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Show ANDERSON TALKS 01 Ell CASE Salt Iake, Nov. 19. In a cell of the county Jail, where he Is held In default de-fault of $12,uu bonds as a material witness in the murder case against Mrs Minnie Ekman, C L. Anderson, first husband of Mrs Rckman, has spent the past three months in stoical ?llence Iast night Anderson askei for an interview with a reporter of The Tribune Tri-bune who has had occasion to keep In touch with his case since he was arrested ar-rested in company with Mrs Ekman In Ogden on last June 28. after the body of her child. Frances Violet il Hams, had been found in a trunk In the Ogden I'nion station. Whimsically, the man expressed his concern that his clothes were worn out and that his only other suit is held by the police in a suit case taken from him at the tlno of his arrest Speaking of the coming trial of Mrs Ekman, he said that It was a matter that, so far as he was concerned, was entirely In the hands of the state, that he would not help to finance her defense Anderson said that the question of Mrs. Ekman's condition of mind at ithe time of the murder was one for ih.. state to determine He saii that he believed her insane and that a legal le-gal battle ought not to be necessary to establish it. Asked about himself, Anderson ex-pressed ex-pressed the opinion that his case depended de-pended only on the court's action and that lie was "game tn see it through, but declared himself puzzled at the amount of bond demanded for his appearance ap-pearance as a witness. He said that he bad not retained an attorney to loo It after his welfare In the developments develop-ments of the trial and would not do so He declared that the bringing out of the truth in regard to the mnr-der mnr-der was the thing that he most wanted want-ed and that he expected the state to gp al the Pacts, adding ihat his contribution con-tribution could not, in his opinion, look like $12,000 worth, no matter how things mi'ght go Talked Over Case. With the reporter, ho went calmly over every feature of the discovery of the murder and the connet 'Ion of his name with It. Grimly calm at all times, Anderson has been a model prisoner Briefly, the story that he told last night in his quiet fashion Is as follows "I left Lebec, Cal., with the intention inten-tion of going to my old home in Jackson, Jack-son, Mich , to celebrate the Fourth of July. I had heard from m wife and knew that she was living here with Bkman BO decided to call on her here, and wrote her accordingly She was not to expect me until June 27. bul once I had made up my mind to irlsU mj old home, i hurried i, depar tore and go! here on the afternoon of .lime 25, as has been proved b niv railroad ticket and the testimony of one Salt lke man who arrived here on the same train with me Mrs Kk man st?' mud much surprised when she saw me standing in front of where she lived, r,:t South Fifth West street, as she came up the sidewalk with the second-hand niau who was goln? to look at her furniture before offering her a price for it I had knocl ed al the door of her rooms and recehed no answer I did not go in with her and the man who examined the furniture furni-ture After he had gone, the woman and I went up town on a street car at her suggestion. I had not yet en-I en-I tered the house and did not do o un-I un-I til June two davs after the child w as murdered. 'On the way up town I asked Mrs Bkman who the man was and what had been her business with him. She explained that she was selling her furniture, also that Ekman had deserted de-serted her. Qp to tho time of this conversation I had had no intention of doing anything further than call on her. She seemed to be In trouble. Then, too, when I left her years ago in Michigan I did so largclv because j of things that had t-en told me about her by persons whose truthfulness 1 had come in later years to doubL 'The Idea of doing something for her began to take form in mv mind I talked over with her the proposition of going home with me. That night I took her to the Lake hotel and left her there to think it over I hau money to take me home, but not enough to take her with me Because of certain business affairs. I had taken tak-en all my property in the east out of of my own name some time lefore 1 left California When we went to j Ogden I had it in mind to get a Job i tbere and earn money for our fares. Then I had about decided to 9end her ; ahead of me when she asked me to i send her back to Salt lake That is Ithe thing that. I cant understand to this day What did she hope to ac-J ac-J complish by t "Well, when I heard the noise that was made over my disappearance after af-ter the woman's preliminary hearing and that the police were looking for me, I came back and was held as a material witnees I've still got that July- 4 celebration coming I am a good waiter, but I wish the case could be disposed of This suit of clothes has worn out since I came in here aod the only other one I have is being be-ing held with my thlngi by the io-lice." |