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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
SUNDAY, JANUARY 10, 1943
Court Tries Students Charged in Riot
(continued from page one) other things, of beginning agitation among some of the organized houses of the University and in the classrooms.
Dreyer pleaded not guilty.
The prosecution questioned Dreyer as follows:
A: I did not.
Q: What is your reason for pleading not guilty? Did you not demonstrate or plan a demonstration outside the home of Chancellor Malott?
Denies Story
The prosecution related the story as told to them by Dreyer when the investigating committee called upon him in his rooms. Dreyer denied the authenticity of such a story.
Q: What was your idea in giving us this story?
A: I merely wanted to get rid of you so I could study.
A: At first I thought you fellows were collecting a bill I owe.
Q: Then you deny the statements that you made to us and say that the only reason you made them was to get rid of us?
Q: If you thought we were bill collectors why did you start to tell us about your part in the riot before we even asked you.
A: I didn't.
Rest Case
Dreyer completely denied the making of such statements as he was accused by the committee. Rest Case
The prosecution declared that they would have to rest Dreyer's case until they could get more substantial evidence.
Dreyer said to acting judge Hughes that he thought it was "silly trying to convict ten men for something they had no part in."
Chairman of the investigating committee, Bob White, turned again to the defendant and asked him:
Q: Did you not tell our investigating committee that you had previously planed a big demonstration in front of the Chancellor's home?
A: I did not. I told you guys that I had organized a riot just to get you to leave.
Then Dreyer turned to Hughes and asked what would be the consequence if he refused to answer any more questions of the prosecution.
Bob Barton, member of the supreme court, answered that if he did such, he would automatically plead guilty of all charges.
Dreyer replied that it was impossible for him to answer any of the prosecution's questions either "yes" or "no" without coming out guilty in the end. Dreyer also stated that he could prove that he was under the influence of a narcotic when the committee called on him. He said he had taken some cough-medicine.
Bob Barton questioned the defendant:
"How long have you been here at K. U.?"
To which Dreyer replied that, since the court could find out anyway, he woulid admit that he had been in K U since January 1942. Dreyer was dis-
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missed from the stand, and Charles Nelson, engineering junior, was called.
No Charges Filed
Hughes stated that no formal charges had been filed against Nelson and that the investigating committee was merely trying to find out some facts. Little was learned from Nelson, and he was dismissed by the prosecution. Dreyer was recalled at the request of prosecutor, Max Webster.
Q: Dreyer, why did you pick out the date of December 16 for a riot?
A: I don't know of any particular reason.
Dreyer was dismissed and Ray Harris, sophomore engineer, was called to the stand.
Q: Harris, did you know of the riot before it was held?
A: Yes. I found out about it at 1:30 p. m. on Friday.
A: I had no interest in it at all.
Q: Did you have any interest in it?
Q: Can you explain to us why some of the other boys in your house knew the riot was going to take place ten days before it happened and yet you did not?
A: No, I read a lot. I am very interested in government of all sorts but am definitely not interested in this Hill government because of the way in which it is being run.
Kunkel Called
Harris was dismissed and Wallace Kunkel, College senior, was called. Kunkel pleaded not guilty to the charges as read. Kunkel stated that he pleaded so because the charges were not right. He said that he usually got up a band for all rallies and that he thought that this would merely be another rally. He added that the rally had merely come to be termed "riot".
"I told the committee that I had called three fraternities for musicians and not six as the charges say. I do, however, plead guilty to the charges with these corrections. I did not incite any riot, I merely got up a band for a rally."
"I would like to ask if the investigating committee did or did not approach ___ in the ___ house with the question, 'Didn't Wally Kunkel call you Thursday night and tell you about a riot?' "
Kunkel questioned the prosecution:
The committee did not remember making any such statement.
Webster With Kunkel
Kunkel stated to the court that the investigator, Max Webster, had been with him all day so, logically, Webster was a much an "instigator" of the riot as was he. Kunkel quoted Webster as saying, "I get a big kick out of this as much as you do."
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Kunkel asked the investigators whether or not any consideration had been given to the distinctiveness of the difference between the terms, "riot" and "rally."
Kunkel was dismissed from the stand and Harry McClure was called He was accused of playing the drum and leading a large group of enthusiasts past several fraternity houses. He pleaded guilty and was promptly dismissed.
C. O. Williams, College sophomore, was called to the stand and was accused of shouting, "United we stand; divided we fall;" and of leading a mob through the Administration building. He pleaded guilty and was dismissed.
Williams Called
Wallace Kunkel rose in the courtroom and said that the defendants had not been told of the charges preferred against them. He said that the investigating committee had prepared its side of the case and that they (the -defendants) were defenseless.
Carl Unruh, a member of the committee that had investigated Dreyer, was called to the stand. Unruh stated that Dreyer had certainly been eager to tell his story and was positive that he didn't hold back much. Donn Mosser asked Unruh questions on the charges of which Dreyer had been accused. Unruh could not remember whether or not Dreyer had made some of the statements of which he was accused.
he❶Dreyer Restates Story
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Dreyer was called to the stand by Judge Hughes and was asked to tell the court the story exactly as he had told it to the investigating committee. Dreyer stated again that he had told the committee a lot of fake stories and that they seemed to enjoy them as much as he enjoyed telling them. He restated that all that he had told them about his part in the rally was false and was merely intended to get rid of them
Earl Pickerell, engineering junior,
was called to the stand. He was accused of having read a poem concerning Chancellor Malott at the demonstration in the afternoon.
The prosecution stated that an English teacher at the University had been approached about the meter-measure of a certain anonymous poem. He was questioned as to whether or not he had been the one to approach the teacher.
"No, it was not I," said Pickerell. "Furthermore, I want the teacher brought here to clear me of any suspicion."
At this point investigator White dashed out into the corridor saying that he saw one of their witnesses conferring with one of the defendants.
John Harris was called to the witness stand.
Q: Did you know of the rally ten days before it was to be held?
A. I did
Q: Where did you hear it?
A: At the boarding house and at the Student Union cafeteria.
Q: How many men in your house knew about it, and how many were involved in the riot?
A: The fellows in our house were not very much involved. I was very
much in favor of a rally, myself, as a longer vacation.
Q: Do you think any of the boys in your house could not have known about it?
A: I know some of the fellows did not know about it.
Q: Do you think Dreyer was an organizer of it?
A: I doubt it.
Nelson Takes Stand
Charles Nelson was called back to the stand, and he stated again that Dreyer was in the habit of telling big stories and hadn't told the truth to the investigating committee. Nelson said, "I wouldn't believe anything that Dreyer said. Those boys (investigating committee) were misled from the very time they came into my roommate's (Dreyer) room."
Carl Unruh was called back to the stand. Unruh stated that Nelson had seemed apologetic for the things Dreyer was saying upon the committee's visit at the house. He said that he noticed that Nelson seemed aware that Dreyer was not telling the truth.
Jay Gunnels, business junior, was called to the stand and was charged with assisting in writing the poem and with pushing Pickerell to read
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