The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-03-02
THE 7 CASE
WIFE ACCUSED OF KILLING HER
HUSBAND SAYS SHE USED
KNIFE IN DEFENSE
HAD QUARRELED BEFORE
According to Her Statement the Brief
Honeymoon Had Been MARRIED
by Scenes of Domestic
Turbulence

Eva May Kreiter. who stabbed her
husband Sunday night, inquest over
the body being in session, in charge
Of County Coroner w. II. Wilson ID
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, n
asserts that her husband Of less than
two months had repeatedly beaten
her.
Mrs. Kreiter, instead of being 20
years old, as reports from Hecla,
near where the killing took place,
put it, acknowledges but Il years.
She says she was born Il years ag"
last October. Her maiden name vas
Eva May Gracey, and her father is
employed by the Santa Fe railroad at
Topeka. Kan. Her father and mo-
ther and two sisters, the latter aged
respectively IS and % years, all live
at Topeka, where she was married to
Philip Kritcr, whom she is accused
W NiiiilEs Oh ldSI ne" L ear > Jay.
KTeiter. She say was 80 years old
instead Of 35, as first reports had il.
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, h claims, induced her % 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
10 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, exteremeiv
pretty hazel eyes, is 5 feet 4 inches
tall, and owns to weighing 147
pounds. She tells several stories If
the killing of Kreiter, the latest one
being that they Q]uarreled on Sunday
night, at bed time, and that he "rao-
bed her by the throat with both
hands and vas choking her. In the
s~cuffle, which took place in the kit
chen, she was backed up against a
kitchen cabinet. She 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, hat the killing was more
deliberately one than the defendant
asserts, and are bending every effort
10 bring evidence to hat end I O
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 alb
used her in private, h was always
nice to me When the folks were
around