Conner

Conner, defendant below, was convicted of murder of his wife, Pearl Conner, committed about May 19, 1924, within the Camp Lewis Military Reservation in the state of Washington. By assignments of error, defendant questions several rulings of tho court in admitting or rejecting testimony.

Mrs. lone Holt, ealled by the government, testified that after the disappearance of .Mrs. Conner witness liad several meetings with Conner, and that he told her that Pearl, Ms wife, was under forty feet of ground in a caved-in well on the reservation. Witness said that she told Conner she would help him, and would make an affidavit in which she would falsely describe the clothing worn by Mrs. Conner about the time she disappeared, and would falsely state that *314 witness had seen Mrs. Conner with a man on the highway. On cross-examination, witness was asked if,_ by reason of familiarity with other men, she had not “broken up one or two homes in Pierce county.” The court sustained an objection to the question, but, as no exception was preserved, defendant cannot complain. Nevertheless we have considered the objection because of the gravity of the case, and hold that the question was wholly…