Arizona republican., 1921-01-20
Spectators Stand In Line
 From Early Hour To Gain
 Admission to Court Room Police Clear Streets
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LOS ANGELES. Jan. 19.-Eleven prospective jurymen were in the jury box at the close of the first days see- sion of the trial of Mrs Louise L. Peete, accused of the murder of Jacob Charles Denton. mining promoter.
 They had been accepted tentatively with view to further examination tomorrow.
 Judge Frank R. Willis announced court would convene tomorrow morn ing at 80 o'clock and if the jury was not completed by D. m., the custom ary adjournment hour night session would be held.
 Mrs. Peete this morning walked to the court room over the bridge of signs" as the passageway from the county jail to the Hall of Justice. spanning an alley, is termed. She re- quested she be permitted to go by way of the street in the afternoon and her jailers consented
 Word of the change of plans spread . through the crowd and hundreds of persons surged from the jail doors to watch her come out. The police cleared the crowd from the sidewalk and roped off a passage way from the jail en- trance to that of the Hall of Justice Many of the spectators secured observ- ation points upon fire escapes of ad- jacent buildings and on telephone poles as the defendant made the 50-yard trip in the open air.
 Mrs. Peete appeared to be composed ! throughout the court proceedings. She passed much of the time looking at kodak pictures of her 4-year- daughter. who was not in court Her husband, R C. Peete, sat beside her.
 Crowds Seek Admission The line of those who sought the 125 seats reserved in the court room for spectators began forming at o'clock, five hours before the trial began. Counsel predicted it will be three days before a jury will be selected
 The district attorney said he ex- pected to produce witnesses to support his allegation that Mrs. Peete shot Denton while a tenant in the Denton house and Mrs. Peete disposed of prop erty belonging to Denton after the date of the alleged murder. Denton's body was found in the cellar of his home in boarded enclosure.
 History of Case James Charles Denton, we'll to do mining promoter disappeared June 2, 1920 and on September 23 following de- tectives found his body under a pile of dirt in & boarded enclosure of the 1 basement of his home here. near the center of an exclusive. Mrs. R. c. Peete, who rented the house from Den ton for time. later was arrested and charged with the murder. Denton had been married twice. His 1 first wife and daughter, aged 16, live 1 in Phoenix, Ariz. Denton,s second wife died early in 1920. Soon after her death he advertised his home for rent and Mrs. Peete leased the place with the understanding that Denton should retain a room for his own use. She occupied the house until August g when she sub leased it and moved to Denver Between June and August 19, the district attorney. Thomas Lee Wool wine, charged, Mrs. Peete disposed of clothing belonging to Denton and through a friend, pawned a diamond ring of his and also turned over his automobile to a friend. It was also 1 charged that she cashed cheeks to which his name had been forged.
 Mrs. Peete returned to Los Angeles after Denton's body was found, declar- | ing she was ready to tell the district attorney everything she knew about
 the case She expressed the belief that
 Denton was killed by a relative, of 3
 Spanish woman who, she said, had visited him.
 Mrs. Peete said she saw Denton sub- seduent to June and that he had his right arm in a sling. He signed checks with his left hand, she said, and gave them to her to cash. He also author ized her to sell his ring and. automobile she declared.
 Declaring they were not satisfied
 with the explanation, members of the district attorneys staff took the case to theAgrand jury which on October 2f,
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