Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1916 — EXPERT AIDS ORPET [ARTICLE]

EXPERT AIDS ORPET

DECLARES GARDENER’S CYANIDE WAS NOT POTASSIUM. Physician Believes Marian Lambert Developed Hysteria and Committed Suicide. Waukegan, 111., July 7.—Will Orpet’s defense to the charge that he murdered Marian Lambert was wound up in Waukegan with the submission of .proof that the poison which the prosecution has shown was easily accessible to him and probably caused her death really was sodium cyanide. Two of the state’s own experts satisfied themselves without doubt that the girl died from taking potassium cyanide. The difference between the two chemicals is distinct. It further was established that the cyanide handled by druggists Is sodium cyanide, offsetting ‘the impression created by the prosecution In crossexamining Orpet that he Could have obtained the poison that killed his high school sweetheart at a pharmacist’s in Madison, Wls., where he was attending the University of Wisconsin. It was Doctor Webster and Dr. E. R. I.eCount. who, from analyses of internal organs of Marian Lambert, reached the conclusion that she died from taking potassium cyanide. They found 3.99 grains of it in her stomach. Later in the day Dr. William O. Krohn caused a sensation when he gave it as his belief that Marian had suicidal tendencies, brought on by hysteria.