Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-24
MISS De Doe WAITS
SENTENCE MONDAY
Former Secretary of Clara
Bow Faces One to Two
Years in Prison.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, January 24.-Con-
victed by the compromise verdict Of an
exasperated jury, which for hours had
been deadlocked, 8 to 4, for acquittal
Daisy de Doe languished in jail today
awaiting sentence for theft from her
former employer, Clara Bow Of the films.
After more than 48 hours Of bitter
wrangling the jury of seven men and
five women finally brought in a verdict
yesterday holding Daisy guilty of one OF
the thirty-flve counts of grand theft
with which she was charged and recon-
mending clemency.
"Oh, my God!" Daisy cried when the
verdict was heard. But I'm not guilty.
If they were going to make me guilty
Of one count was guilty Of all How
could they do it2"
Clara Hopes for Leniency.
She was assisted into an ante room
by friends, who tried vainly to quiet her
Sobbing.
There was little or no exultation over
the verdict in the Bow household, where
the Tetl-hsired actress Is Ill with q cold.
For Daisy's sake, hope the court will
be lenient," said Clara, who accused
Miss De Doe Of stealing S15,045.35.
she was the best friend had in the
world"
And Clara's snifaes might as well
have been for Daisy as from the cold
The court set next Monday for passing
Of sentence. Conviction on one count
carries a penalty Of one TO two years In
San quentin Penitentiary.
A petition for probation will be pre-
q rAA fv4aW AL Il.
the court, Defense Attorney Nathan
Attorney David Clark, who handled the
prosecution, stated he would not oppose
Agree on Compromise.
Jurors said a terrific struggle pre-
coded the compromise verdict, which
they said was arrived at while the jury
stood eight to four for acquittal Two
woman jurors, they reported, held out
for conviction on all of the IS counts,
which involved the alleged theft of
S15,870 from the actress.
Directed by the court to continue their
deliberations after they twice had re-
ported inability to agree, the Jurors
finally picked one Of the counts charg-
ing the theft to $025 two days before
Daisy was fired as Clara's secretary, and
u.
One of the woman jurors, Mrs. Mary
A. Everett, mother of two grown daugh-
ters, admitted leading the tight for con-
5iction "as lesson to other young girls -
She said the count on which Daisy was
convicted was picked more or less at
random"
There Is no bitterness on my part
toward Miss De Boe," she added IT did
my best to give young girls lesson"
Much Interest Shown.
Drawn by the promise Of an expose
Of the private life of the Aim at" girl,
when Daisy threatened to tell all''
about Clara at the trials outset, ca
pacity crowds jammed the court room.
When the red-haired actress took the
stand early in the trial and identified q
heap OF kilograms and letters from her
boy friends containing imprisoned en-
dearments. the appetites of the curious
were whetted.
When Daisy took the witness chair
and began to detail life in the Bow res
idence, with poker parties, liquor pur-
chaSes and other intimate phases
brought to the fore, interest reached
fever pitch.
Then Judge Doran put a damper on
the sensational proceedings by ruling no
more mud-slinging was necessary to
determine the guilt or innocence Of the
frail ex-secretary.