Show lolice Keep Tab on Five a Hatchet t Murder Suspects Chief Chef EH Eliminates mi nates Dozen From Closing Net Clues Confuse Probe Brother rother of Victim Unable to Furnish Aid Slayer One of Callers at Widows Widow's Home Remains in Salt Lake Declares res Solution of the hatchet murder of Mrs Anna C. C Hallen narrowed narrowed narrowed nar nar- rowed down to four or five possible suspects right here in Salt Lake City Police Chief Reed E. E said Monday Chief Ve revealed that the department is relying a great deal dealon on fingerprints found in the murder murder murder mur- mur mur mur- der house Park street having obtained several good ones other than those of Mrs Hallen Halen At the same time he disclosed that a prolonged interview with the slain widows widow's half-brother half Erik Anderson of Chicago had yielded virtually nothing toward the Mr Anderson arrived arrived arrived ar ar- ar- ar rived from Chicago Sunday and will remain for funeral services for Mrs Hallen BaHen Unable to Aid Erik Anderson was able to throw no light whatsoever on this I problem Chief said He HeI Helias I has lias been very cooperative cooperatIveS The chief said about a dozen persons have been eliminated as possible suspects but that four or five were known to have called at the Hallen home Thursday Thursday Thurs day the evening of which her body was found in the basement beside a stained blood-stained hatchet We are not satisfied with their stories of their movements the day before the slaying the day of the slaying or the day after Chief V Vette said of these remaining suspects W We find discrepancies Rather than a paucity of clues and arid police are finding finding finding find find- ing a plethora the chief said There are too many clues he said Too many persons have been found to have had shady dealings with this eccentric woman Many imposed upon her good nature wheedling sums out of h her r on one pretext or another It was for this reason that Third district court imposed a guardianship guardianship guardianship guardian guardian- ship upon her naming the Zions Zion's Savings Bank and Trust company company com com- pany Mrs Hallen was eager to break this guardianship her brother helf-brother disclosed saying that her marriage marriage mar mar- to Carl Mueller was for this purpose But the court refused to dissolve the guardianship and andin andin andin in November 1939 she obtained an annulment on on the ground that Mueller's divorce in a previous marriage had not become That was seven months after they h had d gone to Evanston Wyo to tobe tobe tobe be married Slayer Believed In City Chief Chief stressed his belief that the murderer would be found in Salt Lake City We are keeping tab on those four or five suspects he said The half-brother half Mr Anderson spent considerable time with Chief Monday attempting to re recall recall recall re- re call details of his sisters sister's fi finances finances finances fi- fi nances and friends The latest thing Mr Anderson had t to go on was a letter received from his sister half-sister on the day she was slain and dated December 1 I dont don't understand it he said mopping a perspiring brow she just said she was in good health It didn't say anything about her I affairs He said he did not have that let let- ter with him Speaking in broken English English he he and his sister half-sister always spoke and corresponded in Swedish Swedish his his eyes eye welled with tears as he re related related related re- re how ho Mrs Hallen Halien was a good woman a clean woman He warmly disputed that she would think of ot marrying an ex-convict ex as police were led to suspect Ex Convict Hunted An attorney R. R Verne McCullough McCullough lough had told police that Mrs Hallen and the purported con ex vict had come to him in an effort to have the guardianship imposed by Third district court broken He said the widow had been passing off the ex-convict ex as her half- half brother Mr Anderson but that Mr McCullough nailed her on the lie Police are continuing their search for the ex-convict ex said to have roomed at Mrs Hallen's HalIen's at one time Mr rr Anderson was made beneficiary beneficiary beneficiary benefi benefi- ciary of a will Mrs Hallen HalIen had drawn up on November 4 He said he arrived on October 27 and re remained remained remained re- re until November 4 He also visited here with her early in September Sep Sep- he said He will vill remain for her funeral services set for Tuesday noon in inthe inthe inthe the Second L. L D. D S. S ward chapel Fifth East and Seventh South street I want her to have a good funeral funeral funeral fun fun- eral he said She was a good woman Mr Anderson explained that Mrs Hallen was the daughter of their fathers father's first wife he the son of the fathers father's second wife He has lived in Chicago since coming from Sweden 40 years ago Meanwhile the robbery theory was strengthened by Mr McCullough's McCulloughs McCulloughs McCullough's lough's disclosure to police that that Mrs Hallen's custom was to conceal conceal con con- ceal whatever money she had in mattresses lamps and the back backyard yard She believe in banks He said he knows that on the Tuesday before the slaying she had withdrawn 2500 from a postal savings bank She was asserted also aiso to have had a joint safety deposit box with another man with whom she I had s. s |