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W qt 1915 m. John 1;. Polk.
. M 'of' Grand Rapids,
‘1!!! MI tune in the Wat-at
. W101i of ,his newly acquired
We. . a. handsome. .
E “ who held won hil‘ daughter
after a short courtship and over
”at of I score of rivals. :lzlr.
eunbo toaNew York to vhit his
”for an her charminghu-hana
h their apartment on Riverside Drive,
fl Colon-mm. He enjoyed his visit
hr 9. few days. and had about deter-
xuiu'd to Itay all winter with his chil-
can: Tum ' ho ' suddenly was taken
M iii. He was sent to n. hospi-
out for 3 while, ‘and then. he returned
:8“. to Grand Rapids. Home again,
in npidly recovered.
‘ Then Mrs. Peck was invited to visit
II ,tbo home other daughter, and on
m 10, 1116, she arrived, in good
“In and cheerful spirits. On Jan-
W 80, twenty days after her arrival.
to died in her bed at her daughter‘s ,
M o! n curiously inexplicable ill-
Hor eon—in-lnvv took charge of
bully and accompanied it back to
Rapids. where it was interred
W cremation.
«if. Péck was lonely. His
W Peck. who lived in'the little.
“watch city of his nativity, in-
“ the aged man to come into his
NA
SO“.
’ ”I and live the rest. of his days
"filth him and his wife. But his son-
“it mid his daughter Clam. were
sum. insistent, and so Mr. I‘cck
4" W after a. while (less than n
.1903“! after Mrs. Puck's funeral)
N the would go to New York and
not. his home in the snug apartment
on fiiversido Drivc.
. On Monday. March 12, Mr. I’cck died
in h” bed in the home of his son—in.
Jaw.
Hi: oon-imlaw was Dr. Arthur
.Wmon Waite, an engaging young
man of many accomplishments, one
(twitch was his ability to play ton-
! But. his tennis niiility has iittlc
or nothing to do with this story. it
In! of man Interest to know that he
was silted in dissimuiution and pro-
tense, and that his pretensiun during
the ”Hod covered by this story wow
that he was a practicing physician in
New York, with consulting functions
in various prominent hospitals. As :1
not. he was nothing: of tho hurt; or,
rather, he was something of the sort,
yet not dealing in strict tr‘uth. B:
was actually a dentist, hivin: gm
Itod from the Dental School of the
University of Michigan in 150‘). But
even his wife thought he was a phy-v
Itsian.
Dr. "sit-J wzmqg sincvrvly grieved
over the (tenth of his {albumin-law :13
he had been ovcr tho timitl‘. of Mrs.
.Pcck. little more than n month before.
He and Mrs. \Viiitc wirml tho and
news to her brothcr in Gianni Rapids,
and as R00!) as possible the-3: not out
for the Peckuhomc, bearing with thcm
the corpse. They were met at tho
train by Mr. Percy }'€L'l( and his wii'c.
The body wan t1!l-'.Pn to an untiertzzla—
It". and all arrangcmcntza vnvrc lnmln
h “is funeral and burial. Ur. \Vuitc
mt: death bed instructions in tho
“her. a tho family of the dc-
mscd to the effect that Mr. l‘rt-k hm!
expressed a di‘fih‘C for cremation. but
Percy Pool: would not accede for
shine motion, and Dr. “finite did not
pron! the matter.
A few hours before burial time
Perry Puck -r¢'ccived n mysterious
telegram from Now York.
.“Snoplcions urouscz. ‘Dcmaml nu-
tcnsy'." it read. and it was signcd "K.
.o
, 311'. Puck knew nclthrr man nor
mama by that name. However. he-
communicated with the family physi—
cian. Dr. Perry Schurtz, rimwing him
the message. Dr. Schuriz to'ik tho
monthly-.0 to the null-milieu, who run":
him permission in.prrfo:‘m n syn-ct
mural-8317 llc wwnt to the unrlJi-tulting
establishment where the body lay 2::
its casket. really for burial.
