Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1913-07-30
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TRAGEDY IN
FAR ALBERTA

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Former Willmar Girl IS Victim
Of Crazed jealousy Of
Husband. .
A fearful tragedy occurred in far.
off Alberta Tuesday, July 8, Of which
the, news has just reached Willmar
Mrs. Axel Anderson, nee Miss Anna
Strom, was brutally murdered Dy
her husband in fit Of jealous In
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The shocking news reached this
community by means Of a letter re-
ceived by Mrs. Strandberg Of Svea
from her sister, Mrs. Olof Wallin,
Of Hughenden, Alberta. The details
as given in this letter are very mea-
ger. The Andersons lived on farm
near Sedalia, P. O.. In house near
by lived Per Dahl and wife, the lat
ter a sister Of Mr.. Anderson. The
Andersons were married eleven
months ago, the bride going direct
from Willmar to her new home,
where the marriage was performed
by Rev. Olof Lindgren. They
seemed to live very happily, but Of
late Mr.. Anderson, seemed to become
subject to fits Of unreasonable jeal-
ousy. He imagined that he heard
knocks on the door at night, and that
people who wished to rob him of his
wife were in hiding in the growing
grain. Just how the final trouble oc-
CURED no one will ever know. When
the awful deed was done the cries
were heard by Mr.. Dahl who rushed
over to the house and saw the mur-
derer standing over his victim. The
instrument of death was a hay fork.
Seeing that Mrs. Anderson had
drawn her last breath, Dahl turned
to the guilty husband who was be-
ginning to realize what his insane
passion had led him to. He grappled
with Dahl, broke loose and ran into
another room where he attempted
to cut his own throat. He did not
succeed, however, before Dahl over
powered him and took away his
knife. The injury was so severe,
however, that he was kept in bed in
his own house, under doctors care
and guarded by officers Of the law
for one week, when he-Was- -taken-1e 9
a hospital at Calgary. The victim
was buried on July 10th.
That the means of communication
in that part Of Canada are very few
is testified to by the fact that the
Wallins at Hughenden and Rev.
Lindgrens at Czar had not heard of
this tragedy although living but
IS miles distant. In the latter part
of the following week these two fam
lilies drove over to visit their friends
whose apparently happy married
life was joy to them as well. Ar
irving in the evening after long
ride they found both the Anderson
and Dahl houses closed and no one
at home. Not knowing the reason
of their absence and expecting that
they might return at any time the
visitors made themselves as COM
Portable as possible in the hay-mow
Of the barn. In the morning an in
spection Of the premises led them to
! suspect something was wrong, and
as they were about to leave people
| arrived who told them Of the terri
BILE event that had taken place.
Both the murdered wife and her
husband were born in Mockfjard,
| Sweden, and have distant relatives
in the ~Mockfjard colony Of. this
county. Anderson was at Willma1
eight or nine years ago and pur-
chased land from the Scandinavian
Colonization Company at Willmar.
which also located. him on his home
stead: He did well and is reputed
to have become. wealthy. Mrs. Anna
Strom Anderson arrived to Willma1
from Sweden about twelve years
ago, and made this city her home
most of the time until her marriage
The news of her untimely death has
shocked beyond expression her many
friends in this county. g