The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-06-19
TEARS CAME
TO THE EYES
OF ANDERSON
Olson Told Of. Taking Posses
sion Of Rifle
Prosecution Tries to Prove the
Source Of Bullet
Testimony Concerning Gun
and Ammunition

Washburn, N. D.. June 19.-Tears
came into the eyes of Walfred Ander-
son this morning while Joe Olson, a
deputy sheriff testified to going to
the Anderson house, the evening
Banker Funk was murdered, and how,
when he found Anderson standing
with Ludwig Peterson, who was ex-
amining Anderson's 80 special Win
chester rifle, Olson took possession of
the rife and kept it at the county
jail until the coroner's inquest.
Attorney Bangs, for the defense, at
4 tempted to grill Olson on the stand
tsoEnewhat fer what Bangs claimed
was an attempt to impress the jury
with a statement that Anderson was
also examining the gun. Judge Craw-
ford interceeded and told Olson he
need not answer one of Bangs ques-
tions
| the rifle while he sat on the coroner's
jury. He said the rifle was a ten
shot gun and that, In taking out the
shells, he only found nine.
Olson was again put on the stand
and produced three boxes of shells
and several loose shells taken from
the private den of the Anderson home.
1H6 gun WAS III SNluSuGS III COURT
and the jury was given the shells to
examine. Peterson who examined the
gun at Anderson's home on the even
| ing Of the shooting, said there was no
plug in the barrel and as he looked
through the barrel he found 1t clear.
During the forenoon recess Ander-
son went back on the stage and con-
suited his attorneys and consulted
them again in front Of the judges
| Nd wit
seat beside his wife.
The widow Of Funk, accompanied by
lady friends, appeared in court this
morning, and during the recess read
part Of a newspaper account OF the
case. Later, on the stand,Deputy Olson
produced. box of shells from the
4 Anderson home that had originally
held twenty shells, but Olson said
when he found it in the Anderson
home the box had ten empty spaces.
The prosecutions effort this morning
iseemed an attempt to establish that
the bullet killing Funk had come from
the Anderson house.
Resume Of June 13.
with the attorneys for both defense
land prosecution proceeding cautiously
| offering nothing that was attacked by
1 the other a circle of circumstances
1 about the Funk and Anderson premises
i was completed at the trlal WeuHeSudsI
4 where Walfred Anderson isfbeing tried
j for the mysterious murder OF former
lCaslnier Frank e, Funk of the First
i National bank Of this city,
4 The prosecution started out Mon
i day morning with Hilma Fahlgren
| Funk's servant girl, on the stand, and
lshowed by her that Funk was stand
ing at the shed door at the rear of his
Iresidence when he was shot. Since
itflen witnesses have testified as to
views about the two premises from
Il where they were located when they
theard the loud "shot" or explosion, {
i and many OF the witnesses located the
/ sound, a "dulI and heavy one. coming
i from between the two. The circle
was continued till this morning, when
1.-THE Fahlgren girl was recalled to the
lstand and told Of the pile of papers
j on the refrigerator inside the shed
tdoor This pile Of papers, as the serv-
ant girl herself had laid them on the
sIrefrigerator, were offered In court by
1.-THE prosecution as evidence. The top
i magazine is a Butterick fashion peri =
slodical and has a tear In the top side
4 Of it as though 1t might have been
struck by a bullet.
Frank Callahan followed the servant
IgirI on the stand yesterday and testi-
Ified to. finding the bullet Jacket near
5Etfis pile of papers on top OF the re-
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