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Show I WOMAN FACES I MURDER TRIAL Laurine Griffin Held to District Court for Slaying of Chinese Li;rin Griffin. negro.-, was held to trial In tho district court jrwterday iftcrnoon bv Judge D. R. Roberts In tho city court on the ehurRo of fir' degree murder, following th preliminary prelim-inary hearing. The defense offer. Ml no testimony. Following Lo Young on th sta.iU during tho afternoon session, Leo Him. who testified that he was sle wing w-ing In the room above where the shooting took place, testified that he-heard he-heard no noiso excepting suoh a might bo caused by someone opening a box in tho store-room below. He said that he had been awakened awaken-ed by tho conversation of i number of persons below. I. N. Fulton, deputy court clerk, testified to having attended the coroner's cor-oner's Inquest In his official capacity as clerk and to having received tn-revolver tn-revolver that had been turned over bj the woman to Acting Desk Bereant n H. Wootton. at police headquarter on the morning the crlmo was com-j com-j mined. Wootton testified as to the ronvr-1 ronvr-1 s.itioit the woman hid h-ld with hir:. ( when she walked Into the police sta- ! tlon and after laying down tho r - olvcr. a Harrington-Richardson, double action .3 calibre revolver. I ald "Can I keep my tobacco. I want to be locked up. I've Just killed j a Chinaman." He told of her telling him that she WM afraid that tho , Chinamen would kill her when they, discovered that L-co Tom had been I shot. The revolver, he testified, contain cd four loaded cartridges when It was laid on the desk. SLEUTH GIVES TESTIMON Y. Detective R. H. Chamber testified to :he conversation h had been pie.-, .r nf whi-n rhlet of Detectives Ito'i- iert Burk questioned the woman. Ho said that she had admitted firing the fchots that killed lx?o Tom. He testified testi-fied that eho said, " There Is no use talking about it. I killed him. I tried to kill myself, but I couldn't do It. 1 don't want u trial. 1 want to die." She told the police, Detectl.e Chambers testified, that ufter shooting shoot-ing tho man she went to her room. 69 Twenty-fifth street, where ! took the discharged cart rid g OUl o th egun and reloaded It and she told the police that they would find ti empty cartridges n the Hoot at hei room. OONII T (.1 1 HONE1 Questioned by Chief Hurk. Detective Detec-tive Chambers testified as to why she went to see Leo Tom that morning, she answered that she had K'Jtie 'to BSS him because hr had promised to I give her her money that morning, i When she first saw him that morn-1 Ing. she said, she had lain down on j tho bed in the room and had asked kin for the money and he had prom-j lsed to glvo it to her. Kh explained that she had then gotten up and changed her street shoe-. for tier working shoes and that after changing" chang-ing" her shoes she bad again asked him for the mom y .iid he had refused re-fused to glvo it to her. She then, according ac-cording to tho testimony of Detective Chambers, went Into the store room where she had a gun hidden und'-r some paper napkins, and with It returned re-turned to the bedside and shot the man. ' ' Detective Chambers said that she told of Leo, after being shot, asking to have his feet covered up, saying to her that he was . old and she told of covering him with the bed clothing cloth-ing and of going out On cross examination Detective Chambers said that the woman had ifttmltted quarreling with Leo for a number of months past in an effort to get from him the money he owed f her. FRIENDS OFFER ll Following his testimony the itatfl i rested its case and the defence an nounced thai there was no testlmoi y on its side to offer. The caso was submitted to the court without argu-! argu-! i.ient. At the conclusion of the trial numerous nu-merous friends of the defendant crowded' around her shaking her . hand, and promising to stand by h.-r In her trouble when the case came io f trial In the district court. Throughout the preliminary he.ir- lng tho city court was crowded with negroes and Chinamen scattered among the white persons. |