'l'rzwca of poison ware dlSC'1Vel‘t’il.
”is The lunernl was roattontd. and Dr,
Vinita was patently lmpzztit-nt at th:
delay. lie uni-cod permi‘rlon to View
the body in the undertaking parlors,
but his request was dcnie-l. ll: be-
ams more impatient. unwinding: an
explanation. hr. Sin-lurch inhrrmd
him it was against the ruitu. \V’aitc
was "infill-ions that an autogcy had
been permanent and he tried in every
Way to vortfy the suspicion.
On the morning of tho funeral he
announced that Mr. Peck had rc-
ucsztotl him with his last “1231)? to
..plnca a race not a mml illimi photo-
graphic: his oiunltcr. M": “finite. in
the coffin with l" tony. Bu‘. the Peck
family dis'coulagtd this. suspecting
Waite named to make an examina-
(an. [In failed in tin subterfugmand
In 133- terncon Hr.- holy was sealed
in a vamt. ,
‘- Ih'.‘ Iran's att'ons had new thor-
“My convinced Percy Peck and his
W that 111'. I‘eck'o death had been
Walnut by mason—1:14.152 They
' 4 that: 2.1mm cutie of friends
‘ than and want, 4m coati-
‘mly excluding Clara I‘cck
an oil as her huzbaml. In
.. . their suspicious, Dr. Alma
Man. pastor of the Form;
mt Baptist Church. at thczi
Mir had long hem mrmhars, rc-
.‘thnt during the autumn before.
Dr and Mn. Waite were in
'Blpids planning to: her pair.
to Dine and vii! than or live
_ them in New York. Dr.
[ rm upon how falling 31:3.
' Winnemmhademzal
“auction that she could not live
cultured I
Iwerc.
Walt: -
long. Latch; Dr. Wisha‘rt refinem-
‘bered, ‘Walte had expreseed the some
apprehension with regard to his fa-
ther3in-law. . ’ __
pm the visit home to_the burial
of DIRT-rock, Waite had been heard
to say in“the‘ course of conversation
that he feared “Clara could not long
survive the shock."
Ana;- the coilfcrencel win engaged
by the Peck family to investigate the
cm. to secure evidence to convict
‘Waite it he was guilty of murder or
to cmmmit- he .wcla not guilty.
’Dr. W and Dr. Schurtz came to
Nmmuo‘atcl use; , r h
”It is not my bushings to catch a
cri‘nai: it'ts my business to make
a criminal catch himself, and that is
the basis upon which I work. If a
man is under such strong suspicion as
Dr. Waite wn's. it is my principle to
work upon him in every way possible, '
u on his (ear. upon his conscience: to
Live him chance attcr chance until be
trans himself. I would rather have a
complete confession 'from a. criminal
than all the circumstantial evidence in
the worldbi work for confessions. I_
Wantcdn confession 133m AVaite if he
was guilty. I was not convincedi-wben
I, took the case. 'Dr. \Vichart and Dr. .
Sclzurtz arrived to tell me that théy
Syccd was the most. necesoary effort.
As long as‘ W'nite had some assurance
that be was safe he would not resort
to flight. But We Know that he would
flee it he should teei that evidence was
accumulating “against him. My aim
was to get sufficient grounds for or-
rest before he should take to flight.
It was first of all necessary. how-
evor. to keep Dr. Waite away from his
wife, since he had expressed the same
apprehension with regard to her
longevity which :had been such true
prophecies in the cases of'lfls par-
cnts—in-iau’. rShe was all that stood
lwtwccn him 21nd the Peck fortune
now. and it was greatly feared that ho
mifiht try to gut lid utilize)“. The nec-
cnsity then was to soak evidence that
ho had poisoned his rather-inqaw in
order to establish his guilt. .L third
necessity was to send :in Operative to
Grand Rapids to chock up' \Vaite‘s
sayings and doings while there.
