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Show MRS. EK1YIAN TO, BE TRIED NEXT WEEK Salt lake, Sept. 4 Counsel for Mrs. Minnie Ekman, accused of the murder of her own daughter, appeared appear-ed bef,.re Judge F. C. LoofbOlirow In the district court yesterday and argued ar-gued In aln for a continuance of ehr trial for the term. The district attorney at-torney was unalterabl opposed to the delay and the court upheld his contentions Fall of a continuance, .1. H John son, counsel for the woman. asked that additional counsel he appointed by ih- court In order that the defense may be able to prepare its case In time for fh date of trial. Accordingly According-ly the appointment of additional coun sel will ho made this morning. Mrt Ekman s t go to trial September Sep-tember II Hrr attorney filed In the district court psterday an sffldavlt in support of his motion for a con tinuancr'. setting out that he had been duped and defrauded by C L Anderson, Ander-son, former husband of Mrs Ekman, and consequently was not readv fori trial The affidavit alleges that Anderson I represented to Johnson that he had $28,000 which he was willing to spend In the defense of hla former w ife Acting Act-ing on this representation. Johnson proceeded to engage eminent lawyers and fool.' ofhr.r cinni In soi-nr,, for his client the best possible J'fensi' ! Now, having discovered that Anderson Ander-son lied to him. says (he affidavit, Johnson has been forced to reconstruct recon-struct his' method of defense. He pleaded tor more time In which to raise money necessary to bring witnesses wit-nesses here from California. It Is also set out in the affidavit that t Is necessary that Charles l,am-pl, l,am-pl, Mrs. Charles Iampi and one other oth-er witness, now residing In California, be brought here for the defense. These witnesses will tc3tlfy concerning concern-ing the evidences of insanity displayed display-ed by Mrs. Ekman for several months I prior to the commission of the murder. mur-der. All three were acquainted Intimately Inti-mately with her for six months prior, to the murder, it is alleged. Mrs Ekman was In court while the motion was being argued. She took little Interest in tho matter, however, appearing bored by the legal procedure. pro-cedure. oo j |
