The day book. [volume], May 26, 1916, NOON EDITION, Image 2

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hands and cheek of Marion Lam
bert. ,
Donnelly made an investigation of
that story. He called in Coroner
Taylor and the latter denied that he
had given such an interview to the
Trib.
The judge then announced from
the bench that in the future all-per-pretrators
of fakes would be punish
ed by the court .
Jim Keeley of The Herald is said
to be highly tickled at the discom
fiture of the Trib and the Hearst pa
pers, who will be badly crippled in
their reports of the trial if Donnelly
carries out his decree against fakes.
Keeley has an editorial in the Her
ald this morning on Donnelly and the
fakers. In part he says:
"Reporters and editors who stain
white paper with black lies lies
born in the brain of unscrupulous
writers, lies conceived and printed to
pander to the desire for sensational
ism', lies that accomplish their pur
pose when they harvest the pennies
of the credulous and morbid de
serve the castigation inflicted by
Judge Donnelly, who is presiding in
the Orpet case.
"Cold-blooded trifiers with the
truth have been feeding on the loco
weed of falsification ever since thte
young man was called into court to
answer the charge of murder. Not
in the last quarter of a century of
newspaper-making in Chicago has
there been so much faking; never in
that period so much tampering with
the verities as has characterized the
'reporting' of liis case.
"All men are not liars. Also, there
are newspapers that earnestly try to
travel the straight and unsensation
al path of accuracy. But the task of
making the public appreciate this is
rendered difficult by an argy of black
ink falsehood such as that denounced
by Judge Donnelly."
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J. D. Goggin failed to get across
63d ahead of street car. Auto over
turned, seven injured. . -
DR. A. W. WAITE IN FOR CROSS
EXAMINATION TODAY
New York, May 26. His unpre
cedented story of murder and at
tempted murder told. Dr. Arthur
Warren Waite will today face cross
examination in his trial for poison
ing of his millionaire father-in-law,
John E. Peck of Grand Rapids.
Entirely devoid of any emotion, Dr.
Waite yesterday afternoon began
and continued an unparalleled con
fession of his murder of his mother-in-law
and father-in-law, attempted
murder of his aunt by marriage, and
a series of thefts and swindles and
lying that have seldom been equaled
in fiction, until the jury turned their
faces away from his huddled figure
ando penly sneered at him.
He declared . that even before his
marriage he had sought to kill Miss
Katherine Peck, his wife's aunt, by
putting ground glass into marmalade
for her and that he gave her a can of
fish filled with germ cultures without
success during a period when he was
the constant recipient of her kind
ness. ,
Bacteria was given his wife's
mother the very first day she came
to visit at his home after his mar
riage, and he told how he watched
at her bedside the night she died,
after having administered veronal to
her, and then pretending sleep so
that his wife might apparently make
the first discovery of the mother's
death.
Typhoid, pneumonio, diphtheria
influenza and spinal meningitis
germs were administered by Tiim to
his father-in-law, Geo. John E. Peck,
and then arsenic when the germs did
not kill fast enough.
In answer to a question as to the
reason he wanted the Pecks to die,
he answered that he wanted their
money.
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Thos. Hoban, 3, identified Harry
Weiss as man who robbed dad, Pat
rick Hoban, 5156 -Calumet av., of
$110. on. crowded "L" car, , , .