I myself took charge of affairs at
tho Vow York end.
it was suggwsicd that Porc_v Peck
insist upon Mrs. “‘nitc staying in
Grand Rapids for a. while. “’c knew
perfectly well that that would be the
bust means of keeping her- husband
away from her if in» really was guilty.
{or it is invariably the fact that :1
criminal returns-cit his planning for
the misdccii virus in all elaborate—In
znthcr up louse ends. The criminal
exaggerate: the importance of little
domils in his trail. and nitor cutting
away from the suiting- or his crime
and rci'lnct‘ing upon his coursc or
action he boxins to burn with im-
pmiencc to got hack and Cuver up
those tracks that ho left in his haste:
It was Friday morning. March 16.
that the case was. placed in my hand-A,
and my first move was to suggest
that Mm \Vaitn be kat in Grand
Rapids. That HilR‘L’f-Sllfln was (arri‘d
out. Then it .was prove-«l that my; plan
to separate her from her husband \V is
feasible, fnr Friday night I lean-mil by
wire that “’Eziie had left (irnnd Rapids
nlnnc that aftcrnnon unzl was: due to
nrrivr- in New York on the Wr-ivcrinc
Expre‘sswthc.r‘ompnnion train to tho
Twcnticth Cvntury~at 9 o'clrxk Sut-
urday morning.
That mount that we had to an a.
grout dcul of Envcstignting lv-fnrr fl.
“‘hat is more, wo did. “'9 hogan u)
prrpnrc for his arrival. Dr. Schultz
and Dr. “'ishalrt w;re Working side
by side with mo.
At 3 o'clock Saturday mar-ruin: De-
tective Andrew Taylor. Dr. Schurtz,
i‘nrrzicr Coroner Schultz: of New York
and i paid a visit to the Colosseum
Apartments. “’c called the supcrEn--
tondcnt of the building out of his bell
and naked him for permisnidn to visit
the “'ui apartment.“ He anuircd
what bus ncsn we, had there. I told
him simply tint some information rc-_
quirlng an investigation had reached
us.
He refused. We threatened. He con-
tinucd to refuse. We pleaded. He
w'm obdurntc. ' '
“‘0 had no warrant to search Dr.
W112ie's apartment. For a fact, we
haj no ground to stand on: the su-
vials contained auditing! disease scan
cultures. ‘ .. 7
The day more View mode a. cam-
pléte investigation of records at how
vital: in New York/and lent-god that
Waite was registered ct north of chm.
and from the recordsot the New York
County Mediadaoct'ety we batm-
tained that. he had no license to prac-
tice undicme or m in New tor!
county. On the false oi: that 1-m-
dared a! to'whnt use
ease germ cultures.
Having completed the search of the
apartment and-put the place hack in
order I made preparatione'to meet-Dr.
White at. the train. I outlined detecs
tives to shadow him‘tmm the merit
he left the station. in the hope that
he might lead us to some convincing
bit of evidence. .
For, an I havosaid in this narrative,
I was working oaths theory that it
is the ten'fiency of.the criminal mind
to greatly exaggerate small bits of
evidence left and-to hasten at the first
possible moment to cover them. Many
a criminal has betrayed himself when
he was actually ahjuost Without the
pale of suspicion by trying to cover
what seemed to his inflamed vision
to be an open road to detection.
\He generally overdoes the act.
While I was arranging forthe rc-
ception of Dr. Waite by shallow men
“For. God’s sake get that stuff in the fluid an
Attorney,"
I rcceivcd a report from my represen-
tative inaGrand Rapids which was of
interest .to me. Acting upon the as-
sumption that “'nitc's great motive
desire was to come-into possession of
the Peck fortune—which was really
the only reasonable motive he could
have had in murdering the parents. of
his .wlt’e—Prrcy‘ Peck had informed
Waite that .it was necessary {or Clam
-to stay at home to sign papers pre-
liminary to taking possasioa of her
share of the estate. .
