Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-06-07
INDICT WOMEN
IN DEATH PLOT
TOSLAY OHIOAN
Grandmother, Daughter and
Granddaughter Held for
First Degree Murder.
SILENT FOR TWO YEARS

GLEN ELANO, OulO, JUNE q MA D
Mary Brickel, IS, mother of Mrs.
HEva Catherine Kaber, pleaded not
guilty before Judge Bernon here to-
day to the charge of first degree
murder on which she, Mrs. Kaber
and Mrs. Kaber's daughter, Miss
Marian McArdle, were indicted in
connection with the Staying, two
years ago, of Mrs Kaber's husband,
Daniel F. Kaber, a wealthy Lake
wood publisher.
Miss McArdle, 20, Lakewood High
School graduate and Smith College stu
dent, was charged with participation in
the staying Of Kaber by the county
grand jury yesterday. under direction OF
Edward c. Stanton, county prosecutor.
Mrs. Brickel is said to have made the
confession that linked the girl with the
tragedy She, too, was charged by the
jury with a part in the crime
Mrs Kaber, my daughter, told me she
wished to see me. to come to her house
and do some dirty work She said l IN
going to have Dan killed." That was
came from the lips Of Mrs BricKel' as
she told her story to the jury
Mrs. Daniel KaJer. 90. under arrest
in New York, already has been indicted
IN the first degree for the Staying OF her
husband.
Marian was arrested in New York
when she went to see her mother at
police court.
Mrs Brickel sat in Prosecutor Stan
toms office while indictments were be-
ing made ready and soon after was ar
rested.
STOOD TOGETHER
FOR TWO YEARS.
For two years the three women have
stood together in common defense-each
nrofessins the innocence Of herself ana
<<he others. 1t was the aged grand
mother who broke. While she was re
vealinc to Prosecutor Stanton here what
.ba saws were carefully laid plans for
the murder, Mrs. Kaber and the gid IN
New York were repeating their protesta-
tior, of Innocence. with the declaration
that the arrest OF Mrs haOer "ouiu
prove TO be "a mistake
In her confession, said to have oeen
r,ade first Sunday night. to Prosecutor
stanton and Police Chief Christensen at
Lakewood Police Station, Mrs Belkel sald
her daughter. Mrs. Kaber, told her she
intended to sIay her husband
she admitted, also, the prosecutor says
that the Kaber home on Lake avenne
where the murder was committed, had
been ransacked purposely by Miss Nc
ArdIe as a ruse to lead police TO believe
the murder was done by burglars.
Extradition papers for both Miss NC
Ardic and Mrs. Kaber were taken to
hr Do1ica Chief Chris
tensen-
After making her alleged confession at
Lakewood police headquarters Sunday
night Mrs Brickel returned home, and
two police officers were placed on guard
there. Early Monday morning her other
| daughter. Mrs. Harry J. McGinness,. Of
y this city, talked to her mother.
1FIRsT DENIES HER
EARLIER Confession.
A short time later Mrs. Brickel, in
custody of two officers, was taken to
Prosecutor Stanton's office. There she
denied every statement credited to her
in the alleged confession. She denied
that Mrs. Kaber had come to her and had
vowed she intended to have her husband
killed. and that she had asked her Mrs
BrickeD to come over and "dO some dirty
work"
But finally she yielded under the
prosecutors questions and is said to have
admitted that her earlier confession was
true.
In her alleged confession Mrs. Brickel
said that Marian McArdle knew the muir
der was being planned at least three days
before the killing took place.
Questioned concerning the disappear
ance Of Kaber's diamond ring. the aged
woman declared Mrs. Kaber told her she
took 1t from his finger while he lay
helpless in his bed before the murder.
As the two indictments were being
voted here Mrs. Kaber, pale and worn
from two nights in a Harlem prison,
still protested her innocence and again
declared she would waive extradltion.
She declared she was "gratifed that 1t
was all over. have nothing to fear she
insisted. when the time comes / shall
be cleared of this horrible charge"
Since her arrest in the home of Verona
Smith. late Saturday night, Mrs. Kaber
has wept almost constantly.
Confronted in New York with hei
grandmother's alleged confession, Marian
McArdle named a fourth woman who she
said, talked over the murder with her
mother before the crime was committed.
This woman. according to Prosecutor
Stanton's Information from New York,
hired the actual slayers for Mrs Kaber
Mrs. Brickel also named the fourth
woman.