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WOMAN FACES DEATHELECTRIC CHAR;HO MERCY IS SHOWSJurors Fail to Take Any Action to Keep Mrs. Lowther from Paying Supreme Penalty—Execution Date to be Set on Friday.Jefferson, .O., June. 10, (U.PJ—As fcalmly as fcho night she welted for three hours In a clump of bushes and then shot down the woman who atood in the way of her illicit love, Julia Maude Lowther, 23, waited in a bare cell today for the fixing of the day she must die in the electric chair ih Ohio penitentiary.Mrs. Lowther, In whose veinsClara Smith, wife of her paramour, Tilby Smith.No recommendation of mercy was made by the jurors. The verdict means the Indian girl will be the first woman sentenced to be electrocuted in Ohio. •Sentence will be imposed Friday by common pleas Judge James C. Oglevee. Under Oilio law the eve-
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Piqua Daily Call
Piqua, Ohio, US
Wed, Jun 10, 1931
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