December 28, 2020 â At about 6:30 on the morning of June 7, 1921, William Gummer, a 22-year-old clerk at Fargoâs Prescott Hotel, told his boss, âSomethingâs wrong in room 30.â Marie Wick, a pretty 18-year-old brunette from northern MN was brutally assaulted and killed in that room sometime during the night. Grey hairs were found clutched in her hand. Fargo was an overnight stop for Marie as she traveled to see an aunt in Pettibone. During the train ride from Crookston, a middle-aged man with a small mustache bought peanuts for her and another young woman, and the three spent the rest of the trip playing cards together.