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i5, 1916. DR. WHITE'S 'STUDIO' COMPANION HEARD WIFE OF PRISONER ON TRIAL FOR MURDER WHO WAS WITNESS OLD TAYLOR STREET. . CHURCH PLEA FAILS AGAINST HUSBAJill. THE 3IORNIXG OREGOXIAN, THURSDAY, 3IAY Mrs. Horton Describes Jekyl! Hyde Nature of Prisoner in Murder Case. WIFE. ALSO IS WITNESS Defendant's Former Friend Avers He Was Always "Gentlemanly" and Gives Inkling of Effort -to Prove Insanity.' ; NEW YORK, May.. 24. Mrs. Mar garet Weaver Horton, the young' wom an with whom Dr. . Arthur Warren Waite,( confessed poisoner of his wife's parents, studied languages and music and Bh&red. a "studio'' In a fashionable Js'ew York hotel, described late today at Waite's trial for murder what she considered the dual character of the prisoner. This alleged Jekyll-Hyde na ture of Waite, the evil side of which lie has asserted manifested itself in the form of a "little man from Egypt," save the first inkling of the theory upon- which Waiters lawyers will pro ceed in their efforts to prove he was insane at the time he killed John E. Peck, and thereby save him from the electric chair. Mrs. Horton, who cast sorrowing glances at Waite as he sat pale and outwardly ill at ease, not more than 20 feet from her, followed Mrs. Clara Louise Peck Waite. wife of the prisoner, on the stand. Mrs. Horton told her story slowly, directly, and gave the impression that she cared little for the ordeal to which she was subjected. It appeared to those who watched her closely that she was trying to convey to the prisoner something of the sym pathy she felt for him. Wife Sobs During; Testimony. Although called as a witness for the state, Mrs. Horton. seemed to be much relieved when Walter R. Deuel, counsel for Waite, began to cross-examine her. , Waite, who had sat almost, motionless throughout the long direct examination by Assistant District Attorney George M. Brothers, dropped his hand from his , chin and raised his eyes toward the witness. The wife of the prisoner, dressed in deep mourning and sobbing -quietly at intervals, sat directly behind the Jury box. Not a line of testimony had. Veen brought out by the prosecution touch ing upon Waite's mental condition when the state rested after Mrs. Hor ton had finished her story. -Several alienists were in the courtroom, how ever, waiting to be called in rebuttal. The defense, it is expected, will open tomorrow in a vigorous attempt to provo that vaite was insane when he committed his crime. Sleeting With Waite Recited. Mrs. Horton, with a trace of sadness in her voice, first told how she had met Waite last January when she was singing in a New York theater. He was gentlemanly and kind to her, she said, and they struck tip a fast friend ship. Waite was interested in her voice and later Inquired the- name of her vocal instructor. "He said ha would like to take vocal lessons himself,", she added, "and I in troduced him to my teacher."- Mrs. Horton then told how she and Waite had studied modern languages and music together, for which Waite "insisted on paying" and finally of the rental of the studio. Mr. Brothers did not appear to be concerned about Mrs. Horton's explana tion as to her relations with Waite, further than to establish the fact 'that they studied together and engaged the "studio" under the name of "Mr. and Mrs. Walters." On cross-examination Mr. Deuel asked Mrs. orton: "Your relations with the defendant were purely platonlo, were they hot?" "They were," the witness answered. - "'When did you go to the apartment with the defendant." "Usually between 4 and 5 o'clock In the afternoon." "What was his demeanor?" ' Waite Always "Gentlemanly." "He was always gentlemanly and kind." "Did he ever appear to be melan choly?" "Yes, when I played -or sang." "Describe his actions." "Why, he would cry like a child." "At other times how did he act?" ' "Very boyish. He was always bright and cheerful." ' ' "Did he ever comment to you' on his feeling with respect to his actions when you' were playing the piano or sing ing?" "Yes, he often said we were only chil dren." "Did the defendant ever ask you to go away with him?" "No. never." "What did the defendant tell you he did for a living?" "Why, he said he was doing research work for Dr. Muller." Dr. Muller had testified that Waite obtained through him a quantity of arsenic shortly before Mr. Peck's death. Waite told him, he said, that he wanted the poison to "kill some cats." Previously Waite had said he was interested in the study of bacteri . ology, and Dr. Muller had recommend ed a former instructor of his. Waite already has confessed that he inocu lated the aged Mrs. Peck with deadly disease germs, from which she died a few weeks before her husband. When Mrs. Horton was excused from the stand, Mr. Deuel asked the court to instruct the jury to disregard all testimony about Waite s study of bac teriology. The court .so instructed the jury. The state then rested, and Mr. Deuel mate the formal motion for the dismissal of the case, which was de nied. A hujte boNvldor havine 10 acrs of ir- face Above the ground, from which granite la being taken tor bulldins the new Okla homa State Capitol, la said once to have iin a ravorita bandit rendezvous. It ia olid man towering above the tree tops ann rormo ot an exrenpnr grfln or Krone. Largest and (irandmt Tbeater NOW OPEN 11 A. M. to '11:30 P. M. Excluaive motion picture clawics plotting tha photo-dramatic art M ELKOY 8 SUl'ERB ORCHESTRA. XT -j ( ... in. x.