The evening world. Newspaper, June 13, 1921, Page 3

THE $300 KISS AND SOCIETY NOTABLES AT THE ITALIAN MIL ALL KABER MURDER PLANS TOLD BY ALLEGED HIRER OF 2 MEN WHO KILLED HM =o Mrs. Colavito Describes How} Sounds Were Deadened | by Piano Playing. | “Marlan said: ‘Come out to-night cide his exact term within the limits io aloe | and you'll find everything ready.’ | of from six months ‘to three years. rege lepee | “We then discussed new plans. It! ‘The two were convicted after CLEVELAND, June 13.—First de- | was decided that the men were to hide separate trials of extorting money gree murder was charged on two that Marian was to make the from Max Minison, a: housewrecking eounts in an indictment returned to- | rounds upstairs. When everything contractor, by interfering with the day against Mrs. Erminia (mma) |“®% ready and the house quiet ake | tearing down of a building in Maide confession procured for Mrs, Eva Cabherine Kaber the two as ns who knifed the latter's husband, Daniel F., to death. One count of the indictment was | based on the poisoning of Kaber, Mrs. Colavito having admitted that she gave Mrs. Kaber a phial of “gi ale and some oil when she was ‘urged to furnish a death potion, The second count has to do with| the actual murder of Kaber, in which the woman by her own tale partici-| ated, by at least knowing of every preparatory step taken with the elayers. Mrs. Colavito is indicted on the fame counts and charges as were made to apply to Mrs, Kaber when @he was indicted almost two weeks ago. She is thirty-two years of age, and was arrested in Sandusky sev-| eral days ago. Late developments | indicate there were four hired assas- | gins, who got $500 for stabbing Kaber to death. Twelve persons have been named to date in the murder. | Mrs. Colavito's signed statement | reads as follows: “It was on the Wednesday before the murder that we went to inspect tne Kaber home, learn the arrange ments of the rooms end find out where Kaber slept. Two men known as Sam and Toney, who were to do the work, were with me. “When we reached the home that | evening we were taken through the | halls and roow help deader the | noise mad as we tramped through | the house, Marian McArdle ing a piano. The two men were told | what to do, how to enter the house, | yelope, While They Took Dip. and how to get out They were| Phe midwife named the four as-| Rose and Mary Frimerman of No. 740 shown the door to Kaber's room. assins. Two were lookouts and two| Prospect Avenue, the Bronx, reported to “It was arranged that the back| went inside the house, according to|the police at Coney Island last night that door was to be open and ¥ Brickel| hep story. Mrs. Kaber told her, the|they had been robbed of jewelry worth was to be on the porch at 10 o'clock | police say she informed them, that Ley shi went SBth paneer Pane. . ight as a signal that all} ay qn 4 |No, 29 e Street, Coney Island, she next lal all the money would be pald a8 soon | Vii) they had hired for the summer. wee we) , ree as the ostate, was settled The girls said they came to the island murder was to take place the} Mrs, Kaber, when ccnfronted by| yesterday with Joseph Yacker of No.| next night—Thursday, On Friday| mrs, Burman, denied all the state-} 33g Kast 100th Street, Mary Frimer- morning I received a call from the} ments the latter had made and also | man’s flance, and that during the after- two men, They wanted to know what was the matter at the Kaber home. | Mary Brickel, They said they had been out there the night before, but had found the back door locked and no woman on the porch. 