The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-08-08

grocery under where Mrs. Burns and
children had resided on Front street
and that Mccartney was CRYING and
SAID ne was sorry for Mrs. Burns. While
he cannot say positively he can swear
It was before the funeral which con-
tradlcts McCartney's story that he was
just from Montana.
Louis Stevens states positively that
the day before Grace Burns disap-
peared Mccartney borrowed a quarter
from him.
Louis Holzer stated that two weeks
before the murder he met Grace Burns
and Mccartney in the park t]
Anna Raspberry told the officers that
the very night Grace Burns BODY was
found she saw Harry Melander and
Mccartney walking down street to-
gether. Sse says she became acuuaint-
gether. She says she became acquaint-
before and had seen him off and on
almost every day until the time OF the
funeral.
Gave Fictitious Name.
Paul Ridley says he saw Grace Burns
about 1880 in the bushes along the Red
river near the scene of the murder and
that he asked her her name, but she
gave fictitious one. She said she had
been whipped and was not going homo
before 10 o'clock that night. Ridley
says that he walked on little and saw
man coming along the river past the
place where Miss Burns was concealed,
that he walked towards the tracks, met
another man, that they stopped, talked
and then separated. Ridley gave a
good description of the man and it
answers that of Mccartney.
Would Turn Him Up.
William Meyers Of Page, says that
sometime in September, 1907, Roy
Smith and some other man, he called
Jack, came into the pool room
and restaurant where Meyers worked,
got drunk and quarreled, during which
the other man told Mccartney that he
would turn him up for that Fargo job
and get the reward. Meyers thinks
that Mccartney was threshing at the
time. ...- .-a...-
The testimony goes on to show many
false statements that Mccartney had
made as to places he had been in, Of
being charged and arrested as a sus-
pect for the murder when such was
not the case.
The plaster of paris impression of
the mans foot at the scene of the
crime exactly fits McCartneys shoes.
say the authorities and these are now
in the sheriff's Office in this city.
According to the officials Mozart
ney's general demeanor since May 1910
has been such as would tend to convict
him, and he is continually talking of
the crime, his nervousness as to being
brought to Fargo, his walking his cell
in the Cass county Jail nights the last
time he was here, and his frequent
breaks in the presence Of witnesses,
all according to officials show guilty
conscience. ca" at
What Mccartney Said.
One of the officials states that Nc
Cartney said in the Cass county Jail:
You have not got me up to simply to
testify against Goodheart. You've got
me on a more serious CHARGE
The official said: ION the morning
went to the jail to take him away,
he said at the depot" I was never so
glad to get out of a town in my life.
This has been he'll to me- This was
efore he was accused Of having any
Connection with the Burns case. He
also told the guard on the way to
Leavenworth that he knew we'll wheE
his time was out the sheriff Of Fargo
would meet him at the gate and take
him back to be tried for Grace Burns
murder He also told the guard where
he was at the time Of the murder and
it was an entirely different story from
his previous stories" " b.
Tommy Ryan Talks.
On June Is, 1909, while taking Tommy
Ryan back to the Washington state
penitentiary at Walla Walla. he stated
that he did not like to give Mccartney
away in the Burns case, because it
would be said Of him that There goes
the fellow that stuck up his pal" This
statement is made by federal official.
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