The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-02-09
THE GUNNER TRIAL
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which O'Brien had testified he mailed
at 1890 the morning Of the ninth.
This postal card described carries the
post dated mark of June 8. And the
witness stated that, agreeable to the
custom in the use in the mail SER
vice, this card would be mailed on
No. / on June 9.
Bloody Pants Accounted For
Roscoe Hines, Of Fargo, SAID that
he had lived at the Prescott hotel
from October 27, 1920, to March II,
1921. that he was an employee OF the
hacking company and identified the
nants shown in court as being pair
he had owned and thrown away some
+;roo ahout the first of March, but
could not say whether the blood on
the pants were there at the time they
were thrown away or not. Under
cross examination he stated that his
lob in the packing plant consisted OF
killing and assisting in the sklnnlng
of cattle and that considerable blood
was gotten on his clothes in this work
Mrs. Hines, his wife, stated that sne
had thrown the pants away, on the
advice of her husband, the last OF
February or the first Of March, 1871
and that she had thrown them either
at the foot of the stairs in the base
ment or behind the meat box IN the
basement. She stated that her hus-
bands clothes we're generally bloody
at the knees of his trousers and the
sleeves of his shirts and underwear.
AL. H. Leimbacher, Fargo, was the
manager of the Gardner hotel ana
was one of the coroner's jury called
to take part in the inquest held over
the body of Marie Wick. Questioned
as to whether he had any conversa-
tion with GUNNER at the time OF the
;nouest he said that he had. He told
GUNNER that he was in the hotel
game and asked GUNNER if he had
been asleep at any time during the
night of the tragedy to which Gum
mer replied that he absolutely was
not. He also asked him if he had
anv visitors during the night or any
BODY had been with him to which
GUNNER replied that he had been
alone all night. He asked HIM II 1t
would be possible for anybody to
have left the hotel either thru the or
flee or down the back stairs and out
the back hall without the knowledge
of GUNNER to which GUNNER replied
that it would have been impossible.
Under cross examination MIR. Lelm-
bacher reiterated his testimony re-
garding his conversation with Gum
mer and gave it word for word as
eiven in the direct examination.
Mrs. Van Worst was recalled to the
stand and said that she could hear
anyone walking in the halls down.
stairs when she was in her bed room
upstairs but that she had not heard
any one in the hall down stairs on the
night of the tragedy after hearing
the noises in room 30. Cross examln-
alton brought out the fact that the
window in their apartment downstairs
which had been used by her husband
and children as a means OF exit from
the building was locked ordinarily
but was not locked the night Marie
Wick was murdered. After several
questions as to certain particulars OF
the arrangement of rooms in her
apartment she was excused.
Miss Melaas' Testimony Important
May Melaas, al, chambermaid at
the Prescott, whose home is at Ulm,
Mimi, stated that her rooms in the
Prescott were room " and room ad-
Joining, that they were in the south
west corner Of the building on the
first floor and that her bedroom was
directly under room 80. Miss Melaas
said that she was in bed between the
hours Of $3.50 and o'clock on the
night Marie Wick was murdered and
that she slept until just a trifle be-
fore four o'clock in the morning, fix
ing the time of awakening by the fact
that the court house clock struck 4
shortly after she awoke. She said
that she heard noise in room 80 just
a minute after four o'clock which re-
sembled a noise made by some one
jumping out of bed in room 80. She
said that it sounded as though the
occupant in room 80 had jumped out
of the bed, struck the bed several
times with what she supposed was a
shoe, walked around the room and
struck the bed a few more times. She
then heard the party open the door
and go out, close the door and go