The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-02-09

but that there were no other foot
prints found by him other than his
own. He stated that there were no
other unusual, reasonable means of
exit than those, which he had follow
ed.
Milligan Again On Stand
Officer Milligan stated that he was
in the basement Of the Prescott hotel
on the morning of the seventh, ac-
companied by GUNNER. That in the
nothing unusual until the Monday fol-
lowing the crime. He stated that he
had been down there on Sunday eve
ming and saw nothing out Of the way
few days following he had visited the
basement many times but had seen
but that he was down again about 8
o'clock Monday morning and found a
pair of trousers lying at the bottom
of the stairs. The trousers were then
showed to the witness and his atten-
ton called to certain stains on them
which he identified as being there
when the trousers were found. A
hole, evidently made by cutting out a
piece of the material was shown the
witness who stated that this hole
had not been in the trousers when
they were found. He stated that the
defendant was still employed in the
hotel at the time the trousers were
| found.
Questioned as to the finding of the
stains on the bible in room 81 Or
ficer Milligan stated that he had no.
ted the stain at the time, that he had
examined other similar bibles in var
ious rooms of the hotel and found no
other stains on them. Questioned as
| to the condition of the walls thruout
the hotel the witness stated that they
had all appeared badly stained and
that the stains had the appearance OF
having been caused by the crushing
of bed bugs.
Witness Tells of Tests
The witness stated that he had
! been in room 80 on the day which
! Mrs. Van Worst had testified certain
experiments had been made and that
nothing in the room had been chang
| ed between that day and the morning
of the discovery of the body. Strong
objections to the introduction of tes-
timony were made by the defense but
the objection, after being argued: was
overruled. Officer Milligan, on be-
ING questioned as to what he did dur
ing these experiments, stated that ne
shook the springs of the bed violently
trampled over the pipes which ran
along the floor next to the wall and
slapped the bed once with flat iron
bar
The witness testified that on the
morning of the seventh he had exam
ined the body of Marie Wick and
found that the bandages covering her
face did not cover her eyes, when the
body was found, they were wide open
He further stated that there had been
no change made in the lock of room
O during the ten days following the
commission of the crime and that he
had tested the key which is produced
in evidence in court and found that
it would not unlock the door. He stat
ed that he had opened the door be-
tween room 80 and 81 himself and
that he had noticed that it had not
been opened for some time. The door
between these two rooms was locked
and no key could be found fitting the
lock. The witness opened the door by
using master skeleton key Of his
own. In addition to the lock the door
which was ar ordinary pine door had
been fastened with nail. The steam
pipes led from room 80 down thru
the room below which had been occu~
pied by May Melaas, one of the en-
ployees Of the hotel, and the witness
stated that there were quite a hole
around the pipes where it went thru
the floor of room 30 and ceiling OF
the room below. This pipe led right
by the head of the cot in the May
Melaas room. The witness stated
that there were no trains going west
out of Fargo between the arrival OF
Northern Pacific train No. 4 and
Great Northern train which leaves at
nearly morning.
Cross Examination Not Completed
Under cross examination the wit
ness stated that he did not know
whether any west bound trains on the
night of June were late or not and
could not say just what time they
had left Fargo. Under questioning