Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-07-01
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that u starting this week.
Q.-what night did you 90 down
in thescellar and hear the water drip
ping? 4 A.-This wae-let's see-Ance
| the murder.
Q.-we know that, but what night?
A.-sunday night? I will tell you.
The night after I mopped out.
moppeds out IN Saturday night, this
was Sunday night.
Q.-How far back in%the cellar did
you go?s A.-That night?
o.SYAA A.-wen. wasn't out Of
the toilet room. I was down there
and dumped some cuspidors In the
toilet and flushed them.
Gid you see any ghosts down
there that night? A.-No, I don't
see any ghosts around there.
Q.-Why didn't yon 30 back and
stop the water?
Afraid % Return.
A-RecAMse I was scared to go
back and I told Collins about that
water running back there.
Q.-What were you scared Of? A.
II wasn't scared Of anything in par
ticular, but that Just come over me I
didn't want to go back there.
Here h Testimony swings into
Gummer's relations with other wo-
men, one instance related by the ac-
cused, according to Green's testimony,
occurring on the Saturday following
the murder Of Miss Wick.
His manner Of dealing with wo-
men who registered at the hotel was
entered into by his tnqut-e-s.
Q.-(Brandies) As a matter Of fact
every time a single woman came to
that hotel who was good looking at
all and didn't seem to have some fell
low OF her own, you would try her
some way, wouldn't you to find il she
was sporty? A-(Gumrer), Yes. I
would kind Of kid her along that line
like a damn fool. T
Q.-You will admit you have seer
quite a damn fool? A.--Yes.
Especially on women? A.
Yes I have, I will admit It
came in that night there "a a good
looking uni In the house didn't
you? A.-Yes, I told him a good look.
ing woman checked in.
Q.-And he asked where she was
and you. told him the room number?
Al wouldn't say If I told him the
room or not. I can't remember clear
not. but we talked about it.
Q.--And he asked II you had dated
her Up? A.-Yes. something along
that line.
Q.-You said. gee, she had a peach
Of a breast on her? Al don't
know Al 1 did or not.
Dwell words to that effect? A.
But I know I remarked about 1t was
a swell girl-good looking girl.
|, Q.-And that she was also alone
that she checked in there alone, didn't
you? Ave said she was a good
looking girl that checked in.
Q.-Then Brown remarked there is
! ann efhin fcr vN,1r lief Pf1i ~ aA,SAA-
thing of that kind? Astonishing
Of that kind.
Officials are quoted in the transcript
as asking GUNNER If. in showing Miss
Wick to her room, he "sized her up"
and he admitted that he had, and that
showed her to her room, and when
he called her on the telephone at 1880
p. M, to "kid her along"
TALKED About "the Jane in so-
Then follows considerable detail Of
the affairs about The hotel lobby be-
: tween II midnight and ! a. N. as
GUNNER originally stated. they oe-
Cured. This included his assertion
that he went over to the depot, and
that Andy Brown, his pal, am into
!, The hotel snd enc, G smse ssta !. . between
up the subject. of Miss Wick,to whom
4 he referred as "the jane, in 3o.' ".
sk--NtGummer)-Thenl after that I
wass there all alone andHI must have
sat and waited probably Is or 20
minutes-that is as close as 1 can
come to it. AS far as I can remember,
and Andy Brown came in.
Q.-What is the first thing he said
4 to YOU? Ale says, well how are
YOU; he says, I was down and mailed
a letter and 1 thought I would come
over and see you before I went to bed.
Q.-Where were you rooming then?
Any stuff I was rooming with
Brown. and Mrs. Lawrence had given
rae No. So to sleep in and I used to
It was gutter at the Addison, but nay
~suitcases were at the Addison.
Q.-What room? A-Room s-No
Mrs. Thompson moved us to room 70
because they kalsomined our room.
o.-When did they ~kalsonine?
A-They kalsonained our roorn-it
was when I came back from the
courthouse, and I was
| Q.-Since the murder? A.-Since
the murder. 1t must have been about
June 8 or 9.
Testimony UnprintabIe
Gummer's recital of his converse
ton with Brown from this point is
u%nprintable, and into the, midst of this
is again reference to Miss Wick, the
Jane in 80"
GUNNER, in answer to a question
during this part Of the inquiry, said:
I'VE talked about this girl (Misa
4 Wick) In here as I told you said
something about her in her room
checking in. I had told him she was
a good looking girl-swell girl"
Another girl raj brought into the
conversation, concerning whom Gum
mer quoted Brown as saying, "hell.
no, she amt that kind Of a girl, Bill
who checked into the hotel on June
were related by him in answer to
questions. He said she referred to
Eherself as "a hotel lady
GUNNER also was quoted by Green
rs reciting experiences with a woman
who registered into the hotel on an
earlier date.
Telephone Conversation Again
From this point, the officials direct
ed their inquiry back to the conversa-
ton GUNNER and Brown had in the
hotel on the night Of the murder.
Q.-Now Bill, you certainly had
some more talk with Brown that night
about this girl miss Wick) in No. 80.
A-(Gun1ner). He asked me what
kind OF q girl I thought she was, and
I told him / thought she was a good
green country girl. and I think he will
tell you the same thing. She never
talked IN any say a girl when she
talks to guys, n starts a conversation
makes some remark about staying up
late or calling up a guy, or wishing
he would orae-
0-vau imagine he Ia roeat A.