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

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ma ural course through Funk's
body as he stood on the shed.plat
form, and through the. open shed
door to the alleged point over the
refrigerator in the pile Of papers
on top. To supplement- the chart
the engineer drew lines on the
chart showing the jury this cours
as if the shot had been fired from
window in Anderson's home wher
it was said the only storm sash
had been removed.
When court started Monday
Court Reporter VIM. Green OF
Judge Pollock's Court, was.sworn
in as an official reporter and to-
gether with Reporter Wattam:
they are working in relays and
furn shing typewriter transcript
as the trial proceeds.
On Monday Anderson followed
the proceedings closely and dis
played no signs Of breaking
d wn, not even when Atkinson
drew direct lines from the win
dow Of his private room to the
point at the Funk home where
the bunker was said to have been
shot. Daring the recess Monday,
he t;ok a seat between his father
and mother and devoted his at
tention mostly to his mother. He
gave his wife no signs Of re-
cognition till it was time for. him
to go back to the Jail for. the
night, when he went to her and
they both exchanged pleasant
remarks, but only briefly.
The jury is a body of compar-
atively young men Of marked in
telligence and they have given:tht
closest attention to all the testi-
mony of the witnesses. Attorney
Bangs ard Ii S S sociate, Attorney
Arthur Netchar FIR the defense,
have closely followed Attorney
Lawrence for the prosecution in
every detail but there have been
but one or two objections to
Lawrence's questions, and these
We're overruled. So far there.ha
been no close engagements be-
tween the attorneys. Mrs. Funk
was in court a portion Of the. af-
tarnoon accompanied by Miss San
d%erson, who was stenographer at
the penitentiary at Bismarck,
when Mrs. Funk's father was
warden.
The proceedings when court OPP
enad Tuesday morning were folio
ed with intense interest as At
to-ney Lawrence for the prose-
cation commenced weaving his
net work about Walfred T. Andel
son, the bank clerk, accused of
the mysterious murder April IA,
tnis spring of Cashier Funk, his
former employer and business as
socilte.
Though Anderson chatted cheer
fully this morning while on his
Way from the county Jail to the
court room, accompanied by Depu
ty Sheriff Wahl, with those he
passed along the street, he watch
ed anx.ols y.Engineer.Atkinson. a.
he continued explaining distances
and the positions eof the building
on the premises Of the Funk and
Anderson homes.
Photographer DeGraff was
placed on the stand by the prose-
cution and to Attorney Lawrenc'
he identified about twenty photos
he had taken surrounding the two
homes. One Of interest was a
view. taken. from the open window
Of the den in Anderson s home
across the lot, even the shed plat
form where Funk stood when he
was killed, and through the open
shed door to near a pile of papers
on top of the refrigerator were a
bullet jacket was found. The &C.
cused man followed with interest
the jury as they examined these
photo views.
Joseph Leach, the young steam
boat captain, was recalled to the
stand Tuesday morning and testi-
fled to be at the corner Of the
little Catholic church next to the
Funk home when he heard a loud
explosion. He said the sound
clme from between the Funk and
Anderson houses, and his first
thought was that Anderson hae
been blasting the ground to plant
trees in his yard and that the
dynami had exploded prema.
tlrely. He ran around the back
way to Funk s back door, where
he found Mrs. Funk assisting her
mortally wounded husband. Mrs.
Funk told Leach upon his arrival
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