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Show GALLOWS FOR MRS. PEETE IS LIP'S PLEA Prosecutor Tells Jury Evidence of Woman's Guilt Has Been Convincing EACH SIDE GETS 5 HOURS FOR ARGUMENT Prisoner Sarcastic in Alluding to Way She Hps Eeen Treated LOS AXGELESv Feb. 1 Death on the gallows for Mrs Louise I. 1 . etc was asked today of the Jury which heard her trial for the alleged murder of Charles Jacob Denton , The extreme penalty was urged by Raymond I Turncy. deputy district attorney, who opened the argument for the stale. He reviewed and analysed ana-lysed the testimony and evidence presented pre-sented by the prosecution, contending guilt had been fastened upon defendant defend-ant ' beyond all doubt." noi RS 1 1 IK-t MINT Each side Is to be allowed five hours for argument. As the court announced an-nounced arguments must be concluded conclud-ed by 11 o'clock tomorrow morning, arrangements were made for a session ses-sion of court tonight. Mrs Peete was not placed on the stand in her own defense because her "test'.monv was unnecessary" and b0" cause he wished to spure her the "terrific ordeal" of a 'iorig and arduous ar-duous cross-examination," her attorney attor-ney said. Mrs. I'eete, speaking on the same subject, said she 1 was not used to the Kind of treatment which she under- s; I the state -was preparing for her." "My experience'? in flic past have been with gentleman,' she added -i vti: i v in in vi i The lato called five witnesses In rebuttaL All testified there was no abnormality in Denton's hand- The defense had contended one of Den-tons Den-tons fingers was shorter than usual and on this point had challenged the Identification of the body supposed lo be his. ICrs. Oda Aument, niece of Denton, testified she was the woman a defense de-fense witness had "mistaken for" the "Spanish woman," often referred to as having been connected with Denton's Den-ton's llfo and against whom tho defense de-fense had directed suspicion in the slaying. The prosecution contends the Spanish woman" was a "myth " oo |