The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-30
The Light to be Turned on
Monday When a Famous
Murder Trial wiz
Begin.
i i DR.. KNABE's DEATH
indianapolis Club Women Employ n
Eminent Lawyer to AssleA IN
Prosecution OF the
Accused.

GDr. Helene Knabe, leading wom-
an physician OF great physical charm
found dead In her Indianapolis apart
ments on the morning of October a.
1911.
Police decided she out her own,
throat but gave no satisfactory mc-i
tive. Coroner declared 1t was MURDER,
DIR. VIM. B. Craig. handsome wfda
over and intimate of the dead womanl
was charged with her murder in al
grand jury Indictment. December 81.
1912.
Craig trial opened Friday In Shell
byvilae on change Of venue
Indianapolis club women who rais.
ed funds to prosecute search for the
murderer and later to hire entnenti
counsel to assist state in Craig trial
now keep In back ground on accoune
of current rrmors.1
UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.I
SEHBLBYVIIGE, Ind, Nov. 29.--The
light will be turned on Monday on
Indiana's greatest crime mystery
the murder Of DR.. Helen Knabe, worn-
an physician OF rare physical beauty
and mental attainments who was
! found dead In her apartments in In
1 d-anapolis on the morning of October
i "A, 1911, her night-robe rolled under
! her arm pits and blood seeping from
4 q gaping wound in her throat NJ Sas
4 Bph Inman, the famous criminal
4 lawyer, hired by Indianapolis club
women to assist the state will make
i the opening statement for the prose
cution. He win charge that DR.. VIII
liam B. Craig, the defendant, dean OF
the Indiana veterinary college, cut DR..
Knabe's throat after bitter quarrel
that resulted from Craig's refusal to
i marry the victim. DR. Craig, the state
will charge, broke his promise to the
woman physician in order to sue for
1 the hand of another woman
Il When court adjourned today, elev-
4 en- jurors were in the box and, after
/ the twelfth has been selected Monday
d Inman will arraign the Indianapolis
= veterinarian The defense, It was an
nounced tonight will not state its
case to the jury until the states di-
rect evidence is in. The nature OF
the defense is shrouded in secrecy
but In examination Of prospective
! Jurors, DR.. Craig's attorneys indicated
they will incline to the policy theory
that DR.. Knabe committed suicide.
The secretiveness of the state re-
I 10 l{rA oJ i.t1
to the case tonight. On the surface
: the prosecution of case IS merely
circumstantial The state announces
it will offer witness who saw DR..
Craig leave DR.. Knabes apartments
, on the night of the murder other wit
I nesses who will testify regard ng the
alleged intimacies of the woman ply
sician and the handsome veterinarian.
In whose college she was lecturer,
and the testimony OF clairvoyants and
fifteen letters whom Dr. Knabe de-
| spite her intellectual gifts is said to
| have consulted, This much has been
: known since private detectives en-
, ployed by the indianapolis club wem.
/ en- after the police dropped the case,
/ secured the Indictment of DR.. Craig.
Tt Is the possibility that the state
i viii unloose a bomb in the shape OF
: direct proof that makes the trial it.
self of tremendous interest.
Dr.. Craig Will take the stand In
his own defense, his attorneys assert
ing that frank statement from him
a
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