Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-03-03
KNIFE in HEART
BRIDE OF A FEW WEEKS is AC-
CUSED OF KILLING HUS-
BAND WITH KNIFE AZ
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
wonlan's story that Kreiter's death
ma faNe ben accidental rather than
due to intention.
They think Mrs. Kreiter may have
struck her husband with the butcher
knife without intention Of seriously
injuring him, when the weapo
touched a vital spot.
Beyong stating hat she stabbed
her husband in self defense and that
he lived an hour after receiving the
injury, the prisoner has nothing to
say.
When K~reiter's body was found a
knife was sticking in the heart, and
tightly clenched in his right hand
was another knife.
There were no eye witnesses to the
trs gedy, but it is said the couple
o. luII lSlCo ~ w SoSSAS
their differences in mortal combat.
Domestic trouble is believed to have
been the cause. 1,
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 h
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
two 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 IT years.
She says she was born IT years g
last October. Her maiden name was
Eva May Gracey, and her father is
employed by the Santa Fe railroad at
Topeka, Kan. Her father and mo-
ther inc two sisters, the latter aged
respectively 13 and 20 years, all live
at Topeka, where she was married to
Philip Kriter, whom she is accused
of killing. on last New Years day.
Kreiter, h says, was so years old
instead of IS, as first reports had it.
TIis parents and several brothers ard
sistes reside at P~rinceville, Ill. Kret-
ter came to Topeka about two years
G End met and fell in love with
Eva May Gracey, and finally, largely
<hra1on @ho EnarcY,o STOW 0f bor nor.
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
to live on a farm, n 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-i
toned to enjoying in company with
the bunch, as she called her crowd
of boy and girl friends in Topekas
The young woman h is a prison
err 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 147
pounds. She tells several stories Of
the killing Of Kreiter, the latest n
being that they quarreled on Sunday
night, at bed time and that he graz
bed e 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. h reached around
behind her, to find something to de-
fend herself with, and grasped a
butcher knife. AS Kreiter continued
to choke 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 killing 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 abb
used her in private, h was always
nice 10 me when the folks were
around"
Rapid City-Joseph B. Gossage, who
with his 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
newspaper business here continuously
since 1878.
Camp Crook-Letters from Con-
gresham Martin indicate that the sec
rotary of the interior will cause to be
made an early examination OF the
lands in this section withdrawn for
coal, by the president last fall. A
large portion of these lands lies in
Harding and Perkins counties, in the
extreme northwestern part of the
state and those around here most
familiar with them believe that exam
nation will prove little coal and
show them more valuable for agri-
cultural purposes. Meanwhile many
entries for isolated tracts are held up
until after the examination and CLASH
fi%catiOn.
Aberdeen - James Nolan's keen
sense OF honor caused him to draw
q knife and stab Barton Clennon,
a railroad man, in the neck, when
Clennon, in a quarrel over a game
of cards, intimated that Nolan had
cheated. Nolan is held in default of
$500 bonds. It is not believed Glen
mons hurts will prove serious, al