Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-03-03
KNIFE IN HEART
BRIDE OF A FEW WEEKS 10 Az
CuSED OF KILLING HOS'
BAND WITH KNIFE
Wife SAYS SELF-DEFENSE
Circumstances Indicate Family quar-
rel az When Found Dead Man
Held Tightly Clenched
Another Knife

Aberdeen-Mrs. Eva May Kreiser'
who stabbed her husband to dea.n
near Hecla last night, was oroush'
to Aberdeen today and placed III 'n0
Brown county Jail.
The coroner's inquest will DE "sle
next Thursday. It is the theory -
some who have listened to the Nouhs
woman's story that Kreiter's dedth
may have ben accidental rather thai
due to intention.
They think Mrs. Kreiter may nave
struck her husband with the outchef
knife without intention of seriously
injuring him, when the weapon
touched a vital spot.
Beyong stating that she staooe1
her husband in self defense and mat
he lived an hour after receiving tne
injury, the prisoner has nothing 10
say.
When Kreiter's body was found a
knife was sticking in the heart, anu
tightly clenched in his right hand
was another knife.
There were no eye witnesses to the
tragedy, but it is said the couple
ouarreled 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. H. 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
Of her age. She manifests but little
contrition for her act, which she
claims was purely self defense, and
asserts that her husband of less than
to months had repeatedly beaten
her.
Mrs. Kreiter, instead OF being rs
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
employed by the Santa Fee railroad at
Topeka, Fan. Her father and mo-
Their and two sisters, the latter aged
respectively 10 and % years, all live
at Topeka. where she was married to
Philip Kritcr, whom she is accused
of killing. on last New Years day.
Kreiter, she says, was 80 years old
~ nf -
His parents and several brothers and
sistes 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-
Ia, and they came to South Dakota to
live, three weeks ago. She did not
want to come, to South Dakota, nor
to live on farm, and She declares
she disliked Kreiter, and she was
homesick for the little gayetties. the
good times, the dances and other am
uscments 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 feet 4 inches
tall, and owns to weighing 147
pounds. She tells several stories Of
the killing of Kreiter, the latest one
being that they quarreled on Sunday
night, at bed time, and that he era D.
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
kitchen cabinet. She reached around
behind her. to find something to de-
fend herself with. and grasrea
butcher knife. AS Kreiter continued
.oke her, she showed the sharp
knife into his side, penetrating a
lung.
The authorities here have 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 mo
word of the killing of Kreiter. Thew
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 in private. ''lle was always
nice 10 me when the folks were
aroup1n