Show MADDENEDMAN MUR DERS WOMAN The Victim Who Was Unknown to Assassin Shot Down as She Was Reading Her Bible Murderer Gloried In His Fiendish II Crime Being Found by the Officers Of-ficers Seated Beside the Corpse f of Woman He Had Foully i Murdered Sandy Utah While sitting in her homo reading her Bible Matilda Eck land 47 years old living just outside tho city limits of Sandy was shot to death shortly before midnight Thursday Thurs-day night Tho crime was committed by Axel Carlson about 30 years old a worker In Salt Lake and was evidently the outbreak of a maddened mind Miss Ecklund was sitting at a table reading a chapter from tho Bible to her companion Mrs Dahlqulst an aged widow Carlson crept up to ono lot the windows and fired a shot aimed lat Miss Ecklund Tho bullet missed top aim but with a crash shattered the oil lamp With affrighted cries the two women leaped to their feet terrorstricken and almost In tho tamo moment Carlson had slunk around to another window through which ho fired two bullets that entered en-tered the back of his victim Fiendish Fiend-ish like and unsatisfied ho crept to the front door and boldly entering the room stood over the body of his already dead victim and fired a shot which entered the left temple Then satisfied with his work ho left the house occupied only by the corpse and a fainting frightened woman and wont to a saloon where over two glasses of whiskey he told what he bad done leaving the saloon sa-loon ho returned to tho scene of his tiedgr and when followed a tow minutes later 1 rshnltDrlrwir and others he was found sitting by the side of the corpse Carlson so far has given unmlstak able evidences of Insanity and it is the belief that his act of murder was that of an Insane man |