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Show IS. PEETE INSISTS SHE WANTS TO TELLSTORY Declares She Will Ask New Trial Because She Did Not Testify IX)S ANGELES, Feb. 1C. Mrs. laoulse L. I etc, convicted of the murder mur-der of Jacob Charles Denton, disclosed today in part what took place at a conference letwen her and her counsel coun-sel prior to the decision not to permit her to tuke the witness stand and tell her story to the Jury at her recent trial. Present at the conference, Mrs. Peete said, were her chief counsel, V. T Ag- . glr, acting public defender, and two .of his assitant. j "They questioned " me for three hours," she said. "Then they decided not to let me go on the rttund. "They said I did not give the rlt;ht (answers to their questions. "And I asked them: 'How can I give the right answers when you don't ask me the right questions? j Mrs. Peete said if the court denied the motion for a new trial for her, on which arguments are to be heard February Feb-ruary nhe woul cluneal to the appel- 1 late court for a new trial on the ground thnt she had not been permitted to tea- Ux . ' I want to tell my story," rho de-cl: de-cl: red. Air. Aggeler todav received from Sheriff J. '. Winn of Aztec. N. M a telegram stating the officer's belief thatatt. man reported to be lenton, seen, there after June 2. the date fixd by the! state aa tha of the murder of he mln-j Ing promotr, was one Joe Markley, who! had since left that town. t j |