1 called the Kaber home on the telephone and Marian McArdle, the adopted daughter, answered that she could not discuss the matter over the 4, telephone, but asked me to meet her OY sin fae two men, That afternoon, Friday, Marian, Toney, Sam and | met on a street corner in the East End. the ground near a basement window, After this I left the party. “The next morning I read of the mourder in the newspapers, “When Mrs. Kaber came to me the first time and wanted something for} her husband's ‘nasty habits,’ I gave her a bottle containing a mixture of! and oil that wouldn't kill any-' I did not give her any polson! pop | thing. | and simply gave her the other stuff to get rid of her.” “The men wanted $5,000 for com-_ mitting the crime,” she declared, | “but Mrs. Kaber declared she would not pay it unless her husband was | killed with some weapon so that she could collect on an accident insurance; policy.” stone in an automobile ‘and agreeing } For the murder Mrs. Eva Cath-| not to oppose certain legislation in erine Kaber, his wife; Miss Marlan| McArdle, his stepdaughter, and Mrs. | sixty-nine years old,) mother-in-law, are under indictment. Prosecutor Stanton and Chief Smith previously had sald the midwife ad- mitted that a $500 bill had been pald to her by another woman, a fortune | teller, who js alleged to have acted as go-between, ‘The $500, according to the alleged confession, was pald to the midwife after she had told Mrs. Kaber by telephone the men were getting im- patient and might kill her if they were not paid, Mrs, Ethel Burman, who had been} & friend of Mrs, Kaber, has told the authorities that an envelope contain- ing $500 was left with the fortune teller when Mrs, Kaber went to New York after the murder, teller admitted having handled an en- some of her admissions to Chief of, Lakewood in Police Christensen of New York. See Dying Mother Seeks Trace of Se The Bureau of Missing Persons ‘The fortune has THE EVENING WORLD, Maurice et T inc MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1921, STADTMULLER GETS PRISON SENTENCE: | Moran, Convicted on Same Charge, Goes to Pen With- out a Recommendation. | Peter Stadtmuller, business agent the House Shorers and House Wreckers’ Union was sentenced to ho Penitentiary by Justice McAvoy in the Criminal Branch of the Su- Preme Court to-day with a recom- mendation to the Prison Parole Board that he be released in less than six months, of Joseph Moran, Stadtmuller's asso- | ciate, was sentenced to the peniten-| ttary without recommendation, leav- | ing it with the Parole Board to de-| the boycott by Robert P, Brindell against the old established house- wreokers' union. They collected $1,000 from Minison, which they said they gaye to Brindell, who is serving | 4 Sing Sing term for extorting money froin a contractor, and against whom there are other indictments. Andrew Murray, Stadtmuller’s law- yer,.made an impassioned plea for leniency for Stadtmuller, in the course | of which he said Stadtmuller’s great- est offense was that he was a poor workingman, who had merely taken | the orders of the chief through whom he got his salary. Murray made the | statement that the rich and powerful fire insurance exploiters had. “ob- jtained immunity by going to Grey- a stipulation on the records of the Lockwood committee.” Special Deputy Attorney Generai Stanley Richter, son-in-law of Sam- uel Untermyer, counsel to the Lock- wood committee, who lives at Grey- stone, did not challenge the state- ment, though there if no such stipu- lation on the records of the Lockwood committee and Mr. Untermyer did put inthe record a statement that no immunity could or would be given to the fire insurance -men. Mr. Richter said Stadtmuller had given valuable aid to the State, testi- fying against Moran and giving testi- mony in an important hearing before \the Grand Jury “in another matter.” No pleas were made for or against Moran, | exchange for ———— FRIEND AND GEMS GONE. Girls’ Room at Coney Island Looted ,inely there was generai regret among ¢-——— . | Gaines Falke a Hero At Roslyn Garden Party; 1 $40,000 for Italian Fund CLEMENCY URGED | Society Turns Out in Force to Help Raise Money for Suffering Children. PEG ESISSEST ? BUILDING WAGES MUST BE REDUCED, ARBITRATOR RULES Orders 15 P. C. Cut in Roch- ester—Job Printers Lose Of the $40,000 added to-day to the Free Milk Fund for Italian Babies, $300 was for a kiss auctioned by the charming Sigrid Holmquist, the ‘Swedish Mary Pickford,” who has just come to this country. Frank C. Henderson, at whose Villa Marina at Roslyn, L. 1, the fete was held yes- terday, had the honor of getting the $300 kiss, which was paid so charm- the men there were not other auc- tions. There were mat.y other bidders for the kiss that went to Mr, Hen- TIE CARETAKER, RAID WINE CELLAR Overcome Watchman, Lock Him in Closet and Loot Private Stock. MORRISTOWN, N. J., June boy of sixteen named Obermiller, who stays in the house of Charles Brad- ley at Convent, as night, was summoned window by five men early this morning ani told that his mother was Ill and need- ed him immedio As he did not recognize the Obermitler bo caretaker to a at men, came suspicions and before admitting them called the telephone operator derson. Strikes One of the attractions was Georges Carpentier, whose aid to the Italian garden party was rewarded with ap- ROCHESTER, Fastman, Georg by con June arbitrator named 12. - | April 1 with members of other build- Spenking of kisses, another feature | ing crafts who opposed the 15 pe of the party was Mrs, Marsh Allen, , cent. wage reductions offered at that who gained a wide reputation in Lon-| time. don. when she Kissed Georges In his decision Mr. Kastman pentier after his victory over Beckett, | clares the reduction will still Mrs, Allen sold flowers yesterday, | a margin of eight points between the a programme, leave ot less, perhaps, their desire to| Wage cut and the 21 per cent. reduc- view the spectacle than their chari-|tion in the cost of living. table instincts lured 5,000 men and| JAMESTOW N. Y., June 13.— women of every walk of life to the green acres of the beautiful estate, No one could help feeling romantic | who strolled through the beautiful drives and down the walks, where string orchestras played and the pretty girls, dressed in Italian cos- tumes, fortune tellers and organ grinders made their crying plea for the unfortunate children of Italy. It cost $5 to get In, but it cost many times that to get out. But the thoughtfulness of those who gave generously meant much, The lives of 100,000 little Italian ehil- dren are at stake. If the little onos could have been present to see the fete which was given for their benefit they would know that America nevor forgets. The strike of union job printers, which began on May 1 for a forty-four- hour week, was ended this morning when the printers returned to work in all job offices in Jamestown on the forty-eight-hour week and at the old rate of wages. RPADING, Pa. June 13.—Union Job printers in the largest establish- ments here, who have been on strike, | returned to work to-day on a com- | promise agreement. They will work] forty-four hours a week instead of} forty-eight and at a reduction in| wages from $38 to $35 a week. Men| in most of the other job offices re- turned to work some days ago Dullding Trades Strikers Accept Compromise, SPRINGFIBLD, Mass., June 13.— Carpentier motored from his train-lae i.e jundred striking buliding crafte-| Sng. cam is a neighbor of Mrs.) nen, representing eight trades, returned | Henderson—to contribute to thel4, work here to-day under the compr: cause. He received such a band as|imise wage schedule submitted last week probably no prize fighter in the his-|by the Hulldt id tr ep einnley re Aaso- After posing for a picture with Mrs,] men sUll remain on strike Henderson Je was escorted to the bree aE SLAYER OF WOMAN SOUGHT IN VAIN garden, where the orchestra played the Marseillaise hymn in his honor, At the conelusion of the Fre anthem some shouted: "Three cheers for Carpentier,” and every-| ( body let go with a hip-hip. The prize fighter was deeply moved us he turned and thanked Mrs, Henderson About this time Bud" Pritchard and one aretaker of Canarsie Cement Yard Found Murdered Beside Safe. Batiere noon Rose met another man who joined the party. Then the two girls and Yacker went bathing, leaving their jew- els and money in a beaded bay, and when they returned the bag was gone. So was the young received’ a letter from Carl H. Smith at | —————>_—__ Dundee, MIL, sasking help In finding, his z i son, Robert, twenty-six, who works Bade Life With Gas, ctimes asa sailor, sometimes ag a David Helpern, forty-nine, of No. 163 pressfeeder, The letter says the