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Show mm checks , DECLARED PAID TO IS. PEETE Housekeeper of Los Angeles Mine Promoter Faces Damaging Dam-aging Testimony BANKER SAYS HE ASKED WOMAN FOR EXPLANATION Denton Fled With Spanish Woman, Returned Injured, Is Story Offered LOS woij.i s ai Feb. i Two of ibe state - 'strongest wltni - 'as Dtstrtel Vttornc) Thomas Lee Wool-wine Wool-wine designated (hem. Warden w-m.i nrd and v M. Rochlan, newspaper reporters, re-porters, were nol permitted t lestlf ) tv-re today against Mrs, Louise L, Pecte, on trial (or the alleged murder .f Jacob Obarlcs Denton, mining pn-in. pn-in. iter The di-trti t attorni luid called (hem I.. testlfj oonccinlng statements by Mr . Pecte in an explonatloii --lie was BRid to have made n-latlc to the pnr- base i if oenu nt. Judge Prank R, Willis, presiding, ruled their icstiirionj on that Question n-. "not relative! and declined i let them tetif. LOS AXGELES, Calif., Feb 1. Sig- j natures on two checks for sums totaling total-ing -5730, cashed by Mrs. Louise L. I'.-ete. on trial for the alleged murdel'J of Jacob t?harlcs Denton, were "so markedly dissimilar" from those on checks he knew had been signed by the mining promoter that they attract-' ed the attention of Victor H. Rossettl, vice president and caShitr of the, 1'armers and Mfchai.ls National bank; here, according to his testimony all Mrs. Paste's trial Monday. He said he demanded an explanation from her. Hilton Carlson, a handwriting ax-pert, ax-pert, testified he believed that Mr- : Peettj wrote the checks and that no! hand guided hers while she was writing. Ii INKER'S 1 ICS i iMoni 1 Rossettl testified tbat on June t, r.'.'u the day fixed by the prosecution prosecu-tion OS the date of the alleged murder of Denton he mailed to the mining 'man's residence a statement of his I Lank balance It showed he had in .that bank $798.98 In iash. besides I bonds valued at several thousand dol-I dol-I lars I "On June 5."' Rossettl continued. I' Mrs Feete called to see me at the '.bank. She had with her some docu-' docu-' ment's, which she said ho wished to place with other valuable papers Denton Den-ton kept in the bank. 1 gave her an envelope and she placed the paper in ' It, "She also presented a check drawn hi her favor for 5300 and signed "J. p. Denton.'.' i placed my initiuls on" it land she cashed if Later she present-led present-led another check also in h.-r favor, bui for $400, and also signed "J. C. Dmi-jton." Dmi-jton." I "A few days later my attention was colled to the alarm ot Denton's relatives rela-tives over his disappearance, l looked at the two checks Mrs. Pecte had 'cashed. I saw the signatures were markedly dissimilar 1 rom those en .checks I knew he had Signed "1 culled Mrs. Peete to the bank and 'demanded an explanation. She said Denton had quuirelcd with a Spanish I woman, had led his home with hei and had returned with an arm in a sling and a patch oxer one eye Siie said he was unable lo sitfn the choi ko and she bad done so in his presence, while his hand was on ih pel with which she wrote." TALKED WITH Jl 1 . f . Judge Kuss Avery of the los An-'geles An-'geles countv superior court and special 'administrator of the Denton estate, 'told of n conversation he had with l Mrs. Peete In his chamber June 1:3 1 ;ltt9t. She was introduced to him, hei said, by ("hiirles J.mes. a detective1 from the district attorney's office and i engaged at that time in trying to solve j (ho disappearance of the mining man. Tin the vamp," the Judge .-aid Mrs.1 l'eele told him. "At least. I am accused ac-cused by Mr. Denton's relatives of bc- I ing a vampire " ) ' She showed me what purported to be Denton's will, typewritten, and an 'Inventory of the furniture In his residence. resi-dence. "She said she had no deed to thoj residence and no power of attorney j "I told her then that all sh0 could do was to await Denton's return and jrender him an accounting." Mrs. Rhoda Merrlman of San Fran-i cisoo. Denton's sister, testified she had found one of her brother' check books, with two blank stubs under a carpet In his residency here November Novem-ber 20, last. Th0 carpet had been 'tacked down, she said |