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Show WHITE SNEEHS DERISIVELY US 111JEK Slayer's Sang-froid Stirs to Fury Murdered 'Man's Son, Whose Wife .Prevents Clash. EXTRAORDINARY PLEA OF INSANITY PLANNED Prisoner Laughs Heartily When Prospective Juror I3 Betrayed Into a Foolish Remark. r By W. A.. DAVENPORT. . By International News Service. NEW YORK, May 2!. Arthur Warren Waite. slayer of John B. Peck, his wealthy father-in-law, went on trial to day with a derisive sneer upon his lips-He lips-He saw the business of deciding his fate move with a rapidity that seemed cold- ' blooded. The twelve men who are to decide de-cide whether he shall die In the chair or epend the rest of his , days in a prison cell were chosen in three hours and four, teen minutes. The testimony of one witness, Dr. Al-burtus Al-burtus Adair Moore, was taken. It was this doctor who attended the doomed Grand Rapids chemist while Waite was slowly poisoning away a human barrier ' between him and the Peck fortune. Mrs. Clara Louise Peck Waite. the unsophisticated unsophis-ticated Blrl whom Waite married that he might live in luxury, was present, but not in the courtroom. She sat in an adjoining ad-joining room, bravely forcing herself to look calmly upon the hour when she must tell the story that may seal the fate of her husband. Slain Man's Son There. Percy S. Peck, son of the murdered man, sat far across the room In a corner cor-ner dividing Ills gaze between Waite and Justice Slieani. There was something abvssmallv sad about Percy Peck while he stared at the justice, uui i".". " ness changed into a hot hatred when he glaired at the sardonic prisoner, whose mien changed but seldom and never to contrition. Coldly,' dispassionately. District Attorney Attor-ney Swan toid the jury why this man was being tried for his life. Without a trace of venom, without a breath of heat, without fi note of scorn, the chief prosecutor prose-cutor snapped forth a chronological schedule sched-ule of elates and events that he called the framework of the case the state would construct. Laughs at Venireman. Meanwhile Waite sat silent, erect, pale and untouched. Once In the afternoon his shoulders dropped, his head sasged forward for-ward the little wrinkles of lurking mirth lied the corners of his eyes, the con-' con-' icniptnous sneer deserted his mouth. The cold Llue eyes closed drowsily. For a brief time he seemed to be asleep. And yet, in the morning while the tales-' tales-' men were being examine, for jury duty, he laughed as heartily as would a man who has just heard the best joke of his life. Joseph S. Irving was being examined. "Mr. Irving." asked Assistant District Attorney Brothers, "have you any moral scruples against capital punishment?" "Not in litis case." blurted Irving. Waite threw hack his head and laughed with genuine mirth. Occasionally Waite seemed interested . deeplv. l was not interest horn of concern, con-cern, apparently. His was the same interest, in-terest, not nearly so intent, however, as was that ot tne lieuspupcr nie.ii anu lew spectators. Seems Resigned to Death. If ever a man was resigned to bis fate It is Waite. The chances are that he is already preparing himself for death. And still there is a vague something the man's attitude especially that hints of a coming sensation. Inside that sardonic exterior the man's brain apparently was working like a hlast furnace. One of the dramatic Incidents of the dav a Fllcnt hit of drama, but fiercely -drawn was the failure of I'erry Vcvk to control himself while in sit;ht of the sneer on Waite's fm-c. All during the nmrninR Percy Peek sat where he could see the fn. e 'of Ills father's murderer. Mrs. Percy Peek siit beside him. Tears were in her eves J Tor nnns were around her husband's hus-band's shoulder. Every lime Perry PecK let his eves rest upon that surer his own face hardened and he seemed about to vault the intervening benches and throttle throt-tle the young dentist. Son Slung to Fury. IrH. Peek noticed this. She kept breaking the spell by pulling her husband toward her. Finally, when District Attorney At-torney Swan was sketching the case of the prosecution, YVaile's expression became be-came utterly contemptuous. Young Peck saw It and lie became crimson. His shoulders shoul-ders twitched. He clenched his hands to-Reiher to-Reiher until thov whitened. He shifted so that the face at the bar could not fascinate fas-cinate him. but there was something hypnotic about the sneer, lie had to look aga In. Very quietly Mrs. Peck arose, plucked her husband's sleeve and beckoned him forward, She led him to a bench where her ward. She led him to a bench where her husband could see nothing but the shoulders shoul-ders and head of the prisoner. The menace men-ace was gone. Percy Peck slumped down in his seat and i-iaxed. Tomorrow lrs. Perry Sehurtz of Grand Rapids and Otto Schultx of Now York,. Dean Victor Vaughn n of I he University of Michigan and Percy Peck will be witnesses, wit-nesses, i While It is beyond doubt that the defense de-fense will be based on alleged insanity. Waller 11. Deuel, counsel fur Waite, declared de-clared that nobody has yet diagnosed his plan nor even hinted at the phase of insanity in-sanity that he will seek to show his client possessed of. Dr. Allen Ross Dlefemlorf, the New York alienist, who appeared for the people in the Hans Schmidt trial, will testify for the prisoner. |