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Show GOUSIWELB Los Angeles Woman Was Unharmed, Un-harmed, Men Say in Plea for Clemency LOS ANGELES. Cal., Feb. i. A special squad of deputy sheriffs, with others held in reserve, guarded todav I the county jail where Floyd E. Carr and Arthur W. Carr. cousins, who ; confessed lo kidnaping Mrs. Gladys I Witherell, were held after thier plea lof guilty in the superior court last night Hints of "bad feeling" In the Hollywood Hol-lywood district, where Mrs. Witherell liv. v, caused the sheriff to tnk .r 'precaution against possible mob violence, vio-lence, he said. The Carrs pleaded guilty about 13 hours after Mrs- WltherHl was rescued res-cued from a riinch near Corona, about seventy miles southeast bt here, where she hai been kepi a prisoner since last Tuesday night. Authorities had planned to have the Carrs taken from (own last night, hud they been Sentenced, but the defendants defend-ants requested time In which lo pre- 'sent "mitigating evidence" In the hope of reducing tin ir sentence. : Tomorrow waa set for passing sen-tence sen-tence and the public defender, acting B i i.unsel for the Can's, said they de-Bired de-Bired to set forth that Mrs. Witherell had been unharmed while In their custody. oc |