-. . i mnu ounuays, jaa; joges. ELL-AMS Absolutely Removes Indigestion. One package 'proves it 25c at all druggists. 1 tu rwi "i -- Jt x ? v??. ' " ' -As , . - - I i .MRS. CLARA LOUISE PECK WAITE. BRANDEIS GETS VOTE Senate Judiciary Body Recom mends Confirmation. PARTY LINES ARE STRICT AH Republican Members Oppose Ap pointment Final Action Slay - Be Taken at Executive Session Today, Friends Say. - WASHINGTON, May fi. The Senate Judiciary committee today recommended confirmation of the nomination of Louis D. Brandeis to the Supreme Court by a strict party vote, all the Democrats voting for confirmation and all the Republicans against it. Supporter of the nominee plan to ask for action on the recommendation by the Senate tomorrow at an execu tive session, while the qpposlng Sena tors are planning to force, if possible, open sessions for the consideration of the nomination. Prolonged debate may result, but Mr. Brandeis' friends say he will be confirmed before the recesses for the National conventions begin on June 3. j After weeks spent In taking testi mony through a sub-committee and in discussing the sub-committee's report, action came today without debate in a seven-minute session. There was noth ing said beyond calling the rolL Doubt as to the outcome .existed until the name of Senator Shields was reached. His vote in favor of Mr. Brandeis was the deciding factor, - the committee standing 10 to 8 for a favorable re port. Just before going to the committee meeting Senator Shields conferred with Senator Smith, of Georgia, who had made an investigation outside the rec ord during the absence of Senator Shields, who returned today from Ten nessee. The Georgia Senator had inter views with members of the Interstate Commerce Commission and several Bos ton lawyers in regard to the charges against Mr. Brandeis, and, satisfying himself that the charges were not sus tained, had a talk a few days ago with Mr. Brandeis, himself. - Senator Cummins, of Iowa, was the only member of the committee not present. His vote, however, was re corded against confirmation. s Senators voting for confirmation were Culberson, Overman, Chilton), O'Gorman, Fletcher, Heed. Ashurst, Shields. Walsh and Smith, of Georgia. Senators voting against confirmation were Clarke, of Wyoming; Nelson, Dil lingham, Sutherland, Brandegee, Borah, Cummins and Works. SEXATE ACTIOX SIGNIFICANT Bra ndoi ; Confirmation Said to Be Stove to Check Hughes Movement. OREOONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington. May 24. The Oregon Presiden tial primaries are largely responsible for the action of the Democrats of the Senate judiciary committee in vot ing solidly today to report favorably to the Senate the Brandeis nomination. After Hughes' showing made in Ore gon, friends -of the Administration have openly admitted' that Hughes is the most formidable man tne Kepun licans can nominate to oppose Wilson, and the White House shares this viewl Therefore, the White House brought unprecedented pressure to bear on the Democrats of the judiciary committee to bring them into line behind Bran deis with a view to getting the nom ination reported and confirmed, if pos sible, before the Chicago convention meets. President Wilson and his friends fig ure that if Brandeis is confirmed, the Republican convention will be less dis posed to nominate Hughes, for fear the President will select another Brandeis to fill the vacancy, and the name of Samuel Untermeyer. of New York is being passed around as the man the President would name. Indications are that Hughes' adherents in the Senate will endeavor to prevent Brandeis" con firmation before June 7. GERMANS AGAIN GAINING (Continued From Flrat rage.) running from the fort to Thiaumont farm, -which were likewise thought well held, proved weak in reserve force. Shelling Lasts Only One Dayv Nivelle's bombardment did not last long, for he did the work of a week in a single day, so well had he planned the coup. Within 24 hours he gave his single word -of orders to infantry, and out they went. They charged in such num bers that they took fully two kilo meters supporting Douaumont. This would have been success enough i.. :.' .