careful to frame an alibi; we can't
was kept"
Miss Youkers home was called over
the long-distance telephone tonight.
she was too ill to answer the teie
phone. 1t was learned that Miss Youker
became ill last Sunday.