The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-10
Ohio Publishers Wife Says She
Tried to Scare Husband.
Denies She Hired Fake SpOOkS
on Mediums Advice.

Hudson, N. Y, June 10.-Mrs. Eva
Kaber, charged with first degree muir
der in connection with the Staying of
her husband in Lakewood, Ohio, near
ly two years ago, today confessed get
ting two men to beat up" her hus-
band in order to change his harsh
attitude toward her, it was announced
here. She denied that she had in
tended that he be killed.
The announcement was made by
Chief of Police Christensen of Lake
wood, Ohio, on the train that was
carrying him. Mrs. Kaber and her
daughter, Miss Marian McArdle, back
to Cleveland. Chief Christensen, how
ever, denied a report that the two
men had been ordered to pose as
ghosts or that Mrs Kaber had impli-
Gated her daughter.
The Spook" Confession.
New York, June 1o.-Dan F. Kaber.
wealthy Lakewood, Ohio, publisher,
met death after attacking two foreign
ers engaged by Mrs. Kaber to pose as
spirits to frighten him into a better
attitude toward her, according to a
statement which the New York Eve
ming World today says Chief of Police
Christensen obtained from Mrs. kaber
here.
The newspaper quotes Chief Chris
tensen as saying that Mrs. Kaber had
consulted woman medium for ad-
vice as to how to change her hus-
bands attitude toward her. The pub
was said to have occasioned the visit.
He Attacked Spooks.
By advice of this medium Mrs. Ka-
Der was said to have employed two
foreigners to appear at her husband S
bedside in the night as ghosts and as
she expressed it. to try and shake a
little civility into him.
h iG Mr L
| Der was alleged to have attacked the
two men and to have been stabbed to
death by them in the struggle.
| Refused to Pay Them.
| According to the newspaper Chief
Christensen said Mrs. Kaber had de-
clared that she had refused to pay the
two foreigners when they reappeared
after the funeral, asserting they had
| not fulfilled the role of ghosts as she
had intended and that she would not
| involve herself by paying for murder
! Mrs. kaker was then said to have
fled to New York to escape the for
| eigners without advising the Cleveland
| police for fear of involving herself.
Two Helpers Are Held.
Cleveland, June 1O.-"The man with
the cap" now in. custody here, is the
man who drove the knife twenty-fou1
| times into Kaber's body, according tc
| information here.
A woman who, Mrs. Kaber says
planned the murder was arrested il
her home here early today by Prosecu-
! tor Stanton and Chief of Police Smith
| According to Prosecutor Stanton's
Information from Chief Christensen
Mrs. Kaber said two foreigners die
the murder, and declared a woman
arrested by Cleveland officers in San.
dusky, Ohio, Wednesday morning an6
now held in Jail here procured the
actual slayers.
Hunt for ''The MuffIer."
1.-The man with the cap was ar.
rested here Wednesday and his com
panion, a cousin, who. according tC
Mrs. Kaber's confession, sat at Ka.
ber's head to stifle his cries, is being
| sought by police.
Mrs. Kaber's confession declares
according to Prosecutor Stanton's in
formation that these two foreigner
went to the Kaber home to beat up
Kaber. Instead, they stabbed him tc
death.
Mrs Kaber and her daughter brokt
down and confessed, according Il
Stanton's advices from New York
after being questioned ceaselessiy fo
several hours.