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SEWARD ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 29, 1916.
There was or is some old religious sect which believed or believes that
human beings take their life from the sun and have their souls nurtured by
it. The reason for the existence of such a belief becomes apparent on the
first fine days of each spring. The human mind and body seem to respond
to the bright and warm rays as the birds and plants respond. Material suc
cess probably depends more on good weather than we think. Maybe tins
sunshine will bring us more than mere brightness and warmth. Anyhow, it
cannot be denied that all of us can look during bright days with less trepi
dation into the future than we can in gloomy days. No ono will deny this
and. of course. Shakespeare had those truths in view when he spoke of the
Winter of ilUcontent.
The institution of Memorial Day was a very graceful action. Nothing
should be remembered more affectionately bj a nation than the nations dead,
particularly the dead who died or offered .at least, the supreme sacrifice lor
their race and fatherland. Talking ot this reminds one ot the le\ity often
practised by the shallow when they speak of patriotism or the sacri
fices that patriotism bring forth. It is regarded as smart in thoughtless
circles to speak lightly of that which ought to be sacred. How many have
gained a little passing laugh by ridiculing something because that something
is the very thing which should not be ridiculed. Remember always that
real humor is that which can distinguish between the sacred and the protane.
and nothing mortal could be more sacred than our dead, if one might use the
word mortal in speaking of them at all.
As the battle of Verdun proceeds the world is more and more Inclined
to take off its hats to France and its people. All nations have long ago con
ceded that the Germans have performed miracles. Apparently they have
nothing further to gain in military renown, but always the thoughts are
turned to the thousands of Frenchmen who choke the gates to their country
with their dead bodies in the path of the invaders. Never since the war be
gan has an accusation of cowardly brutality been uttered against the fail
name of the glorious republic. If it came out of the war tomorrow, even
though invaded, France would shine resplendent, perhaps alone amongst
the allied nations, with a halo of the glory which had been its for centuries.
Wonderful Story
of Waite Murder
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
NEW YORK, May 22. — With the
opening of the trial of young Dr.
Arthur Warren Waite here today on
the charge of poisoning his million
aire parents-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
John E. Peck, of Grand Rapids, Mich.,
there begins to pour into the dry
records of the New York Supreme
Court one of the most sensational
; and astounding stories of fortune
hunting,illicit love, murder, intrigue
and deception that has ever been dis
closed, as the alleged record of one
man.
Waite’s formal plea was “not
guilty,” but he may change it today.
The state will attempt to prove that
the slender, nattily attired, smiling
youth who sits quietly before a long
table in this drab and silent court
room, deliberately wooed and married
Clara Peck with the preconceived in
tention of murdering her, her father
and mother and any other persons it
might be necessary to murder in order
that he might get possesion of the
i Peck millions.
The state will introduce evidence to
prove that Waite, married to Clara
Peck and having Mrs. Elizabeth Hort
on as his “Studio Companion” in a big
New York hotel, actually did get Mr.
and Mrs. Peek to New York on a visit
anil murder them by poisoning them
with arsenic;
That he got his wife to will he
estate to him and was planning her
1 murder as the third of the series in
his alleged scheme to get the Peck
! millions;
And that after murdering his
mother-in-law and engineering the
cremation of her body to prevent
t the discovery of the cause of her
j death, he bribed a New York under
taker with $9,000, ($7,800 of this
amount was found where the under
j taker told the police he hid it), to
swear that arsenic was used in the
fluid employed in the embalming of
his father-in-law’s body.
With his wife turned against him
and prosecuting her suit for divorce;
and Margaret Horton, his “Studio
Companion,” fresh from the triumphs
of a vaudeville engagement won as a
result of the publicity she gained from
her association with him, Waite faces
his fight against the electric chair
; without the support of the woman he
married or the woman he squandered
his money on.
While he lay on a cot in Bellevue
hospital, recovering from the effects
of poisons he had taken in an attempt
| to die after the poisoning of h?s
father-in-law was discovered, Waite
told several stories of how it had all
j happened.
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WORK SHOES IN ALL MAKES AND PRICES.
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KHAKI OVERALLS AND JUMPERS.
WORK SHIRTS IN ALL MAKES.
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COMPLETE STOCK OF ARROW COLLARS.
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QUILTS
WARBAGS
PACKBOARDS
WORK GLOVES
COMPUTE OUTFITTERS FOR MINERS AND RAILROAD MEN.
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•t
Chief among these was the fable of
The Man From Egypt.
Thit» mysterious and sinister Spirit,
Waite is said to have assured District
Attorney Swann, was with him night
and day, goading him on to evil deeds.
