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'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 × Listen to the podcast here: Who was William Gummer? Depends on who you ask. In 1921, some claimed he was a boy in a man’s body, an unsophisticated far...

'Murder in Room 30': In jailhouse interview, Gummer blamed jury for wrongly convicting him In an interview just moments after he arrived at the State Penitentiary in Bismarck to start serving his life sentence for the 1921 murder of Marie Wick, William Gummer was angry, but confident his conviction won't stick. 10:00 am, Jun. 3, 2021 × William Gummer didn't have many nice things to say about the jury that convicted him. He said they didn't read newspapers and lacked the intelligence for this kind of case. And he claimed some of the jurors were "old pioneers." Forum a...

'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 × Listen to the podcast here: Who was William Gummer? Depends on who you ask. In 1921, some claimed he was a boy in a man’s body, an unsophisticated far...

Murder in Room 30: The Killing of Marie Wick takes a closer look at the slaying of a small town girl in downtown Fargo 100 years ago June 7 marks the 100th anniversary of one of the most brutal murders to happen in Fargo, followed by what was heralded as "The most sensational murder trial in North Dakota history." 18-year-old Marie Wick of Grygla, Minnesota was killed in a downtown Fargo hotel during her first trip away from home. In the first of a four-part series and podcast, Tracy Briggs takes us through the twists and turns of the case in which justice might have come 20 ye...

December 28, 2020 — At about 6:30 on the morning of June 7, 1921, William Gummer, a 22-year-old clerk at Fargo’s Prescott Hotel, told his boss, “Something’s wrong in room 30.” 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 thre...