,To my mind it was a. test that
helped fasten a chain of circumstantial
perintcndent of thc building was por- ’cvidence about his neck. The subter-
i‘cctly right. But this unis an emer—
gency situation. culling for-emergency
actlol. ,
"All right." I said in him. "Tho
matter is out of your hruiriq, but I
\"ill give ycua choice or two thingi:
V7.3 tithe-{force in th'é‘donr and create
it disturbangé'tll'atIV—iil awoken every-
body hithelhausc 0: you quietly ops-n
the amttficn'tmfb.‘ 'u'svand stand by
while we make a search of tho placax"
"l'll open it up," he Paid Mb: -'1
moment.
3 0 O
I almost failed to mention n talc-
gnun of much importarwc that ll'ld
born rrccived by Dr. Schurtz into Fri-
day. He had sent a part of Mr. l‘c k's
stomach to Prof. Vaughn (if the l'ni—
"cavity of Michigan, at Ann Arbor. af-
te‘r the more: autopsy in the undertak-
in'r rooms. The telegram he had re-,.
ccivcd was from that toxic expert. rc- '
gaming upon his cxmnination of tbe~
tune worked like a charm.
In connection with this I learned.
too. from Grand Rapids. that. Waite»
had asked a day after his arrival there
whether or not it was possible to get
a part of the fortune before the admin»
ism-anon of the estate. Pilinly he
wanted the fortune. Perhaps he
nrxxled money; a check up of his bank
accounts proved that he was rather in
neod. lie was 3 man of very extensive
habits. and had only a few thousand
dollars on deposit. Moreover. it
sec-med that he had no source of in—
come. .
Before the Wolvrrino Express came
into the Grand Central Terminal Sat-
urdar morning I had fairly well es-g
tnhlislcd a. motive for the murder-to!"
m ‘ur Warm '
John E. Pack by Dr.
Waite.
men with cum ,at' mm
he had for d:- tered
’M..the Wig on which tin
Wolv‘erinc was d'ue'toi-c'ome in. ' ' ’
fiche train was oo‘ time. At a min.
utp after;9 th passengers: begun 10.
strum but 6f;h§_“3100m”'01.1h§' D -
mm": .secuonum , -- ,
Dr. Waite walked jauntily through.
swinging a cane._ He walked within
mfg; feet of us and ueeflied to “starc
{mt Dr. Wishart, but he apparently
ails-gun: recognhll am (act he: saun-
, .~- ‘1”- perfectly composed, hum-
ming a. bit Ufa tune. ,
1313.; was enough for Dr. “’ishgrt.
It :3: ught helm for him to lgecp
at a: sure dictate}, and Ftoolruwthe
trail. Waite..-vdid‘ not know me from
Adam. and so it was reasonably safe
toere to shadow him if I shadowed
him cautiously.
He Went directly to a public tele-
phone booth in the-station. I went
into the adjoining booth and put my
an- to the‘ wall. I heard him call a
number which I knew to be that of
thc'Hotel Plaza; he abked for a roam
number. and ‘Z heiarcl the murmur of
his voice lowered a‘s it in tenderness.
I concluded he was talking to a wow:
an and immediately got in touch with
an qperativenvhom Isent to the Plaza
to make an investigation. Hé dis-
covered the woman in the case; a.
Mrsi Margaret Horton, who had lived
at the Plaza with Waite; they were
“'nlu"u'red;t0"do*aflY'
law
Mr. mm after thewbm
of his‘ visit'to New York 'in the autumn,
and went forward vln'the 111an
on the working theory that Dr.'Wa,il_e
wit is’i‘eln-
fives in various manners. . That mum
of Mr. Pcck's. I was convinced. was
brought about by the germs cultured
by Waite. Hehad an infinite variety
of them—germs of influenza. diph-
theria, pneumonia. typhoid. ‘ ' v
'But arsenic had been count}
body of Mr.
