Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-07 | Page 1 | Alleged Poisoner of Husband on Trial

ALLEGED POISONER OF HUSBAND ON TRIAL ALTURAS, Calif.; April "7. Forty witnesses have been summoned in connection con-nection with the trial of Mrs. Olive Peck, charged with the murder ol Frank Peck, her husband. Frank Peck died from poison at his honie in Eagleville, Modoc county, Oc tober 30, 1919, and in an anto mortem statement to neighbors said the dose was administered by his wife. Mrs, Peck thereafter made two unsuccessful attempts to commit suicide. The prosecution said an attemp! would be made to show that Mrs. Peck wished her husband out of the way sc she might many another. nn