Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-03-02
KNIFE in HEART
BRIDE OF A FEW WEEKS is AC-
CUSED OF KILLING RUS.
BAND WITH KNIFE
wife SAYS SELF-DEFENSE
Circumstances Indicate Family Quar-
rel as When Found Dead Man
Held Tightly Cienched
Another Knife

Aberdeen-Mrs. Eva May Kreiser,
who stabbed her husband to death
near Hecla last night, was brought
to Aberdeen today and placed in the
Brown county Jail.
The coroner's inquest will be held
next Thursday. 1t is the theory of
some who have listened to the young
woman's story that Kreiter's death
may ka,c ben accidental rather than
due to intention.
They think Mrs. Kreiter may have
struck ner husband with the butcher
knife without intention of seriously
injuring him, when the weapon
touched @ vital spot.
Beyong stating that She stabbed
her husband in Self defense and shat
he lived an hour after receiving the
injury the prisoner has nothing to
say
When Kreiter's body was found
knife was sticking in the heart, and
tightly clenched in his right hand
was another knife.
There were no eye witnesses to the
tragedy, but it is said the couple
quarreled and attempted to settle
their differences in mortal combat
Domestic trouble is believed to have
been the cause.
Eva May Kreiter, who stabbed her
husband Sunday night, inquest over
the body being in session, in charge
of County Coroner w. II. Wilson To
day, manifests no especial concern
over the predicament in which She
finds herself. and talks interestedly
of nice clothes, dances and others
matters that interest young women
IF her age. She manifests but little
contrition for her act, which she
eta was purely self defense, and
asserts that her husband of less t''an
months had repeatedly beaten
her.
Mrs. Kreiter, instead of being 25
years old. as reports from Hecla.
near where the killing took place,
put it, acknowledges but II years.
She says She was born II years ago
last October. Her maiden name was
Eva May Gracey. and her father is
sA''I''S' u ~ SiiS iSollttL L Z ItllEOdQ dL
Topeka. Fan. Her father and mo-
ther and two sisters. the latter aged
rsspcctiveiy IL and 20 years. all live
at Topeka. where she was married to
Philip kri,cr, whom she is accused
OF killing. on last New Years day.
Kreiter, She says, was 80 wears old
instead of 35, as first reports had it.
f!ls parents and several brothers aaa
slSteS reside at Princeville, Ill. krei-
ter came to Topeka about two years
ago and met and fell in love with
Eva May Gracey, and finally, largely
through the persuasion of her par
ents, she claims, induced her to mar
ry him. He owned a farm near Hec-
la, and they came to South Dakota. to
live, three weeks ago. She did not
want to come to South Dakota. nor
I'D live on a farm, and She declares
she disliked Kreiter, and She was
homesick for the little gayetties. the
good times, the dances and other am
easements which she had been accus-
toned TO enjoying in company with
the bunch, as she called her crowd
OF boy and girl friends in Topeka.
The young woman who is a prison
er in the Brown county Jail Is de-.
cidedly attractive in appearance. She
has light yellow hair, extremely
pretty hazel eyes, is s feet 4 inches
tall, and owns to weighing lat
pounds. She tells several stories 1T
the killing of Kreiter, the latest one
beinS that they quarreled on Sunda,
night, at bed time. and that he crap.
bed her by the throat with both
hands and was choking her. In the
scuffle. which took place in the kit
chen, she was backed up against a
kitchen cabinet. She reached around
behind her, to- find something to dc.
fend herself with and grasrna
butcher knife. AS Kreiter continued
,oke her, she showed the sharp
knife into his side, penetrating a
lung.
The authorities here have a theory,
however, that the killing was more
deliberately done than the defendant
asserts, and are bending every effort
to bring evidence to that end to
light.
Mrs. Kreiter asserts her par
ents ut Topeka have been given no
word of the ,silling of Kreiter. They
know he is dead, but think he met
his death from natural causes. She
breads having them learn the truth
for She says that while Kreiter alb
used her FL private. .hc was al-ays
nice b me when the folks were
around"
Rapid City-Joseph B. Gossage. who
with hts wife conducts the Daily Jour-
nal. of this city. is the pioneer editor
OF the Black Hills and western South
Dakota. He has been engaged in the
since 1873
Camp Crook-Letters from Con-
gresham Martin indicate that the sec
rotary OF the interior will cause to be