Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-23
Poison Administered by DR..
Waite to Peck Proved
Too Slow. ...
STATE CLAIMS TO
HAVE EVIDENCE
Prosecutor Says II. Will Be Shown
!, That Waite Hastsned Father-in.
Laws DeathARapid Progress Being
Made in Presentation Of States Case
Defendant Pale and Nervous
Wife Not Present.

New York, May 23.-The state con-
tinued to pile up medical testimony as
the foundation of it's case against DR..
Arthur Warren Waite, charged with
the murder of his father law, John
e. Peck. n .a T., .~t
DR.. Albertus A. Moore. the physician
who attended Mr. Peck before, his
death. testified that DR.. Waite admit
ted he had purchased arsenic for his
aged father in law. The reason he
gave, according to the witness, was
that the old gentleman did not want
to live" -. .-
District Attorney Swan in HIS OPEN
Ing address,, claimed that Waite has
tened his victims last moments by ap
plying to bis Hostrils a handkerchief
soaked with chloroform.
DR.. Victor C.. Vaughn, dean Of the
medical department of the University
of Michigan, at Ann Arbor. who made
an analysis of the organs of Mr.. Peck,
was the first witness today.
- Waite 10 Nervous.
He described in detail the effects Of
the arsenic Waite sat with bowed
head. His paleness betrayed his ner-
vous tension when glass jars contain =
ing the organs of John E. Peck's body
were produced.
DR.. Vaughn swore he found two and
"a half grains of arsenic in Mr.. Peck's
stomach and amounts of it too small to
weigh in other organs.
Br. Stanley r. Benedict, professor Of
chemistry at the Cornell medical school.
who was next called, corroborated the
testimonysof DR.. Vaughn. E,-g ;&&
Evidence Of Chloroform.
4, DR.. Benedict added that In examining
part Of the brain of the dead man he
found an unmistakable trace OF ctloro-
form. Later he examined the embalm-
ing fluid used but found no trace OF
chloroform. \. IF -; &. sysss
Mrs. Waite, wife of the accused, was
not in the court room at the opening,
but was expected to be called soon to
testify against her husband -
Mrs. Dorothy Van sPalmenberg,
friend of Mrs. Margaret Horton, with
whom Waite shared studio, arrived
early. She was expected to testify for
the state. =. E3E%S ~
Long in Fear Of Arrest
Testimony of DR.. Albertus Adair
Moore, the physician who attended
John F.. Peck, indicated that DR.. Waite
feared some time before his arrest that
he might be accused of causing the
death Of his father law.
DR.. Moore said that when Dr.
Waite returned to New York from
Grand Rapids after Mr.. Peck's flu
neral the dentist telephoned to him. He
said DR.. Waite asked:
do you suppose, doctor, they could
hold me for Mr.. Peck's death because
failed to have a nurse for the old
gentleman"
Waite, the witness also declared, ad-
mitted to, him he had purchased ar
senic for fhiss72year-old father in law
because the old gentleman didn't
want to i've"
Told Waite "It Looked Ugly"
On March % Waite met him by ap-
pointment Dr. Moore said.
HE said to me-" asserted DIR.
Moore, that he supposed I had seen
by the newspapers that he was sus-
pected Of the murder. I told him I
had. and added that 1t looked ugly.
"He wanted to know If I>could offer
any suggestion to him. said he
ought to demand an autopsy.
well he replied, I would, but I
don't thing Clara (Mrs. Waite) would
allow it," = Itfs. -'