New-York tribune., 1921-06-09
kaber's Widow
Attempts to Kill
Herself i'm Cell
Cuts Wrist With Nail File.
but Matron Calls Surgeon
and She Is Able to Ap.
pear for Arraignment
Two Arrests i'm Ohio
Woman Believed to Have
Procured Arsenic and AL
legged Aid in Murder Held

An attempt at suicide by Mrs. Eva
Catherine Kaber and the arrest at San
dusky, Ohio, Of woman who is said
to have instructed Mrs. Kaber in the
administration of arsenic to Daniel C.
Kaber and later to have procured the
person who stabbed him twenty -four
times as he Jay in bed suffering from
paralysis, were the two most important
of the swiftly moving developments
in the Cleveland murder case yester-
day.
A man also is under arrest in Cleve-
land in connection with the murder
He is suspected Of being the "man with
a cap" referred to by Kaber just be-
fore his death, when he tried to tell
those at his bedside who had stabbed
him. The woman, according TO the
Cleveland police, is believed to have
administered poison to two other men
and to have supplied the "man with a
cap when poison proved too slow.
Cuts Wrist With File
Mrs. Kaber, under indictment by the
grand jury of Cuyahoga County, Ohio,
for murder in the first degree and held
in New York for the completion of ex-
tradition formalities, attempted to kill
herself in her cell late on Tuesday
night. With manicure file she cut
open her right wrist. Marie T. Kelly,
a matron, passing down the corridor
and glancing into Mrs. Kaber's cell,
saw blood on the floor near her cot.
When the matron entered the cell
she found the sleeve Of Mrs. Kaber's
waist wet with blood. An ambulance
was called. 1t took two stitches of the
surgeons needle to close the wound.
News of the attempt did not become
known outside of the Jail until yester-
day afternoon, shortly before Mrs.
kaber was taken to the Harlem police
court for arraignment.
County Prosecutor Edward C. Stan
ton, Of Cuyahoga County, making a.
rapid automobile trip from Cleveland d
tc Sandusky, found at 2 o'clock yester-
day morning, and after an hours
search, the house in which one more
woman to be arrested in sse case lived.
She is said to be an Italian, whose
husband, with four of tieir five chill
dren, is believed to be in New York.
The woman was reused out Of bed,
bundled into the automobile and taken
to Cleveland
Woman May Be Missing Link
According to Chief of Police Peter
ChristAnsen of Lakewood, Ohio. the
suburban township Of Cleveland where
the Kabers lived, she is supposed to
have obtained the arsenic alleged to
have been put into Kaber's food for
tour months prior to his death. and
then, when the arsenic failed, to have
eeen the go-between for Mrs. Kaber
and the person who welded the home
made dagger.
1t is possible that this woman NAV
ne able TO supply the missing link in
the chain of evidence gathered thu.
far--the motive for the crime. She
was in Cleveland, it is said. until Mrs,
Kkaber's indictment was made public
1hen she went to Sandusky.
Chief Christensen arrived at Police
Headquarters yesterday by way of Al
bany, with the extradition papers that
VIII permit him to take Mrs. Kaber
and her daughter, Marian McArdle. who
land.
The indictment against Mrs. Kaber
Continued on mana &hra.S