The First Arrests
The widow of Ekwall, Hedvig Christina, now pointed out the maid Hedda Thorman as her husband’s killer. She claimed that Thorman had given birth to a child in secret and killed it with the help of Maja Stina Forsberg, after which Thorman had killed Forsberg to preserve her secret. The question then remained, how Ekwall and his little daughter had consumed the poison.
Hedda Thorman was questioned, but it did not seem likely that she was guilty of the murder of Ekwall. She was, however, arrested and remanded in custody because of the separate accusation of having murdered the child she had allegedly given birth to. In connection to this, the eighteen-year-old Vilhem Ekwall, son of the dead Per Ekwall, was arrested and remanded in custody as he was suspected of being the father of Thorman’s alleged child. He was also now seen as a likely suspect for the murder of his father.
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“On our streets it is the sight of a totally unknown face or figure which arrests the attention, rather than, as in big cities, the strangeness of occasionally seeing someone you know.”
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