.Waite‘had obviously been im
with whatever action the germs
order.“ “' - ‘
As a final clinching circa
we sought the soul-cent Dr. Waite’s
arsenic. and found it Sunday. He had
bought ninety grains from ,a druggist
Just three days beiore hls‘ father—in-
;had died on March 12. Accord-
the druggist. Waite hall ex-
poison was “to
set in
nieésfnce
ing to .
plaincd to him that the
kill cats."
Meanwhile Waite,
opinion of the physician
Saturday to the effect that the influ-
ence of arsenic under diffcrent uses
was in each caqe‘dlstlnctive. set about
to build up his defense, for he was
undetcrred by the
- - J .
o
w.
'hirrthe M out: went to. the'
“fiddmrtersot'l’mter, the New York
unfiertaker who had‘had charge of
"air Peck’s body berm-e it mashippcd
t Grind Milli—Erwin had sent one
GEM minimum to Wang's home i?
- the body {brittle coffin:
SE);ur'i1 asked for a sample of. the
embalining fluid used. ' -
V i this bit ofjnves-
immediately be-
latbp. t
inkling that Wm (were on
tiall. .It was time for him to know.
He; had some thinking todo, and it
was better that he should do this
tfiiumgunder the stimulus of night.
In Luther words. fright would set his
co‘n'seiencdto working. We gave him
time to commune with himself.
Meanwhile, the undertaker began to
Wbrry about his bill for servicu. Hav-
ln‘géiearned that Waite was- under sus-
pipion, the apprehension grew upon
:1 he had called him lathe should bout-rested before "
lament. was made for the embaiming
«Mr. Peck's body. So, on March 21
-—Tvue'sday was the lath—at night. the
unilcrtakcr sent his expert embalmcr,
satlona 1
:Pe-Ck ‘M‘urder
influence of the germs. Imp”...t
again1 Waite tried arsgpic. Nor .. .M
be wait for the arsenic to take . n, , ..
On the early morning of Mr. la. ix..-
d'eath Waite chloroformed him 2;, ,,
h‘unout of his pain. _ >
' ' you do that: than“ ;.
l .
"4‘ did , ‘
Waite was asked by the Distrm \,_
torncy. '
, “I fitted the money; of 03......
he replied.
He reasoned that the money 0‘ “i3...
Catherine Pack would go to his .
therefore he tried to kill her ‘Wlli- a...
cmifana with ground gins put in ......,
maniac, but in'ti'iat he failed. Hix n (.3
was to be the last to die, he in ital;
confessed. for through her the imn. .-
ot her parents and her aunt what
come to him.
The mysterious Mrs. VHortcm
ficci at the trial. admitting her love i...-
W’aite. Waite assured the jury Hum
he loved her. She was not sue-porn ~i
9t complicity.
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Will Move a Mountalrn to
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frightened. Sunday, howe‘ser. he .ook Eugene 01”" Bane, alound to the feat undertaken by Brazilx nn iii“
no steps. spending most of that day in
‘thc.compnny of the mystery woman
of the case, Mrs. Horton.
registered in;
“"nit‘crs. » ’
Having telephoned—and been over-
‘Mr; and 1.11173. A. NV.
heard—Waite went to a. taxicab. Dr. sung at one time or anothér in the morning of March 23.
Wihha‘rt had rcjoincd me. and we
, ma“).
. «Mo»:- perm . «p»
_ d get a sample downéto the District
he said. He was gone before Kane could say a word in reply.
_ There was little difficultyin check-
ing up Mrs. Horton. We learned that
she was a singer and that she had
various moving
picture houses on
Mile Drive apartment housc.to
comt'mm' Waite. Kane, incident-
ally, had gone to, the apartment on
the morning 0: the 12th to embalm_
the‘body of an. Pcck.‘ " ‘
'_Hc found Waite at home; and sub-
gestcd to mm. that the‘ bill be. paid.
