The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-01-26

concluded he leaned over and spoke
for a minute with his attorney H. W.
Swenson.
Immediately after MIR. Green's ad-
dress to the jury Dean Spalding of
Fargo was called to the stand. He
stated that he was a civil engineer
and was familiar with the Prescott
Hotel, having been in the hotel in
June and having taken several meas
urements and helped in the drawing
of plans of the hotel the latter part Of
October at the request of States At
torney Green. He did this work in
conjunction with Mr.. Hess Of Moor
head. He stated that the plan Of the
hotel, as regards the arrangement OF
rooms and location of windows and
doors, was the same in October as at
the time of the tragedy. Particular
care was taken in the measurements
in room 80.
Howard J. Hess, architect of Moor
head, was next placed on the wit.
ness stand and identified a set of
drawings and plans as being the
drawings and plans made from the
measurements taken by Mr.. .Spalding
in October. Mr.. Spalding made the
drawings and Mr.. Hess wrote them
down. The plans were made from the
measurements thus listed. States Ex-
hibit No. l was entered as the plan of
the second floor, exhibit No. 2 as the
plan of the first floor, No. 3 as the
plan of the basement, No. 4 as the
plan of the first floor, No. S as the
plan of the fourth floor and No. 6
which is on the second floor, to the
building. On being questioned by the
defense Mr.. Hess stated that the short
est possible distance from room 30,
which is on the secondW floor, to the
office on the first floor was approxi-
mately $50 feet.
Before announcing the recess until
this morning Judge Cooley told the
members of the jury who were not
drawn on the GUNNER case that they
were excused from attendance in
court until the completion of that case
Shortly before the recess the Judge
had occasion to speak sharply to sew
eral spectators who were edging
toward the door and tell them to re-
main seated until court was adjourn
ed.
At this point recess was taken until
1000 o'clock this morning.
The seats in the court room were
filled before nine o'clock this morn
ing and the halls Of the courthouse
were crowded with people wanting to
get into the court room to attend the
trial. The court room was cleared OF
all those who could not find seats and
the doors guarded on order of the
court.
Before court convened Christ Minch
one of the jurors was before Judge
Cooley to clear up some point as to
his ability. He returned to the jury
box as court opened.
At the opening Of court counsel for
the defense asked the court to order
all witnesses removed from the court
room. A conference between the pros
ecution and defense was had with
Judge Cooley at the conclusion of
which States Attorney Green read a
list of witnesses and asked that they
leave the room. This request was
complied with and they retired to the
jury room adjoining the court room.
Hans Wick, father of the murdered
girl was the first witness called for
the state. He stated that he resided
with his family on a farm near Cry
gla, Minn., which is about 40 miles
north east of Thief River Falls. He
has 6 children living at the present
time the elder of whom is a boy 20
years Of age. Marie was the next
oldest child of the family and was Is
years old in April, 1921: He stated