Show Woman oman Convicted of Fraud in m Efforts to Sell Petrified Body LOS ANGELES Dec 22 AP AP- AP I After only a short deliberation a Jury in federal court c convicted Mrs Alice Sawyer of Long Beach Cal today on five counts of ot using the malls mails to defraud ud In connection with her efforts to sell the alleged petrIfied petrified petrI- petrI petri petri- fied tied body of or her son She faces a maximum penalty of a year five-year sentence on each count and Judge E E. E. E Henning set December 31 for tho passing of sentence Mrs 1 Sawyer was tried on the I complaint of ot John L. L Mendan Merl- Merl I d dan n Miss 1 railroad engineer who vho I charged that she obtained from him on assertion that she sho could sell her sons son's supposedly petrifIed pet- pet rifled body to some scientific In Institution Institution Institution In- In for a huge sum The Tho proposed sale of ot the tho body came camo about when the tho grave in a a. cemetery at El EI Centro Centre Cal CaI caved in shortly after the youths youth's burial In 1923 Upon removing tho the coffin the body was observed to resemble purification but a physician at the trial testified that an excessive use of embalming 4 fluid probably caused the condition |