young Blake Avenue, Brooklyn, committed man's mother see him. is dying He is known to have York, and wants to left Baltimore June 1, t come to New turning on the gas. suicide at his home early to-day by He had been de- spondent for some time. The police to-day continued thei Mrs. Edward stephens Moore came] search for the slayer of Mrs. along playing an organ and c ww, gixty-seven years old, whe a monkey. Carpentier was ex ody was found Saturday, night in the interested in the monkey's actions un-| "ear office of the building material til Mrs. Moore's pet, evidently dis-| ¥4Fd of George Krier Bast 9th Street lturbed by the crowd, bit her on the ns ee eee nose, She was treated at a Red Cross) tne caretaker of the one-story building. hut which had quarters on the | ijer husband is a watchman in the yard grounds: The body was discovered by her em- et sluyer. It Was covered with coats, A ONEADOR DI * INJURIES. Soduinined wrench was close by ‘MADRID, June 13.—Ernesto Pastor,| In a shop fifty feet from where thi the Mexican toreador, died yosterda urder w ymmitted, a workman to as a result of injuries sustained last | lay a ved Sunday in the oull-ring here. The nehes and three quarters of a i ch in diameter. A key used by Shaw Physicians tn attendance had consid- | (OR Mn a fice building, and which ered the hurts of Pastor unimportant, was usually ‘hidden unde but blood poisoning set in, brick ta the yard, 1s missing, | if she and instructed her to notify the police did not hear from him within ten minutes. When the men entered vhey started ransack Obermiller again to thes place, plause, flowers and kisses, The young | tTactors and members of the striking, stepped to the telephone and notified Frenchman has faced death and dan.| Wilding trades unions as neutral) the Morristown police, whereupon |ger in many places, but yesterday he| ember of the Conciliation Board.) the men set upon him, knocked him blushed and showed symptoms of| to-day decided the Bricklayers, Stone) yneonscious and locked ‘him in a stage fright. Incidentally he discoy- , Masons and Plasterers’ Union must) ojoset \ ered he had left his money at home| accept a wage cut of 15 per cent j» The men then pillaged the wine and had to borrow a dollar to pay for| |The men have been on strike since’ coiiar, but were not in too much of | a hurry to permit the sampling of several bottles of wine. They loaded their plunder on a truck and disap- | peared before Policemen Geary and Ross reached the scene in an auto- » officers drove up Henry Mc the Bradley coachman, who aroused, mistook them for} the robbers and shot at them. A bul- let shat!ered the windshield of their] car. Young Obermiller, still unconscious, was found in the closet. The robbers had dropped a ease of port wine loading the truck and didn't recover it, wait to —<-—___—_ WALKED OUT OF JAIL, JIMMIES SELF BACK( After Organizing Welfare League Stern Escaped—Reversion to Burglary Disastrous. | Carl Stern was t White ment In the E day sentenced in year's imprison- w Penitentiary Plains to o st In 1917 he walked out of East View ten days before his term ot a year! BY MOTHER’S PLEA ad expired. While in the prison he 1a | in} 1 K rare CITY PLANS CAMP IN OLD BAY RIDGE La Guardia’s Proposal to Use 157 Buildings as Temporary Homes Rejected. Mayor Hylan hopes to turn over $3,500,000 worth of Navy Department barracks at Shore Road, BaBy Ridge, to the boys of this city for summer camp purposes. When the Navy De- partment restored the land to the city, in lieu of the Dig job of raging the | 157 buildings and getting rid of them as old lumber, the city a present of the baracks as | they stood, At to-diy's meeting of the Finance and Budget-Committee of the Board jot Estimate, Brooklyn Park Commis- | sioner Harman was authorized to a jcept the barracks. Aldermanie P dent La Guardia thought the build- | | ings might be used to house families j affected by the shortage of dwellings jand explained they were sanitary, | had good plumbing and up-to-date heating facilities. “When the Pelham Bay were sold by the Government $250,000, the contractors in