The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-07
Husbands Numbers One and
Two of Mrs. Kaber Called.
''MysteriOus Lover" Sought May
Square Murder Triangle.
WANTED BY BOTH SIDES
''Number One" Called to Help
the Defense.
''Number Two" May Help Con-
Wet Former Wife.

court House. Cleveland, July L.
Mrs. Katherine Eva Kaber was re-
vealed today as love queen as well
as a murder queen when Mrs. May
]. Wade, medium and fortune teller,
declared the accused woman had
sought the aid of the Spirits" to kill
her husband, Daniel Kaber, to get
his wealth for her college professor
lover" said to be a member of the
faculty of Smith college at the time
she met him.
Mrs Bertha Miethke, who followed
the medium on the stand, testified the
accused woman had told her she
wanted ito get rid of Dan Kaber, re-
gardless of how she did it,"
Mrs. Miethke is the grandmother of
Patricia Miethke, a little girl adopted
by Mrs. Kaber and returned to her
parents after Kaber's death.
Wanted His Wealth.
Mrs. Katherine Eva Kaber wanted
to kill her husband to secure his
wealth for her college professor
lover" Mrs. Mary ]. Wade, medium
and fortune teller, declared on the
witness stand today, testifying for the
state in the trial of the woman
charged with the murder of Daniel
Kaber, wealthy publisher.
THE professor was connected with
Smith college where Mrs. Kaber's
daughter went to school," the medium
testified.
Kill Dan Kaber,' she said to me.
She wanted me to use my psychic pow
ers to kill Kaber. She said she loved
the college professor and wanted him.
"She said the professor is all brains
and has no money. Dan Kaber has
money and 1 want it for the profess
sor. He has an insurance policy for
$4,000, and if you kill him will give
you big share of it.
Call Both Ex-Husbands.
The first and second husbands of
at the trial of the woman charged
with hiring assassins to kill their sue
cessor, Daniel Kaber, after poison had
failed to do the job.
Husband No. 1, Thomas McArdle,
formerly a bartender, now a wealthy
busin ess man of Chicago, who mar
ried the woman when she was a girl
of 16, may be called on to help the
defense in order to save his 19-year-
| old daughter, Marian, indicted with
| her mother, it was learned today.
| Husband No. 2, David Frinkel, a
| Cleveland barber, who divorced the
accused woman, because of her tenn
per-" may be summoned by the state
to help convict her, according to As
t sistant County Prosecutor James T.
| Cassidy
Hunt for Third Man.
| The two former husbands may meet
another man said to have figured in
the womans life if efforts of detec-
tives are successful. Search for the
| college professor, said to be a mem
ber of the faculty of Smith college
who, the state claims. soothed the dis
turbed mind of the murder queen
by his wooing, revealed today that the
alleged lover masqueraded under the
name of Leo Stanley while in C1eve'
land, where he followed up" an af'
fair with Mrs. Kaber which began IL
Chicago.
Another alleged lover of the woman
| will center in the trial-Frank De
Carpo, who, according to the state
went to the beautiful Kaber home tt
court the nurse in attendance on Ka
Der and stayed to WOO the mistress o.
the house with all the ardor of hi:
italian blood.
i Evidence that S. Gala, now in jail
and Vittorio Pizzilli. still at large. whit
Gala claims welded the stiletto which
stabbed Kaber to death, were mem
bers of a "black hand" gang, nation
wide in its operations, which hired ou
men to kill or wound at so much pc
job, is among the sensational features
promised by the defense.