The Washington times., 1921-06-10
KAbERD|ED
IN QUARREL
SAYS WIFE
Sought Seeress to Influence
Husband, Not to Kill Him,
Declares Mrs. kaber.
ny international News Service.

NEW YORK, June 10.-Breaking
under a gruelling examination Of
almost twelve hours. Mrs. Eva Cath
crime Ksber, now on her way with
her nineteen year-old daughter,
Marian McArdle, to Cleveland. told
the New York police here today that
Daniel Kaber, her wealthy husband,
was stabbed to death by Spanish
spiritualist working in her employ.
kNIFED IN QUARREL.f
81 asked a spanssh spsrisuais.t s.d
HIS wife 10 20 TO my husb~rd and
througk the aid of tie spirits ask
him 10 stop treating me 80 inhs-.
namely. MY husband did not believe
In spirits and q quarrel followed, DUR
Ing which he wss stabbed,- she II
quoted as having said.
These vital admissions were made
by Mrs Kaber early today to Capt.
Arthur Carey. of the homicide bureau,
and Chief OF Police Peter Christensen,
of Lakewood, Ohio. IL was learned
from Chief Christensen.
They constitute the most material
evidence the prosecution has yet OBJ
tanned against Mrs. Kaber, It is said.
She and her daughter and her mother,
MIS-. "dEy bTlthitNg are
ment. charged with completely in the
Staying OF Kaber.
After her husband had been killed,
the soothsayer came TO her for money.
which she refused to pay him. IL Is
said Mrs. Kaber told the police.
She denied that she had employed
the Spainiard to kill her husband. In
sisting that she had merely retained
him and his wife to brighten" Kaber
into treating her. more kindly.
~GHOsT- KILLED HUSBAND.
The scheme, so Mrs. Kaber told
Chief Christensen. was to have the
spirftuaIist enter her husbands bed
room while Ksber was ASLEEP, awaken
hin, suddeply, and friRhten him SO
that he would promise to .behave bet
ter toward his wife, The ghost
she said. was TO "sha q little ciyiiity
into him.
On second thought. however, Mrs.
Kaber said, she had lost faith in the
plan and had asked the spiritualist to
abandon IL. but the latter carried II
out, nevertheless. He did as Mrs.
Kaber had told him to do, she said.
Her husband, being rudely awakened
from his slumbe and seeing a
stranger bending over his bed, tackled
nlrn, ana IN the ensuing WAS
killed by the intruder.
over and over Mrs. Kaber repeated
that she had not hired the Spanisrd
to kill her husband. but merely to
frighten him.
Mrs. Kaber and her daughter left for
Cleveland in the custody of Police
Chief Christensen, of Lakewood, and
Mrs Christensen.
The party departed on the New
York Central at 9:45 o'clock New
York summer time), and Is due to ar
rive at Cleveland at 10 o'clock to-
night
Mrs. Kaber and her daughter, after
being questioned for more than twelve
hours at police headquarters, were
returned to cells in the West Thrift
eth street station early today and
prepared to start to Cleveland.
GLAD TO co BACK HOME
Both Mrs. Kaber and her daughter
seemed pleased at the prospect Of go
ing home and neither showed any i'll
effect from the gruelling examinations
they had passed through. Both
women chatted amiably with a detec-
tive who accompanied them to the
Grand Central Station.
This is like a real me-coming," !"
said Mrs. Kaber as she boarded the
train.
isn't IT," echoed the daughter.
Mrs. Kaber said she wanted to
thank every one, especially the police
matrons, for being so kind to her
The New York police have been
splendid" chimed in Police Chief
Christensen. A Cleveland detective
accompanied Christensen and Mrs
Christensen.