Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1921-06-30
GUNNER HAS
HEARING TODAY
In FARGO COURT
Testimony of County <Physi-
clan Is lnhoduced-M
Wick's Letter Read =
Crowd Attends Hearing.


hearing Of VIM. GUNNER, %, charg-
ed with the murder of Marie Wick.
lis, Grygla, Mimi, continued today
with testimony on circumstances sur
rounding the death Of the girl. Gum
mer was night clerk in the hotel
where Miss Wick was found, tied in
her bed, gagged and with her skull
| fractured.
Crowds o fcuriosity seekers, who
yesterday jammed the corridors Of
the court house, had abated some
what today.
Sheriff Fred Kraemer of Cass
county testified to Investigations
made by him Immediately after the
murder.
The state continued attempts to
show just how the murder had been
committed an introduced evidence
to eliminate certain guests OF the ho-
tel as possible suspects.
f, The hearing will probably be COM
pleted tomorrow morning, VIM. Green
states attorney announced today.
Fargo, June 2S- General testi-
/ mony relating to the actions of Miss
Marie Wick, IS, Grygla, Mimi, prior
to her murder in a hotel here June
Z, took up most of the time in the
morning session today Of the prelim-
mary hearing of VIM. GUNNER, night
clerk Of the hotel, charged with
Staying the girl.
The letter which Miss Wick had
F.; written to Arnold Rasmussen, Moor
head, Mimi, in which she asked him
to meet her in Fargo on the night
of June 6, as she was unacquainted
with the town, was introduced.
DR.. p. H. Burton, county physician
testified regarding the condition of
the body, and said that the brass noz-
zle believed to have been used by
the murderer, could have inflicted
the wounds that killed the girl. lie
said either skull fracture, suffoca-
ton, or both, might have caused her
death.
The hearing adjourned at noon un-
til 2 p. m. ~
Crowds eager for details of the
testimony and for a glimpse of VIM.
GUNNER, the accused, crowded the
Cass county court house early this
morning and by 10 o'clock, the honr
set for the hearing, had crowded the
small room where the hearing was
held to over flowing and were JAM
med in the corridors Of the court
house.
GUNNER was pale and grave.
Fargo, June 27, 1921.
Much of the evidence in the hands
of officials engaged in the prosecu-
ton of the case of William GUNNER,
night clerk of the Prescott hotel, who
is charged with the murder of Miss
Marie Wick, of Argyle, Mimi, in that
hotel on Tuesday, June Z, is expected
to be made public today when the
murder suspect will be arraigned be-
fore Justice J. X. Bingham for pre-
liminary hearing The hearing will
begin at 10 a. m. in the Cass county
court room. The district court
chambers have been deemed insult
ficient to hold the crowd which is ex-
pected to pour in.
Since GUNNER was arrested and
held without bail in the Cass county
| Jail, a strict secrecy has been main
tanned by officials 2. sto whatever evil
dence the state has against the ac-
cused. AS the preliminary hearing
is merely for the purpose Of finding
sufficiency of evidence to hold to the
district court, much of the evidence
will have to be brought out.
To Call Is Witnesses
About 25 witnesses will be called
by the state in its case against the
murder suspect, it has been announc-
ed. Officials have announced that no
crowding of the court room or corri-.
dors will be allowed. The witnesses
will be seated first and then what
ever seats are available will be open
for spectators. The seating capacity
of the court room has been said by
the clerk of court to be about 120.
Not for long term of years has
a local criminal case created such ex-
citement in the public thought as the
horrible murder of which young
GUNNER is accused. Miss Marie
Wick came to Fargo on the evening
of June 6, intending to stop over
night in the city before changing
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