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Show Jury Accuses Mrs. j Phillips of Murder I Attorneys for Hammer Case Woman Declare They Will Base Defense Upon Claim Tha.; She Is Insane 1 1 . . . it I EOS ANGELE8, July 17. The , hammer murder of Mrs Alberta Me 1-dows, 1-dows, 20-year-old widow, was charg-' j ed to Mrs. Clara Phillips today by a 1 coroner's Jury, following a brief, dra- 1 matic imiuest here today. The verdict was that death w IB due "to a .fracture of the skull by a hammer ham-mer blow at the hand;, ef Mrs. Clara Phillips in premeditated murder." I A surging mass of curious humanity human-ity welled around tho undertaking parlors here, when tho inquest was opened. Mrs Phillips was not In attendance at-tendance at the opening, neither as there present A J, Phillips, oil promoter, pro-moter, who informed iiv- authorities I that his wife did the saying DETAILS OI MURDER. Peggie Caffee. chorus girl chum of I Mrs. Phillips, who revealed to tho . Krand jury graphic details of thel I murder. In admitting that she .0 -, Icbmpanled the victim and Mrs Phillips Phil-lips to the secluded spot and witnessed wit-nessed the charge of Intimacy with I Phillips, denial, quarrel and beating to death, was in attendance at the I Inquest. j The first witness CAlIed was Fred 1 A. Tremalne. father of the slain girt. I Mrs. Caffee described the death I scene. It reached its climax when' I agitation of Mrs Cut lee dc-Veloped lo1 the breaking point and testimom is halted when she look some cold watorl 1 as a restorative 'I don't like to talk about tho : blood." she said, pale and trembling. She repeated the details a.s she li.nl given them to the grand Jury. She! 1 said the first time Shi met Mrs. Men-1 dows the victim, was upon the iy I of the murder, leas than an hour before be-fore the hammer blows stilled the t young widow. Her story began wlthj 1 the day before, last Tuesday, when 1 she met Mrs. Phillips, went shopping 1 with her and saw the former movie I beauty purchase a cheap hammer. Confirmation of Dih statement of . Mr. Phillips that ho had accidentally! met Mrs. Meadows the ninhi before she waa slain was given by Miss Ge-' nora Tremalne, the dead girl's sister. sis-ter. Miss Trepialne stated, as Phlilipj had, that the meeting occurred in a traffic Jam. She and Mrs Meadows were riding in the latter"; automobile, Phillips was riding in his. Both -ais were drawn to the curb in a lew minutes ' There WAS absolutely nothing bjt accident in that meeting," said l.ss Tremalne. "We were greatly surprised sur-prised when we saw Mr Phillips. We. chatted for a few moments and then drove away in opposite directions We ma'de no reference 10 any future meetings.' meet-ings.' v. A Tremaine, Mrs Meadows' father fath-er declared that if possible he would bring damage suits against any pcr- som responsible tor gossip about the dead gin. W As TALKING II.DLV Mrs Julia McEIro- a mutual ac-quaintanoe ac-quaintanoe of Phillips and Mrs. Meadows, Mead-ows, told officers of an alleged visit by Mrs Phillips to her home five days bi fore the murder. She talked wildly about her luis-b.iiid luis-b.iiid Intending to go away with another an-other woman." said Mrs. filroy. She told me he had purchased a trunk and uit ease and had said he was go-;rn go-;rn to pull out of this miss' She u entipned Mrs. Meadows' name and 1 said, 'for heaven's sake, Clara, don't do anything crazy. You know you haven't anything to base your suspicions suspic-ions on.' And she soid well. I know this Is the only woman he sees.' Tho Phillips and Mrs. Meadows and her tor sometimes happened to call at in) house nt the same time, but 1 never saw anything out of the way Mr.-. Phillips used to complain to me that her husband was unfaithful to her. Mrs Meadows one- accompanied me and my boys on a little trip and before nie returned homi we dropped in at Mr Phillip' place where be was working In bifl garage I lniro" duced him to m r 1 Meadowg Thai tras a few months iteo." Mrs. Phillips' counsel tatod a direct (Continued on Page Two.) HAMMER CRIME INQUEST HELD (Continued From Pace One) plea of insanity would constitute her defense. They said they wore mak ing a "most exhaustive" probe of their client's life, and would determine deter-mine after Its completion whether the plea would be permanent or ten.po-rary ten.po-rary Insanity. They added they were preparing a length;, statement for Phillips, that would divulge new and startling revelation. appertaining to the case. Officers said they nad discovered .apparent discrepancies in the story told by Mrs Caffee, She declared th das ol the slaying she and Mrs Phillips Phil-lips met Mrs Meadows at the downtown down-town automobile park where the latter had left hor car and that she was In troduced to Mra Meadows theie ,-ind for tho first time Opposed to this employes of the park, asserted the three women .went to the park together. to-gether. They also said 'hat I he previous prev-ious day. Mrs. M. ulows had told that "two girls" might sail and ask for th I use of her car. She said they were to have it if they asked for It And thi "two girls." according to the park omp.oyes. were Mr. I'hllllps .,n,j Mr-Caffee. Mr-Caffee. judging- irom pictures pub llsned in the newspapers. But the employes added, the one they believed was Mr, f'affee v.ld they would take a taxi 'out there' .-'el die ,,ne thc believe was Mrs Phillips asked them to "be sure and fell Mrs. Meadow- they had used hei aTfii :''S W, fJo"'t 'nt 1 ' hurt her feelings after she has hn eood enough to let us have It And SO, th( v aid they ,oid Mm Meadows that |