Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-11 | Page 22 | Briggs Murder Case is Begun

BRlGGS MURDER I CASE IS BEGUN; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Link-j er and William Brooks Arc on Trial. KffnrU yestciilay to impanel a jury for trial of TIiniikis I.iakci, jniutly chftffCOd with LVfund l.iiikifr, liis nrfo, gnd II. Brook Si n cofrrO) with tin- iiiurtt-r of .li'scph Btrtftfl on Jan uai v L8i iiHii, resulted In ch&fle&lfi of t men for eft use tmd peremptory lialleny of t wn 1.' QOUHSoI 1 the il i' reuse. Tlie ease in in plOffF0StI in the c i i nil ii. 'i I division of t lie Third d is trirt rourt. ThOUgh jointly rlinrttt'tl in tho Id " triii n t ion, w throo dre to be I r'"l scp&rntely by tboir own NQUesti William Choshlftfi the lust juror ox amint'il before ml (oOTII intn I of courU, aid tiuiti in case us found his ftoQvio-tion ftoQvio-tion with regurd i me Rullt of th dofendanl to be nvorso to tJuit of tho ejiven other jurors ho would irtuuJly BOOOde to thO Opinion Of tllfl majority. Ho was OKcuacdt The state wnVod two ut' lin psromptoo ohallenjjos durinn the ilnv, so thai tctf(hl (ieromptorj chal tonffes romniu to eocli siii"'. It is be Uovod tin' Jury may be completed today. Joaaph Hrims, of whoso murder tad ds fondants are aecusod( was slain on 1 1- morning of January i while ) e Bating thugs aoar the Intersection of Fifth Wosi ut reel on Hreoud Wouth. Shortly bo fori be hntl visited the Waco donla rooming house, of which Mrs. Maud Linker Wfll landlnilv, ami lis plnyod :i roll of moncj there. TTn the'ori dt 1 1"' itflta is thai Ilnker and Brooks attempted the lobhory til tin' iii'lii'iilion of Mrs'. I.inki'r, sliuotlflB Britfss when ho resisted,