The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-03
ANDERSON WILL
AID IN DEFENSE
Of MRS. EKMAN
Former Husband Says He Ia
Worth $4,000 and Will
Spend All to Secure
Legal Assistance.
ARRANGEMENT TO-DAY
BEFORE JUDGE TANNER
Attorney Claude T. Barnes
Says Client Will Plead Not
Guilty to Charge of
First Degree Murder.

That Mrs. Minnie Ekman will not lack
for attorneys to champion her cause
when she goes to trial on the charge Of
numbering her daughter Frances last
week was indicated yesterday, when c.
L. Anderson. her former husband, said
he would convert all of his property into
cash and expend 1t in her defense. This
property he estimated as being worth
more than $4,000. An acquaintance
estimates the value OF his holdings in
Michigan and California realty as ag-
gregating s2s.000 Anderson said that
he would make an effort to secure the
services OF Attorney Earl Rogers, who
figured in the recent trial OF Clarence
Darrow,
Attorney Claude T. Barnes, whose
frm IN this city has been engaged by
| Mrs, Ekman to defend her. said last
night that one Of the grounds TO be
pleaded by the woman would be insan-
| ity. Other grounds would also be set
up. said Mr.. Barnes. Asked IL alienists
would be called by the defense to whom
a hypothetical question would be pro-
pounded, Mr.. Barnes said he could not
answer at this time.
Plea Not Guilty.
'T have had no opportunity Of talking
| to the woman" he said. 1--WE shall weit
| until she Is sufficiently calm to give US
| as coherent an account as possible of
what she knows Of tho crime with which
she Is charged, At her arraignment she
will plead not guilty and we shall en-
| deavor to secure as much time as possi-
BILE before the preliminary hearing
Mrs. Ekman Will be arraigned on a
charge of first degree murder before
| Judge n. H. Tanner Of the criminal di-
vision of the city court this morning
at 10 o'clock.
| In talk with Inspector Carl A Carl
SON yesterday, Mrs Ekman said that she
had at times written news items end
stories for Finnish newspa pers and that
she found 1t easy to write in meter
While she has been In jail she has start
ed writing a series OF articles on her
| troubles. Several of these were yester-
( day given to Inspector Carlson.
| A number OF articles and letters. sup
posed to have been written by Mrs.
Bkman, were found by Tribune re-
porters In pile Of rubbish back OF
the former home Of the Ekmans at So
South Fifth West street. All were writ
ten In Finnish.
Article Translated.
One Of the articles was translated last
night by an interpreter and was found
to be a poem, having for its theme
"Jonah. the Prophet" Another was a
dissertation on christianity" The lat
| ter was written in a very disconnected
manner. jumping from one topic to an
other, there being no apparent connec-
tion between tho paragraphs,
I Take tho name OF Anderson" said
Anderson yesterday to Mrs. Ekman when
he visited her at the city jail. He as
sured her of his intention To stand by
her through her troubles.
! For the first time since their Joint ar
rest in Ogden on suspicion OF having
murdered Frances Williams. Anderson
and Mrs. Ekman were allowed TO talk to
each other. Anderson was released from
custody Tuesday afternoon. and yester-
day called to see his former wife.
At first both were constrained. Before
Anderson left the cell, the woman was In
his arms. holding him about the neck
while they kissed repeatedly.
To Retain Lawyer.
Speaking OF the interview afterward
Anderson said:
She was very surprised TO see me,
II was hard 20 talk at first. MY
heart ached for her. but ] was not
sure Just how she felt toward me. /
don't think she was sure. either, We
talked about our little daughter and
then broke down. I have no other
her trouble, The woman was not
Sane at the time she met me last
Wednesday. She In another person
now, have considerable property
and will uso it all, II necessary, IN the
fight to clear her of the charge against
her I shall send Immediately to Los
Angeles to retain Attorney Earl Rog-
ers. who figured In tho defense OF
Clarence S. Darrow.
Saws Mrs. Ekman Drank.
Mrs, Tyne Maxi who lived in the
same house with Mrs. Dkman UP to d
| few weeks ago made a positive state
meut Yesterday that the woman had beer
when she confessed to having murdered
her child. When The crtmc was COM
mitted Mrs. Maxi said shc was in the
/ house next door visiting,
HI left the Ekinan houea one week
before Mr.. Ekman left,' said Mrs
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