Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-05-21
-FOUR MEN
SECURED FOR
ORPET JURY
Judge Hopes Love Letters Will
Not Be Read in
Court.
- ,,Sg
UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
FIANCEE TO TESTIFY
Prosecutor Says She Will Prove
That Miss Lambert Was
Murdered.

Murdered.
Waukegon, Ill, May 2O-Four men
were sworn into the jury today In
the case of Will H. Orpet, Univer-
sity of Wisconsin student, charged
with the murder of his former sweet
heart, Marion Lambert.
They we're CLEANED from 400 ven
iremen, examined since the trial be-
gan before Judge Donnelly last Mon
day. Each OF the jurors is married,
and has children. Their names and
occupations are: Lem Barthell, ice
man; Fl. F. King, clerk; G. A. Thomp-
son. farmer, and E.. w. Willoughby,
farmer. Another week, it was pre-
dicted, would see the jury box filled.
Thompson, 56 years old, is the ia
ther of five boys and three girls.
King, 21 years old, is the father Of
baby girl. ,Willoughby has two girls
and boy. Barthell is the father of
twins, and a sixteen year old daugh-
ter, Martha, who drove in from the
farm today, in the family blackboard
ito fetch Pa home" she explained.
When she discovered that he had
been sworn in, she expressed the opin-
ion that "Pa will be hero back at
Antioch, but he ought to be home, be-
cause Mas sick and I've got to do
all the work.
TO Call Celeste
j Celeste Youker, of DeKalb, to whom
Orpet is engaged to be married, will
be called as witness by the state.
it was said.
"She will help to prove that Orpet
killed Miss Lambert" said States At
torney .Dady,
"she may be 4 witness. but she Il
do nothing Of the sort" said Miss
Youker's mother
Celeste to testify against me"
exclaimed Orpet, "that's all wrong. !"
Judge ponnelly said he was sorry
MISS Yopker had to be called. f"
II also WISH" said the judge: that
her lettersatos Mr. Orpet and his to
her could, be akept out of the case. !
vedraado them and they do not be-
long ;td this case. They are the let
ters Of a'pure hearted woman to the
man she loved"
Miss Youker Sees Orpet
Miss Celeste Y0uker of haywood
will marry Will Orpet, if he is ac-
quilted of the murder of Marion Lam
bert at his trial in Waukegon,
The University Of Wisconsin unde--
graduate has had this assurance from
the lips of the young woman for
whose love he cast aside the pretty
Lake Forest high school girl, who
died from poison in Helms Woods
last February.
Once during the trial yesterday
young Orpst. as he sat between his,
father and mother. at his lawyers ta-
BILE, drew from his, pocket a Letters
written in feminine hand on mono
grained, blue stationery.
The letter was from Miss Youker.
One is delivered at the Jail every
morning. Orpet watches for them
eagerly. If they fail to arrive by the
first post, he is restless and morose
until the afternoon mail brings the
coveted epistle.
Kept Secret
Miss YoukerSs visit to her sweet
heart had been kept secret. 1t oc-
Cured Tuesday evening, but the news
of it did not leak out until three days
later. The pretty young woman, who
formerly taught chemistry in the high
school at DeKalb, arrived at the Wau.
kegon Jail with her brother, claude
Youker, of Lake Bluff, and his wife,
formerly miss Marguerite Mason, and
Charles Orpet of Winnetka, Will Or.
pets elder brother.
Miss Youker was permitted to see
the prisoner alone. Sheriff Griffin
escorted the young woman to the floor
on which Orpet is imprisoned. She
slipped quickly to the bars that shut
off the row of cells and stood waiting
in silence in the dim light OF an elec.
trio globe.
The sheriff called Orpet. The youth
was smoking pipe over q maya
zine story in a corner. He laid aside
the book with smothered yawn and
lounged forward to see what was
wanted. His eyes fell suddenly upon
the silent figure standing in the cor
ridor. He had not seen Miss Youker
since last Christmas. when she visited
his home in Lake Forest, and he ran
down from the university for the
holidays. He recognized her instant
" even in the half light.
Believes Him innocent
Celeste" he cried, rushing toward
her with open arms.
e'Will!"
Despite the iron bars that held
them apart. they kissed each other
and broke into ecstatic incoherencies
and laughed as happily as II no trag-
CONTINUED on Page SevsAl