Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-03-05 | Page 2 | Babe's Ghost Lures Slayer Mor Back to Toils

BABES BABE'S i'S iS GHOST LURES SLAYER MOTHER BACK TO THE TOILS Police Capture Ekman Woman Woman Wo Wo- man in iri Broadway Hotel Defies State to Ke Keep p Her Herin Herin Herin in Insane Asylum MURDER AN ACCIDENT Hospital Attendants Are Scored ored for Treatment Accorded Accorded Accorded Ac Ac- corded Institutions Institution's Inmates Inmates In In- In mates mate Says She Is Sane If I hadn't stopped in Salt Lake to visit the grave of my lit littIe little little lit lit- tle tIe dead ead child they'd never have caught me I intended to keep on going and if I had I would have made my getaway But when I got here I wanted so much to see the grave of my baby that I stayed over over Behind the the bars again again Mrs Minnie Ekman last night stood an and talked of her escape from the state mental hospital hospit l and the crime for tor which on her insanity plea phea slie was sent there I I wont won't tell who helped me They will help me again Let them take me back Ill I'll get away again she said Mrs Ekman was captured by Captain Cap Cap- tam tain J. J J. J Roberts shortly after 6 o'clock last night at the Mattox hotel on West Vest Broadway Th The pr proprietor of the hotel had be ben been n suspicious of her since her arriva arrival shortly after 10 o'clock last night She was so nervous her feet were so sore and she kept moving about so much after she finally got up after 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon hat I Ibe became became be became came suspicious he sa said d. d Incidentally Mrs Ekman was arrested following her escape b by the same man who arrested her for the murder of her year ten-year-old child Frances Williams Captain Williams Captain J. J J J. J Roberts T U. U n i J Jau 00 46 U I sobbed as sh she talked They say I murdered my baby Shay sheT li said I My only only child was sick that night and I gave hersome hersome her hersome some sleeping tablets When hen morning came she had died I took some my my- self It wa waD wa terrible I didn't know know- what to do My religion the one that I myself had taken up feared the dark grave So I put her in a trunk Then the police came and I was arrested Then Thea I was Incarcerated In an insane asylum Oh the terror of it Do you think it Is fair to k keep ep a person in the insane asylum when they are sane You don't dont I dont I know you dont Well that is what they have done with me I am sane Dr D. D H. H Calder Caider has promised me inc time and again that I Ish sh uld go free and be taken again to tomy tomy my mother She is the only one whom I have been allowed to write to But Buthe Buthe Buthe he wont won't keep his promises Let them take me back back Ill I'll escape again even though it is hard I have no one to blame but myself for tor my capture If I hadn't wanted to see my baby's grave Id I'd have been free yet They maltreat us there at the thet asylum They are rough with us No Noone Noone Noone one can know how rough they are un until until tin un- til they get there and no one will wUl be believe belleve be- be lieve us until we are out and then generally generally gen gen- they will say we are still crazy I have suffered terribly Dr Calder comes to me very often and tells teUs me that I am so wicked no one loves meI meI meI me I only can help you he says Everyone Every one outside hates you If they do then want I to die My baby was killed ac ac- ac I didn't oh believe m me I didn't kill her Do you ou think I would kill my baby baby my my only baby take me back and force torce meto me rue meto to again do their bidding and accept their Insults There are many people In the Insane asylum who are very sane But the people on the outside who are insane wont won't believe them I have come to one conclusion and that thatis is that is-that that to be a great man you have got to be a liar All great men are liars Hars i Regarding her escape Mrs Ekman refused tO talk Her lIer feet were sore sora and she appeared as though she had Continued on page 12 BABY'S GHOST C Continued from from page 1 1 L wa walked i d a l long ng distance But she said different f r I I walked only fifteen miles mlles and then my friends in an automobile met me me she said My feet were tired They took me to Salt Lake They wanted me to go on la last t night If It I had I II would have escaped But I wanted to I see my baby's grave That's why I stayed I wont won't squeal on my friends I It was my fault I was caught Still Ill I'll be free again Patrolman took Mrs Ekman to Provo last night tI