Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1913-04-24
ANDERSON IS |
CHARGED WITH
u KILLING F.E. FUNK
DEAD MANS WIFE QUESTIONS
ALLEGED SLAYER. ANDERSON
K BREAKS DOWN AND CRIES.

,ALLEGED SLAYER. ANDERSON
< BREAKS DOWN AND CRIES.
Washburn, N. D., April 16.-'
When confronted today by the wild
ow of the man he is alleged to have
murdered, w. T. Anderson broke
down and cried like child for few
minutes, but later regained his COM
posure and continued his denials of
the guilt Of the murder of F. E.
Funk, cashier of the First National
bank. Mrs. Funk asked continual
ly since the death of her husband
for an opportunity to question An
derson, but it was not until this
morning that her friends thought
she was strong enough to stand the
excitement that would be caused by
coming face to face with the man
she accused of committing the crime.
When Anderson denied the kill.
ing, she made the statement that in
asmuch as he had lied to her be-
fore, she couldn't believe him."
The first interview lasted half an
hour, and was simply continuance
Of charges and denials.
Officers of the court house were
mildly surprised this morning when
Anderson asked to be taken to the
house where the remains Of Funk
(are being kept. When he entered
the room he fell on his knes beside
the bier, threw his arms around the
body and kissed the dead face of his
former friend and employer, and
kept calling on him to come back
and help him out of the trouble into
which he had been forced. He was
not allowed to remain in the room
long, as the undertaken who has
charge of the body feared it would
be pulled to the floor, so strenuous
were the caresses of the accused
man. Anderson was then returned
to the county Jail in care of Sheriff
Simon, where he spent the rest Of
the morning helping an officer of the
bank with the books.
Funeral Friday.
Clarence E. Funk, the murdered
man. will be given Masonic funeral
Friday afternoon, the services to be
held at Washburn. The body will
be brought to Bismarck and then
taken to Los Angeles, CAL, where the
wife's mother and sister reside, and
where the widow will make her home
after her affairs are settled.
Anderson Walked to Garage.
There were number of people
who assembled at the scene of the
murder Immediately after the dis
charge of the gun. Capt. Leach was
across the street and was there in
time to assist in taking the body
into the house. Others were with
in a short distance of the house and
were there almost Immediately.
Within five minutes after the explo-
sion occurred there were probably
fifty people in the yard where the
tragedy had occurred.
But despite the fact that Anderson
admits that he was in his own house,
thirty-five feet away, he did not ap-
pear on the scene for at least. five
minutes after the tragedy occurred,
say the witnesses. He had, however,
left the house and gone to his gar
age, it is said, and then returned to
the house. Not until he was asked
did he state anything about hearing
the discharge of the rife, and he
then said that he heard it, but was
in the basement at the time. He
stated after he was arrested that he
and the dead man had never had any
differences, and that he was on the
best Of terms with Funk.
That the shot was fred from the
inside of the Anderson house the Of
ficials seem positive, but the fact re-
mains that no one saw the act, and 1t
will be hard to prove positively that
he was the man who held the ri1e.
Anderson has denied that he Is gull.
ty, but further refuses to talk. He
would not see newspaper representa-
tives, and any conversation he had
with his relatives referred only to
the engaging of legal advisors.
A detective, sent here from Min
neapolis to assist the local officers
saw w. II. Anderson. accused OF
numbering Funk, and tried to get q
statement from him, but failed 10
ret him to talk.
Tracy Bangs. attorney from Grand
Forks, arrived here tonight and was
met by the brother Of the accused
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