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Show JURY CONVICTS MRS.DROUBAY SALT LAK1C CITY, Mar. 4 Mrs. Elizabeth Droubay, circus performer per-former of a decade ago, today faced the prospect of spending the remainder of her life in the state penitentiary. The little circus performer was found guilty of first degree murder of her husband, C. Edson Droubay, a Salt Lake fire captain, by a district court jury late yesterday. yes-terday. Mrs. Droubay admitted on the witness stand that she shot the fire captain but insisted it was Irr self defense. The jury recommended life imprisonment. im-prisonment. Otherwise, conviction of murder in the first degree carries car-ries a mandatory death sentence-in sentence-in Utah. |