The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-16
MRS.KABER GUILTY ROADS file
Gets No Mercy From Jury Com Ask for Order Agans
posed of Men. ence by State Conn
Verdict Comes Exactly Two May Put Increased
Years After Crime. Rates in Effect Thi
HAD FOUGHT WOMAN JURY P U. C. MAY GO BEF(
Recommendation for Mercy Santa Fe Plans to Ma
Saves From Electric Chair. Schedule 500
Daughter, Also Awaiting Trial, An Advance of 6 p
Nurses Unconscious Woman. Passenger Fal
Gets No Mercy From Jury Com
posed of Men.
Verdict Comes Exactly Two
Years After Crime.
HAD FOUGHT WOMAN JURY
Recommendation for Mercy
Saves From Electric Chair.
Daughter, Also Awaiting Trial,
Nurses Unconscious Woman.


Court House. Cleveland. July 16.-
Mrs. Catherine Eva Kaber is saved
from the electric chair.
The twelve men who sat as her
judges today found her guilty of
murder in the first degree as arch
conspirator in the murder of her hus-
band, Daniel Kaber, but recommend
ed mercy.
Mrs. Kaber was sentenced to life
imprisonment at Marysville by Judge
Bernon. When informed of the YER
dict Mrs. Kaber merely nodded her
head, showing no signs of emotion.
From men she had hoped for
mercy. Branding her own sex as
'merciless." she had fought to bar
women from the jury.
A verdict of guilty in the first de-
gree. with recommendation by the
jury for mercy. carries with it a pen
atty of life imprisonment.
Judge Announces Verdict.
Altho the jury had not yet report
rice Bernon announced the decision to
Attorney Francis w. Poulson, Mrs.
Kaber's personal counsel, so that he
might inform Mrs. Kaber in hope that
she would revive sufficiently from a
stupor to be brought into court to
hear the official announcement. She
had been in a stupor all morning.
Mrs Kaber was said by her attor-
neys to have been practically uncon-
scious last night. She had been car
ried from the court room and had
not eaten during the day.
Two Years After Crime.
By a singular coincidence the jury
began balloting just two years. the
Mr.. Kaber was stabbed to death by a
person alleged to be hired by Mrs
Kaber.
Although Mrs Kaber was suspected
of being implicated in her husbands
death at the time, insufficient evidence
was found then by officials on which
to charge her with the crime.
For two years Moses Kaber. the
aged father of the murdered man
doggedly kept working on the mystery
with the aid of private detectives, sus-
picion pointing stronger and stronger
toward Mrs. Kaber.
Finally a brother of Mrs. Kaber was
brought in as a ruse and her mother
Mrs Mary Brickel. who was suspected
of knowing much about the murder
was led to believe that the son was
to be charged with the crime.
The ruse worked as it had beer
planned. Mrs. Bricke1 to save. the
son, is alleged to have confessed, i'm
p1icating her daughter. Mrs. Kaber;
Miss Marion McArdle. daughter OF
Mrs. Kaber; herself and others.
Daughter Awaits Trial.
All thru the night, 19-year-old
Marian ArdIo
mothers cot, administering to the
stricken woman as she woke from
troubled dreams in which stalked
ghosts-the most terrible of all; the
spectre of the electric chair.
The girls life hangs on the jury's
verdict. She awaits trial also charged
with first degree murder in sconnec-
fatal stabbing of her stepfather, Dan
iel Kaber, rich Cleveland publisher.
Mrs. Kaber is the first woman In
Cuyahoga county to be convicted OF
first degree murder
William j. Corrigan, Mrs. Kaber's
counsel, said he. was well satisfied
with the verdict. The same expression
ward C. Stanton
Only Three Ballots Taken.
The jury announced that it was
II
O'clock this morning. after having de-
liberated, in all. four hours Mrs.
KabeF, according to her counsel
said that she understood what the
verdict was and she was carried into
the court room at 1890 o'clock.
The jury had not yet been brought in.
The jury was brought. in a few
minutes later and made official re-
port of the verdict. Mrs. Kaber, who
was lying limp in the arms of a
deputy sheriff was asked if she had
anything to say She merely shook
her head. Judge Bernon then pro-
nounced sentence. Mrs. Kaber was
carried back to her cell in the jail
The jury took only three ballots, It
was said, the first two being nine for
mercy and three for first degree muir
der without mercy. Before balloting,
the jury had discarded the insanity
plea. Attorney Poulson said he would
not appeal the case.