Aside from the presence in Dr. Waite's closets of one hundred expensively tailored suits, a search of apartment yielded nothing unusual His extensive medical library showed commendable signs of careful study. In Wood's Therapeutics and Pharmacology, Volume Il, there was a slip of paper between pages 324 and 325; and the text on these pages treated the subject of Arsenic "Effects on the System," "Poisonous Effects" and "Slow Poisoning."
Flight, as a rule, is one of the surest signs of guilt, Peck must have realized that, for when Mancuso and his band of searchers returned to the Manhattan Hotel, they found this telegram:
W on the wolverine bound for New York arriving there eleven o'clock Saturday morning.—Peck
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.