The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-06-17
Weaving
ABOUT
ANDERSON
Prose ecution Continues to Spread.
It's Web
Leach Tells Of Hearing the
Report
Mrs. Funk Bears Up Well
Mrs. Anderson Weeps

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Washburn, N. D.. June ! 17.The pro-.
secution continued weaving it's net
work Of evidence this morning when
Photographer Degraff took the stand
and identified a number Of views tax
en- surrounding the Funk and Ander-5
son residences. Waifred T. Anderson.
the bank clerk accused of the murder
of Banker Funk. exhibited considera-
Bile interest as Attorney Lawrence at
tempted to draw the chain OF circuI11- Z
stances about him.
q Il One of the views was a picture tax
en- from the open window in Ander-
sons den OF his residence across the
lot over the shed platform where Funk
stood when he was killed and through
the open door of the shed. A view was
also shown of the pile of papers on top
of the refrigerator where the bullet
jacket was found.
Captain Leach the steamboat pilot,
took the stand again this morning and
testified to running to Mrs. Funk's as:
sistanea after he heard the loud report
which he thought at first was a dyna-
5.44l4e explosion. He was at the corner
of the little Catholic church next door
to Funk's house when he heard the re-
port and ran around the back way. He
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husband and she told Leach there had
been an explosion and that Mr. Funk
was injured.
Leach looked over on the premises
of the two homes but he could see no
one but Mrs. Funk and her mortally3
wounded husband. A moment later,
Attorney Madden and Clerk of Court
Hanson appeared and with Leach
they carried the injured man to his
bed. Leach said as he heard the re-
port it had a dull sound not like the
was that Anderson might have been
blasting the ground to plant trees and
that dynamite had exploded before he
could get it into the ground,
Leacn was positive on the stand this
morning that the shot had been fired
between the two houses and that the
two buildings could have deadened the
sound. Engineer Atkinson was also
on the ST. nd this morning and finished
explaining the chart OF the two
premises He also added two lines
from the window of Anderson's home
to the shed door of the Funk house to
a point over the refrigerator in the
shed showing a natural course the
bullet must have taken.
The widow of the murdered man
was in. court this morning and seems
to be bearing up we'll Anderson shows
no signs of breaking today though his
wife who sits behind him is quite
deeply affected.
Yesterdays Proceedings.
Mabel Boucher Funk, widow of the
banker who was n1ysteriously murder
ed at his home here April Ia took the
stand in court yesterday to tell the
story of circumstances as 1T occurred
at her home the evening of the mur-
der. She was but slightly moved
through the ordeal and steadily an
swered the questions put to her by
Attorney Lawrence for prosecution.
She was not cross examined by At
'torney Bangs for the defense. She
told of her husband coming home for
supper and that Immediately after he
had gone out on the porch at the rear
of the house she heard very low
report. AS she rushed to the door he
grasped her hand strongly and said
II am shot.
She looked towards Anderson's
house but saw no one. She put her
arm about him to support him but the
body seemed to- be lifeless and by the
time Joe Leach, the steamboat captain,
1.-The first to arrive had reached the
wounded man, he had fallen to the
SIDuIlllaE5t X
Hilma Fahlgren. a servant girl at
the Funk home was the first to take
the stand and she testified to hearing
the shot and as she went out of doors
to get the baby in the yard she saw
Funk step and turn and saw him
grasp Mrs. F'unk's hand.
Attorney Lawrence for the prosecu-
tion stated to the jury that the state
would show that circumstances would
show that the murder was committed
by Anderson firing the bullet from the
window of his house across the yard
and that he was alone there at the
time. ss
Leach, the steamboat captain. also
Testified as TO how he went to Funk s
assistance and with Tom Madden and
ELL. &. Hanson had carried the body in
| to the house. Anderson's father.
mother, brother and two sisters were
nj court as was Andersoi,'s wife, who
seemed most concerned over the pro-
ceedings, Andersen showed no signs
Of breaking and closely followed the
testimony OF Mrs. Funk. 81
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