Bingham News | 1922-12-09 | Page 8 | ''Hammer Slayer'' Eludes Officers

"Hammer Slayer" Eludes Officers Los Angeles.- The search for Mrs. Clara Phillips convicted of beating Mrs. Alberta Tremaine Meadows to death with a hammer, who escaped from the Los Angeles county Jail, was in active progress throughout southern California Califor-nia and Ix)wer California. Despite j various other "tips" and "clues," sheriffs sher-iffs deputies generally held to their original belief that the "hammer murderess'' mur-deress'' had fled across the border into in-to Mexico, and plans were made to extend the search for her as far Bonth as Knsenada, on the west coast of the ! Lower California peninsula, about ninety miles south of San Diego, Cal. Th.y not overlooking other directions, however, and had asked San Francisco authorities to Join in the hunt.