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Show JURY CONVICTS MRS. LOUISE PEETE LIFE IMPRISONMENT FIXED AS PENALTY FOR WOMAN i . HERE is a clouup character study of Mrs. Louisa PMttwht ha. aid tha pagas ef Pea. Sha ia a woman of no particular attraction. at-traction. Har appaaranca fits har wall Into tha rolo of housa-kaapar housa-kaapar at tha homo of Jacob Danton, tha waalthy mining man whoaa dead body waa found hidden in a carefully built crypt in tha cellar ef hi palatial home. Yet one ia a woman of culture. f ! f . p kM f (B Hpj.p - ....... A : I -'( - 2 . ' .- ' 1 I j X 1 Lt 1 GUILTY OF SLAYING '.-BP. Twelve Men Declare, After Taking Six Ballots, Bal-lots, She Slew Los Angeles An-geles Mining Broker LOS ANGELES, Feb. 5. Mrs. Louise L. Peete, charged ' with the murder of Jacob' C. Denton, a wealthy mining man, wai convicted of murder in the first degree by a Jury In the case In Superior Judge Prank R. Willis' court today. The jury fixed the penalty at life Imprisonment and sentence will i be pronounced by Judge Willis on Tuesday,- Kebrtiary a. The- eae baa j been on trial since January It. Mrs. feeta displayed no emotion when the verdict waa announced, but her husband. R. C. Peete. who had been her constant companion during the day, wept. SIX BALLOTS TAKEN. The Jury , rapped on the Jury room door at 6:15 and Informed Bailiff Agulrre that they had reached a verdict, ver-dict, and Mrs. Peete waa brought Into the courtroom from the county Jail. . The Jury, which stood 10 to for conviction on the first ballot taken, reached an agreement on the sixth ballot. bal-lot. They were out from 11:46 o'clock this morning until 6:16 o'clock' this evening. At the request of Public Defender Aggeler, who had represented the defendant de-fendant during the trial. Judge Willis polled the Jury after they returned their verdict, and each Juror confirmed con-firmed the verdict with a firm, "Tea, Peete went back to the county Jail without aaying a word, but aa she left the courtroom she put one arm around her husband for support and showed aigna for the first time of a breakdown. Her face Indicated the. awful strain of desperate effort to ra tuln her composure. SHOWS COMPOSURE. When the court procedure was at an end Mrs. Peete shook hands, with her attorneys. W. T. Aggeler. acting public defender, and Robert H. Beott, assistant public defender, then turned to the bailiff and said: "We'll go now." Hhe was then taken back to the county Jail. There waa no demonstration In the crowded courtroom. With the bailiff holding one arm and her weeping husband the other, the defendant walked calmly and steadily down the aisle of the court-: room and down the atalrs to the street.' At the doorway the three atopped a moment while Peete rubbed the tears from hia face with a handkerchief. Then they faced a crowd of probably prob-ably more than 1000 persons as they walked half a block to the Jail, where Mrs. Peete Is to remain until sentence sen-tence is Imposed. OUT SIX HOURS. I The Jury hsd been out from 11:44 $ o'clock this morning until 6:26 this afternoon, with a two-hour adjourn- 9 ment for lunch. 8ix ballots were f-tuken, f-tuken, it was said. Mrs. Peete was the second woman to be convicted In two days of murder '4 in the first degree in lxs Angeles county. The first. Mrs. Maybell Roe. was found guilty yesterday of ihe slay- ing of McCullough Oraydon. a real -estate operator. Her punishment also was fixed at life imprisonment. A crowd, declared by court officers . to be the largest since the trial started. I was gathered about the hall of justice jail day, awaiting the outcome of the case. The sudden shower of rain, accompanied ac-companied by hall, failed to thin out , the throng to any noticeable degree. WOMAN THE STRONGER. Peet accatnpaned his wife to' her quarters in the all. waiting there un-til un-til attendants compelled him to depart. de-part. We went there to try to giva her, comfort, but Jailers said . it was she who comforted him. He wept al--most constantly, they said, while she Continued on pane 4.) GUILTY OF (Continue from piiK- 1) remained dry-eyed and with an arm about him nhouldor, Endeavored to encourHffe him. Pre: to went from the Jail to 4an apartment where he hua been II vine with four-year-old Betty Penfe, who never haa been told her mother wai under rreit. . He declined to epak to newspapermen. Ho did also Mrs. Peete. NEVER IN DOUBT. Williuru T. AKKeIer. artlnjr, puhlfn (.(fender, wlo wui counsel for Mra. Peete. atated that he had not decided t whether a new trlrtl will he nuked. J "That dajeenda on the record In the K tntnucrlpl of testimony.' said AKerlf. "If there Is any hauls for It, we will - 1 iirek in trv the ran Mffaln." "Theredfd of the. trial Is perfect and the verdict speaks for Itself,' was the only comment made by Oistrict Attorney At-torney Thomas Iee Woo! wine and Hy-mond Hy-mond I. Turney, deputy dlxtrict attorney,, attor-ney,, who prosecuted the case. Th Jury voted for oonvictlon on the first balM snd on every ballot thereafter, there-after, according to the statement of J. It. .lohnaon, foreman, "The only question was aa to whether wheth-er thn death penalty should be .inflicted." .in-flicted." he stated. HISTORY OF CASE. Tsje "Irentoti murder trial," as It has been called, han been the most famous In the history of Los Angeles county. Denton, aged 4, a wealthy mining j broker, disappeared on or about June 2. The body was found In a secret 1 crypt In the bs semen t of hla home at j trs Homh Catailna street on Keptem-ber Keptem-ber 13 by city detectives. The body was identified h that of lenton by his nephew, Paul Aument, and a dozen other persons. A search was started to discover the murderer and a large reward was offered. It was learned that Mrs. Louise Peete had lived in Denton's home, had undertaken to sell ft for him. had renud It to various person, and had left Los AnKelea for I env?r in Auguet. After a thorough investigation, inves-tigation, thr district attorney's office brought Mrs. Peete to lon Angeles as a material witness. Hhe was eubae-quently eubae-quently indicted for the murder, and placed on trial January It. |