The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-06-20

yielded 2Sa bushels in 1882
picked up Fumk's body. carried it
in the house She did not go dow
there that night, though her. at
tention was directed to Funk's
house.
John Schulz told Of hearing the
explosion just before he learned
of Funk's death. He said he was
back of his own home. He could
| Sc the Funk and Anderson houses
from his place. He said the noise
sounded like an explosion in the
ground. It was awful loud, and
not like a shot fired in the open
air. It was not sharp and crack
ing but had a heavy sound. Funk
body had been carried in the house
when he reached the scene of
the shooting.
Court adjourned for the day
till nine o'clock this morning,
after Joe Olson, the deputy sheriff
in charge Of the jury, said he
was at his home in east end OF
town at time he heard the shot.
His house was about six hundred
feet from the Funk and Anderson
houses but the doors Of his home
were open, and it sounded like
an explosion or a blast. 1t had a
dull sound. He thought it was
about fifteen minutes after the
report before he heard Of Funk's
death.
Weather was warm all day an
court room was we'll filled with
people, large portion of audience
being Washburn women.
With the attorneys for both de-
tense and prosecution proceed
ing cautiously, offering nothing
that was attacked by the other,
a circle of circumstances about
the Funk and Anderson premises
was completed at the trial We'd
nesday
The prosecution started out
Monday morning with Hilma Fail
gren Funk's servant girl, on the
stand and showed by her that
Funk was standing at the shed
door at the rear of his residence
when he was shot. Since then
witnesses have testified as to
views about the two premises frol
where they were located when
they heard the loud Shot. or
sexplosioin1, and many. the,
witnesses located thse sound. q
"dull and heavy one" coming
from between the two. The cir
Gle was continued till this morn
ing when the Fahlgren girl was
recalled to the stand and told Of
the pile Of papers on the refriger-
ator inside the shed door. This
pile of papers as the servant girl
herself had laid them on the re-
%frigerator, were offered in court
by the prosecution as evidence.
The top magazine is a Butterick
fashion periodical and has a tear
in the top side of it as though
1t might have been struck by a
bullet.
Frank Callahan followed the
servant girl on the stand this
morning and testified to finding
the bullet jacket near this pile OF
papers on top 70 the refriger-
ator. The jacket was also offered
as evidence.
The first witness this morning
was Irene Haugeberg, the seven
teen-year-old daughter Of merch-
ant Haugeberg. Their home is
across the street facing a point be
tween the two houses, and at the
time he heard the exploion she
was standing beside the piano il
the front room Of her home, while
Flora Hartman was seated al the
plane giving her q music lesson.
Miss Hangeberg said Miss Har !
man called her attention to The
report and she was Of the
preston that Walfred Anderson
was again blasting holes to plant
trees 'et She looked across the
street but from her view she
could not see Funk's back shed
door. neither did chs So an1dv,Sonaa
about the Anderson premises. z
Mrs. Axel Nelson, wife ot aBE9s
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