Murder of Hannah and John E. Peck

Murder

People

• Arthur Warren Waite was a dentist and the murderer. He was born in 1887 in Grand Rapids, Michigan to Warren W. Wait and Sarah Jane Haines. He married Clara Louise Peck, the daughter of Hannah and John Edward Peck on September 9, 1915, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Arthur Warren Waite was the son-in-law of Hannah and John E. Peck. He was found guilty and electrocuted at Sing Sing on May 24, 1917.
• John Edward Peck was poisoned by Arthur Warren Waite. He was born in New York on March 4, 1844, to Elias Peck and Catherine Millard. He married Hannah M. Carpenter in 1876. He died at 435 Riverside Drive in Manhattan, New York City at the home of Arthur. He founded Peck Brothers Drug Co. with his brother and sold it for several million dollars.
• Hannah M. Carpenter Peck was born on April 24, 1854, in New York City, She married John Edward Peck. She was poisoned by Arthur Warren Waite.
• Percy Seaman Peck was the son of Hannah and John Edward Peck. He testified at the murder trial of Arthur Warren Waite.
• Clara Louise Peck Waite, the daughter of Hannah and John Edward Peck, and the wife of Arthur Warren Waite, she was poisoned, and became ill, but recovered. she later married John J. Caulfield.
• Margaret Horton was a cabaret singer having an affair with the married Arthur Warren Waite.