New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-09
SWears Wife
lOtted to Kill
kaber by Auto
Witness Tells of SIS, 600
Offer to Get Car and
Run Husband Do w N /;
Victim Is Pointed Out
$500 Payment Preferred
Doctor Testifies Arsenic
Was Found i'm Stomach;
Maid Tells of Candy

CLEVELAND, July s.-Through n
number of witnesses to-day the state
introduced testimony tending to show
that Mrs. Eva Catherine Kaber willfully
planned the murder of her husband.
Daniel F. Kaber, for which she is being
tried on first degree murder charge.
Urbana di Carpo, the last witness to
take the stand to-day, testified that
Mrs. Kaber had offered him $4,000 if he
would get an automobile and run Mr..
Kaber down with it, When he refused
to do this, he said, Mrs. Kaber then as
serted she would give him SO 900 to
$4,000 If he would "get gang and kill
him any way"
Di Carpo said he introduced Mrs.
Kaber to Erminia Colavito, whom the
state alleges obtained the persons who
did the actual killing. Mrs. 'Colavito is
awaiting trial on first degree murder
charge. Di Carpo said Mrs. Kaber made
the offer to him on downtown street
corner as she pointed out her husband
in an automobile nearby.
Offered First Payment
When the proposition to buy an auto
mobile and run Mr.. Kaber down with
it was made to him, Di Carpo said Mrs.
Kaber took four $50 bills from her
purse and offered them to him as first
payment on the machine.
Previous to Di Carpo's testimony the
state had, through DR.. John G. Spen-
Ger, chemist, showed that Mr.. Kaber's
internal organs contained arsenic. He
gave the results Of his analysis of the
liver, stomach and kidney. He said the
liver contained about forty grains of
arsenic, He said that a fatal dose of
the poison, when the system is not
Injured to its use, was two grains, al
though smaller amount sometimes
was fatal.
Defense counsel made little Roadway
through cross-examinatlon OF DR.. Spen-
ger in it's attempt to show that the
poison might have come from embalm-
ing fluids and powders sprinkled over
the organs. Questioned by Attorney
William j. Corrgan as to this posi-
bllity, DR.. Spencer said he made an
analysis of the em.5alming fluid and
found no arsenic, and that the powder
sprinkled over the liver rather would
have absorbed moisture from that or
gan than have been absorbed itself by
the organ.
OOrrODOTdLeS testimony
Earlier in the day DR.. S. T. Parsons,
the first physician to reach Mr.. Kaber
after he had been stabbed, testified
Kaber had this done" This testimony
corroborated that given by Police Lieu
tenant L. B. Miller and DR.. w. j. Quig-
ley yesterday.
Mrs Marie Schwartz told of going to-
Mrs. Kaber's home with Emma" Cola
vito, said by the state to have been the
procurer of Mr.. Kaber's assassins for
Mrs. Kaber, when Mrs. Colavito asked
Mrs. Kaber for money. Mrs. Kaber
was alleged to have replied that she
had no money. Mrs. Colavito then
asked if she had any diamonds, the
witness testified, adding that Mrs. Ka-
Der went upstairs and brought down a
large diamond ring and a watch and
gave them to Mrs. Colavito. This was
said to have occurred after the murder
Of Mr.. Kaber.>
On cross-examination by Attorney
Corrigan Mrs. Schwartz said Mrs. Ka-
Der came to her home frequently and
that she acted crazy. "She would run
up and down the parlor, pull her hair
and keep on saying, didn't do it! ]
didn't do it!'"
Miss Crystal Benner, a nurse who
attended Mr.. Kaber at hospital
where he had been operated on to
ascertain whether he was suffering
from cancer, said that he did not have
q cancer
Ill After Eating
While Mr.. Kaber always had vomit-
ing spells after eating food at his
home, served him by Mrs. Kaber, Miss
Benner testified, he never vomited af-
ter eating at the hospital but once
and that was once after Mrs. Kaber
had visited him. She said Mr.. Kaber
told her that Mrs. Kaber had given him
candy. Miss Benner said Mrs. Kaber
called by telephone at Q o'clock in the
morning after her visit to the hospital
to inquire about his condition. This
was the only time she ever called to
make such inquiry, Miss Benner said.
Miss Emma Wagner, maid in the
Kaber home, testified that Mr.. Kaber
became violently i'll after eating candy
given him by Mrs. Kaber and that on
one occasion he spit the candy out.
She also testified that Mr.. Kaber always
became i'll after eating candy. She said
she generally prepared Mr.. Kaher's
food at home, but that Mrs Kaber
served him.
Miss Wagner told of MIR. Kaber vom-
iting after eating strawberries over
which powdered sugar had been sprink-
led by Mrs. Kaber.
The state tomorrow, through Police
Detective Phil Mooney, expects to in
troduce the alleged confession of Saliva
tore Gala, said by the state to have
been one of the assassins of Mr. Kaber
HlppnnRnME DAILY gncl SUNDAY.