Imperial Valley press., 1921-01-29
PEETE MURDER
{ D IS 0 YER
TO MONDAY
(BY Associated PresSl

NDy ASSOCldteu ITeSS)
LOS ANGELES. Jan. 28.--There
day, the court having taken adjurn-
ment until Monday. The prosecution
expects to call about twenty more
witnesses in the case and it is believed
that it will take two weeks more to
finish the trial.
The first days after the body of a
man was discovered in the basement
OF the Denton home. Mrs. Louise
Peete, who is on trial for the murder
of j. c. Denton, said to Dean H. Dick
ason, newspaper reporter at Denver,
81 had that (the dirt) placed in the
basement. The next morning / went
down and saw it there and thought
what fine place that would be to
bury ones victim, and whoever placed
the body down there must have
thought the same thing"
Such was the outstanding point of
the testimony Of Mr. Dickason, sur
prise witness for the prosecution at
Mrs. Peete's trial. He also told the
jury that Mrs. Peete said to him on
the morning of September "a that
she last saw Mr.. Denton on June 8
and later corrected that date to June
6 as the last on which she saw the
claim mining man. These two points
, were the ones which District Attor-
ney Woolwine and his assistants, Ray
mond !. Turney and A. H. Van Cott,
left for the jury to ponder over un-
til Monday morning. when the case
will be resumed. Neither point was
attacked on the cross-examination by
Public Defender Aggeler.
The closing the states evidence in
dicated that the introduction of the
long chain of circumstances against
Mrs. Peete is drawing rapidly to a
close. Milton Carlson, who will testi-
fly as handwriting expert that the
signatures on checks totallying $3.50
on Denton's account, are forgeries
and other witnesses along this line
will be followed by the introduction
of the much discussed Glenn Ranch
statements of Mrs. Peete to the at
taches of the district attorneys of
flee, made after she came to Los
Angeles "to help with the investiga-
ton of the case" This will mark
the climax of the prosecution S
case, it is believed, and then Mrs,
Peete, the defendant, viii have her
inning before the jury.
Richard c. Peete. semi-invalid hus-
band of the woman on trial, will be
one of the most important witnesses
for the defense, it was learned yes
terday by The Times. He will be
called by Public Defender Ageler not
only to recount several of the state
ments made by Mrs. Peete after the
finding of the body, but also to at
tempt to establish before the jury that
Mrs. Peete was deceived during the
time she came to Los Angeles to aid
in the investigation, as she expressed
1 it then.
William M. Atkins, insurance agent
testified that Mrs. Peete called him by
telephone in June and that she tolc
him Denton had asked her to get some
cement with which TO curry some o1
the belongings of Dollie Mae Denton
his deceased wife. Mr.. Atkins thel
looked up in the telephone directory
some of the firms which would sell
small amount of cement, he said, AMI
told Mrs. Peete the pages to look a
for the names of these firms. On Jun,
10 he went to the Denton home, h,
said, and then Mrs. Peete told hin
MAR. Denton was very sentimental
about these belongings of his deat
wife and wished them buried or cover
: ed up with cement.
The defense made capital of tn
= testimony of Mrs. Ida l.. Gregory AM
her daughter, Miss Maude Gregory, b.