W“ to protestedsuch quick collection
methods, andiKane replied that it was
.custonmy, when a body had been
shipped out of town. ‘
'~ Dr. Waite bade Kane 5
began to stare at him_curloucly. 'Sud»
dcniy he asked: “Shy. 'what' do 3’03
fellows put in the unbalming hold you-
nsc? What are its constituents?
you ever use arsenic'ZP .-
"No. sir." Kane replied. “that would
be against the law. We‘don’t do things
like that." y _ . j ,
“Wcii, it could be done. couldn’t; it?”
Waite persisted. ‘
“I don’t say it couldn't be done," was
the answer. "but wc dont do it."
{If you'll 'do it for me." W'aitc went
on. "I'll pm. you on' easy street for
the rest of your life. I‘ll give you a
check for $9,000. Here it is."
"That’s no good." Kane rejoined.
"you'd better keep it." .
But “’ailc forced the check upon
Kane above the _cmbalmcr‘s protests.
He told him he wanted to arrange an-
other meeting in an hour or so. Kane
agreedrand they met in a cigar store
at - Ninth avenue and Fifty-ninth
street. Kane went in first and to avoid
the appearance of loitering went into
it down... He
a phone booth and pretended to be.
having a long conversation.
White rushed in and occupied the ad-
joining boom. fie stalled for a while,
and finally, when Kane stepped out.
jumped out of the booth and held out
a roll of bills to the embaimcr.
”For God‘s sake sci that can! in the
fluid and get a. sample down; .to the. .
Disuict Attirney," he said. He was
gone before Kane could say a word in
reply; The bills were of 55% and $100
,entiticmcnts, amounting to $9,000.
Kane did fix up a sample and send
it to the District Attorney. But it had
no arsenic in it. '
Our man was mofc'frightencd than
we had hoped he would licr‘fi‘e were
situations now. He was at the point
where he was convictinghlmself as
wc'could scarcely hope to convict him
without his aid. We gave. him enough
rope' to hang himself. That was our
principlc. and it was working out in
this case unusually ,weil‘.
Our evidence was almost enough to
convict him; but We Wanted a confes-
sion, “’0 worn in no iiurty to arrest
him. Personally. I was rather in an
experimental frame of mind, waiting ‘
to see What scampcring about he would
do next. .
But the
arrest, wés forced on the
‘ A newspaper
published the details ‘of the mystery,
took it cab '10. follow. fife-.134 11g need Broadway, including the Strand. How- in~cvcry line of the Story suggesting
rm- onset of the two cars we had 5m- ever, it was difficult to trace back her how dccpiy'Waite had involved him—
uoned; as n. mattcr of fact. we Ehould movements with Dr. W‘nitc since she self.
have lost the trail _if We had stopped
to get on‘e hot 't'h‘cm. ' “ '
Even so. we lost “'ajte‘s taxicab
«
had first met him a short time after
Christmas. I was somewhat curious
about it. speculating often on whether
Newspapers have away of get—
ting. neck We arrested .»him that
‘morning in his apartment. '
We let him stay in jail for a. while.
in'the traffic; and, on a chance, drove or not she was in any way connected and then I raced’ him with the evi-
dircctiy tn thoulpu‘tment house on
Riverside Drive,’ stopping‘turo blocks
away just in time to see Waite got—
ting out of his mix \Vc Waited for a
long time after that, Watching from
a distance with powéi‘i'ul field glasses
to. see it mu- ono Left- the house a‘u'ter ilcuiarpaso. but a. possibility that had sensational.
