The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-01-23
NOISES HEARD
BY WOMAN TOLD
JURY IN CASE !!
Woman Says That She Heard
First Noise About Midnight;
Others at 4 a. IN.
ADJOURNMENT TAKEN
Case Goes over Until Tuesday
Morning; State Does Not.
Finish it's, Case

Valley City, Jan. 23.-At the fore.
noon session today in the trial oi
William GUNNER, charged with mur-
derlng Mss Marie Wick, Mrs. John
Worst testified that she was awaken
ed shortly after she went to sleep at
12:3A a. M. on the night Of June 6
and by noises enanating from Room
so of the Prescott hotel.
Mrs. Van Worst said the noise
sounded as if someone was throw
ing ball against the WALL and that
there was a "c1inking" as though
someone was walking on tin roof
Also she testified that it sounded like
someone iumning UP and down =
Mrs. Van. Worst testified that evper-
iments conducted later in which Of
ficials participated resulted in the
production Of the same kind OF
noises.
Court Adjourned.
The testimony was not concluded
today when court recessed today at
Has A. NJ. until Tuesday at 10 A. M.
on account of the illness Of w. c..
Green, states attorney.
Several minor witnesses were on the
stand during the forenoon session to-
day.
The state will use Mrs Van Vorst's
testimony in attempting to establish
the theory that the original assault
on Mss Wick was made at 1880 A. M.
on June and it proposes to. intro
duce further testimony to show that
noises came from room 30 at 4 A. NJ.
The state will maintain that this was
the time that Miss Wick was clubbed
to death.
Pursue "Mystery Man,
Further testimony is expected on
the mystery man" introduced in the
case Saturday, when H. J. Hagen, on
cross-examinatiOn, was asked If he
had had conversation with a man
named c. l.. Thomas, either in the
lobby of the hotel or in Hagen's room,
No.>31 :,
Hagen replied: absolutely not"
Hagen was expected to be called
again. Who Thomas" might have
been or the significance of the ques'
tion was not elaborated upon.
Two witnesses whose testimony mas
been eagerly awaited by the puDl:c
were put on the stand by the state
Saturday. They were Andy Brown
Gumnief's' s'foonAnAte, and H. J. Hagen,
fornersp of the Scandinavian
American Bank of Fargo, who on the
night of the, crime occupied the room
in the Prescott hotel next to that IN
which Miss Wick was done to DEATH
Hand Writing Identified
The examination of Brown was con-
fined TO the Identification of specimens
cf his handwriting. Later the state ex
pects to put on the witness stand a
handwriting expert to Nprove that II
was Brown Who wrote on the, Pres
cott hotel register the name OF James
Farrell Willmar, on the night OF the
crime.
No trace Of any Farrell has been
found and the states theory is that
no such person exists but that the
nams, was put on the hotel register to
divert suspicion from the real perpe
traitors Of the crime against Marie
Wick
The handwriting specifications were
introduced in evidence over the ob
>iectons of the defense. Brown, whc
has been in Jail since shortly attel
the crime, \seemed very nervous on
the stand.
Hagen Tells His Story
1rrifh
actions of the hotel clerk who oooE
him to his room in the hotel early OF
the morning of June and his own ac.
tions in the hotel. He claimed thai
he had not left the room from the
time he went to bed between and
O'Clock a. m,suntil aroused by the Of
fcars the next morning. He also de
elared uo one was in the room Will
him after the clerk LETT.
The testimony of these two witness
es and the two doctors who examined
Marie Wick's body made up the morn
ing session of the court today. I'M
me cal testimony dealt with tn
cause of Miss Wick's death and es
tablished the fact that she had 9ee'
ravished before being killed: I'M
established the mOtlVe loi IAe LINZ
Physicians Testify
Physicians who examined the Dod
of Marie Wick after the discovery G
her murder were put on the Wltnes
stand by the state at the opening Q
the session Saturday morning.
DR.. Harry FOrtin of Fargo testlhe
that he was called to the Presoot
hotel about 7:15 a. M. on June 7 an
taken to the room of Marie Wick. n
felt for the girls pulse, he said, an
determined that she was dead bu
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