New Britain herald., 1916-03-23
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 DETECTIVES ARRIVE WITH MURDER WRIT
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 who prepared the body for burial says there was no arsenic in the embalm- ing fluid The body of Mrs. Peck could not be examined because it had been cremated.
 Wife's Death Is Similar.
 Suspicion that led to the investiga- ton into Mr. Pecks death was part ly due to the death of nis wife, Han nah M. Peck, sixty-sx years old, who died at the Waite apartments on January 30 last under circumstances which District Attorney Swann finds were similar. According to informa- ton which has come to the prosecu- tor, pr. Waite accompanied the body of Mrs. Peck to Grand Rapids. After the funeral it was taken to Detroit and cremated.
 Mother, on Visit, Dies
 Dr. Waite, after his marriage to Clara Peck in Grand Rapids last Sep tember, came to New York and about January 1, they went to live in the Co., hseum apartments, 435 Riverside Drive, according to the district attor- ney's information. At Christmas time Mrs. Waite went to her parents home in Grand Rapids and returned with Mrs. Peck. The mother became ill soon after and was attended, accord ing to the prosecutors information, by Mrs. Lynch, a trained nurse rec commended by a physician When the nurse left the patient on the night of January 29, it is said, she had im- proved somewhat, but still showed symptoms of vomiting. The next day she became much worse and died. The death certificate was signed by pr. William H. Porter, of 46 West Forty third street MT. Peck came to New York to visit his daughter and son-in-law in Feb ruary. He appeared to be in good | health until March II, when Dr. AL | bertus A. Moore, of 121 Madison Ave- nue. was called in by Mrs. Waite.
 In statement made last night to 1 District Attorney Swann, it is said. by 1 Dr. Moore that he had treated MT. Peck about year ago for cardiac trouble. When summoned to the Waite apartments on March II. he found that the cardias trouble had dis appeared and that MT. Peck was suf- fer1ng from a bowel complaint. Dr. Moore left a prescription calling for a harmless soothing remedy Dr. Moore
 
 was administered
 T was shocked when I heard the next day of his death," said Dr. Moore in his statement. Dr. Moore said he d1a not believe that the medicine he prescribed would have caused the pa- tent to Vom1t, as he is said to have l done by pr. Jacob Cornell, of Raritan. N. J., who says he was a cousin of Mrs. Peck.
 Pecl<'s Death Unexpected.
 Over the telephone last evening Mrs ( Cornell told District Attorney Swann ( that her husband had called at the Waite apartments the night before MT. Peck died. She said MT. Peck seemed to be resting easily early in the evening.
 The prosecutor was unwilling last | night to go into details regarding the manner in which he had been cs,ilet into the investigation by the authori- Hes' of Grand Rapids, where the first autopsy was held. He admitted, how ever, that an anonymous telegram sent rom some station in Manhattan to Percy Peck caused the young man to begin an investigation that ended in m official inquiry. This telegram is re- garded as valuable document and efforts are being made to obtain the Drlglnal from which it is believed that 1 t snay be possible to find the sender. It bore only an initial signature and it $ not known at present whether the writer was man or a woman
 It is believed however that District Attorney Swann is proceeding on the theory that the person who sent it WAS ! woman. The telegram was received In Brand Rapids a few days after tic funeral.