The Washington times., 1921-06-08
MAN
WHO SOLD
RAZOR IN
/. PAWNSHOP
Oriental curio, Property Of Slain
Man, Gives CIue-Four
Women Implicated.

, NEW YORK, June S.-Through
clew obtained in a pawnshop the
police believed today that they were
hot on the trail of man who had
sold his services as the actual mur-
derer Of Daniel Kaber, a wealthy
publisher, at Cleveland, Ohio. This
man is alleged to have been hired
by one or more women to stab Kaber
to death.
SEEK FOURTH WOMAN.
Women are f,guring more and more
conspicuously in the crime. With
three women under arrext--two In
this city and one in Cleveland--the
woman IL they can find the actual
stabber.
The pawnshop clew consists of a
razor bearing a curious oriental In
scription. 1t Is said to be Identical
with a razor which disappeared from
the Kaber home in Cleveland at the
time of the murder and the police be-
lieve 1t is the same one
Chief of Police Christensen, of
LAKEWOOD, tne CleNeldnu
where the murder occurred, Is due
here today to take Miss Marian NC
Ardle and her mother back. Miss
McArdle, who is nineteen years old
and who left Smith College, TO be-
come chorus girl, has been con-
fined in Tombs prison since her arrest.
Her mother, Mrs. Eva Katherine Ka-
Der. wife of the slain man, is still
in the Harlem prison. The gilr's
grandmother, Mrs. Mary Brickel, aged
sixty mine, was held in $4,000
bail at Cleveland after pleading not
guilty to a murder charge.
II knew something was going to
happen when / returned from Smith
College twenty days before papa was
killed in July. 1919"
Miss McArdle made this statement
yesterday to Capt Arthur Carey. Of
the Police Homicide Bureau.
PLEADS WITH DETECTIVES.
when pressed as to what she meant
by something was going to happen"
she refused to make any further
statements, and appealed to Captain
Carey and the other detectives a
number of times to stop questioning
her. She said:
Would you say anything about
your own mother7 l do not want to
say anything that will make 1t one
bit harder for Mama dear. than II is
now. SO please, please let me alone
and don't ask me any more ques-
| tions'
Miss McArdle is being held for the
Cleveland police on an indictment re-
turned Monday, following the confess
sion of her grandmother. Mrs. Mary
Brickel, 60, of the alleged plot laid
70 nj
| murder OF her invalid husband. the
| wealthy publisher, by hired assassins,
and in which the grandmother alleges
she was herself involved as well as
Miss Marian, daughter OF Mrs. Kaber.
| Mrs. Kaber Is being held In tho
Washington Heights prison.
Miss MoArdle explained when she
arrived from college she was led TO
believe that something was going TO
happen" by her mothers action and
what she said from time to time. She
would go no further in her explana-
| tions.
| GIRL sHREwD, SAY POLICE.
Captain Carey characterises Miss
| McArdle as a very "shrewd" young
woman, despite the fact she is pot
yet nineteen years old. She Is a high
school graduate and had one year in
Smith College.
| At another time during her pro.
longed questioning yesterday by the
police, Miss McArdle said:
AT times papa was very ugly and
unkind to mother. He had a very can
tankerous disposition, wanted his
own way in everything and on sew
eral occasions struck mother"
| She was read the confession OF her
| grandmother, made to Prosecutor
Edward Stanton of Cleveland, and
denied many parts OF IL. She denied
helping to drag rugs from the living
and dining rooms TO the back porch
and denied that she scattered furni-
ture and silverware about to create
the impression of a burglary, as her
grandmother had stated in her con-
| fession.
She insists that she broke open the
silver closet in the buffet four days
previous to the staying of her hus-
band with an ice pick, although her
grandmother states Miss McArdls
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