Poisoning the Pecks of Grand Rapids by Tobin T. Buhk

Author:Tobin T. Buhk
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2014-11-04T16:00:00+00:00

Walter Deuel slapped the Monday, April 3 edition of the Sun on his desk. He ran his finger across the page as he read the article “DR. WAITE INSISTS THAT HE IS SANE.” The article was a follow-up to the previous day’s front-page item. On Sunday, April 2, New Yorkers read all about a curious letter Waite sent, through Deuel, to an editor at the World. It contained Waite’s latest admission of guilt, this time without the “man from Egypt.” This was the fourth time—following the partial confession to Swann, the confession to Frank Waite and the “man from Egypt” tale—that Waite admitted to having a hand in the death of John Peck.

I have been informed that I have been indicted for the crime of murder in the first degree.

I know the punishment is death.

The indictment is just and the penalty is one that I deserve, for I have killed. I killed John E. Peck and his wife.

The World has always been a fair and impartial paper and one that has always tried to get the facts for the public, and I find that in my case you have searched for the facts and have given them to the public, and therefore in making this my only statement to the public, which I feel in duty bound to make, I address myself to you.

I have thought and thought and thought while lying in my bed here in the hospital. I have gone over all the incidents of the last few months and my life and I have made my peace with my Creator. I now desire to make atonement for the wrong I have done.

It is a terrible grief to me that I should have brought such obloquy and shame upon my wife and upon the name of my good parents and made my brothers suffer as they do.

I am relieved to make this, my confession.

Signed, Arthur Warren Waite121

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