OCR Text |
Show FINANCING DEFFEN8E FOR MRS. EKMAN IS CAU8E FOR DELAY Attorney For Defense 8ayt Former Husband Failed to Make Good Salt Lake City, Sept. 3. Mrs. Minnie Ekman, charged with hhvlng murdered her daughter through appearance ap-pearance of her counsel before .Tude F. C. Loofbourow yesterday In the Third district court, made an fiffort to have her case continued for t;,e term. District Attorney P. O. I. i tberwood determinedly opposed t'.-n-tinuntlon of the trial and dem-J.n.ed that' the caso proceed on the dp to Bet. The Judge refused a continuance continu-ance for the term. J. H. Johnson, httorney for Mis. Ekman, then asked that' the cit t appoint additional counsel for dstend-ant, dstend-ant, so that her side ot the ca could bo properly prepared ngnlnut the dale of trial, This the. court allowed al-lowed and additional counsel will be appointed this morning and a lew dhys delay may be granted. The date formerly set for the' trial Is September 11, and as a basis for his motion for continuance for '.lit1 term Mr. Johnson filed an aft'daVlt In which he declares that he hnn been duped and defrauded by C. L. Anderson, former husband of Mrs. Ekman and that on this account be was not yet ready for trial. It Is alleged al-leged ln the Johnson affidavit that Anderson told the attorney that he was willing to spend the 128,000 In his possession In defenso of Mrs. F.k-man. F.k-man. Depending upon these representations repre-sentations Johnson says that he retained re-tained attorneys and made other necessary nec-essary arrangements to give hi fit ent empetent defense. On aecount of disarrangement ot theso plhnB thro the Anderson duplicity, says the af fldavlt, an entire reconstruction has become necessary. Johnson nlso says In his -affidavit that the defenso requires the "ps enco hore ns witnesses of Chariot Lempl nnd Mrs. Charles L;mpl, who now llvo In Cnllforn'ti These witnesses, together with a thlni one not named, are required to testlf con cernlng exhibitions of evidences it Insanity one the pnrt of Mrs. Eknfjfti for sometime beforo tho crime was committed. Mrs. Ekman was present In court whilo the proceedings were on, but she appeared rather to be bored than Interested. |