Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-21
Staying OF KABER KEPT
SECRET FOR TWO YEARS
\ BY AT LEAST 10 PERSONS
BY J. B: LAUBENSTETN
(Leased Wire Service to The Journal.)
Copyright, 1929

NCOpSTlSuI, 10S1.J
CLEVELAND, O., June 1S.-There
| is never murder but will out.
For two years at least ten per-
sons, men and women, have gone
about their daily work with some
knowledge, and in many cases guilty
knowledge, of the killing of Dan F.
Kaber, wealthy publisher, of Lake
wood, Ohio.
For two years they kept the secret,
or the parts they knew of it.
For two years the staying of Ka-
Der remained a mystery. To Lake
wood police it was a closed book, an
other volume laid on the dusty shelf
Of the unsolved crimes.
But now the mystery is mys-
terry no longer. Like a mountain tor
rent held by a dam, whose banks
were weakened by rushing waters,
| the secret has burst it's bounds and
leaped into the fields of public
| knowledge.
Confession has followed confess
sion, tales of plotting have trod upon
the heels of other tales of plotting,
statement after statement has come
Of poison rings. of murder syndi-
Gates, of faith healnigs of superna~
turalism, of Quackery, Of dark arts
of the middle ages. Of mother love.
| All these, and more, have been toss
ed together into a case that within
two weeks has become the most
amazing murder revelation that has
confronted police authorities in
scores of years.
Dramatist Personae
In this kaleidoscope drama OF
plots and counter plots, poisoning
and knifings and dread silence, have
moved these figures, dramatis per-
sonae is a tragedy of life:
| Dan F. Kaber. the victim, whose
fife was snuffed out on July IS, 1919.
| He was found with twenty-four stab
wounds in his abdomen. Kaber had
been a helpless invalid for weeks. A
chemical analysis of his stomach
contents disclosed enough arsenic to
kill three men.
Mrs. Eva Catherine Kaber, forty
five. widow OF the slain man, accused
Of the crime. Her denials and her
tale of a trip that day to Cedar
Point, a summer resort, sixty miles
away from the big house on Lake
avenue seemingly formed an alibi the
police could not disprove.
Mrs. Mary Brickel, sixty-nine,
mother of Mrs. Kaber, who occupied
room near that of Kaher the night
of the murder. Confession has led
to her Indictment also for first de-
gree murder.
Marian McArdle, twenty, former
student Of Smith college, daughter of
Mrs. Kaber by a former marriage to
| Thomas McArdle, Chicago oil pro
moter. She, too, with mother and
grandmother is in the county Jail
awaiting trial
Miss Erminia Colayito, forty-five
an Italian woman of the typical old
county type. Police declare her to
| be a poison queen" who practiced
"black art" of the middle ages, and
now lay half a dozen old murders at
her door.
The Motive
Salvatore Gala, an Italian, accord
| ing to his own confession one of the
two men who actually sunk the dag
| ger into Kaber'S abdomen.
| VitarioS Viselli, another Italian, al
legged to be the other of the paid
| assassins.
Mrs. Mary J. Wade, a fortune tel
| arrest Says she was asked by Mrs.
Kaber to kill Dan.
Mrs. Ethel Berman, woman de-
tective.
Moses Kaber. father of the dead
man, nemesis Of the mystery. His
money, his perseverance, brought the
revelation Of today. -
| Madam tx" mystery woman OF
| police records. She is reported TO
be a woman detective who has made
astounding discoveries on the case.
County Prosecutor Edward G.
| Stanton, who pushed the case to its
| present stage.
With these then the drama has
moved apace, though for two years
The motive: IT love McArdle, my
first husband" Mrs. Kaber is quoted
as saying. 81 want money. Dan
hasn't any Mrs Kaber is said to
| have fallen in love with a Smith col
lege professor and wanted to marry
| him.
Prosecutor stanton's theory is that
That July night, Kaber had been
fixed comfortably for the night by
his male nurse, F. W: qtterback'
now in Pittsburg. At eleven fltteen
Utterback says he heard scream;
He rushed to his patient and found
| Kaber grooming on the floor, stab
bed twenty-four times.
Dying Man Accuses Wife
He leaned over the dying man and
Mrs. Kaber had this done. The
man with the cap did it"
But Mrs. Kaber had gone to Cedar
Point, miles away, that morning.
/ A few days of seemingly fruitless
| investigation and Dan haperS muir
Pder was shelved.
But here Moses Kaber stepped in.
His fathers heart called for revenge.
His money employed private detec-
| tives, among them Mrs. Bern1an, who
| gained Mrs. Kaber's confidence.
| Mrs. Berman says she found Mrs
| Kaber seemingly pleased over the
| death of Kaber. "I laid him out with
a dirty shirt on" Mrs. Berman quotes
| Mrs. Kaber as saying with laugh
| Later in a hotel in Pittsburg, Mrs
Berman relates, Mrs. Kaber sat uf
in bed, one night and screamed, i
did It, I did it,
The investigation went on. Then
| as the second anniversary of his
sons death came near, Moses Kaber,
| went to Prosecutor Stanton and
'Tndfet Mrs. Kaber, she knows all
about it. If you indict her. the
| whole thing will come out"
| indictments are dangerous boom
erangs to fool with. But adding his
own knowledge to the apparent GER
| tainty of conviction of the aged IA
| Their, Stanton acted and the lndlct-
! ment was voted. And out the whole
| thing" has come.
story seeps Out
| 1t was the indictment of Mrs;
| Brickel, mother of Mrs. Kaber, and
| grandmother of Miss McArdle, that
| told the police they were on the right
| track Mrs. Brickel, to save her
| son, who on a chance was arrested
| declared Mrs. Kaber said to her, sew
| eral days before the murder, Il am
going to have Dan killed"
| Marian. the aged woman said,
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