Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-05-25
WAITE PAYS PRICE
 IN ELECTRIC CHAIR
 FOR CRUEL MURDER
New York Dentist Sends no Farewell Message, Not
 Even to His Mother.

Ossinning, N. Y. May 24.-Dr. Ar tielock tonight for the murder of his father-in-law, JohE E. Peck.
 The young dentist walked calmly and with a firm step to the death chamber, accompanied by Rev. A. N. Peterson, protestant chaplain of the prison. He fatered as he ncared the chair, but recovered quickly and nod ded to the physicians and other wit nesses. He submitted quietly to th1 strapping and went to dis death with out a word of protest or goodbye. Three shocks were administered within four minutes
 For two hours before his death Waite was with his spiritual adviser. Asked if he wished tO send a mes sage of farewell to any one,
 "No, thank you, Doctor. There is no one l know to whom l care to ,\send farewell message" replied Waite.
 Not even to your mother?" asked Dr. Peterson.
 '4No, sir; no one," was the answer. The chaplain said Waite who con fessed he had poisoned his father in-law in the expectation that his wife would share in the estate, seem- ed to look upon his approaching death as an adventure. He told his brother, Frank Waite, farewell at 6 o'clock, after the two lad spent sey- eral hours together.
 "Well, good bye, Frank" was h.s last word to his brother.
 Tears flooded the Lrothers eyes, but Waite's eyes were dry and there was a smile on his lips. Frank Waite refused to say where the body would be buried.
 The prison physician examined Waite in the afternoon and was as- tonished to find his temperature and pulse exactly normal, the most re- markable instance of nerve" he had ever seen in condemned man, and he has examined more than 40 on the day before they went to the electrl: chair.
 Convicted Last June. | A. w. Waite, dentist and tennis play CT of repute, was convicted on June 1, 1916, of poisoning his wealthy father-in-law, John E. Peck of Grand Rapids, Mich, at the swiftest trial of of a sensational murder case in this country in years. The crime is best explained in the words of the dis trict attorney, Edward Swann, who told the jury: "The cause of this deed was solely the desire for money. There were no angry passions involved, nc sex relation, no envy, hatred or mal- ice; nothing but the purpose of ob. taining easy money" The murder was exposed thru a mysterious telegram signed TX. Ad- ans" sent to Percy Peck at Grand Rapids, brother of Dr. Waite's wife suggesting an autopsy and reading suspicious aroused-demand autop- sy." The authorities took up the case and an autopsy showed MT. Peck mad died from arsenic poisoning.
 Dr. Waite confessed to the district attorney that he had bought arsenic three days before the death of his father-in-law on March 12, but said ht had done so on request of the elderly man who told him he wished to com init suicide as he was Respondent ove1 the death of his wife, who died on Jan uary 30, twenty days after she had ar } rived at Dr. Waite's home here. Tt } bear out this statement Dr. Wait. tried to bribe former negro servan ito testify that she knew of Mir. Peck desire to commit suicide.
 As the evidence against him began ; to accumulate Dr. Waite made an un , successful attempt to kill himself b. taking an overdose of drugs. Fo several days he lay in stupor hover i ling between life and death.
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