The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-29
STILL ON STAND
Orpet UndergOes Another Days
Cross Examination.
He Admits Entering College
Under False Address.
KNEW MARION WAS DEAD
Saws He Remained Near Her
Body About Three Minutes.
Went to Picture Show After
Helms Woods Tragedy.

vraukeran. June 29.--Wiiliam H.
80 whose cross examination was
resnmed by state Attorney David X
AVN TODAY. admitted that he regis
- at the University of Wisconsin
-, Sank CITY. Wis. in order to avoid
--an--ssidant dues of S1S' a year.
,.nfcl, he considered excessive
Mr.. Joslyn's manner IT seehille ~
$50 the witness into COMMISSIONS
-, v,-o,,ld support the charge that
he murdered Marion LAMBERT We
,ts+ Of a benevolent pedagogue- ne
ss1,e5 him sir and was very ready
30 accuse himself of STUPIDITY VIII
Oroet did not comprehend queseioii'
-. attorney nisinterprcted an an
49, AR Joslvn was curious to know
,,.,cther the defendant talked with r.
f-ariin. ar investigator employed py
str defc.,se. or with his lawyers aiter
court last night ~,
- talked with Mr.. Potter saiu VI
About the aIibi letter you wrote TO
your mother
Witness Confused.
This rnIssive brought some fore
fusion on the witness shoruy 1,,;r,e
s.,,,rt adjourned yesterday Replyiih ~
,.,esrilv 10 a fusillade of questions ne
,esfified that he wrote one letter -
NJ mother. and then tore II Up -
s-s,,se he omitted the remark INA ~
.,-a,,ld not visit his home at Lake VI
~, T-ohrrarv g. He said he wrote
..,eo1d one supplying this onlsSlo ~
sr5Is letter was read to the Jul
orpet's hearing a few days as", 70
:. lid nothing of not NisltihS 80
4,orest Orpets previous testiill ION,
ores. 80 The effect that his par
- ri no reason to expect WISH
at that time madison to Lake
In his trip from Maalsom n ~ trains
Forest. Orpet stopped betWeen sserted
- Nfilvvaukee Mr.. Joslyn as "7-i1r,a
- Crnet upon arrival at Mllwaun In;
lid have taken another tram 70 10
s-o within ten minutes Orpst We
- HE 10 answer just now lols rs
in Milwaukee. - ,,bat Won were
- - 90 at Lake Forest bring sucn
: 90 on your brain that you cat -,
r,her nothing of your trip ilo o.
.fsSfsor to Lake Forest asheu '"N
lawyer. .,,taf Of counsel
-. ~ defense objected to the arSa-
..sa,,tati,e form of this and other SIM
- ,,,es+ions. but Judge Dohnely
,,,-err,iled him. Witness repneu INC :
here was nothing about the trip ltse'i
to impress its details upon ms niihiu
Went to Movie Afterwards
a typical bit of cross examlna .
took place concerning Orpets return
st.5ison at S D. M, February 3,
10 AlaQlSDA NJ ~ a
after leaving Marion dead IN the
~Ycu went to a movie with Otto
Peterson"
Yes -,
what time did you go to bed
Il don't know"
sleep soundly?
Il don't know
IBID YOU get up early to get the
newspapers to see if Maron had hved
or died -
40
WHY were not you anxious to learn
whether she lived or died.?
we did not get the papers at
houSe-'
The purpose of this line of irterro-
-saffon beca me apparent a little later
when Mr.. Joslyn asked:
You testified that you lowered over
AIarion's body thirty seconds or
minute. How did you know that she
vas dead unless you had given her
cyanide of potassium
I said that ] was at her body prob
ABLY less than three minutes" coun-
tered the witness. she lay on the
ground and she looked dead"
Thought She Was Dcnd.
Did YOU as a matter of tact know
thar she was dead until you read the
PAPERS at Madison -
Il thought I did. The newspap ers