- t Bain Photo. to make France happy, but, to the sur prise of everyone some say even to the surprise of the troops and cer tainly to the consternation of the Ger man forces. General Nlvelle announced that he had prepared for a similar assault and ordered his troops to climb the slopes to the plateau on which Douaumont is situated and retake the coveted position. The right wing of the French contingent accepted this task, and, despite the enemy's efforts. climbed into the dismantled fort that they had left three months before. iney poured in in two streams, gne from the west and the other from the south. - They had left their rifles be hind for the most part, and each car-J rled a full load of hand grenades. It was a terrifically hot. day, the ther momeier standing at 90, with, -no herbage, trees or water available, and the French stripped to the waist as had their gunners during the previous not day of artillery preparation. - Helmets Top Naked Bodies. . It was "a weird-looking force. Hel mets and grenades were all they had use for and, thus equipped, they scur ried into cellar after cellar and tunnel after tunnel In the fortress. The enemy fell dead and wounded and large numbers were taken pris oners without even the chance of sur rendering. Numbers left their muni tions behind. The Germans rushed to the northern end of the fortifications, from which thev n rl Huff n tiinnl ti th.l. i tions behind Douaumont. and not till there did they turn to make a last stand. Their mitrailleuses and rifles kept -the French back and 'finally checked the landslide. . ' One hundred there stemmed the ad vance until the French could bring better fighting implements over the edge to combat the mitrailleuses. The French then nibbled off one more cor ner or tne northern end of the fort, leaving the Germans in possession of only the northeast corner at the mouth of which is their exit. FRENCH ATTACK IS BRILLIANT Select Troops Sent in to Score Coup Over Germans. CHICAGO, May 2. (Special.) John F. Bass, in a special cable disDatch from Paris to the Daily News, says that the German advance on Hill 295, in front of Verdun, was eclipsed by the French success on the eastern bat tle wing. It was by a wonderful series of rapid attacks that the French army reoccupiea a large part of Fort Douaumont after.it had been in the hands of the Germans during S6 days of uninterrupted battle. The attack covered a front of a mile and a quarter, starting from the Thiau mont farm and running to the wood of La Callliette, one southwest and the other southeast of Douaumont; .for the preliminary work leading up to the attack on the fort wan done some days ago when the wood of La Callliette was retaken and the positions at the Thiaumont farm were enlarged. unaay night the quarry of Haudro- mont, west of the fort, was retaken, and on Monday the main attack began. a cnosen Doay or t rench troops having been held for this work. There was a oii iv w vuvtjrea oeiore the fort was reached, but the barbed wire had been blown to pieces by ar tillery rire. ine reports indicate that the dash of the attack carried every thing before It, and that the French occupied all except the northern stope of the fort. This fort has been called by JSmperor William the "corner stone of the greatest fortress of our principal enemy. The original taking of the fort by the Germans was more of a moral than a military victory, as the French had dismantled the works. The victory of the French, however, was of vastly greater importance, as it was accompanied by gains on the west ern wing of the battle when the French advanced slightly south of Haucourt and west of Dead Man's Hill. During the wnoie of Monday night the battle continued with unabated fury. German attacks east and west of Hill 304 with liquid fire were repulsed. Kast of the Meuse the German counter-attacks on Fort Douaumont were checked, while the French advanced in the sector im mediately west of the fort. The significance of the situation Is that after three months of battle the t rench jit Verdun are growing strong er. Military critics in Paris assert that t is only the heavy artillery which now enables the Germans to hold bo.- fore Verdun. The growing intensity ana concentration of the battle, far from Weakening the morale of the French troops, have added to. their effi cient determination. The intensity of tne battle is reported to have become greater than ever before. DOG BITES GIRL OF EIGHT Frances Gill Now in St. Vincent's Hospital for Treatment. Frances Gill, aged 8. of 336 Forty fourth street, was bitten by a dog Tuesday night, and is now in St. Vin cent's Hospital for treatment. Both legs were lacerated by the animal's teeth. With other children the little girl was at play in a neighboring house. The dog had been romping with them and tried to leave the house. The children barred its way and. in a sud den rage, it sprang at the girl and bit her. Methodist Conference Com mittee Refuses Recogni