Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1916 — Declares Orpet is Responsible For Girl’s Death. [ARTICLE]

Declares Orpet is Responsible For Girl’s Death.

The circumstantial evidence on which the state will rely to convince the jury that Will Orpet, 20 Year old University of Wisconsin student, murdered his former sweetheart, Marion Lambert, a high school girl of Lake Forest, was outlined to the jurors in Judge Donnelly’s court by David R. Joslyn, state's attorney of McHenry county. The points on which the state will attempt to convict Orpet are, first, Orpet’s waning or vanquished affection for Miss Lambert and his belief that her physical condition presaged serious trouble for him. Second, that he made elaborate efforts to establish an alibi by mussing up his bed to make it appear he had slept there when, as a matter of fact, he was on ais way to Miss Lambert, and by leaving the letters to be mailed after his departure from Madison. Third, by his contradictory statements and final admission that he saw Miss Lambert die. Fourth, by the alleged fact that he purchased an empty twoounce bottle from a drug store at Madison. Fifth, by the alleged fact, as established in the behalf of the. state, that the fatal drug used was in solution. Sixth, by the fact that there was no container near the body, as would have been the case, in the state’s opinion, had the girl carried the poison herself. Seventh, by the fact that the poison while in the chrystal form was kept by the parents of both Orpet and Miss Lambert, and at, the respective schools attended by them, it was more readily accessible to Orpet.