The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-04
De- IH CUR So IS
/ USED BY 81 LAYER.
Only Six Strange Words Spok
en- and Murder and Suicide
Follow in Cleveland.
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Follow in Cleveland.
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strange words. the meaning of which
no one seems to know-wofds Jumbled
will last through life IN the child
brain of Otto Kader.
The, words OF the, death .crrse which
viii follow the I'VE year old boy until
he dies were implanted In his mind
when Fred Kader. the boys father,
by adoption, shot himself dead here,
after fatally woundfng his WIFE,, the
woman whom Otto had known only
as mother since his, real mother died
two years ago, @ @
Wife Sues for Divorce. prs
Whdle Fred Kader's, body lay In an
undertaker's morgue and while Mrs.
Catherine Kader lay dying at the city
hospital with bullet hole in her
breast; neighbors were puSzling over
the death words.
They had separated. the boys
adopted parents, and the woman had
started divorce proceedings. 1t was
Fred Kader'sf determination that d.
yorce would never finally separate
him from his wife that led to the
tragedy.
Left Husband Two Weeks Ago.
Mrs. Kader. with her son, had been
living at. the home OF her sister Mrs:
Max Klein since she left her husband
two weeks ago.
In the last two weeks Kader re-
peatedIy sought his wife to beg that
she reconsider her resolution to OBJ
tain a divorce. But Mrs. Kader re-
NAMED firm. DRINK had made her
husband intolerable, she had told him
She had given him his last chance to
reform. she had declared.
After each reufsal of his plea Ka-
der had gone away, always with the
same vow that the divorce would new
er separate them forever.
"Nur das. Grab kann mich schie-
dem" he had sworn. a
only the grave can divorce me
from her." was the translation OF his
VOW. s2
Lives In Fear of Him.
Living in terror of her husbands
threats, Mrs. Kader was alone with
her adopted son yesterday afternoon.
Her sister had gone downtown to
shop. Mr.. Kader had locked the front
door and had pulled down the shades
on most of the windows.
1t was about p. m. that Mrs. John
Miller, who Hives next door to the
Klein hone, saw MIR. Kader walk up
on the front porch OF the house which
sheltered his wife and boy. Mrs.
miller watched him pressing the but
ton to an electric bell for several
minutes Then she saw him walk to
the rear of the house.
HIS Expression inspires Terror.
siF4is face was terrible to look up
1aI.s es& tt1,fex Al
was set in a grim expression telling
me he meant harm. Il watched him
breathIessly. and terror stricken
when I saw that he had entered the
rear door,
Mrs. Miller heard loud words. Then
Mrs. Miller heard Kader shout last
terrible warning that mingled with
the sobbing OF the child.
The next instant there were two re-
volver shots in quick succession. Then
"a third shot sounded. Only the cry
ing of the boy broke the stiffness.
Mrs Miller ran shrieking into the
street. She was, Joined by Mrs. Cath
crime Nearing, who lives in upstairs
shots also had attracted Paul Kauf-
an mand Harry Helburner, who rush
Neighbors Find Both Bodies.
In the dining room they found Mrs.
Kader. unconscious. ON a davenport,
blood streaming from a wound in her
night breast. On the floor. lay Kader
with a wound in his head He showed
scarcely any signs OF life.
DR.. L. S. Schumacher reached the
house in time to administer first add
to. Mrs. Kader. 3 ap
Five minutes later the police emer-
kency automobile from the Ninth
precinct arrived with Capt Stephen
Kadel, Lieutenant Comerford. Ser
geant Koehlke and Patrolman Crock
EFT. Mr.. and. Mrs. Kader were taken
to the City hospital, where doctors
pronounced Kader dead.
To Sergeant Henry Koehlke. Mrs.
Miller told the story OF the strange
words. Kader had uttered Just before
he fired the shots. When police ques-
toned the little bow he repeated some
OF the words. Efforts of police to
learn the meaning of Kader's death
curse were nnavailing 'i.s