The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-26
MURDER EXHIBITS
HORRIFY EKMAN
Visits Police Station and
Identifies Articles in
Trunk That Held Body
of Murdered Girl;
Anderson Traced by
Inspector Carlson.

After intimating that the full story
Of the murder Of her daughter. Fran
ces Violet Williams, had not been told
Mrs. Minnie Ekman yesterday said she
was anxious to warn her first husband,
G. l.. Anderson, that he should depart
from the United States as soon as
possible August Ekman, her present
husband, who interviewed his wife in
the county Jail last night, declares
she made this statement to him.
Both in letter which she delivered
TO Ekman Thursday. and in CONVEX
sation yesterday, Mrs. Ekman promised
that some day she would tell him
moro about the tragedy, he says. Ac
eording to Ekman she asked him il
he would post letter to her mother
that the latter might write to Ander-
son, warning him to leave the coun-
try.
Promises Revelations.
"My wife told me- said Ekman
yesterday, after his visit to the county
iail, "that she would tell me more
about the murder and more about An
derson at some other time. She then
said that she wanted to have her moth
er write to Anderson TO leave the
United States at once and she added
l. Ll,E oha hn
she would give more information con-
cernlng the murder
According to Ekman, his wife ad-
mitted to him yesterday that she re-
ceived letter from Anderson on Tues
day, the day of the murder, telling her
of his intention to come to her.
"She told me,'' said Ekman, "that
the letter had arrived on Monday and
that she found it waiting for her when
she got home Tuesday morning from
Kemmerer, where she had come to see
me.'
The conversation between Ekman and
his wife in the county Jail yesterday
afternoon was conducted partly In Eng
hsh and partly in the Finnish tongue.
Ekman and his wife speak English bro
kenly and the two were repeatedly
warned by Deputy Sheriff r. NJ. Beck
stead, who was present, that all talk
must be in English. For few minutes
after each warning the conversation
would drag and then there would be
an evident effort on the part of the
one or the other to make clearer
statement and the Finnish language
would be used for moment.
Anderson Is Traced.
A further development of the case
was the positive statement by Inspect.
,r Carlson that Anderson had left the
,itv. although the police official said
hat late yesterday afternoon he had
earned the address of the missing man.
At the earnest solicitation of the
confessed murderess, Attorneys George
B. Hancock and Claude T. Barnes have
,pain taken hold of the case. Mr.. Han
.ock said last night that his firm drew
,ut of the case only after Anderson
lad failed to keep his word on several
occasions Attorney Hancock visited
Irs. Ekman at the county Jail last
light, at her request, and agreed to
epresent her in the future, provided
70 should not have to deal through An
erson.
Ieeting Affectionate.
The meeting between Ekman and his
life yesterday was marked by an ex.
ibition Of tenderness on the part Of
9th. While trying to confne them
alves to English as they had been
sauested to do, they were awkward
nd constrained, but frequently when
swift sentence of Finnish was
'edged into the conversation the face