Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-06
Mrs. Linhoff Sent to the Pen for
Two Years for Muir.
der.
Court Refuses a New Trial After
Hearing Argument OF
Attorneys.
Defense Causes Sensation by
Producing Alleged Eye Wit.
ness OF Murder.
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Mason City, March with deter
,nination which challenged the admir-
alton of the judge and spectators alike
the attorneys for Mrs. A. G. Lis'hoft
made another desperate effort to keep
her from the prison walls this morning
When Judge Smith convened court
and announced that he was ready to
pass on the motion of new trial the
attorneys offered an amended petition
in which they pleaded for rehearing
because of certain evidence which they
had tust discovered. The affidavit of
]. j. Sloan, commercial traveller, was
introduced as star trump card in the
argument. In his afidavit Sloan de-
clared that he had seen the murder.
having sat down on the curb opposite
the scene of the tragedy and having
calmly witnessed the entire act He
heard Mrs. Bromley say to her nus
band: you are no kind of a man If you
do not go back and do him." and it was
tibet of prostitute alleged to have been
applied to his wife. made the rush on
Linhoff He saw the clinching and saw
Bromley strike at Linhoff. and the
struggle did not cease till the last shot
was fred, and then the Bromleys came
off from the Linhoff property, a fact
much disputed in the evidence. Sloan
also declared he had told the county
attorney what he saw, and the defense
urged that as this witness would have
materially lessened the claims of the
state he was willfully kept out of the
case, and therefore a new trial should
be granted. ]. H. Murphy also filed an
affidavit to the effect that he had seen
blood that night on the sidewalk in
Linhoff's yard, and near it a stone as
| large as mans fist, but he had said
nothing about it till the case had gone
to the jury, and then he told Col. Nc
| Conlogue, one of the defendants at
| torneys Esler, the star witness for the
Defense also filed an affidavit averring
that the evidence ascribed to him by
the stenographer's notes was not as he
had meant to convey, being German
and not constructing his sentences as
/ Tic <auIcIlSdIl OoSS. SOulitS <ANtoIhSS
Telford took hand in the affidavit
business himself and stated that he had
gone to Sloan's home in Blooming
| Prairie, Mimi. and had asked him
about the matter, and Sloan had de-
clared that Linnoff did the shooting as
he had seen him from the flash of the
revolver, that Sloan had said he had
sat down near the store, which was
over a block away, and that the prin-
cipals in the tragedy did not clinch.
Being in a slanting position and 50 far
away he concluded that witness could
not throw any light on the case and did
not feel justified in putting the state to
the expense of an unimportant witness
| The county attorney sarcastically add
ed, II now see that Sloan has moved up
a block, in front of the Kelly place, and
sat down, most improbable thing, or
the Kellys would have noticed him.
and they testified no man was there"
The court overruled the motion. after
hearing extended agument and pro-
ceeded to pronounce sentence. She was
given two years in the penitentiary.
She killed Ed Bromley the night of
| August go 1901.