'Murder in Room 30': Defending William Gummer against case that was 'a house built on sand'
This week, Forum Communications marks the 100th anniversary of "North Dakota's Most Sensational Murder Trial," the killing of 18-year-old Marie Wick on June 7, 1921, in a downtown Fargo hotel. In the second part of Tracy Briggs' story, we look at why prosecutors think the hotel clerk committed the crime.
10:00 am, Jun. 2, 2021
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Who was William Gummer? Depends on who you ask.
In 1921, some claimed he was a boy in a man’s body, an unsophisticated farm kid from Mayville, N.D., the naive youngest of eight children who was inexperienced in the ways of the world.