| Show BELIEVE CARLSON S PLAYING CRAZY TO ESCAPE NOOSE That Axel Carlson Carson is fei feigning in insanity insanity ity ty in order to escape prosecution for murder is the fear of the state attorneys Carlson Carison committed ono one of the most cold blooded murders in tho the history his his- tory ory of ot tho state tato in shooting Miss Mss Matilda Ma- Ma Ia tildA ilda Ecklund klund as 88 she he sat reading her bel Bible in her ber homo home at Sandy last bt Thurs day lav ni night ht Judge rud e Lewis Lewi is exercising the tho greatest greatest great great- reat est caro in the tho examination permitting ho tho prisoner to answer no zio questions which might be answered in his favor Most Moat of ot the facts in tho the case caso were brought rought bt by other witnesses County Physician T T. T G. G Oddi first examined Carlson Carison as to facts in in the case se which tho the prisoner answered quickly and lucidly Ho said he be was 28 years ars old that be ha lived live a at Apricot street and that ho he belon belongs to the tho Mormon Mormon Mor Mor- mon church Answer Ruled Out IIo lIo was then asked whether he be had bad at any time suffered Buffered any ny injury on his head lead Carlson quickly answered that ho 10 had bad and was beginning to explain how bow ho bad had once boon been hit on the head bend whoa when Judge Lewis stopped him and denied de do- nied him bim tho the right to answer the ques ques- uel tion Hon When the sister eister Mrs Ira Emma Eichman Eichman Eich Eich- man was asked tho the same question she eho claimed that sh did not know of his hia ever haviD having been injured in such a manner After Alter that District Attorney Fred Pred C. C r be began nn putting witnesses on the stand and conducted the tho examination examina tion himself Deputy Sheriff Axel Steele paid said that tho the conduct of tho the man roan had beon exemplary at tho county jail that ho bo ate ate- well and slept wellI wellI well I 1 never felt bettor better in mv mT life Ufo and andI I never slept moro soundly tho the prisoner pris oner ODOr had told Sheriff Y Too Sharp the morning mornin after ho had been arrested Tho Sister Testifies Mrs Eichman said Carlson Carison her ber brother had como come to live with her at Sandy last Juno after alter havin having beon boon at work at Park City elly She says ho be left her about five weeks before Christmas My ry ry door has bas always been open to him hini was her claim She Sho t testified that there there- had bad never been a lovo o affair in the lifo life of Miss Mies Ecklund tho victim of ot tho the tra tragedy BO so far as she knew She Sho told however that a brother of the tho prisoner an Erick Carlson Carison had been jilted by a girl irl who had gone ono back to the old country and that lie be had gone Ione insane insano as a r result sult That was wag last summer Bummer and the witness I claimed that at that time she Bhe had bad asked I her father who is now dead if there had been beon any noticeable trace of insanity insanity in in- sanity anity in the family which ho bo had bad de nid John Poulson a II bartender bartend r in a sa 83 loon at Sandy Sandr said that the prisoner had come como to the die saloon on several cral occasions occasions oc oc- to get a drink Howa hows How 8 business today t t II ho be had hail asked aked on one oae occasion Pretty good I 1 told him II said id Mr Poulson who had noticed nothing odd about tho mans man's actions Tho The hearing was continued at 2 o o'clock clock this thia afternoon when other witnesses wit nesses were put on tho the stand in an effort ef of- fort to learn a motive for tho the murder |
