The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-29
MRS. KABER
 HAS ONE FEAR
 THAT OF HELL
BYMnIDREDs MORRIS

BYEMILDREDe MORRIS
 Courthouse. Cleveland. O. June 29
 Tine '-stone woman broke her si-
 Ience today
 She fears Hell, she said Mrs Catherine Eva Kaber,-.describ- ed by-Ehe prosecutor as a "fiend in | human form is frightened d-frighten- ed almost to the verge of collapse.
 'As eIoodIess as a. stone" is the
 cornmoa- description of this thin. dark z Lere on trial for her life, cold blood ed1y they say, she fed arsenic to her : sick husband, Daniel Kaber. wealthy hp1b1fsher, unn he was weak to the } assassin who stabbed the helpless : man 24dmeS
 If the .'stone woman showed braEado before her trial she. displays ! none now She sounded pathedcaIy z human and tragic when during an ex- : elusive interview with the Interna- E tfona1 News Service today she cried Asout:
 Why, can't they let me alone un- til they have heard my story. He was the hend- He sapped my life blood. He drove me crazy. God Sikn0ws how I have suffered"
 TYeS. Pm afraid,' she said slow N. I'm afraid of hell beyond and hefE-on, this earth He made my life a-lhell"
 She sits in the courtroom with eyes : closed as if asleep and obHvfous to everything, not because she is cold fand indifferent, but t<to mediate with God
 T shut out the world and the evil , influences about me- she said.
 By one side, she will be pictured to ff1e jury as a. diabo1ica1 Inurderess; by the other, as victim of the re $ pulsive degenerate acts of a man
 diseasedSin body and mind Frenzied .Rby fear and hate of Kaber she pcf- sStory. first by corsuftfng fortune tell CTS, then by the so1ace of Christian iScience and last by the plotting of his .dezth. A horribly ssordid case, as Hacking in color as the dark woman who is it's central figure.
 The constitutionafity of woTnan jur ;sorS in Ohio may be attacked in the elhfgher courts-ff Mrs Kaber is con- victed.
 Her attorneys, having. failed to bar them will now attempt to eliminate
 women jurors from her case by the exercise of perenPtUTy challenges If their efforts fan, they will make the presence of even one woman on the Jry a point for appeal in event of -conUctfon-
 There is growing prejudice against women jurors in Ohio, ac- cording to Francis Poulson, one of , Mrs Kaber's attorneys.
 'HThey haven't the experience neces- :zzryfor- jury service" he said. 'They Sarel relentless in Judging their own sex Nine out of ten women would shaEe Mrs. KAber eIectrocuted- Even sof her story, they would have no sym spathy for her. They would not be able to understand because of their sl3fn1ibed experience in life Men be- scauSe of their broader experiences have more sympathy"
 In dress Mrs Kaber and Cora Berg, 5tTre fffady juror who may be one or the 12 to sit in judgment of her, offer ', L-OTI and pretty woman, made her debut into the jury box in a lovely char
 mouse frock with a string of pearls around her neck
 Mrs. Kaber's dark costurue---taiI- . pred suit and satin hat, with feather s1-irlI11ings-Without touch of color, is designed either to render her m co1spicuous or to offset the claim that sshe will attempt to secure her free dom through sex appeal With her black hair and olive coInpFex1on, She
 The blue of her dress gives an al- , most sanow appearance to hef lace with its pallor. ants, in murder cases she apparS to ssfTJIn notoriety. The couT room IS | foUsr1aH to admit more than 9 hand fT1l of spectators but outside waits a mDrbid throng of murder fanS to ! catch a glimpse of her. Today. as yesterday. she hqrrleq E-uasf them with head bowed ana Ess-ra4rt slipped almost unnot1eed into atl1e defendaufs chair Shes more than her pictures 1nd1. k< cate She looks no older than the S9 E years she claims to be. sff I were the fiend they paint me, t-ffo vD1 think my girl would love E57ne ?'' the accused woman asked pas : sionately.
 [ She refers to her 19 year old , daIrgbter Marion, who is imprisoned in inc jaiI a fe1s yards distant from Hba court room With her 69 year [ old rrranJ7rnother, also under arrest, ! Marion is charged with comphcity in kKabeTIz murder On the verdict in E fine Tnother's case rests the fate of the < girl and the grandmother. The : "death family Cleveland has dubbed : the strange trio