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Show LINKERS AND BROOKS PLEAD NOT GUILTY Thomas and Maud Linker aud William Wil-liam Brooks, a negro, bound over recently re-cently t.6 stand trial on charge of murder mur-der for the death of Joseph Briggs, killed on January Li, 1919, all entered pleas of not guilty when, arraigned yesterday yes-terday before Judge John F. Tobin of the Third district court. Joseph Briggs, an aged Fairview fanner, was fatally shot through the head early on the morning of January i;i,- while resisting two highwaymen who set upon him on West .Second South street. At the preliminary hearing, the state introduced evidence looking to establishing estab-lishing that Linker and Brooks were the men who attacked Briggs, and to show that Briggs was. shortly before t he i ragedy, at the Macedonia room-ing room-ing house, dL'SL, West Second South street, in the company of Mrs. Linker, that he flashed a roll of monev there and that Mrs. Linker suggested the robbery rob-bery to the men. |