turn of- | fered the same lumber to the city for $550,000," said President “That indicates the value of the lum- ber and we ought to use it to tae best advantage of the people.” It was after Brooklyn I President Riegelmann _ protested against making a colony out of v | La Guardia. camp that Mayor Hylan suggested the camp be used for boys and vhil- dren. He added that razing the structures might be deferred until the fall. A committee consisting of Health Commissioner Copeland, Tenement House Commissioner Mann and Com- missioner Harman will visit the site and report on the feasibility of a summer camp for boys and children, SWINDLER § SAVED had organized a mutual welfare| — league, and for his good wors a fine | Stewart, Who heverised as “Col- of $100 was to have been remitted. In| Jege Girl Willing to Wed,” ten days longer he would have been | ~ pile eer bo would pave ibeen | Gets One-Day Senten He went South and worked in the) The plea of an aged mother and shipyards all during the After James J. Stewart's promise that he the war, with plenty of money in his Would return the money he had ob- pockets, he came to this city, got on tiined by using the mails fraudulent- a spree and committed burglary. ly, caused Judge Knox in the Federal He pleaded guilty to burglary in the Court to sentence Stewart to one day second degree and was sente to in the Marshal's custody anu to pay Sing Sing for two years. After serv- a fine of $50. ken he ing his term East View to finish his un of an fine of $100. Meantime, he was indicted for jail breaking and to-day: he js back again at Kast View where he may continue back to xpired sen- to the und was made 100 days for tence ten days, serve itional work for another year. a his welfare Inventizate Death of Williams, The District Attorney's office is in- vestigating the death of Edward J Williams, private detective, of No. 98 West 16th si Whitestone, Queens, who was found unconscious Friday morning at 8th Avenue and 44th Street and died at Bellevue Hospital, It was t thought he had fallen in a fit « xy and struck his head, Hig Sister, however, said he had never been Bubject to such strokes, and it is now thought possible that he was hit with @ blackjack. 7 r Stewart plead tised he willing to marry the d guilty. He adver- was a young college woman right man, At least six men gaye up money for ex- penses for ‘Miss Maron wart of No, 302 West Sith Street’ to come West or buy clothes for the journey One sent on a diamond ring. The specific complaint was made by H. W. Thompson, a farmer of North Branch, Minn, who gave for railroad fare and dresses on Dec 18, last. When his prospective bride did not appear, he told the authors ties and Stewart was arrested, COL. HESTER’S WILL FILED. Son and Deug' Kagle Pebli Wiillam V, Hester jr. and Mrs. Car ote M. ide inherit the bulk of the for-| Inherit Bulk of ers Fortune, barracks | NAVAL BARRACKS the United States made | rough | tune of the late William V. Heater, their father, under the terms of the will filed in the Surrogate's Court in Brook- lyn to-day. The son receives two- thinds of his father's stock holdings in @ Brooklyn Eagle; Mrs. Ide receives the other third. The two divide the residu- | ary estate equally. * The only other bequests are $10%00 to Miss Helen 8. Selts, the nurae who cared for Mr. Hester at his home; $3,000 to his chauffeur, William Travis, and $5,000 to a niece, Nathalle Hester, Cleve- land, The will was dated Dee. 4, 193, and the son and daughter are executay: Rose The All-Ceylon Tea WHITE ROSE makes tea twice as strong, or makes twice as much tea.” Moar Lhe Styles Oriental Reign in scents today as they do in dress Jiowers of the Orient FIRST in the PERFUME TEST: Two Dellars A Bottle One ‘Dollar Am Ounce At Your Favours Stross There's heart's delight in COLGATE Pen shan | — = WHEN you go on your | vacation this Summer have your favorite paper mailed to you every day. Evening World, 25c per wees. two weeks 38 Daily World, 25c per week two weeks 38c SundayWorld, 10c perSunday the paper sent and he with The. 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