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Show GREWSOME EVIDENCE DESTROYED FOREVER Trunk and Clothing in Ekman Case Submitted to Flames hy Polico Inspector. Growaomc evidence of the murder of Frances Violet Williams, daughter of Mrs. Minnie Kkman, including the trunk and clothing in which tho body of the littlu girl was found nt tho Ogden Og-den union station when the murder came out, furnished tho material for a bonfira in the city jail yard yesterday. yester-day. Mrs, Ekman, who stood trial for the murder of her child and was adjudged insane, was committed to the State Mental hospital on December 1, 1013. Information received by District Attorney At-torney Lcatberwood from tho superintendent superin-tendent of the hospital led to the conviction con-viction that the woman would never rocover sufficiently to he discharged from the institution, and it wns thought Ixst to dispose of tho thiags that, in spite of ltng soakcH with disinfect ants. smelltMl fearfully of the taint left by tho partly decomposed body which they had 'hidden. Accordingly, they were piled together and burned by Toltce Inspector Carl A. Carlson. |