The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-03-24
Maid Says She Saw Him
Dose Soup for Father
in-law.
TOLD OF CHARGE on
REGAINING SENSES

Dr Arthur Warren Waite was
prisoner In his own apartment NJ 43j
Riverside Drive last night, charged
with the murder by poison OF his
father-in-iaw and mother-in-law. Mr..
and Mrs. John T.. Peck of Grand Rapids.
Mich.
He will be arraigned In the Tonbs
police court this afternoon. Yesterday
he law in bed stupe;ied from heavy doses
OF trional. sulphonal and veronal sodium.
powerful sedatives wh.ch he had taken
In an intense craving for the sleep his
nerves had denied him.
While he lay in coma under the care
Of his physician and trained nurse
the Grand Jury was hearing evidence
to determine whether or not there were
grounds for lndcting him for admins-
tering arsenic To Mrs. Peck. who died
in his apartmen, ON January -. and 10
Mr.. Peck. vino died there Oh March IL.
Dr.. Wait. rcgaincd consciousn"ss
about 3 o'clork last night after his stom-
ach had been pumped out by physicians.
Then he received some inkling OF the
charge that would h" mad" against hlW'
He was Informed that 10 charg" %! at
tempted suicide would he preferred.
81 wish TO inform YOU. said De-
tectiye Cunliffe. that you must expect
police action We do not wish NJ ms
time, however. TO take any uhiaiT an'
vantage of you"
DR. Waite made 40 answer. tie
seemed dazed and his mind wandered.
He asked for his wife again and again.
Dete,tiye Cunliff. left the bedsid. AZ
II:@5. IL. said that DIR. waite un-
loubtedly would recover and that he
probably would be in such condition that
bv noon to-day he could be removed
from his apartment and locked up
Dr. Walte's parents will arrive III
New York at o'clock Tonight from
Grand Rapids.
the Grand Jury Yesterday by Assistant
District Attorrey Emnre" gave testi-
mony which was u rcp"tition az the
Information they had placed before
District Attorney Swami some houiS
earlier-stories circunistautHi'Y "ccIs-
ing pr Waite. Uhi"h iinp.ll'd iuuer
Swami yesterday morning I" "rder me
Young dentists arrest Oh the charse OF
murder. ,,,,,.
and pr Jacob Cornell of Raritan. ". j..
who. with his two sisters. Mrs. NJ. d.
Svinton and Mrs. Henry Hardwick. was
!, second cousin of Mrs. .iohu II. Pc'R
ana himself "A lifelong friend OF the
elderly couple
Dr. waite <ursrd Patient.
In her statement mad" 80 pistrict
,,,ntu,, swami and Assistant b'htr.ct
Attorney Embr-e Dora HITLER sald she
tncv little about the circumstances
of Mrs. Peck's Illness and death be-
cause she was seldom in Mrs. Peck's
slck room and that the care or MIS-
p.ck had been undertaken by ''r Waite.
~ vj,e. Mrs, Clara Louise Peck waite.
ard Mrs. L,Uch, a trained nurse. me
maid was unable to say wh"ther there
u,as ANYTHING suspicious about the Vlo-
,.r, illness which ended Mrs fecks
life. -, NJ, pacL
sho WAS able TO testify cNpl.V'iN' H"""'
,,', day before Mr., Peck died 'she was
,,ra,,I,' tn recall the exact hours OF the
nccurrcpces) she was In the ktchen OF
,ha waite apartment preparing soup
for the family---the doctor ana ms ware
aud the ailing father-in-law As she
,e,novcd the soup from the range i'r
wa;,c entered the kitchen and poured
fsw drops of liquid from "A small bot'le
;n,o one of .he plates OF soup.
"Dr. Waite put something in the plate
n, .oup," the maid told Judge swami,
"a then said to me, Dora. here Is
.nn,e medicine for father. You taste
il and see II 1t isn't too not You
know his mouth is sore
~ tasted the SOUP" continued me
maid. "and found that II was cooling
ali right. I didn't taste anytnihg uh.
nieasant, II seemed all right. ! Just
touched = teaspoonful 10 my lips, Then
! carried Mr.. Peck's plate into the dining
room and set II before him. ! noticed
that ne tried II and then made face
didn't like II for some reason, He
looked up at his daughter Mrs, Waite.
and said kind OF peevishly. Clara. you're
q poor. housekeeper Il that's the best