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Show MADDENED IN IB IM The Victim, Who Was Unknown to Assassin, Shot Down as She Was Reading Her Bible. Murderer Gloried In His Fiendish Crime, Being Found by the Officers Of-ficers Seated Beside the Corpoe of Woman He Had Foully Murdered. Sandy, Utah. While sitting in her homo reading her lHblo, Matilda Eck-lund, Eck-lund, 47 years old, living Just outsldo tho city limits of Sandy, was shot to death shortly beroro midnight Thursday Thurs-day night. Tho crime was committed by Axel Cnrlson, nbout 30 years old, a worker In Snlt Lake, aud was evidently tho outbreak of a maddened mind. Miss Ecklund wns sitting at a table, reading a chapter from the Bible to her companion. Mrs. Dahlqulst. nn nged widow. Carlson crept up to ono of tho windows nnd flred n shot aimed ' at Miss Ecklund. Tho bullet missed tho aim, but with a crash shattered tho oil lamp. With affrighted cries tho two women leaped to their teet, terror-stricken, nnd almost In tho camo moment Cnrlson had slunk around to another window, through which ho flred two bullets that entered en-tered tho back or his victim. Fiend-Ish-llko, and unsatisfied, ho crept to tho tront door, and, boldly entering tho room, stood over tho body or his nlroady dead victim and flred a Bhot which entered the left temple. Then, satlsllcd with his work, ho loft tho house, occupied only by tho corpse nnd a fainting frightened womnn, nnd went to n saloon, whore! over two glasses of whiskey, ho told what ho had dono. Leaving tho saloon, sa-loon, ho returned to tho scene ot his murdor, nnd when rollowed a row minutes later by Marshal Brig Ward nnd others, ho was found sitting bj I ho flldo of tho corpse. Carlson so far has given unmistakable unmistak-able evidences or Inanity, nnd It It tho bellct thnt his act ot murder was that ot an Insnno man. |