The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-02-09
were there evidently didn't want to
miss anything and stayed until court
adjourned at o'clock.

| When court convened this morning
there were but few women in attend
ance, yesterday afternoons proceed
ings evidently soaring them out.
Judge Cooley announced that this
mornings proceedings would not be
given in the choicest language and
any ladies present could take advan-
tage of that time to leave. A few
women left but there were still few
in the courtroom when testimony was
started. The ladies in the GUNNER
party were not in attendance this a.
m. Hans Wick arrived in the city
last night and took his usual place
in the unused jury box this morning.
The reading by States Attorney
Green of the transcript of admissions
made by GUNNER in the sheriff's Of
flee on June 18th only required about
fifteen minutes to complete.
Sheriff Kraemer Tells of Converse
ton With GUNNER
Sheriff Kraemer was placed on the
stand and said that he was present
a part of the time on the afternoon
of June 18th when the admissions
read by Green had been made, but
was not there when the meeting was
finished. He saw GUNNER at six o.
! clock that evening when GUNNER had
supper at Sheriff Kraemer's home.
He had a conversation with GUNNER
after supper in the jailor's quarters
in the Cass County Jail at which time
Mr.. Sydness was present. The sher-
| iff opened this conversation by tell
ing GUNNER that he did not believe
the accused had told them the truth
as to his movements the night Marie
Wick was murdered. GUNNER re-
piled that he had not told the truth
in all particulars. GUNNER stated
that when he had said that he met
train No. 4 about l o'clock that night
he had lied as he did not meet the
train. He also said that he had call
ed up Marie Wick on the phone about
11:3O that night instead Of Marie
Wick calling him as he had previous
ly stated. He said that he had called
her up to josh her and see if she
was at all sporty but that she cut him
short and hung up on him. He also
told the sheriff at this meeting that
he was the first one in the hotel, to
the best of his knowledge who knew
that Marie Wick was dead and stated
that he had been in room 80 shortly
after 6 o'clock on the morning of the
seventh. He said that he had phoned
to the room at o'clock that morning
but did not receive any answer. Al
! ter waiting a few minutes he again
rang her phone and on receiving no
answer went up stairs and raped at
/ iler door but received no reply. He
then went down stairs, swept out the
office, took the skeleton keys which
were hanging on hook, went back
to the door Of room 80, raped and
received no reply, unlocked the door:
went into the room abou three steps,
saw that the girl had been murdered,
went out, locked the door, and re-
turned to the office where he stayed
for several minutes before calling up
Fred Lawrence on the phone. He ex-
planned the fact that he had never
told this before to the fact that he
knew a man in Mayvlle who had dis
covered a person who had been muir
dered and reported it Immediately
and had been held by the coroner's
jury as being implicated in the MUIR
der. The accused, GUNNER, felt that
he might be held in connection with
this murder if it were known that he
discovered the body when alone. Sher-
| iff Kraemer testified that GUNNER
had admitted to him that he had sized
! up Marie Wick when he had taken
her to her room and had told him that
he felt that he desired intercourse
with her. GUNNER had also told
Sheriff Kraemer that he had told his
chum Andy Brown about finding the
body previous to the time Lawrence
had been with him. Between the
morning of the murder and June ID
GUNNER had maintained that he met
train No. d. On June 8 GUNNER had
told the Sheriff that he had been
awake all night, that the stairs would
squeak and that he would have heard
any movement on the stairs during
the night. Later he told the sheriff
that he had been dosing part of the
night. At o'clock that morning the
accused had said that he had turned
off the light on the second floor and
did not notice anything wrong. Cum
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