Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-11-13 | Page 7 | Thomas Linker is on Trial for Murder

Thomas Linker Is On Trial for Murder SALT LAKE. Nov. 18. Cross-ex in inatjon of Ruby Wayhe took up most I Of the time yesterday in the criminal' Jdivision oi the third Jistri' court at j j the trial of Thoimis Linker, charged with first degree nun dor In connection with the slaving of Joseph Briggs. an j aged Fairview farmer, on West Sec ond South street, in the earlv morn Ing of January 13, 1919. The woman testified concerning oc 'currencos in the Macedonia rooming ' house on West Second South street, which the state contends fixes the murder upon the defendant Brings, j according to the witness, was at the j looming house shortly before he was murdered in the itroet, wnile resisting j robbery. .Vhile at ' no rooming house, he "flashed" a roll ol money sne said The Linkers. Thotnus and his wife, Mauri, conduct d the rooming hot-so. Husband and wife and William II Brooks, a negro, -ue join'lv charged with the murder. Separ'.e tri.d was asked and accorded r'n defendants I James F. Frawley told of having I seen the struggle tnat resulttd In vhe ! fatal shooting of Briggs and of hav ' 1 ing seen two men tun from the scent of the tragedy also of having t"ld V:- j trolman Charles Jorgenson 0? wna! ! he had seen. Piurolman Jorgenson j testified to having gt no with Frawjoy I to where the slayiug occurred, ind of I having called the p;.,rol wnsron to tiko the bodv to the emergoncy hospital,