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Show HAMMER SLAYER If Ik! SIIIE LOS ANGELES, Nov. 17 Mrs Clara Phillips was saved from tho gallows by her smiles. Thc men members of the jury which found her guilty of second degree murder Tor beating Mrs Alberta Tre-malne Tre-malne Meadows to death with a hammer, ham-mer, were quoted today as admitting that had It not been for the defendant's de-fendant's smile, she probably would have been convicted of first degr e murder, without a recommendation for clemency, thus making death the only penalty. Thej said that Mrs Phillips seemru to study them, one at a time, and to Hash frequent smiles at them while she turned an apparently stoical back to the spectators crowded ln the court room And she had the most appealing emllc 1 ever saw," was the way one juror was quoted I Hut the women jurors were not af-' af-' "ei ted by it. It was stated, as all three favored a verdict which would have isent Mrs. Phillips to the gallows. They found a compromise was necessary' to avoid a disagreement-While disagreement-While the defense planned to ask for a new trial next Monday, the timn set for passing s.-nlence. which may be any period of years from 10 to life, the state counsel said they had no comment to make on the verdiot. One newspaper reporter quoted Mrs. Phillips a3 saying: "I don't know whether I killed Al-berta Al-berta Meadows or QOt, bui 11 I did, It was for mother love, for Armour L Phillips, my husband, is my only baby 'and when I realised he was being I taken frm me 1 fought, and fought, and fought, so 1 might have him always." |