The Washington times., 1921-07-06
BY MILDRED MORRIS.
pteruationaIt News Service.


COURTHOUSE, CLEVELAND,
July 6,-Who was the 'fiend," the
brains" that engineered the plot
to murder Daniel Kaber, wealthy
publisher
Not his widow, Mrs. Catherine
Eva. Kaber, the wan, dark woman
who sits in the courtroom here
with eyes closed and as emotion
less as stature, according to the
defense, but a sixty-nine-year-old
woman confined in the detention
house, a pathetic, wrinkled old
creature who invokes curses on
Mrs. Kaber, her own daughter.
MOTHER BATTLES DAUGHTER.
A battle between mother and daugh-
ter, each willing to send the other to
the electric chair by her testimony!
"She dragged me into this. She
made me wash and slave for her so
she could tell Dan Kaber others did
II and collect pin money from him.
says the mother.
MRS. Kaber. her brain diseased,
weak and helpless. was the victim
of her mothers Vaccinations" the
defense will claim, IL was learned
today.
"Paretic BRAIN" will be the unusual
line of defense put forth to save the
so-caIled murder queen"
Between the death chair and the
alternative of spending the rest OF
her life in a hospital for the insane
she chooses the former.
IL will take chance with deatn,"
she is said to have informed her
attorneys, tabooing a move contem-
plated by them to have her declared
insane.
One Of the tentative jurors in the
Kaber ease was ordered from the
box this morning after IT was learn
ed he had served two terms in the
penitentiary. Judge Bernon re-
quested the mans name be with
held because he had served in the
world war and made a commend
able record.
Eleven men stiii were in the jury
box up to 10 a. m Two of the
veniremen examined expressed op-
position to capital punishment.
Alienists will testify that she is
suffering from a form of paresis,
which renders her irresponsible at
times.
Barring her soul and all the sordid
life on the witness stand, the ac-
cused woman will paint Kaber, who
was one of Cleveland's most promi-
nent business men, as a degenerate
of the vilest type. She will claim
that in mortal terror OF her Ufe by
his threats and distracted by the
abuses practiced on her she sought
fortune tellers to use their psychic
powers" and Mrs. Erminia Colavito.
the poison queen" to use BLACK
magic" not to kill KRber, but to cure
him of his bad habits"
TRATLED HER TWO YEARS.
Today, IL a jury Is impaneled,
Kaber, the slain mans seventy three
year-old father, will face his daugh-
ter-in-law from the witness stand.
He will be the Srst witness called
by the State, according to present
plans.
The little old man. who has sat in
the courtroom and kept his eyes con-
stantly on the woman charged with
his sons murder since the trial be-
gan and for two years had her trail
ed-a silent, waiting nemesis-said
today he seeks only justice.
For two years I spent sleepless
nights and thousands OF dollars 10
traif my sons lawyer" he said. 'T
do not want vengeance. All ask Ia
justice. will accept the jury's YER
dict and. II she Is free. she can have
my sons property"
As soon as the Jury Is lmpaneled u
VIII be taken TO the murder man
sion" 20 review the room where Raber
was slain by the stiletto OF Vittoria
Pissilli, a hired assassin. The "mur-
der mansion" as the scene OF the
tragedy has become known in Cleve-
land. II beautiful house with cIas-
sic white columns, situated in Lake
wood beautiful suburb