Show MAN A ACCUSED U fD OF f SlA SLAYING CHILD Hll PORTLAND Ore Ore May Aray 9 AP P P- P Alex Carl Erickson an automobile salesman was held in jail here to today today today to- to day en an assault and battery charge preferred by his Wife wiCe while authorities checked her per story atory that the husband nd had killed billed one of their children in Aberdeen S S. S D D. eleven ye years rs ago by throwing it into the furnace Mrs Ir Erickson who told her story T. T court hearing which hearing which resulted ln n nt t he e salesman being eing held for grand jury lury a action on the ass assault charge i a also that nad nod kicked smother another sm an- an other of their children 8 S months old so that it died This also occurred in South Dakota she said I. I Erickson was arrested Sunday mor morning at his home after police had cut a heavy belt fastened tightly around his wife's wife s neck Two children of the couple Winifred 11 and Robert 9 told in court that Erickson had drag dragged ed his wife tom from her bed by the hair and had throttled throttled lied her with the strap Mrs Airs Erickson also accused her husband of further brutalities H He had burned er with a red hot poker she declared He Ho flog flogged ed her with witha a strap and I 1 Deviously he had choked her with the belt and had hit her with a heavy piece of steel |