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Show WOMAN CONVICTED OF SLAYING MATE LOS ANGELES. Calif., Fob. 20. A verdict of manslaughter, with a recommendation rec-ommendation for clemency, was returned re-turned late Sunday by tho ton women and two men Jurors In the ease, of Mrs. Julia Leo Johnstone, tried for tho murder of hor husband, Thomas IJ. Johnstone, at Long Beach, last July The Jury had deliberated approximately approximate-ly 54 hours. Sentence will bo passed Tuesday. Mrs. Johnstone declared she shot her husband without realizing what he was doing following a day of domestic do-mestic difficulties over his alleged dealing In illicit liquor. |