Waite wont in. Nobody did come out; the strength of precedent. For" ibis elixir as no
but: I ku t the place constantly under
surveillance; nor did we lbw track
of \Vaitc at any time. . . ‘ ‘
He telephoned that day once 1mm:
his apartment. One of locum“:
assisting me on the case flawed in
according to my prearranged’ con-
trivlng. Dr. Waite caileia. 9mm
.whom he‘knew and; inquired, .‘whe'tha‘r
arsenic in unwitting thallium , he
of different enact from “nausea
ll!» food. Apparently “88'3le ' *:
mama! in, the W’SO’M‘PP “
mm «Inflammation
{film . ' to “other, m m 1:; ..
Wilma ' mm ,
T: : men. it was one woré: ?‘ Flint Linen. 1 Qt mending-them Wm -.. 1 , _-.7 .
Argent/’1 ,. .. . N f :m W‘s-$533“ wag-her: F3...“ 3am: "to augm- " "first
- -. * rm ‘ .mmmmmmtnmm
Our argument IRE m ' . "
.4.
That
with his plot to rid' hirnselt of his
wife's purer. '
might come down to her andthen rid
himself of his wife and have the
money for himself.
Here was a new angle in this‘par-
true that a woman is in nuany ounce
define I Md. 'Hc' wae completely can-
not his: He comma in detail. and
snide three 'suhaoqacnt confegsions.
His trial was one or the quickat
over recorded. and‘opc of the most
' ' ' Be‘ sat in the witness
oi and‘coilected and delib-
erate as his murdering must have
. been uttcmpir-d on such a. scale.
water mun of. Rio de Jancirn. Lip-17th!
of that country. slams the lingo do
Costello, a hill‘ which intern rm: with
the ventilation of tho inln . air by
blocking the ocean luau; l: .39..-
talus 7,000,000 cubic 1m . ,2 Nil and
rockgbut the mm: 2:13 has de—
cided {craze um: r~-i ovc it seaward.
An American ;‘ ‘.l will «lo the. work,
There is no 2‘: ~er) of any munic’
inlpi‘ovenlcni v 5 its kind that ever
"1
Thu
people of Rh) do Janziro and of lit
arc Intcnétiy proud of this pi“ _.
admirable cntcfiirise. as thi‘y '
right to be. It will cost thus
$5,003,000 to do the job. It u
most notable czgimtring {c.-
kind'on record. At the sonic ‘
will constitute one or the most ;
measures “of building the city 21'
{at that ever has been tried.
The removal of this historic -
situation to omgre$ inevitabiy razflh
the Scriptural saying about the {mill
that; removes mountains. In .1 lull
sense the removal of Mon-o dc Cris-
tclio is an act of faith—faith in the
future of the republic, faith in the
gnawth- of the city of Rio de Janciro.
faith in the stability of the institu-
tions that have made Brazil prosper-
ous and its people happy.
True, Morro de Castello is a historic
spot of Brazil. . On it the first Portu-
guese Governor built his rcs‘rlcnce and.
his fortifications. Behind these forti-
fications the Portuguese pioneers—the
Pilgrim Fathers of Brazil—fought
|
The“ .mani’ully to repel ,French buccanecrs
and repulsed them. Brazil honors its
heroes. some of whom sleep in the soil
of lilorro dc (.‘ustello. It v«.-neratcs its
past. But it regards its future more.
Hence the ancient settlement must go,
because Brazil does not intcncl to have
its life hampered and its progress
thwarted by the past. '
Taken in all its aspects, this heroic
treatment of a municipal prcbicrn by
Brazil will appeal peculiagly to North
Americans, whether 01 the United
States or of Canada. It emphasizes
the kinship between English speaking
and Portuguese speaking Americans.
It is a {cut that would have been un-
’, making little étfort to force him into dertaken nowhere else but in America.
and by no other people than by Amor—
leans.
' DEWATIUN OF SEX.
A London Doctor
‘ Loctum
Madcrn Manifestations. _,
_ HE heredity of sex was the S‘Ub-
ject of a lecture recently dc-
liveied in London by Dr. W.
