Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-12
|KABER CASE MAY
| END THIS WEEK

CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 10
Through direct testimony and al
legged confessions, the suite Saturday
sought to link together pieces of a
chain of evidence it has been welding
to prove conspiracy which culml-
mated in the murder of Daniel F.
Kaber, for which his widow, Eva
Catherine Kaber, is being tried.
Whether the confessions, alleged to
have been made by Salvatore Gala,
whom the state claims actually kill
ed Mr.. Kaber, and Mrs. IIrminia Col
avito, claimed by the state to have
procured the assassins for Mrs. Ka-
Der, is permitted to go to the jury,
depends upon a ruling to be made
by Judge Maurice Bernon when the
trial is resumed next Monday. The
confessions were presented in open
court today in the absence of the
jury, through Police Detective Phil
Mooney, who is alleged to have been
present when they were made. The
defense has objected to their intro
duction as testimony.
Whether Mrs. Colavito's alleged
COIlSSSIOH Is duI1llIeQ 1ndIIerS noun
ing, for she gave Indirect testimony
today all that was contained in the
confession. The state has not yet
obtained the assent of her attorney to
use her asa witness without offer
Ing immunity. She is held on a
first degree murder charge i'll con-
nection with the Staying of Mr. ka-
Der. The court told Mrs. C2lavito
that she was not compelled to testify
unless she wished
Yes, 1 know that" she replied.
She will be cross-examined Monday
by defense counsel.
Mrs. Colavito's Story
Mrs. Colavito detailed the alleged
story of Mrs. Kaber coming to her to
husbands nasty habits" how she
gave Mrs. Kaber medicine to admin
lister to Mr.. Kaber; how Mrs. Kaber
met Gala and Vittorio Pisselli, an
other of the alleged murderers; how
Mrs Kaber and the two men planned
to execute the murder; how they
compelled her to solicit Mrs. Kaber
for money which, she was alleged to
have promised In payment for the
killing of her husband: how the men
threatened to kill her if she did not
get the money for them, and how
finally she did get $500, diamond
ring and watch from Mrs. Kaber
for them.
Calais alleged confession, as re-
lated by Detective Mooney, was car
ried along from the time Cala~was
alleged to have said that he first met
Mrs. Kaber and promised to kill
her husband for her. to the actual
stabbing of the Lakewood publisher.
Gala was alleged to have admitted
that he and Pisseli were to receive
$4,000 for committing the murder.
The state is expected to attempt to
introduce the alleged confession of
Mrs. Kaber made in New York a
few nights after her apprehension
there. County Prosecutor Edward G.
Stanton today received a typewriter
copy of the document which contains
alleged admissions by Mrs. Kaber
that she procured Gala and Pisselli
to beat up her husband"
The state may rest its case Mon
day. The defense testimony then
will be offered. The case is expected
to take ali next week for completion.
May Plead Insanity
Mrs. Eva Catherine Kaber next
week starts her fight 10 escape the
electric chair.
Her attorneys are expected to at
tempt to prove by witnesses and
alienists that Mrs. Kaber has been
of diseased mentality since birth,
and that this was famed to an in
sane hatred by alleged practices on
the part of Kaber that were objec-
t;onable to her as a wife.