The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-06-30
LOCAL OFFICERS
ASKED TO HELP
Principals In Western Murder
Case Have Records Here

q country have been asked TO assist tn
II a murder mystery which is stirrin
: the entire country. the supposition be
, ing that the principals in the TRACED!
are former residents Of the cope
2 country and that one of them at leas
I has criminal record here.
, Mrs. Augusta Ekman Of Salt LAX,
and {. l.. Anderson of Los Angeles
are under arrest, charged with tn,
murder OF Mrs. Ekman's twelve year
old daughter Frances williams
whose body was found in a trunk al
the Union station Saturday evening
The woman admits chloroforming the
child and placing the body i'm the
trunk, To prevent Anderson. her for
mer husband. learning that she had
an illegtimate child. The fact that
the girrs life was insured for $3.50
may also have had an influence the
police say
According To the woman's story, she
married Anderson in Hancock four
teen years ago. and he deserted her in
making his escape after killing IAN
| freshman" A year later she met a
George Williams and lived with him.
but was again deserted soon after the
birth of the daughter. Frances Will
liams. Four years ago. without the
| formality of divorce from Anderson.
she married Augustus Ekman. The
two separated and recently she discov-
cred Anderson's whereabouts and he
came To Salt Lake To effect "A recon
citation.
While Mrs. Ekman asserts she chic
reformed the girl. physicians declare
the child was ChOked to death The
woman declared she committed the
crime because the girl was an encum-
brance and she could not take care
If her.
The trunk had been checked from
salt Lake two days ago and when
Anderson appeared to have 1t re-
checked To Salt Lake. the railroad Of
fcials demanded the trunk to be open
ed because of the peculiar odor ema-
rating from it. They found the re-
mains Of little Frances Williams.
Anderson and the woman had been
separated for years and only became
reunited two DAYS ago. They were on
their way to lronwood. Mich. when
arrested
Marshal Joseph Trudell today re.
ceived the following telegram asking
his cooperation in unraveling the
murder mystery:
Chief of Police, Red Jacket Mich
DO YOU know of G. L. Anderson,
said ~ have committed murder there
and who fed west several years ago
Tie is now held here suspected of COM
plicitN in the murder of the child Of |
Mrs. Minnie Ekman. his former wife. |
both are said to have lived i'm Iron
wood, Calumet and Hancock Mhchi- |
gan. Please wire anything YOU know |
n bout either"
Chief OF Police Rentenbach of Han
cock received the following telegram |
from the chief of police Of Salt Lake |
city.
Chief of Police, Hancock
We have c. l.. Anderson in GUS
tody Anderson is reported to have |
Killed an Irishman in your city about |
fourteen years ago, to have enlisted in |
the army and made his escape to the
Philippines, leaving a wife and baby |
there. Wife's maiden name was |
Lakon it is reported He has two
living there now"
Chief Rentenbach also received the |
following telegram from the sheriff al |
ogden
Chief Of police. Hancock
send me past record OF c. L. An
derson who married in your town II |
years ago His wife afterwards took 4
up with a George Williams and has 1
been living i'm Salt Lake City with a 1
man by the name of Ekman. Ander- /
son and woman are held for murder Of /
Williams child"
Copper country police officials were /
able to throw little light on the al
legged murder in Hancock fourteen
years ago. There are no records at II
the office of the sheriff showing details II
Of this crime. which must have oc-
Cured during the term Of Sheriff Lean. n
now deceased, nor do any of the police
officers remember the circumstances II
II such an unsolved murder mystery II
The kraemer murder is the only one II
which occurred about that time which II
has not been solved. but that was six II
Teen or seventeen years ago Two old II
persons were found murdered at their
home in Hancock and tNe mystery has II
never been cleared away.
John Mcnamara. who was under
sheriff during the term OF Sheriff II
Lean. states he is positive Anderson Il
VAS not wanted for any murder in
Hancock during the time he was i'm Of
'ice and that no warrants were issued
Tor his arrest at that time. Former
Sheriff Beck does not remember any
nan by the name of Anderson who
was wanted for murder in Hancock
turing the time he was in office.
An investigation of the records at
he office of the county clerk this
morning shows that the marriage OF
I. J.. Anderson and Miss Minnie II
sukkonen was solemnized before jus
ice of the Peace Casper Brand at
iOughtOu on ,JulN ID 1893