Nameless and intangible and pos- ^
sensed of the fiendish resourcefulness;
, of ten thousand devils, The Man From
, Egypt never has been found. Nor
I is he expected to be.
Another story Judge Swann report
ed as having been told him by Waite
j was that his father-in-law was tired ,
I of living and asked him to get the,
I arsenic for him so he could die.
It was only a few days after the;
death of Peck at the Waite apart-j
| meats on Riverside drive that the first
' hint came to the authorities here and,
in Grand Rapids that all was not as
is should be.
‘
1 This hint took the form of a mys-,
terious telegram from “K. Adams” in
| New York to the authorities in Grand
Rapids, advising an investigation be
fore Mr. Peck's body was interred.
It has since developed that when
! Waite saw this in the papers, he went
j to Margaret Horton at the school of
I languages where they first met and,
according to Mrs. Horton, asked her
1 to buy him certain “sleeping pow
ders,” which she says she did.
Mrs. Horton, who at once began ^
giving out columns and columns of
interviews, insisted that the “studio’
she shared with Waite in the hotel
was used only as a studio, that Waite
j never was anything more than friend-!,
ly with her and that they had to regis
ter under an assumed name, as man
and wife, to get the suite.
Harry Horton, husband of The
• Woman of Mystery, at first declared
1 that Margaret was so utterly innocent
of the way of the world and so in
capable of any wrong that he felt her
association with Waite was entirely
condoned.
Horton said his wife was “an in
i nocent dove among a flock of crows.
) Since then, however, Horton ha3
been credited with the statement that
he knew his wife was getting money
from someone, but that he didn’t know
who and he didn’t like to put a detect- j
ive on her trail.
| Mrs. Dorothy van Palmenberg, a
' friend of the Hortons who staunchly
supported Mrs. Horton’s story at first,
later quarreled with her and gave out
I a long interview in which she told
how poor the Hortons were when she,
knew them a couple of years ago and
| how suddenly and luxuriously affluent
they were when she met them after
Mrs. Horton had met Waite. j
Mrs. Van Palmenberg told of find- j
ing lingerie and a silk kimona and
articles of male attire in a suitcase I
Mrs. Horton brought to her house
| from the “Studio Apartment” the
I night after the first hint of the Peck
poisoners became public and Waite
had locked himself in his Riverside
Drive apartments.
When the police went to arrest
Waite the following morning they
found him in bed apparently dead,
with the poison containers beside him.
i Waite was not dead, but he lay in a
stupor for days, being transferred to
Bellevue when he was recovered suf
ficiently to be moved.
Should Waite mantain his innocence
! in court today, the trial will proceed,
so far as the defence is concerned,
probably on the theory that Waite
was temporarily insane when he com
| mitted the crimes charged against
him.
The state wil try to prove that he
was at all times sane and that his
alleged crimes were planned and car
ried to their conclusion in cold blood.
Should this situation arise it will
develop a battle between alienists
such as has not been seen since the
Harry Thaw trials.
The courtroom today was jammed
to the doors with curious men and
women and hundreds of others were
turned away to the line of police
guarding the entrances to the build
ing.
A venire of 250 men is drawn from
which to start choosing a jury, but
should the case actually go to trial it
is expected that this number will be
far from sufficient.
Waite Said He Was Guilty
Between the time he was arrested
and the time he was sent to the
Tombs from Bellevue hospital, Dr.
Arthur Warren Waite made several
confessions, some of them signed,
that he murdered his parents-in-law,
i Mr. and Mrs. John E. Peck of Grand
Rapids. Ine one of the confessions,
written and signed by him April I,
1916, Waite said:
“I have been informed that I have
been indicted for the crime of murder
in the first degree. I know' the pun
ishment is death. The indictment is
just and the penalty is one that I de
serve, for I have killed. I killed John
E. Peck and his wife.
“I have thought and thought while
lying in my bed here in the hospital.
I have gone over all the incidents of
the last few months of my life, and
I have made my peace with my Creat
or. I now deserve to make antone
ment for the wrong that I have done.”
Mr. Deuel, Waite’s counsel, wrote a
letter, showing that Waite's confes
sion was made with his consent:
The statement made by Arthur
Warren Waite is one that he desired
to make to unburden his soul some- j
what from the heavy load upon it, and ,
as he was insistent that his confession
should be published, ajs the only thing
he could do in antonement, I acceded
to his demands and have not advised
against the publication of it, which is
iis ho wrote.
WALTER ROGERS DEUEL. ,
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