The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-02-23
MURDl:I TRIAL
NE ILY FINISHED
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16

the air in the court room became sc
foul when spectators were allowed tc
stand in front of the windows.
It is evident that the GUNNER trial
will not be concluded. or rather that
the case will not be given to the jury
for consideration until Saturday eve
and possibly not until the first Of the
week. It is reported that the state
will call approximately fifteen wit
nesses to the stand in rebuttal. The
cross examination of GUNNER will
take up the entire day today and pro-
badly a part Of tomorrow morning.
GUNNER Still on Stand
When court convened this morning
the defendant was still on the stand
under direct examination. After be-
ing questioned as to the manner IN
which the officers removed the cleo
trio light bulb from room 80 on the
morning of the seventh, and to which
the witness replied that they had
wrapped it in cotton baton so that
the finger prints would not be dis
turbed they had placed it in paper
sack and taken it with them.
Judge Barnett and States Att.
Green discussed question Of perm's-
sible evidence before Judge Cooley
and GUNNER was also called into the
conference. When they concluded the
attorneys for the defense, Barnett
swenson and Brickner, retired to the
Judges chamber for few minutes
to discuss a matter of procedure.
GUNNER said that to the best OF
his recollection he had turned Oft the
light in the hall on the second floor at
DAYLIGHT but was not certain as to
whether he had turned off the light
in front of room 80 or not, not beng
sure whether it had been turned on
or not. GUNNER also said that ne
had had no occasion to pass room ~
at any time during the night and
that he had not passed room 30 when
taking Hagan to room 81. He also
stated that he had not been in room
20 between the hours Of II on the
night of June 6 and the hour OF SIX
the following morning. When asked
by Barnett, "Did you in any wise as
sault this young lady who occupied
room 3O"? GUNNER replied, mo:
sir. l did not'''.
Odd you tie the hands OF Ma
rie Wick in any way?
A.-No, sir. l did not.
Odd you assist in tying the
hands of Marie Wick's?
A-No, sir. -
Odd you assault this young lady
in anv manner, either by choking, ty-
ing her hands. or beating her with
this nozzle or any other instrument?
A-No sir, absolutely not.
GUNNER stated that he: did not re-
member whether the nozzle had been
attached to the fire hose previous to
the night of the murder or not ana
said that he had known that the hose
and nozzle were there but never had
an occasion to use them and knew
nothing about them. He further de-
MED having had anything to do with
the nozzle on the night in question.
When GUNNER was shown the bent
hat pin he denied ever, haXlng seen
the pin until it was shown to him by
the officers and denied ever having
used the pin for the purpose of un-
locking any door.
He state dthat the first time he
had ever seen the pants which are
produced in evidence was in the sher-
iff's office on June II. GUNNER des-
cribed the plan of the basement and
the location of the lights in the base
ment and stated that he had been with
Milligan when he inspected the base
ment the day following the murder
that Milligan had flash light which
he used and that they inspected the
windows and all possible exits from
the basement. This took about fit,
teen minutes. GUNNER was turned
over to the state for cross examina-
ton at 1O:3O. His education. as brot
out by the cross examination, had
extended to three years in high school
and business course in the Mayvllle
Normal.
Gr,mmer's hours of duty at the
Prescott hotel were from seven p. m.
until seven a. m. and after midnight
he had sole charge Of the hotel and
was the only employee on duty. On
the night Of the murder he was not
outside of the hotel from ten o'clock
in the evening until the officers came
in the next morning. He did. not go
out for lunch that night.