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Show yu HAMMER BUYING ACT DESCRIBED LOS AXGELES. Cal. Nov. 10 Mrs Clara Phillips' story of the purchase 01 the hammer with which Mrs. A1-' berta Meadows was slain was contradicted contra-dicted Thursday by tx .surprise ' witness wit-ness in her trial for murder. The defendant testified that Mrs. Peggy Caffee. stato witness, bought the hammer the day before the slay-ling slay-ling and saw Mrs. Phillips and Mrs. j Caffee standing by a counter where ; hammers were sold. Mrs. Phillips, according to the witness, picked up a hammer and asked the salesgirl If It was the heaviest she had. When told It was, she asked, according to the witness, "Do you think this Is heavy enough to hit anyone In the head and kill them?" The witness said she did not hear the reply to this, but Immediately afterward af-terward saw Mrs. Phillips take the hammer and pay for It. After leaving "the store, Mrs. Cran-dall Cran-dall said she saw Mrs. Phillips on the street and that the latter gave her "a haughty look." Mrs. Crandall said eho read In S newspaper that Mrs Phillips had accused ac-cused Mrs Caffee of buying the hammer ham-mer and that this made her Indlp-nant" Indlp-nant" and she told neighbors of her knowledge of the case. As Mrs Crandall left the stand and! passed the defendant the latter ssJd to her In a loud whisper: "It Is pe- cullar that you have to be so nervous - In telllnqr rnch a story," . gave no indication thit sMSH I remark. |