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Show MRS. PHILIPS HELD EPILEPTIC Father and Brother Were Mentally Weak, Two Sisters Testify LOS ANGELES. Nov. 2 Mrs. LK'ii Clara Phillips once attacked her sis-1 ter, Mrs. K- S- Jackson, while suf-k,','j suf-k,','j ferlng from a periodical epileptic In! convulsion. Mr Jaokson testified t ' Wednesday In Mi.- riiillipw' trial for l.lij the murder of Mrs Alberta Meadows This occurred, Mrs. Jackson said, fifj! In San Antonio, Texas, in May, 1 V 1 s yi, Mrs. Phillips, she said, threw her i UJ across a trunk and beat her with a jil hoe, lnflleMn: a wound On br heal BB) of which tin- scar still remains. Mrs. Jackson testified that her sw-ter's sw-ter's menu) attacks were preceded I i by a "peculiar look" In her eyes. jf'JI i riara. Eh" declared, would lose oon-S oon-S ! trol of herself for from five minutes I to two hours when one of the seizures j came Twice during 1917. she said, 'f r Mrs- Phillips went iito convulsions, Jyjj bled from the moutli and tore ncr fin hair. When the attacks passed she was left In a weakened condition, ac-ijSv ac-ijSv cording tn the witness. The Witness said her mother. Mrs '. j Hannah J. Weaver, was subject to iiH epileptic consulsions, and Is now an invalid at Tamplco. Mexico. Miss Ola Weaver, another sister of ijj' I the defendant, corroborated the tes-tlmony tes-tlmony about her mother, and that of Dr. Edward R. Anthony, who said hn attended Mrs. Weaver on October A 13 last, when she was in a convulsion. TOOK POISON, CLAIM. Less than a week before the elay-ji'J elay-ji'J ing. Miss Ola Weaver testified, tho defendant's husband. Armour Phillips accused her of "going out with another an-other man." It was tho first time he had epoken to the defendant for a week, th- witness said, and he asked her to go with him to a .neighbor ! ' who had told him of the reported ac-!' ac-!' (j tlon. Mrs- Phillips went with her husband the next day and that nlpht attempted to take poison, according I (to Miss Weaver. Tho witness told if t knocking the bottle from Mrs Phillips' Phil-lips' hand and declared the defendant said "she did not want to live any more: that her husband loved another woman and had turn .1 her down." j The defendant later nrent into a convulsion. con-vulsion. Miss Weaver testified. J U Mp 'Phlllln; was like one In a ' i daze and did not seem to realize any-j any-j i thing that was going on about her for moro than a month prior to the i slaying, the witness continued She I said tho defendant had been abnor-I abnor-I ! mal as a child and frequently had spells," In addition to tho usual I Ills of children she had suffered from cerebral meningitis and brain while the family lled in Texas, M I s I Wea rr testified. BREAKING DISHES Since coming to Los Anc tl (I 'defendant once had broken all of the dishes with .a rolling pin and at afi-I afi-I other time ordered her mother out j of the house and then moved nil the ) j' j loose furniture into a corner of the 'living room, tho Jury was told. The witness said that after each or i m these events the defendant would lack I i recollection of having done anything J out of tho ordinary and would be very ij .sorry when told of th 01 1 Miss Weav r said that she last saw jyjl Mrs Phillips the night before the j 1 slaying when the defendant met the . u 1 family as they were returning from a ! I 4 'vl6lt to neighbors. Mrs. Phillips ask-', ask-', ' ed for her husband, the witness said. i and was told that he had not been I I home all day. Some one standing bc-'ii bc-'ii 'hind a tree then called to the d -' ., fendant, according to the witness, and ' sho later Jearned that this person was H (Mrs. 1'cggy uau e wnnrs io me , H i slaying. Miss Weaver said they tried ! to get Mrs. Phillips to go homo with j 'them, but that .she Insisted upon going! I ;-wlth Mrs. Caffce. "BROTHER AN IDIOT. ' This witness also told of the home i jj life of her family in Waco, Fort Worth f'l ;and Houston, Texas. She said that' 1 iher father, John Weaver, "was In-i ! none more than half the time, and j during the later years of his life was' completely insane." Hcnr Weaver. , brother of the defendant and of thai ' 'j witness, "has been an Idiot all his ' life," she said- In a broken voice the witness told i of her father beating her with a heavy , I strap and of her rescue by neighbors. . v of an attack by her father upon her '' mother which necessitated calling the-; the-; police, and of her father on ano-e; I occasion breaking all the furniture in I the house and driving his family io flj the street On cross examination Miss Weaver j testified that her mother always had I been considered dangerous to herself H and to others, and that the family 'fill always had kept someone with her. Court adjourned shortly after the ! 'j prosecution took up the question of ; Miss Weaver |