Show DEATH AND RUIN TRAil ACTORS IN CRIME GAIME Misfortune Besets Many of Those in Clara Philli Phillips P s 's Case LOS ANGELES C Cal t Dec 15 By U. U P. P When P.-When When Clara Phillips the lady blacksmith hammered her way Into notoriety by beating to death pretty Alberta Meadows on lonely drive she up upset upset upset up- up set the entire country with the brutality of the crime and apparently apparently apparently set In motion a malign In Influence Influence influence In- In fluence that has liar dogged the footsteps footsteps footsteps foot foot- steps of ot nearly a dozen persons connected with her subsequent trial escape flight and arid recapture Claras Clara's bloody d deed ed committed nearly two years Jears and a a. half ngo ago I according to any sensible construction tion nothing to do with the mIsfortunes of ot those connected with her case But the fate tate which has been that of ot so RO so many many concerned concerned concerned con con- with the tho affair during such sucha a n. short period has at least been startling enough to be of ot interest COUNSEL DROPPED DEAD William Clara's Claras counsel counsel counsel coun coun- sel selho who ho so BO ably defended her at atho atthe the tho ho trial dropped dead in the home of a friend shortly after the Ule murderess murderess' murderess murderess' mur mur- deress' deress dramatic escape from the county Jail Albert Tremaine father of ot the girl Clara murdered was was arrested twIce and convicted on the second I hearIng He lie Is now serving a term In n prison for grand larceny Al Manning chief criminal deputy deputy dep- dep I uty ity In the sheriffs sheriff's office at the time ime of the Meadows murder and nd Bob Bob Couts Gouts deputy sheriff both bothof of whom assisted In unraveling the crime were ousted by br Sheriff W. W W W. I I. I Treager soon after Mrs Phillips' Phillips escape 1 A Spring street merchant w whose name was linked ed with Claras Clara's da dash h for or freedom and who was questioned ques- ques by the district attorney was arrested recently and convicted o of bootlegging Mrs Gene Biscailuz z wife of Eugene who made the trip to Honduras to bring back to fugitive hammer wielder suffered an acute attack of malarial malarial malarial mala mala- rial fever shortly after her re return urn and nd has bas never fully tully recovered ered from the Illness ANOTHER DEATH Deputy Sheriff John Cowan spent p nt many days seeking Mrs Phillips He dropped dead a few weeks ago from heart failure Lola Bonnot actress and Bill Billy Y Moody friend of ot Mrs Mis Phillips both oth of whom testified at her trial the he former the the- state and the theatter latter atter latt r for the defense ran into marital squalls soon after the trial Each Is Js now divorced Jailer Robert E. E Gronin who had charge of the c county Jail at the time Ime Mrs Phillips was vas incarcerated there lost his position TV when hen henhe the he civil service commission substantiated substantiated sub- sub charges preferred against him ilm by Sheriff Treager And the center of it all Clara Phillips attractive fascinating ina in a a. cruel Amazonian way languishes in S San n Quentin prison serving out outa a life Ufe sentence Clad in the blue prison uniform he ghe aids in the humble lumble duties of the penitentiary life Ufe fe almost forgotten by the world that lat followed eagerly her sensational sensational sensa- sensa onal career 1 |