tion of Congregation. DENIAL IS RECOMMENDED Assignment of Bishop Hughes to Portland and of Bishop Cooke to Helena Ratified Mission Plan Somewhat Changed. SARATOGA, N. Y., May 24. (Spe cial. The Judiciary committee of the Methodist general conference. In ses sion here, has reported to the confer ence that the appeal of members of the Former Taylor-Street Church, of Port land. Or., for recognition as an organ ization separate from the First Metho dist Church, with which it is now con solidated, is without merit, and the committee recommends that the peti tion be denied. The judiciary commutes report will now go before the conference for adop tion. ' The assignment of Bishop Matt 8. Hughes to Portland. Or'., as his episco pal residence, and that of Bishop Rich ard J. Cooke .to Helena, Mont., were ratified today. Other Assignments Ratified. Other assignments of bishops to episcopal residences for the ensuing four years were ratified as follows: Luther B. Wilson, New York: William F. McDowell, Washington. D. C; Edwin H. Hughes, Boston; Joseph F. Berry. Philadelphia: Thomas Nicholson, Chi cago; Adna W. Leonard. San Francisco; Francis J. McDonnell, Denver; Matt S. Hughes, Portland, Or.; Wilbiir B. Thir Icield, New Orleans; Frank M. Bristol, Chattanooga; William F. Anderson, Cincinnati; William Burt. Buffalo; Ho mer S. Stuntz, Omaha; William O. Shep ard. Wichita. Kan.; Frederick D. Leete, Atlanta; William A. Quayle, St. Louis; Theodore S. Henderson, Detroit; Frank lin Hamilton; Pittsburg; Richard J. Cooke, Helena, Mont.; Charles B. Mitch ell, St. Paul; John L. Nuelsen. Zurich, Switzerland; William F. Oldham, Bue nos Ayres; James W. Bashford, Peking; William' S. Lewis, Shanghai; Herbert Welch, Seoul. Korea. Pnbllahing Agents Elected. Publishing agents of- the Methodist Book Concern were Elected as follows: Edwin R. Graham, Chicago, and John H. Race and Henry C. Jennings, of Cincinnati. A more systematic supervision of the home mission field with the control centralized In one head, is provided in a new plan for administration of this branch of the activities of the church, which, was adopted today. In suDDort of the plan it was .urged that missionary work among the for eign population of the United States is ust as necessary as mat in otner pans of the world. The soul of a Chinaman m an Amer ican laundry is worth saving Just as much as that of a man across the sea," asserted Whitford L. McDowell, of Washington, D. C, In presenting the report. Editor to Be Chosen Today. Now that the conference has de cided to retain all the church mag azines, the elections of editors of the publications probably will be begun tomorrow. Meetings of delegates from the supervisory areas were held today for the purpose of recommending can didates. The conference decided by a vote of 46S to 325 that it would be in advisable to discontinue any of th periodicals, of wmcn there are a aozen or more. For the purpose of reducing the number of appeals that are made to the church in behalf of the many depart ments of the denomination, an inter church .conference was authorized in which everybody will be represented. After an Investigation of the prob lem, the committee will report in 1920. CHURCH QUARREL ENDS PRESBYTERIANS AMICABLY SETTL1S JTEW YORK CONTROVERSY. Warning Given Never to License Any Candidate of Other Than Orthodox Viena Seminaries in Spotlight. ATLANTIC CITY. N. J.. May 24. After the amicable settlement today toy the general assembly of the Presbyter ian Church in the United States, of th New York Presbytery controversy it was said by leading commissioners to night that a contest is expected on the floor of the convention tomorrow over the cuestion of what control the as sembly shall have over seminaries. Un der an agreement of 1870 the assembly has supreme authority in the ratifi cation nf faculty members In all Pres byterian seminaries, but this action - CT J A e. 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The adoption of the report of the committee on bills and overtures on the overtures regarding the Isew iorK Presbytery Is regarded as settling the controversy. The New York Presby tery escaped censure for its aiiegea deviations from orthodoxy, but with all other Presbyteries was warned nover again to license or ordain any candi date for the ministry "whose views are not in accordance with the confer ence of 1910." "This general assembly," adds the report, "renews Its positive mandate and directs that' when a candidate ap pears' who is found to be not clear and positive on any one of the fundamen tals of our church, that nis license db deferred until such time as in the judgment of the Presbytery he shall become so." X campaign of religious education in the home as a remedy for the divorce evil was recommenced by the Board of Kducation in its report today. 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