The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-02-23

you went IN Cne room! ~
GUNNER tried to hedge in answer
ing this question but finally admitted
making the statement to Kraemer.
Q-Why did you wait five minutes
before calling Fred Lawrence up?
/ GUNNER was unable to explain this
/ GUNNER stated that when Picker.
ing came in on the morning following
the murder he did not tell Mr.. Pick
ering that he had seen that the girl
was covered with blood. He was quite
positive on this score although Off,
Ger Pickering has testified that Cum
mer did tell him that the girl was
covered with blood,
GUNNER admitted that the officers
had intimated that they did not be-
lieve he was telling the truth about
the phone episode before he, GUNNER
had admitted that he lied. GUNNER
denied that he corrected this mis-
statement because he knew that Krae
mer had talked to Brown and was
afraid that Kraemer would find out
from Brown that he had lied.
GUNNER was asked why he was so
positive as to the movements of Muir
ply on the day that Murphy claims
GUNNER and Brown had their con-
versation in the hall of the Cass coun
ty Jail in which Murphy claims they
admonished each other to "stand pat'
GUNNER could not explain why he
was so positive but felt that he knew
every move that Murphy made that
afternoon.
GUNNER said that he called Marie
Wick up that night to find out what
time she wanted to be called in the
morning.
Q-You had call sheet, didn't you
A-Yes, but l didn't look at it.
Q-Was that your only reason for
calling her up?
Ayes, sir.
Q-Didn't you call her up to find
out if she was sporty?
Al (hesitation) no sir.
Odd you call anybody else up in
the hotel that night to ask them
about their call?
A-No.
GUNNER made these statements re-
gardless of the fact that the evidence
shows that the call had been changed
on the call sheet by Mrs. Lawrence
and that, it would have easier for
GUNNER to have looked at the call
sheet than to have called her.
GUNNER Denies Desire
GUNNER denied having made state
ments to Green and Kraemer in
which he expressed his desire for in
innate relations with the murdered
girl when taking her to her room the
previous night.
Odd you ask her, when calling
her up, if she needed any help, or if
you could put her to bed?
Al. H.. No sir!
The statement in which GUNNER
had said that he did not think such
question was too much to ask any
girl was read to him and GUNNER
said that he had never made any such
statement or at least did not remem-
ber having made it
Q-Do you think now that that
question isn't too much to ask any
girl?
A-What I think now and what l
thought then hasn't anything to do
with this case.
Denies Trying Out Girls
GUNNER denied that he had "tried
out" all good looking single women
who came to the hotel but admitted
that he had made that statement to
the officials. Questioned as to state
ments he had made to the officers
regarding his relations with two 9TH
er women in the hotel during the week
previous to the murder GUNNER said
eff YOU want to rehearse all that you
had better read it to the jury On
being told by Barnett to answer the
questions GUNNER admitted the
statements he had made to the Off
GERS. Green asked GUNNER if ne
wanted to swear that the admissions
he had made, and which have been
read in court by the state, to the Of
ficers, were correct and GUNNER re-
piled that to the best Of his recollec-
tions they were not, but refused to
swear positively that such admissions
had not been made.
Green indicated that he was thru
with the cross examination and the
noon recess was called.
When court convened this after
noon GUNNER was still on the stand
under redirect examination. He stat
ed that the suicide theory was first