The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-08
State Draws Chain of Evidence
About Mrs. Kaber.
Accused Woman Calm While
Plot Is UnfOlded.
STATE WITNESS is MISSING
Kaber's Male Nurse Vanished
After Getting Phone Call.
Witnesses Show Attempt Made
to Indicate Robbery.

Court House, Cleveland, o., July 8.
More testimony to tighten the chain
of evidence drawing Mrs. Katherine
Eva Kaber closer to the shadow of the
electric chair was introduced by the
state today in the trial of the woman
charged with plotting the murder of
her husband, Daniel Kaber, wealthy
Cleveland publisher.
The testimony was given by Miss
Emma Wagner. formerly a maid in
the Kaber household.
Mrs. Kaber told me her husband
was terrible to her and when asked
her why she didn't get a divorce she
all his money, do. you" Then she
said, There's a way I can fix it with
out losing any of the money"
Maid Strengthens Case.
Statements of the maid and Miss
Chrystal Benner, a nurse, strength
ened the states charge that the &C
cused woman attempted to poison her
husband before she hired Italian as
sassins to murder him and that she
had sprinkled arsenic on food and
candy fed Kaber. bed-ridden inva-
lid for three months before his death
According to the maid, Mrs. Kaber
and her husband had frequent quar-
TelS. OnCe, SIl6 leSlAl4Cus ollO ICeAA "a
Mrs. Kaber say to her husband: IF
there is a God, He will make you SUI
fer before you die"
Accused Woman Calm.
International, Mrs. Eva Catherine
Kaber sat turnout yesterday in Judge
Maurice Bernon's little stufry court
room while state witnesses testified
that the dying words of her husband,
Daniel f. Kaber, for whose murder
she il being tried, were:
MY wife ordered this done"
Neither did she display emotion
when the bloodstained dagger with
which Mr.. Kaber was stabbed twenty
four times was displayed, nor when
witnesses said she had told them that
she wanted her husband murdered.
Tells of Accusation.
Mr.. Kaber's alleged accusation was
testified to by Police Lieutenant L. B.
Miller, the first outside person to
reach him after the stabbing, and also
by DR.. w. J. Quigley, one of the first
physicians to arrive.
Il saw only one of them, but there
must have been two" Lieutenant Mil
Ter said Mr.. Kaber told him. "One
was a man with a cap"
The imam with a cap" according to
County Prosecutor Edward c. Stan
ton. was Salvador Gala, apprehended
near Buffalo, n. Y, and now held, on
a first degree murder charge.
The state also offered testimony
tending to substantiate it's claim that
an attempt was made by Mrs. Kaber
to make the stabbing appear the re-
suit of robbery. Mrs. Maria Mat
thews, a palmist, testified that Mrs
Kaber, a few days before the murder,
brought a large box of silverware and
linen to her home and after the MUIR
der Mrs. Kaber gave her the articles
The silverware and linen were offered
as exhibits.
Cannot Find Nurse.
It has developed that F. w. Utter.
bach, Mr.. Kabers male nurse, whom
the state had expected to call as a
witness, has left a Pittsburgh hotel
where he had been employed and can
not be located.
Prosecutor Stanton said that only
last week in letter to him, Utter
bach had expressed a willingness to
testify, but that a telephone call to
Pittsburgh revealed the Utterbach
had left the hotel after receiving a
telephone call from Cleveland. July 4.
The police have been asked to find
him. Court is expected to be iad-
journed this evening until Monday
Theda Bara Is Married.
New York, July S.-Theda Bara.
siren of the films, is a bride. Her