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Show KILLED FATHER TO GET 1EDITANGE DENTIST AND WELL-KNOWN TEN-NIS TEN-NIS PLAYER CHARGED WITH BRUTAL CRIME. Millionaire and His Wife Died While on Visit to Daughter and the Daughter Is Now Near Death as Result of Poisoning. Now York. In a stupor from Bolt-ndmlnlstercd Bolt-ndmlnlstercd drugs, Dr. Arthur Warren War-ren Walto, a dentist and well known as a tennis player, was in Uio custody of detectives Thursday night and will bo charged with tho murder hero on March 12 of his father-in-law, John E. Pecli, a millionaire drug manufacturer of Grand Rapids, Mich., as soon ns ho can bo taken into court. With tho arrest ar-rest of Dr. Walto, the district attorney's attor-ney's office believes it has uncovered what will provo ono of tho most re-markablo re-markablo cases in many years. Mr. Peck, who is reputed to havo left an estate valued at about $1,500,-000, $1,500,-000, and his wlfo died within six weeks while visiting their daughter and her husband at tholr Riverside drlvo apart-montB apart-montB hero. By tho will of Mr. Peck, his cstato was equally divided between Mrs. Waito and Percy Peck of Grand Rapids, his son. Mrs. Walto now is seriously lll.at Qrand-Ilaplds.- District Attorney Swnnn said ho had learned sho had beon instructed by Waito to mako a will in his favor. Detectives found in Dr. Walto's apartment seven or eight books on medicine, especially relating to poisons pois-ons and their effects. In ono volume therp was a bookmark between pages which described tho use of tho poison rovealed by tho autopsy on Peck's body. |