ORPET CASE IS VERY PERPLEXING Mark of Suicide and Murder Become Substantially as One Waukegan. 111., July 28. The case of Marlon Lambert arid William H. Orpet In the course of its develop ment became one of the most perplex ing in the annals of criminal history, ■yotlve paralleled motive, action action, opportunity parallel ed opportunity until the marks of murder and suicide become substan tially as one. 1 In the end the guilt or innocence of the defendant, so far as the adduc tion of actual fact was concerned went to the Jury on the mystifying niceties of chemical analysis and Orpet's own compromising conduct. The mystery attracted unusual interest in all parts of the United States and Canada. Trial of the case including selection .-f a jury occupied the better part of twe months. There appeared in evi dence forty-four letters written oy Oipet to Marion over a period of a year; bottles and boxes containing samples of cyanide from the McCor mlck estate, from the Deerfield high school laboratory, from Kraft's drug store at Lake Forest and white powder scraped from Marion's hand and from spots on her cloak; the girl's gar nunts; a magazine article dealing with the use of cyanide as a fumigator in greenhouses; the chemistry text books used respectively by the high school girl and the college student, a copy of the Wisconsin statute dealing with the sale of poisons, and a bottle of molasses and water. Long Array of Witnesses Five chemists, all of whom were specialists in texicology, one alienist, two surveyors, druggists, street car men. an undertaker, school teachers, police officers, reporters and friends of the Orpets and Lamberts were among the long array or witnesses who testified. Ralph W. Dadv. State's attorney of Lake county; David R. Joslyn, State's attorney of McHenry county and Eugene M. Runyard appeared as coun sel for the prosecution, and James H. Wilkerson, former United States dis trict attorney at Chicago, Ralph F. Potter, his law partner, and Leslie P. Hanna. of Waukegan, for the defense. More than a thousand veniremen were examined before a jury, said by coun sel upon its selection to be above the average in intelligence and character, was chosen. Judge Charles H. Don nelly, presided. The series of parallels started at Lake Forest, one of a series of aristo cratic suburbs dotting the heavily wooded bluffs along the west shore of Lake Michigan from Chicago to Waukegan, for Frank Lambert, father of Marion, was superintendent of the Kuppenheimer estate, and Edward O. Orpet, father of the defendant, super intendent of the estate of Cyrus Mc- Cormick, both at Lake Forest. Last summer, young Orpet. then a pallid, slender youth of nineteen, of sharply regular features, somewhat vj;in of his college opportunities and undisciplined as to character, returned from the University of Wisconsin at Madison for a vacatiqn at home. He fell madly in love with Marion, ac cording to his letters. She had com pleted her junior year at the Deerfield High school and was then seventeen anci known for her gaiety and laugh ter—"the life of the party," as one witness put it. She Saved His Letters When Orpet returned to college in the Fall of 1915 frequent letters were exchanged. Orpet destroyed hers; she saved his and they remained alter her death to speak of the great fear of exposure that came upon her. Orpet, in testifying, said that he was certain that these fears were ground less. Once he mailed her a bottle of molasses and water "to ease her ir.lnd" and he brought a similar com pound with him for the same purpose when he entered Helm's woods, near Lake Forest, with her on the morning of Wednesday, February 9, last. Orpet testified that 'he made the trip to allay her fears and to explain a story which had reached Marion that he was engaged to one Celestia Youker, but the elaborate efforts which he made to keep the trip secret and his subsequent conflicting state ments of it to officers of the law de veloped into the most damaging evi dence against him. It led to the menacing question of Mr. Joslyn. reiterated again and again: "Why? Why? Why? Why did you come? You brought no relief; you brought no medicine: you brought r.o tenderness —no words of love! Why did you come?" On February 8, Orpet at Madison left three letters, post-dated February 9 with his friend Otto Peterson to be mailed on the latter date, one was to his mother, one to Marion, and the third to Marion's friend Josephine Davis. They were worded to make it appear that the writer was in. Madi son on February 9. the day Tie kept his tryst in the woods with Marion, and sha came to her death. Writes Alibi Letters Orpet explained on the stand that the alibi letters, as they came to be known, were written so that if by ac cident he were seen at Lake Forest find word of the fact reached Marion's parents, who objected to him, or his own parents, who expected him to re main faithful to college duties at Madison, they would accept the let ters as conclusive evidence to the con trary The letter to Josephine was to corroborate that to Marion. Josephine testified that she never received it. On the afternoon of the eighth, in a dark overcoat which he said he had borrowed to wear with a dress suit to a party which he expected to attend on the twelfth, carrying the bottle of molasses and water in his pocket, and Having behind him the alibi letters and a bed rumpled to deceive his landlady, the student proceeded by way of Milwaukee, where he spent a half hour or so between trains, to Lake Forest. Arriving there he arranged by telephone to meet Marlon on her way to school the next morning, walked about for a while to make cer tain that his parents had retired, and entered the McCormick garage where he spent the night on a cot. In the morning he and Marlon met and walked through the snow into the v. oods. Orpet testified that there was little conversation, and he could recol lect only the purport of it. He offered her the "medicine" and she refused it. He started to leave but she called him back and asked if he was going to write to her any more. He said there seemed to be no use of it, and started awav again. "Something made me look around I don't know what—and I saw Marion lying in the snow," related the de fendant on the stand. "I returned, kneeled over her for maybe a minute. [ noticed the moist powder in the lines of her hand. Her eyes were glazed. Then a kind of fog came on my brain ane; I don't remember much after that except that on reaching the road T threw away the 'medicine' and made my way on foot to Highland Park, caught a train, and that evening ar rived back at Madison." Marion was missed that night and her body found, the next morning. Orpet was arrested and told numerous conflicting stories prior to the trial, these being used against him at the trial. During his cross-examination which lasted for three days he re pratedly to"k refuge in "1 den't re jnember." He spoke In a low voic^ FRIDAY EVENING, 4 JSjoamanX 4 1 * 1 . ■ nIO9I—UNITED s HAKRISHIftG. FRIDAY, JULY 2R. 11)10. 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