WOMAN INDICTED 2ND TIME IN STABBING DEATH.(Local)

A city woman who has been in jail for 17 months was indicted Friday for a second time in the 1988 stabbing death of an Arbor Hill businessman.

Linda Thomasine Edmonds, 35, whose last address was 128 Lark St., was charged by a grand jury with second- degree murder and first-degree robbery in the April 3, 1988, death of Asbury Booker near the Masonic Lodge on Second Street.

Initial murder and robbery charges against Edmonds were dismissed in April by County Judge Thomas W. Keegan because testimony of a witness before an earlier grand jury was prejudicial to Edmonds and should not have been allowed.

That witness said he once paid Edmonds $20 to have …