| Show MOTHER UNMOVED SEES TRUNK WHICH HElD GIRLS GIRL'S BODY Mrs rs Minilie in Ekman Gives No 1 r Sign Sig n o of Emotion 0 at t Her Preliminary Hearing liP III preliminary h hearing of ot Mrs tra T Violet Williams Ekman J vas ended In police court yesterday morning and the mother confessed conferred murderess was aa bound o over tr er to the tha district district dis die let t-let court to await trial on tho the charge charo of or murdering her 10 10 IO- year old ar-old old daughter Tho rho preliminary hearing was without incident and practically no defense was wa made matlo b by J. J IT U. Johnson who T has hns be been n. n engaged to conduct Mr Mrs J aldo eldo of or tho the case Mrs In Mr as All on other days sat ant unmoved ed throughout the proceedings s and seemingly mid but little or no at attention attention nt- nt to what wa war as going on about her Even E when the trunk which for tor four tour days nn was carted from place to plate place containing the tho bod body of her child war waa 0 brought Into the courtroom for identification Mrs tra Ekman did not stir and paid no he heed whatever er It was wan at the tho Introduction of the trunk that Mr tr Johnson made his only objection to any evidence which hail had be been n offered Ho lAid to the court coart that ho thought that tho the bringing of tho the trunk Into the courtroom was Mas S unnecessary and asked aked that It be n not t allowed Ills objection however er waa aa overruled o There were ere some among the I spectators spectators ta- ta tors tou In tn the courtroom who expected a demonstration from tram Mrs err Ekman when the trunk was brought In In but there was Vas none The Tho trunk was set let Immediately Imme Imme- ly behind the accused woman bulIt but bul It worried her not In the tho least leut She Shedid diet did not even oven turn to look Jook at t It It and no sign of grief Brief or sorrow showed on her face Much 1 Affected Women spectators In m tho the courtroom wore were more Inore nrc affected Ct d at the sight of or the tha trunk than was x the tho mother and ond mem many burst bunt forth In sobs and gasps alpS of or horror If It 1 8 S. Wright the tho man who hauled the trunk from the tho Ekman home homo the da day following the tho murder was wal the principal u witness lines yesterday Although he Identified Mr 11 airs l kman Ekman he was unAble unable unable un un- able to Identify tho trunk aa as th the one ho Ito carrl carried away Nevertheless Nc the i trunk there exhibited was WAa allowed to ho be produced 1 and stand lItand as evidence Wright caused a smile to spread across the tho face faco of C. C L. L Anderson tho the first husband of Mrs Ekman during his re recital reel re- re el cital of ot testimony He no sold said that Anderson An An- derson engaged him to huttl th the tl trunk anti ami ItAY him th the address where to get Iet It U. hut but cautioned him not to come for fifteen n minutes as UI he Anderson had hadnot hadnot not nol finished roping It Previous stories orlu told by Anderson era tiro ro to the effect that tho trunk already was wu roped and tied when he first saw aVo It If it J H Ii Larson Lauon a furniture dealer duler whom 10 Mrs Mm Ir Ekman told of ot In her con con- os es being the man who purchased purchased pur pur- chased ch her furniture was wall tho the first witness called yesterday and corroborated corroborated corroborated orated tho the story told by Mrs Ekman Detective George D D. Wardlaw of ot the tho O Ogden den police department testified d to examining the tho body while It lay Jay In th the trunk at tho the Ogden union depot Ho lie said that chAt he had talked with C C. L L. L Anderaon An- An on tho the way wa- to the police station and Anderson had saM said got me the meIn meIn theIn In a n. nice fix Detective Wardlaw then told of Mrs Ekman's confession contusion which was WAa practically the same amo as was wan told toM to the pollee police department officials of at this city with Ith the exception that sho aho at first Implicated an unknown Italian in inthe inthe the Iho murder Im I'm Chicken JI Hearted arted I 1 did not examine tho body of ot the tho murdered child chUd very cry close closely I because 1 I Iam am a n. little chicken hearted Ia was v the tho reply made by Detective Charles Pin- Pin cock of Ogden when hen asked If he had se seen n the tho murdered child te testimony tes- tes was war In substance tho the same somo as that given gl b by Wardlaw Other witnesses yesterday were Detective Detective De De- Bert Stager Sealer and E. E C C. Schmidt who merel merely corroborated previous tes tes- timan There was wan considerable comment In inthe tho the courtroom yesterday morning at the close of or the tho hearing both b by spectators and by court attaches Including those Interested In the pros prosecution over the lack of evidence e for tor Mrs Ekman Kv EV Even m n though man many of at the persons persona look upon the woman as an unnatural and cruel mother several expressed sorrow orrow at her Plight t. t Mrs tr Ekman was aa as Indifferent today aa as on all previous occasions Only once did she utter r a n. sound and this tM was when she nho cautioned her attorney to be sure ouro and come to see o her Johnson Johnon had said that ho he would visit her In the afternoon Be sure suro that you ou do replied Mrs Mra Ekman In tn nn an angry tone And without giving her further time to 10 converse with Johnson she Bhe was as placed In the tho sheriffs sheriff's automobile automobile automobile auto auto- mobile and taken back to tho the county jail wh where re sho aho probably will rem remain ln I Tor for man many months before she is again I taken outside the prison walls alls |
