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Show CIMJIUJR iittniirl KEHJLJFE Men Influenced, but AH, Three Women Jurors Vote for Hanging I.OS ANOKLKS. Nov. IT. Mrs. Clara Phillips was saved from the gallows gal-lows by her smiles. The men members of the jury which found her guilty of second degree murder mur-der for beating Mrs. Alberta Tremalns Meadows to death with a hammer were quoted today as admitting that had It not been for the defendant's smile, she probably would have been convicted of first degre murder, wllh- i out a recommendation for clemency, thus making death the only penalty. ' They said that Mra. I'hllllps seemed I to study them, one at a time, and tn 'flash frequent smiles at them while ! she turned an apparently atolral back! to the spectators crowded In th court- I room. "And she had the most appealing : smile I ever saw," ths way one juror waa quoted. , Rut the wotarn jurors wer not affected af-fected by It. it was stated, aa all three favored a verdict which would have, sent Mia. Phillips to the gallows. They j found a compromise was necessary to' avoid a disagreement. I . While th defense planned to ask a new trial next Monday, the time set for passing sentence, which may he I any period of years from ten to life, the state counael said they had no comment com-ment to make on th verdict. On newspaper reporter quoted Mrs. Phillips as saying: "I don't know whether I killed Al- j berta Meadows or not. hut it I did, it was for mother love, for Armour L. j Phillips, my husband, la my only baby, ; and when I realised he waa being taken I from ma I fought, and fought and fought, so I might have him always." I . i |