The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-05
81 Still Love Him." Declares
Mrs. Kreiser, Admitting All.
Tried to Win Him Back; .'Infi-
deity Flaunted in My Face"
Topeka WOMAN IN The CASE
She May Be Called as Witness
to X. C.. Murder Trial.
Dozens of Bouquets Brought by
200 Friends to Fair Prisoner.

Kansas City, Mo, March 5.-That
her husband Haunted his infidelity in
her face-laughed about it-as the
elimination of her efforts to win back
! the love of the man she loved, Mrs.
Mary A. kreiSer who admits having
slain Edward Kreiser, prominent Kan
sas City musician and orga mist of the
| Independence Boulevard Christian
church, sobbed forth the story of a
| broken heart to the hundreds of Wis
| itors who visit her in her cell in the
county Jail Sunday and today Inad-
vertently she admits that the killing
was carefully planned-even to the
anticipation of the suffering and
| humiliation she would have to under
| go thru Imprisonment.
| Agents of the states attorneys Of
| flee are inquiring into the wife's
charges of the organiSt's infidelity and
the report that he had told his wife
! that he was to meet another woman"
| IN Topeka, Kan, Sunday afternoon.
Ultimately it is believed that Mrs.
kreiser will reveal the name of the
| other woman" and that possibly the
Topeka woman will be subpoenaed as
! a witness in the case. If the police
OFFICIALS or prosecuting attorney now
know the name of the other women
alleged to have been interested in the
| organlst, they will not admit it, much
less state who they are
Bouquets by Dozen Sent to Her.
There We're not glasses and vases
enough IN the county Jail offices to
mold the flowers that were sent to
her, so Harry Hoffman, county mar
shal, sent out to Mrs. Kreiser's home,
at her suggestion. and had a dozen
vases brought to her cell.
| Two hundred men and women have
VISITED her. Women high in church
and social work in Kansas CITY stood
outside the heavy bars, looked thru
the meshed wire and talked with her
thru tears. And they told her from
their hearts they were sorry and would
aid her as best they could.
| IL anything you could do would
heip this aching heart of mine" she
Nsald to one woman she had known for
years, Il would ask you to stay ne
SIDE mo, but it will not. I expected the
misery that is with me now
Mrs. Kreiser is slight of stature
she wore a neat black skirt and a
white wa. st. Her eyes were red She
had not slept. Her hair was carefully
arranged, and her thin, red hands
worked nelvously in her lap as ST 6 sat
near window in the jail ,orridor
Her gaze was steady, and there was
| a suggestion of something like fear in
her manner as she raised her face to
! talk with. a reporter who stood beside
1 her 80
"Knew L Was Not His Equal"
But my case might not be the
same as all Others" she quickly add
ed. When Ed and L were married he
knew l was not his equal in all things
l could play the organ some, and
gave some lessons. But l could not
know music as he knew it. L could
not feet it as he did. l told him sof
and he said that would be all right
Time would do great things, he said
and he would teach me all he knew
| he
heart. was broken. One day he told
me plainly: Mary, you don't feel
music as L do. You don't sympathize
as l do. We are not the same in
here. And she slapped her chest
and sobbed. her face in her hands.
And days came and went and
months passed by. 1 would always
think in the summertime that when
winter came, things would be differ
emit He would stay at home more
with me, 1 thought. 1 pictured to
myself our little fireside and our baby.
But winter came and my dreams were
shattered. Then l looked forward to
the springtime. 1 thought, well, when
the leaves come out and the sun
shines and the birds come, Ed will
be like he was in the beginning But
it passed, too. And as the time went
by l was dying inside, and 1 begged
him to be good. He Haunted his in
fidelity in my face Maybe YOU think
L,
and all the time my soul was being
torn out.
"My Heart Is Torn and Dead"
It's difficult to tell ones feeling
when the person who has sworn to
love is known to be falling away
Perhaps l can't tell it exactly but
my heart here is torn and dead Ii
was horrible. l loved him and he
was not mine. L love him now. There
: is nothing more 1 can say"
And then she walked back into the
white painted cell that smelled OF
roses piled high to the ceiling
Pastor Prays With Her.
:, Kansas City, March 5.-Mrs Mary
Kreiser, confessed slayer of Edward
Kreiser her husband, church organist
, and widely known musical composer
drew comfort today in her cell at the
county jail here from the visit of the
Rev. George H. Combs. pastor of the
church at which she taught a Sun
day school class and at which her hus-
band was organist. They conversed al
length with the eyes of other pris-
oners upon them, most of whom
bowed their heads as the minister and
Mrs. Kreiser prayed together for g
' moment.
II knew of their troubles DIR
Combs said. ''They both had talked
no me about it It is terrible thing
! Seven '"Other Women She Says.
' Mrs. Kreiser smiled repeatedly to.
7 day to the numerous visitors who fol
y lowed each other in quick succession
to her cell. where she is imprisoned
with several other women. But she
refused to go deepen into the event:
I that led up to the shooting Saturday
: than to mention again that sever
women had come into her husbafld'i
life to claim part of the affection
p she, herself. demanded. Altho sh,
! controlled herself at all times today
i beneath her smiles visitors detected
Il traces of the poignancy of the grie
= and sorrow thru which she has under
gone in the jail.
She Names Women.
Mrs. Kreiser, in her statement
e named seven different women witt
: whom her husband had been in love a