Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1916 — STUDENT ARRESTED FOR GIRL’S MURDER [ARTICLE]

STUDENT ARRESTED FOR GIRL’S MURDER

William H. Orpet, Junior at Wisconsin University, Held For Poisoning Lambert Girl. William H. Orpet, junior at Wisconsin University, is held in Chicago for the murder of Marian Frances Lambert, the 18 years old girl whose dead body was found in the woods last Thursday. A formal charge of murder rests against him. Orpet admitted criminal relations with the girl and that her recently sickness was caused by an abortive medicine he had given her. He admitted that he saw her die and returned to the body after she had fallen. He had schemed an alibi by mussing up his bed at his rooming house at Madison, Wis., and by writing a letter home and having it mailed by a friend after he had left Madison. A short letter he had written the girl was also incriminating. It told her that he would come to see her but told her not to let- anyone know and said he would see that “everything was all right.” Orpet denied,that he gave Miss Lambert the poison but his efforts to prevent anyone from Knowing he was in Waukegan on that date. During the night before the murder he hid in the garage on the McCormick estate so that no. one would know he was in Chicago. His trial will take place on Feb. 21st. Saturday he was taken to the woods by detectives and they went over the ground he and Miss Lambert had followed shortly before her death. He was then taken to the city hall and questioned for four hours, from 10:30 to 2:30. He emerged from the examination worn and haggard. Ofpet's father is the head gardener on the McCormick estate. Orpet was engaged to Miss Celeste Youker, a chemistry teacher at Deßalb normal school.