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Show GIRL'S BODY IS JOUNDJN TRUNK Odor From Trunk Draws Attention And It Is Opened. Motner Con- fesse to Crime. Ogden, Juno 28 A rovoltlng murder mur-der was brought to light today at 1:30 o'clock by tho discovery at tho Union station In this city ot a trunk containing tho distorted nude body of a 10 year old girl. Tho mothor of tho child later confessed to being tho por petrator of tho deed. Tho woman who confessed to tho crlmo gavo her first name as Mrs. Lotnoy Ekmnn of Salt Lako but later at "ollce station said her namo was Mlnnlo Ekman. Sho wns arrested In company with a man named C. L. Anderson, who Enid ho was a formor husband before her marrlago to Ekman. Ek-man. Tho nrrest was made by means of tho corresponding check hold by tho pair and the ono on tho trunk In which tho body was found. Tho mothor moth-or snld tho llttlo girl's namo was Fran ces Williams, a daughter of her second sec-ond husband deorgo Williams. Anderson Ander-son says ho was her first husband. Anderson denies all knowlodgo of tho crlmo nnd says ho did not know tho body of tho child wns In tho trunk. Tho woman also holds thnt Anderson know nothing of tho crlmo. Sho said ho asked her whoro Frances was and sho Informed him that tho child was dead. Ho did not know sho placed tho body in tho trunk. Odor I Traced. Tho trunk which Is of ordinary size arrived over tho Oregon Short Lino yesterday afternoon nnd was Imndlod In tho regular manner, being placed with other trunks in the baggage room. This morning, however, a slight odor was detected In tho bag-gago bag-gago room and upon Investigation It was found to como from a certain trunk. Suspicions wero aroused when a man appeared at tho counter about noon and prosonted tho etieck nnd ordered that tho trunk bo sent back to Salt Lako city. Ho was nskod what tho trunK contamoa Btia JtnSwS? ed, "Nothing but bedding and n few other things. Ho was given tho return re-turn check howovor and allowed to go. Tho odor from tho trunk was called (Continued on pago eight) GIRL'S BODY IS FOUND IN TRUNK Continued from page one. to the attention ot the general agent on his return from lunch and ho ordered ord-ered It opened fcr Investigation. 'Horn er Greenwell, a clerk, opened It, disclosing the distorted and .bloody form of tho little girl. Tho police woro Immediately notified and Detective Georgo Wardlaw, nccompanled ty 'W. tt. Itccder, ox officio coroner, nnd.E. A. Larkln, undertaker, went to the sceno. Thu trunk and body wrcro tnkon to tho Larkln undertaking establishment, establish-ment, and County Physician A. A. Robinson and City Physician 'Walter Whalen wo'ro notified. From nppe'arS ances tho girl had been dead fdur6F flvo days and tho features were swollen swol-len and discolored, tho head und shoulders showing .marks or -boating. In tho opinion ot tho physicians lli nock had been broken and frpm tho mnrkfl on both sides of tho neck the child had beon first strangled to. death. Tho body showed signs ot mis'-' treatment. |
