The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-02-09
Greater Number Women Present

Greater Number Women Present
When court convened at 10 o'clock
this morning the room was filled and
with greater percentage of women
than at any previous time during the
trial. Gummer's family had their u.s.
ual places and were accompanied by
several people from Mayville and sur
rounding district. Hans Wick was not
in the courtroom this morning but is
expected to arrive during the day.
Deputy Sheriff David Milligan was
returned to the stand for further
cross examination and stated that he
reached the Prescott at eight o'clock
on the morning of June 7, that Sher-
iff Kraemer and Deputy Sheriff
South were there when he arrived
and that he went directly to room 80.
He went out few minutes and called
the coroner and coroner's jury, return
ing to the hotel in about as minutes.
Going to room 80 and rema ming
there about 80 minutes. He made the
experiments in room 80 on the after
noon of the 7th and was alone in the
room while making the tests. On
being questioned as to what he did
in room 80 he stated that in going
in he went directly to the bed and
placed one knee on the mattress and
shook the bed, walked around to the
other side: and in SO doing trampled
on the two pipes which ran along the
wall by the floor, stepping on the up
per pipe and allowing his foot to slip
off onto the lower one, then placing
his kree on the c,o of the bed near
est the wall, shaking the bed, and
again walking around the foot of the
bed, trampling on the pipes again and
making the noises produced the first
time. At this point Judge Barnett
asked that the head Of the bed, which
had been entered in evidence, be brot
to the court room. The witness tes-
titled that he struck the corner of the
bedstead with flat piece of stove
iron. Bailff Moordale was sent in
search of an iron to use in striking
the bed and the witness struck the
bed to reproduce the noise as produc-
ed in the test but stated that the iron
used in the test was entirely different
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courtroom. The jury was shown the
dent in the bedstead which the evil
dence had shown was there when the
room was examined the morning Of
ter the tragedy. The witness said he
had not tried to produce another dent
when conducting the test in rom 80
but had only tried to reproduce a
sound which the making of the dent
might have produced. Counsel for the
defense asked the witness of he thot
he could find an iron such as had been
used in making the test and he replied
that he thought he could if he had
the time. Judge Barnett Informed
him that he would be given time to
find one. The witness stated that the
window of room 30 was closed while
making the test but that the door had
been opened Officer Milligan was in
room 80 the morning of the seventh
and found that the room was not
made up, that the room showed indi-
cations of having been slept in, that
one towel had been used and that
there was water in the wash bowl. He
was in room 81 after the body had
been removed from 80 some time at
ter 9:3O in the morning and reitera-
ted his previous testimony regarding
the condition of the room. Barnett
asked Milligan if his attention had
ever been called to blood stains on the
hall door of room 63 to which Milli-
gan replied that it had not. He was
excused to be returned later with an
iron such as had been used in the ests
in room 80.
Walter Jennings of Fargo said that
he was assistant chief clerk of the
U. S. railway mail service and ex-
planned the system of dating mail
taken directly from the mail boxes to
the cars between St. Paul and the
first mail division on the N. P. at
jamestown, saying that it was GUS
tomary for the mail clerk to date all
mail taken in this way with the date
on which he left the initial terminal:
or St. Paul He was shown the pos
tai card written by George O'Brien