The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-08
KAbER ACCUSED WIFE OF CRIME,
 WITNESSES SAY
My Wife Ordered This Done," Wounded Man Said After He Had Been
 Mortally Stabbed
By Associated Press

Cleveland, o., July 7.-Testimony tending to show that Daniel r. kaber, for whose murder his widow, Eva Catherine Kaber, is on trial for first degree murder, suspected her of hay ing planned his assassination was in troduced today by the state through two witnesses.
 My wife ordered this done.
 "Mv wife ordered this done.
 My God! My wife ordered this done"
 These exclamations were uttered by Mir kaber to police Lieutenant l.. B. Miller of Lakewood, upon the officers arrival at the home soon aft CT Mir Kaner had been stabbed. ac- cording to Lieutenant Miller's testi- mony.
 My God. doctor. my wife must have done this" Dr. w. J. Quigley. who was called to attend the wound ed man said MT. Kaber exclaimed to him.
 Both Lieutenant Miller and Df, Quigley declared mat MT. haper made these statements while yet con scious and while he lay on the fioor by the side of the bed in which ne was attacked.
 This. with assertions by two wom- en witnesses that Mrs. Kaber had told them she wanted her husband murdered, were the high points Tn the states testimony today.
 Medium On stand.
 Mrs. Mary J. Wade, an alleged me- 6ium, testified that Mrs haper on the last of several visits to her. said.
 T want you to try 10 get rio o1 Dan kaber for me-
 Asked by Mrs. Wade how she was to go about it, Mrs. kaoer was alleged to have replied
 .I want you to kill him-anyway 10 get rid of him. The man loye has no money, only brains ana MT. Kaber has S50000 life insurance
 Mrs. Bertha Miethke, grandmother of little Patricia. whom the hapers had adopted. testified that Mrs. ha- Der said to her:
 T hate Dan Kaber. and am going to get rid of him within the next SIX months in some manner or other.
 These statements were made 10 Mrs. Wade in April, 1919. and to Mrs. Miethke In January. before the inur- der. they testified
 The state. in an effort to suostah- tiate it's claim that Mrs. haper sought to poison her husband also introduced testimony of pr. 3uigieN and Dr. Alfred Masehke along this line.
 Both physicians said they had treated Mir. Kaber and made exam : nations of him during period or several months before his death- They asserted he was suffering from neuritis and secondary aenemia-
 Arse4al Poisoning Based upon a hypothetical ques- Ition asserting that an anaiysis or Mfr. Kaber's internal organs alter his death disclosed the presence Of ar senic in quantity "sufflcient 70 XII four men" both physicians said they would diagnose the case on the aneamia and neuritis as arsenal pois- oping.
 This hypothetical question was ad- mitted bv Judge Maurice Bernon only on the states promise to show by later testimony that an analysis of Ksber's organs showed the presence of the poison in the quantity alieged. Attorney William J. Corrigan. on cross-examination of the physicians sought to establish that the poison might have been absorbed from DOW ders sprinkled over the organs by the undertaken who prepared the body for burial. He based a hypo- thetical question on this assumption but pr. Quigley maintained that the tCentipued on Page Two)