Show UN LINKERS LINKER'S W V WIFE ON STAND AND AT AI HEARING HAmN V She Gives Explanation of Suspicious Question and Answers It was when her husband tore up a aletter aletter aletter I letter she received from an old sweetheart sweetheart sweetheart sweet sweet- heart that the question Why did you do it and the answer I 1 didn't mean to it was an accident were asked by herself and answered by by Thomas Linker in room 19 at the Macedonia hotel on the night of January 12 when Joseph Driggs a a. Fairview farmer was shot and killed at Fifth West and Second Second Second Sec Sec- ond South streets This was the tho testimony of Maud Linker in the trial of Thomas Linker I for the killing of Briggs Maud Linker is charged conjointly with the crime with Linker her husband but in the I separate trial of Linker she was placed on n tho the stand by the defense after atter a a. motion for Linkers Linker's dismissal was de denied do- do nied by the court l de-l Mrs Linker was subjected to cross examination by District Attorney F F. S. S Richards I She testified that after 1130 1100 o'clock on on the night of the murder Thomas Linker had not left the Macedonia hotel After they had gone to their room and he had found the letter from her sweetheart under the pillow of the bed he ho bawled her out and she left the room she said Upon her return she asked why he had done It meanIng meanIng meaning mean- mean Ing the tearing up of the letter and he heh h had d answered answered that it had been an ac ac- ac- ac This answer and question were re repeated repeated re- re on the stand by Charlie Thomas negro a a. witness for the state who occupied the adjoining room to the Linkers' Linkers on the night of the murder and testified two days ago that he had heard both the question and answer that night |