The Washington times., 1921-06-29
HE DROVE
ME- CRAZY
SObS WIFE
ON TRIAL
"Stone Woman" Loses Brasado
in court-"Afraid Of HE'LL"
She Cries.
BY MILDRED MORRIS,
International News Service.


COURTHOUSE. CLEVELAND,
Ohio, June 29.-The 4stone woman"
broke her silence today.
She fears He'll. she said.
. Mrs. Catherine Eva Kaber, de-
scribed by the prosecution as a "fiend
in human FORM" is frightened
almost TO the verge Of collapse.
CALL HEN ~HLO0DLEss.r
t';as -sioodiess as a stone Is the
common description OF thfs thin. dark
woman who sits In the court room
here on trial for her life. Cold
oioodedly. they say. she fed arsenic
to her sick husband. Daniel Kabea-,
wealthy publisher. until he was weak
TO the point of exhaustion. and then
hired an assassin. who stabbed the
helpless man twenty-four times.
III the stone woman" showed
bravado before her trial. she displays
none now. She sounded pathetically
human and tragic when. during an ex-
elusive interview with the Interna-
tional News Service today. she cried
out:
"why can't they let me alone until
they have heard my story7 He was
the fend. He sapped my iifeblood.
He drove me crazy. God knows how
1 have suffered.
"AFRAID OF HELL"
"Yes, I'm afraid" she said slowly.
'Tm afraid of hell beyond and hell
on this earth. He made my life a
hell"
/ She sits in the court room with eyes
closed, as if asleep and oblivious TO
everything. not because she Is cold
and Indifferent, but ito mediate with
GodF
II shut out the world and the evil
Influences about me-" she said.
BY one side. she will be pictured TO
the Jury as a diabolical murderess:
by the other. as a victim of the re-
pulsive. degenerate acts OF man
diseased in body and mind. Frenzie1
by fear and hate of Ksber, che sought
"way out" according to her story,
first by consulting fortune tellers,
then by the solace of Christian
Science, and last by the plotting of
his death. A horribly sordid case,
as lacking in color as the dark
woman who Is it's central figure.
The sonstitutionality OF women
Jurors in Ohio may be attacked In
the higher courts IL Mrs. Kaber is
| convicted.
Her attorneys, having failed to bar
them, will now attempt to eliminate
women Jurors from her case by the
exercise OF peremptory challenges. Ii
their efforts fail. they will make the
presence of even one woman on thu
jury a point for appeal In event of
conviction.
WOMEN JURORS UNPOPULAR.
There Is growing prejudics,
against women jurors In Ohio. accord
ing to Francis Poulson, one of Mrs.
Kaber's attorneys.
"They haven't the experience nee
| essary for jury service" he said.
"They areIrelentless In judging their
1 own sex. Nine out of ten women
Even after hearing all the horrible
details of her story, they would have
NO sympathy for her. They would
not be able to understand, because of
their limited experiences In life. Men,
because of their broader experiences,
J have more sympathy"
: IN dress Mrs. Kaber and Mrs. Cora
: Berg, the lady Juror" who may be
one OF the twelve 10 sit in judgment
|. on her. offer striking contrasts. Mrs.
Berg, young and pretty woman,
/ made her debut into the jury box in
a lovely charmeuse .frock with
string OF pearls around her neck.
Mrs. Kaber's dark blue costume
tailored suit and satin hat with fea-
ther trimmings--without touch of
| color. is designed either to render
her inconspicuous or to Offset the
} claim that she will attempt to secure
her freedom through sex appeal.
with her black hair and olive COM
plexion she might be taken for a
woman OF spanish extraction. The
blue Of her dress gives an almost
1 salIow appearance 10 her face with
Tits pallor.