New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-24

form in Mr.. Pcck's brain. DR.. Schultz,
on oss-cNamination. would not ADMIT
| that the chloroform in any way coulh
have caused Mr.. Pcck's death, a posi-
biity that MIR. Deuel. seemed ANXIOUS
to bring out. -,
Joseph Sprattlcr. the Grand Rapids
undertaken who had Pccks BODY III
charge. testified that DR.. Waite had
/ exhibited an uncanny prescience IN
forctclling his father-in-law's death.
After the funeral Of Mrs Peck 10
whose murder the dentist also has CON
tossed. Sprattler said he went through
the formality Of wishing DR.. waite a
nleasanter Journey back than he had
had on his way to Grand Rapids with
the body. 800, 81. NJ
Waite" Sprattler testified. mere II
be another one in the next threc
months.
81 asked him what he meant ana nc
said that Mr.. Peck hadn't been wen anu
was likely to drop of any time. Al.
Waite's purchase of 20 cents worth
~ s~senic "to kill a sick cat" was es-
tablished in the testimony OF Ut ~
W Muller. of 10 East Fifty-eightn
Street. TO whom he first appealed, ana
that of Richard II. Zimmerman tne
druggist who made the sale. ROBERT -
Scbnobel. clerk in Zimmerman store
: Of Sixtv.ffth Street and Lexington Ave
nue., also testified. I'LL.
DR.. Jacob f. Cornell, of Somervlll,e'
Y J.. a lifelong friend OF MT. IScS'
and Arthur c. Swinton, his nephew l To-
Owed each other on the STAND. n
Cornell testified that, on vlsit 20 tnS
Waite epartment, he heard Mr.. fech
c,,oan moment after his son-in-law
RAD entered the room where ne lay;
/ Ue also asserted that DR.. waite hau
annearod nettled at sight of him when'
learning of his old friends death' ne
buried 70 ,xtcnd his sympathies to the
daughter.
Woman Friend Called Nurse
Mr.. Swinton. an insurance man. told
Of meeting DR.. Waite with woman IN
the Hotel Plaza restaurant.
"NIv mother and sister and ] were
having luncheon" he testified, when
Dr. Waite entered. There was a woman
with him. knew it wasn't Clara.
They came toward us until We were
recognized by DR.. Waite. He nodded
TO me. then called the head waiter, VINO
led him to table as far away from US
as the size of the room permitted Later
he came TO me and said his companion
was his private nurse. He explained
he had lust performed delicate opera
ton in Bellevue and had stopped for
luncheon on the way TO n sanatorium'
where another operative case was wait
ing
Mr. Brothers. when the witness as
eured him he would recognize the wom-
an. called upon Mrs. Margaret Horton
20 rise. But she had slipped out OF the
courtroom.
John Cunnife. the detective who
gathered most of the evidence against
DR.. Waite. described several converse.
tions with the defendant. In one OF
them he quoted Waite as saying, IN the
Tombs that he found himself where "a
man who had made mistake could
think things over"
To-day, 10 quote Assistant District
Attorney Mancuso. will be ladies
dav." Among those who will TESTIFY
ere Mrs. Horton. Mrs. Clara PECK tne
dentists divorced wife; Miss Katherine
Peck. her aunt; ak Adams the mys-
FERROUS woman whose telegram sug-
resting an autopsy led to Yates un-
doing. and Dora Hitler, the maid VINO
saws she saw the dentist mixing medl-
cine" for his dying father-in-law.
The identity Of AK Adams" has been
so closely guarded that the disclosure
of her identity is looked forward to as
the sensation Of the day, regardless OF
what else may transpire.