Baxeson, M. A, Fellow of the
Royal Society, to an audience madn
up mostly of teachers and physicians.
“The point I want you to carry nway
very clear- ly in your minds,” mid Dr.
Bateson, in concluding his subject. “is
that» sex determination ’is a probh’m
that can be investisi’i‘ed- and “‘3'- 3C‘
curate knowlcdgc can be and has been
hr, ght tabear upon it. In‘au prob-
ability these determinations are made
in the development of. titer germ cells,
and that. having been made in essau
ts so that their wealth “feed that mm>m ‘enough to con- thus, they arefixed."
"In old days," said the lecturer. “iii
was accepted as c. fact that we could
no see any deeper into the m t
ofrscx, and that we could notysshir;
now it came about that there Were two
sexes. Only five years ago it was
thought that practically there Was no
the inspiration-{or such scheming.” been and told the story of his efforts way of predeterminlng sex- but facts
had chm-la! and obviously
product 01 the mind's! sixth,
Wine. It“ a
mac Immune: only hE.We‘s parents. but were new, . . . _
or wan-en nah—.wire’s aunt as well—Miss Cather- showed a“ ,be‘wcg‘lifilfii which
um inc-.Pcck. who fiver! at the Park Ave- in certain mots}: and f ; byenarmof-d
that Waite, madly tn Iove"'with 1-1113 nae Hotel and who had befriended 955 f 1; < - -
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aii‘tles and at Wile-came time make
himself. Wy‘lmdmt so clan.
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it wot-mo me two: 31:11pm;
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m- to caution: -Weilt:no $3
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awaiting“ at the digfiust move
>W‘Vfliight *we- were to "ax-rut him.
. may é‘viewj «the tutti-tint we’verc
rightist cash 330.000.
or all the coidiblooded—designedly
cold blocdcd—corfieesions I have ever
heard, that modem: the'witness stand.
'sniliw—of first, nogree murder May 27.
"Justice She-tn fleentenced him to
Jonah, to be elecii'rocutcd in Sing Sing
prison July W’W- But appeal;
were. taken, and he was not executed
finally until a year attet the m3}.
li'he plea of his counsel was
but Waite 91’ch his competency
throughout. and on" many mustang
before he died'addfed startling detail:
er: «the chmmwwfifi‘m‘ ’ ‘ I . m.mvar&;a'confesslonxwo'werc .
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he.“ vaguely flux they mightbc of
home In: Thu I amnd a. pack-
age of cosine behind [pl tore. uni
in a lick cabinet 8. case of glass slides
and small strange looking glass villa
in which there w'b be speci-
men! of some organisms. Analyti-
'2- 1t Saturdsy later proved that vim-'-
lent diocese germ.- were preserved
upon The gm slides, and that the
sag-tawny on ”my 135mm w
awn: bacteriology. mama...
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the station in await this arrival or m;
Wolverine. I had never seen White.
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"He wore arm had Twybeenmfihwpn“:
heavy ”and Mai to an nose hardest}: bymeonsot theorem ‘1,
and a now acronym his eyes.
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we "imam ate-4.1m rooed on casefmch guide lawman—or
m “a! he" had, failed to oov-e'r‘hi
”Mm He ‘tmsinglcaung.._
mat many filmy.f;~bulldng‘ ,
ibis Shé 1:“me at” m.mmt
insanity; ‘
brooding in. maths we could alter the
proportion of the scales by interference
in the fertilization.” .
Several interesting temples of the
the Scbright. species more: with 'a
silverhenhirdthehenswllbegmd
and the cockbirds fiver.
Dr. Bates-3n referred in terms at
admiration 10’1118. work along this line
performed. ‘ : by Mandel in. experiments
with plant life as long ago as 1865.
"Tm Mrs conclusions were buried
in. gxorgottcn periodical and did not
come to any real publicity until after
the death of Darwin;
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