The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-30

Gated, personable, a coming man.
He married we'll, uniting with Miss
Clara Peck, beautiful daughter of
j. E. Peck, a millionaire drug man
ufacturer. Everything looked rosy
for the rising young dentist.
Autopsy Demanded
The brides parents came to visit
the young couple in New York. But
soon Mrs. Peck died, apparently of
Bright's disease. DR.. Waite duti-
fully accompanied the body back
to Grand Rapids and arranged the
funeral. Six weeks later, Mr.. Peck
died, too. Again DR.. Waite went to
Grand Rapids, and suggested Gre
nation. But a mysterious warning
to a member Of the family suggested
that an autopsy be performed. 1t
said, suspicion aroused. Demand
autopsy. Do not reveal telegram"
1t was signed K. Adams.
And K. Adams happened to be the
name of a woman murdered by
poison in a famous case years be-
fore. Somebody remembered that.
So an autopsy was performed. and
arsenic found in the stomach of the
dead man. DR. Waite was arrested,
and In court under oath he told
revolving story of administering both
poisons and disease germs to his
parents-in-laW in such a way as to
make their deaths appear natural.
1t was their 100000, to which
his wife would have been heir, that
Waite wanted.
Another Woman in Case
He had planned further to muir
der his wife in the same way later.
and, as heir to the Peck fortune, to
lavish still more jewels and money
on another woman.
His medical knowledge, abused in
so dreadful a fashion, could not
save him from death in the electric
chair at Sing Sing.
Perhaps the arch medical muir
derer of all time was DR.. Hawley
Harvey Crippen. He was an Amer
lean physician who married Belle
Elmore, an actress. They went to
London to live at Hilldrop Crescent,
North London.
Crippen was At, short, and by no
means good looking. But he soon
tired of Belle, and won the affec-
lions of a young typist, Ethel LIE
Neve.
One day DR.. Crippen announced
to Miss LIE Neve and others that his
wife had gone back to California. So
Miss La Neve moved into the house
at Hilldrop Crescent as housekeeper.
Friends of Belle Elmore were dis
turbed, because they could not get
in touch with her in California, and
were suspicious of DR.. Crippen's
evasive answers to their queries.
They called in Scotland Yard.
Body in Cellar
But meanwhile DR.. Crippen
vanished, before the cellar at
Hilldrop Crescent yielded up the
fragments Of a body that had been
that Of Belle Elmore.
Detectives, amateur and profess
sional, swarmed over England look
ing for DR.. Crippen. But the first
tip" came from far out in the At
lantic, from the captain of the
MontroSe. He had become suspicious
of man and his son who boarded
the steamer at Antwerp.
BY wireless the Identification of
DR.. Crippen was made, and the
son" was shown to be Ethel LIE
Neve in boys clothing!
Inspector Dew of Scotland Yard
boarded the Laurentie, faster ship
than the MontroSe, and caught
Crippen before he landed in Amer
lea. Examination Of the fragment
tary remains of Belle Elmore's body,
buried beneath the f1agstones in the
cellar of DR.. Crippen's home, re-
vealed traces Of a rare poison. And
when a druggist testified that DR..
Crippen had bought such poison,
the jig was up.
A jury promptly found that DR..
Crippen had poisoned his wife, de-
liberately and carefully diSsected the
body in the cellar, burned most Of
it, and buried the remainder be-
meath the flagstones. DR.. Crippen
was hanged 81