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.