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Show WITNESS CALLED IN PHILLIPS TRIAL LOS ANGELES, Oct. 25. Selection of the thirteenth or alternate Juror, was the first step planned for today In the trial of Mr.-;. Clara Phillips for the murder of Mrs Alberta Tremalne MeadOWS jo-v. ji r-old widow, who was beaten to death with a hummer. The formal Jury' of 12 was completed complet-ed late Tuesday with tho selection of three women and nine men and only tin exhaustion of the Jury panel pre-vented pre-vented Judge Frederick W Ilouser from holding a night session to choose tho alternate. The state expected to have in the 1 0111 troom today a number of the witnesses wit-nesses most vital to its case. These In-1 In-1 luded Fred D. Johnson and Mrs Fred Wertz. who found tho , body of Mrs. Meadows in a lonely 11 rt of the city July 12, and Jesus Comanche, deputy sheriff of Tucson. Ariz , who arrested Mrs. Phillips less than two days later lat-er on a train ln which she was going to El Paso, Texas. |