New-York tribune., 1921-06-11
Charges Midwife She Paid
TO Have Husband Beaten.
Got Pair of Assassins
TO Stab Him Instead
Woman She Accuses
Arrested i'm Ohio
Widow Breaks Down in
Crilling Here; Absolves
Her Daughter of Blame

CLEVELAND, June 1O.-With the ar
rival late tonight of Mrs. Eva RATHER
inc Kaber, widow Of Daniel B. Kaber,
wealthy Lakewood citizen, and Miss
Marian McArdle, Mrs. Kaber's daughter,
three generations were in the county
jail here facing trial for the first de-
gree murder of Kaber two years ago.
Mrs. Mary Brickel, sixty-nine, mother
of Mrs. Kaber, has been in Jail several
days in default of $4,000 bail.
Mrs. Kaber and Miss McArdle were
brought back from New York, where
they were arrested about a week ago,
by Chief Of Police Peter S. Christensen
and Lakewood police.
In addition, two other women and a
man, incriminated by Mrs. Kaber in a
confession in New York early to-day,
were in custody, while the police
sought two other men in connection
with the crime. Prosecutor Stanton
said he would ask that Mrs. Kaber be
tried at this term of court, which ends
July l.
Midwife Seized
One of the women under arrest. a
midwife, according to Mrs. Kaber's
confession, as related by Prosecutor
Stanton. planned the murder of Kaber,
who was stabbed twenty-four times.
She was taken into custody at San
concocted a poison, later hiring the
assassin. The man figures in Mrs.
Kaber's confession, according to Stan
ton, as one of the agents who hired
the two other men to stab Kaber, while
the second woman, according to Mrs.
Kaber's statements, knew of the plot
to commits the murder. The two men
at large, Stanton declares, are the
actual hired assassins.
In her confession Mrs. Kaber de-
clared the men were hired to "beat up''
Kaber "to make him treat her BETTER
The poison was given him, according to
the confession, "as medicine to cure his
bad habits" She did not know it was
poison, Mrs. Kaber insists, declaring it
was given to her as medicine.
Although Mrs. Kaber declared she
refused to pay the hired foreigners
when she learned they had murdered
her husband, one of the men being
sought is alleged to have left behind in
his flight an automobile said to have
been given him in payment for his
part in the crime. The men were to act
as GHOSTS" Mrs. Kaber's confession
states.
Thinks He Fought
She said Kaber had never believed in
ghosts or spirits, and that he probably
fought with the men when he awakened
and found them by his bedside, the
stabbing resulting.
Prosecutor Stanton was prepared to
confront the three prisoners with Mrs.
Kaber and her daughter tonight in
the hope that the prisoners would tell
what they knew of the murder.
Mrs. Kaber's aged mother, Mrs. Mary
Brlckel, who confessed that her daugh-
ter knew who had committed the mur-
der, is fretting in her cell here and
lieve that her responsibility is at an
end now that the information which
she gave has resulted in the clearing
up of the murder mystery She is
named in an indictment for murder
jointly with her granddaughter, Miss
McArdle, Mrs. Kaber's Indictment hav-
ing been handed up separately.
Italians Are Sought
When Mrs. Kaber gave the name of
the midwife in the New York confess
sion she said that she did not know
the names of the men the midwife
hired. Mrs. Kaber even referred to
the men as Spaniards, although the
police know them to be Italians. Never
theless, the Cleveland police believe
that they know who the men are, and
search for them was started at the
same time the arrest of the midwife
was made.
AS to the identity of the midwife's
agent, very little information has been
obtained.
Chief OF Police Christensen, in an
interview given on the train bringing
the prisoners to Cleveland and dropped
off by reporter at telegraph sta
tion en- route, denied the stories that
Mrs. Kaber had asked the midwife for
men to play the part of ghosts to
scare the paralytic into more gracious
behavior. The men were to beat him
up, Christensen said Mrs. Kabcr had
confessed. She denied, he added, that
there was any intention on her part