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

on her way home and arrived there
about 1890. She had gone to the
Howard Cafe for lunch and then went
to the Waldorf and Dakota Hotels
for a room. The clerk at the Dako-
ia got her room by phoning to the
Prescott Hotel. She went there and
registered between 1890 and IN
the morning. She was registered by
GUNNER and left call for seven o.
clock in the morning. After leaving
the call she stated that GUNNER had
tried to engage in conversation with
her and made no effort to take her to
her room and she waited 10 or ID
minutes while he attempted to get her
tn talk. She did not remember any
of the conversation as she PAID no
attention to him. She finally asked
him to show her to her room, which
he did. When arriving at the room
she waited in the hall for GUNNER
to turn on the light. He did so but
did not come out of the room. She
stepped just inside the door and Gum
mer stood in front of her and again
tried to start the conversation ana
asked her if she had any "jack" to
which she replied "she did not. he
then asked her if he could take off
her shoes. She Immediately request
ed him to leave the room. GUNNER
did not call her in the morning.
Under cross examination by Judge
Barnett she was asked if she had
waited ten or fifteen minutes IN the
hotel lobby for GUNNER to take her
to her room. She replied she MAD
When she was asked "do you think
YOU know how long ten minutes ls!''
she replied that she did and Judge
Barnett asked her to cover up her
wrist watch and tell him when the
ten minutes was up. This she dld ana
she announced that the ten minutes
were up. 1t was only little less
than two minutes. The witness was
then excused.
r. ]. Cation was returned to the
stand for cross examination and a
black board was brought into the
court room. Attorney Claire Brick
ner conducted the cross examination
The witness explained the method OF
making the chart which was pro-
duced in court, explaining that the
letter shown were made by tracing
the ORIGINALS on tissue paper. While
the examination was in progress F.
Leland Watkins of Fargo, and Prot
Laneum of Bismarck, hand writing
experts for the defense, were brought
into court and took seats near tne
counsels table. An objection was
made by Attorney Green to the line
Of questioning in the examination
The court sustained the objection.
In questioning Mr.. Canton it de-
veloped that several of the letters
the form of which he considered char
ac4eristic of those Andy Brown mao
written were characteristic OF othe1
Handwriting produced. This was
shown by reference to other sigma.
lures on the hotel register sheet ana
il was shown that many of these let
tiers he showed to be characteristic
Of Andy Browns undeveloped hand
writing. The letters being formed IN
manv instances entirely from the let
ters which the witness had referred to
Tho examination of Cation took up
the time of court until $3.50 when re-
cess was taken.
After recess Alfred Kincaid was
mt on the stand to testify as to the
statements made to him by Gunner
IN which he said that Gunner had
told him that he had been awake all
night the night Of the murder:
Morton sydness will be called to
the stand to testify to his exam1na-
ton of the finger prints found IN tne
room. Mr.. Sydness is finger print
expert.
E. B. Charlson and Roy Murphy,
the two witnesses who were adoeo
to the information Monday morning
will also be called to the stand to tes-
tify as to the conversation they mad
with the accused and as to statements
he had made to them, The state con-
fidently expects to complete thelr
case against GUNNER tomorrow noon
Counsel for the defense have given
no indication of their method OF de-
tense.
4:30 P. M.-STATE RESTS CASE