Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-07-22
SORCERESS IN
KABER MURDER
FACING DEATH
To Go To Trial For
Black Magic Phase
OF Killing\

ma COlaVlto, mldWlteH ana reputed
sorceress, is the notable figure in the
Kaber murder case, now that Mrs.
Dan Kaber has been sentenced to life
imprisonment for the murder of her
invalid husband, Dan Kaber, in their
fine home at Lakewood,
Mrs. Mary Brickel, aged mother of
Mrs. Kaber, and the young daughter,
Marian McArdle, also await trial for
first degree murder. But these are
recognized as tools of the dominating
Mrs. Kaber.
Sam Gala. hired assassin by his
own confession, is a fourth waiting
trial. But he is known as subordi-
nate of Mrs. Colavito.
This woman is like one left over
from thedark ages. She is compared
to medieval prisoner named To,
fana, who sold to wives who wishes
to get rid of their husbands poison
which became widely known as
Aaga Tofana.
Mrs. Calovito seems to have re.
vived since 1910 a profession which
belongs to 1910.
The county prosecutors evidence
against her has led him to reopen in
vestigation of several almost forgot
ten murders. This is in the belief
thai assassins for these old murders
may have been provided by Mrs.
Colavito.
She had reputation also, among
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black magic. Or, as stated at the
trial, as "a woman who could kill
by supernatural means, through
evil spirits"
Solicits BLACK Art"
Mrs. Kaber had been inquiring,
among fortune tellers she visited,
for someone who would use super
natural means to kill Dan Kaber.
Finally she was brought to Mrs. Cola
vito.
This woman is short, dark and
stout. There is nothing menacing
in her appearance. Except for her
eyes, which are sharp, she looks
amiable, even placid.
She disclaimed supernatural pow
ers when called upon by Mrs Kaber.
She says she gave that wife only
a mixture of ginger ale and olive oil
as a death potion for Dan Kaber
But the prosecutors have testified
that she provided the wife with ar
senic. They are trying to learn if |
she sold poisons to others. They |
know she sold others a harmless mix
ture at a high price, and ascribed |
power to it.
Kaber's body. when he died, was
saturated with arsenic. But his wife
had tired of waiting for him to die,
and had hired two assassns to knife
him in his bed. The state will under
take to prove that these assassins
were provided and directed by the
amiable looking Mrs. Colayito.
She had been promised rich re-
received for herself aYfd the two as
sassins was a watch, a ring and
$500.
Mrs. Kaber seems to have believed
that her husband could be killed by
black magic. She had complete faith
in the fortune tellers she visited,
at least one of whom cannot read or
write, and whose primitive concep-
ton of a god was expressed in the
phrase, f'Thc Man Above"
Mrs. Kaber's lawyers called an
alienist who testified that her mental
development was less than that of an
ordinary child of 8.
Her Strangs Success.
Even so. without early advantages,
she had been able finally TO establish
herself in fine house, with domes.
ties and an automobile, found and
conduct home for girls, and after
her husband was killed she opened |
a fashionable hat shop in New York.
Whatever her mentality, her moral |
and ethical ideas were those of a
person yet more primitive than the
medieval sort represented by Mrs. t
Colavito.
Mrs. Kaber seems to have remained |
by any of the social ideas |
which have developed in the last two !
thousand years. Her one thought |
seems to have been to get what she |
wished, and seems to have been with |
out any modern scruples when set
ting about to get it.
She had tired of Dan Kaber.
She said she wanted to marry an |
other. Apparently her only reason
for not divorcing her husband, in
stead stead of killing him. was that
she wanted the money she would in
herit.
Witnesses painted picture of her
sitting at his bed,N, forcing the sick
man, against his protests, to swallow
Strawberries she had sprinkled with
arsenic. His sufferings seemed to
have aroused no pity in her Rather
it increased her resentment
Her primitive attitude of mind is
illustrated by her calm announcement
to her mother, when assassifls had
been hired, that she had decided to
have him killed.
One hundred TONS Of some grades
Of coal produce ton Of SCOT.