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Show CONFESSES HIS PART IN TRAGEDY Young Man Has Knowledge of Death of High School Girl. Chicago, Feb. 12. William H. Or-pet, Or-pet, a junior at the University of Wisconsin, Wis-consin, early today confessed to detectives de-tectives at Madison, Wis., knowledge of the death by poison of Miss Marion Frances Lambort, Lake Forest high school girl, whose body was found In a wooded section of Lake Forest on Thursday. Orpet, In custody of detectives, de-tectives, is en route to Lako Forest, where he will testify at the coroner's inquest into the death of the girl. According to tho statement of officers, offi-cers, Orpet said he met Miss Lambert In the woods near the Sacred Heart academy, Wednesday morning, by ap-' ap-' polntmcnt lie said she pleaded with him for two hours to renew his friendship friend-ship with her. He said he declined. Then, according to the officers, Orpet said he left her, and as ho did sho swallowed the poison, which caused her death. Orpet did not admit that he actually actu-ally saw the girl die He confessed, however, that ho wrote her a letter, making an appointment, declined to continue as her friend and later wrote another letter to be delivered at her homo in Lako Forest after the finding ing the body. It was pointed out by detectives that the second letter might have been written to establish an alibi, ali-bi, the purpose of which was to indicate indi-cate that he had not left Madison on the night preceding tho girl's death. It was expected that Orpet would repeat his story to the coroner's jury today. Orpet's confession came at the end of fivo hours cross-examination at the hands of detectives and State's Attorney Attor-ney Dady of Lake county. He was taken Into custody at Madison, Wis., yesterday afternoon and It was after midnight before he admitted that he had been with Miss Lambert on the day of her death Prior to that time ho maintained stoutly that he had not left Madison and this was corroborated corroborat-ed by his landlady who based her statement on the fact that his bed appeared to have been slept in Orpet and the officials left Madison on an early train and were expected to arrive in Lake Forest early today. The Lake Forest authorities today made public the statement of David James, a deaf mute who claims to havo witnessed the girl's death. James, according to the police, said he saw a man walking in the woods with Miss Lambert, saw him press something that looked like a bottle to her lips and that shortly afterward she fell dead. |