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Show EALOUS WIFE HAMMERS RIVAL TO DEATH I (RES WIDOW 1 SCENE AND MURDERS HER ffe, 23, Buys Hammer to Bay Other Woman Who Was Twenty Lls her husband ies on Train But Is Ar-1 lested By Police at i Tucson, Arizona bS ANOKU . ..I l' i')ie full ' details i.f tlf- li--.it.'nK' to death IK, Alberta Meadows ;i r-old werf repealed to thn police. r by Mr- l' :- i' 1 an who declared -hr v. .1 s the eve MRS to til" li i ill 1 1 1.-- blows w h ' :) ted the rom the ictlm on a lie ro;nl In tin city here Wcdncs- I Hs the night before, purchase of Ketrunoni m! ,h- 'n, iip hammer, B ui the victim of i he attack, I Hlims pitiful cries for help, her recapt m-. . .' nd repeated blows i (the sank in death recited LCafiee, who named Mi ' lara Bps as tin- SKjrained by threats of death from j fclnc tin i S ;-1-1 ncr pleas f the 1 Htttausen i ed by the scene Mr-, Ee said she ih u u -. n the - j' .and was a few min ii later HVup by 'Mrs. Phillips who lift li-ft IhluulL .(" rlri.tli ihnallrl SUP TP' I I he hurdei She said she was -down ti-wn 'Ahfp' Mrs. Phillips Foff the "'i "'""-'); a Uteh bc' to the sla i n w oma n .'was found earl t"J.t l.s the am' -.(id t she h...j m i' m aln-ince aln-ince In fear of threats of Mrs. . The lull oi-y v. is ivriti il in jsence of the hlet pf p lit e "Iff William 1 TraeK'T. wl'" un-Ithe un-Ithe details "f thf slalng from tornev of A. E I'hillips, huwband VOni:in. .in ir-.-.l 1 Ih' murder Bdinc to Tut-si n , -., Ihti-'hllllps Ihti-'hllllps is being held In custody Ills orders : Caffee Saul s n li.nl known 'hlllips fT ' vt-ui and a half, vent shopping T n-sdaj and dur-.e dur-.e shoppintr trip. Mrs Phillips I Bed a hnmmr. Six- requested i I fcftce fi ' he i home tha I ng and -in- did ring Tui-sdav night Mrs Phil pi 1 Blng Mi'- 1 iffe said that a I torklnK In a 1 il haul, had been II Re wit h h'-i hnsl.ii ml Mi Phil- ; I Kd tli i sh.. wantotl to meet the I Ed have . talk wlih he:. She jMded M. 1 ' accompany) End U - - reed. gHrtold (if goinp- d"'.vn town W'rd-H W'rd-H afternoon. n it h Mrs Bowl at t .: it l-arkiui; i jHj and tl..' Mrs Phil-I thai Mrs. M idi them to , ler's hou-e. lndiatlnR it to be In poftheast section ol town, The .was halted on a hill road, iso- Hly several hundred when Mr.-. Phillips requested' MJKeadoxKs to nut id the Jtfew moments, nu iliii .-lo- l9f(l to tall-. I ' . i "lie, :Blcal..'. - le't the cai and Mm. SpS followed. ' -ill " ' I He Jbf Mr-. C.afle. tin tin road JKdistaa . frrun i Mrs PhU- j fecortlln to Mrs fjftee, rucused Meadows of MitlniMi v. it h Mr ; Jps. Mrs. Meadov.s denied this, j HKrepe.it htm I hi. hps swung !. hand 'flbehii i her lor' . ', n hin, h Her ' h. hid' a led a nd t ga n I HKtblows upon Mrs. M a . s ,n - kKg In Ml Ibc Bcreameii to me to help nor Hlra Caffee. ' I Ttb. Phillips menaced me with tha' Her and threatened death if 1 In- red. Mr Meadows moved back, 'd under the blows and then I kthe grip which Mrs. Phillips had Hir and ran down the road. HPhlllips pursued net and I. i.ck Bnd hegan bt.itlm; her again : Die h;i m m e r ler she fell l became sick and I 9 id awn down the road. 1 na 9 pert.-ii-.en by Mrs. I'hilllps. She Irlvmpr the car. Mis. Phillips waa 0t Sh" made me pet in with her. i HKiln threatened me with death fiHtald a word about the affair rove down iown ami . i me off JB.of tne down town streets, and H Kaway ' , E, Caffee was detained by the p0- I WpJA) INOOSOIUNICADO BON. Arl7. Jxily 14 Sheriff Uf In Tor son have refused to any ..ne to communicate with fOtna n who Is Ivld priMi.per here the name of Clara McGuyer Who Is alleged by thern to be Mrs. Phillips wanted In Los Angeldft I HKnitin'.wi of Mrs Alberta Mead- j I hlS t..!k.-d t" do .lie . X -pf ol - Mheriff rr.-iegr-r sa;. this after-nd after-nd to them she i irused to admit Be 1 Mrs Phillips. She met Ion aftPi- qu.stion with silence Tucson sheriff said the woman1 ing held incommunicado on the t of the Pos Angeles authortles lat no one had been or would How-ed to visit her except a order. -AXOE1.ES. Cal.. Julv n Jf . I Treager. Ins wife who is1 Ptcontlnneii on r;l, .;i,.Arn , ' LURES WIDOW TO SCENE AND MURDERS HER (Continued From Pace One) a deputy sheriff and 'wo newspapermen) newspaper-men) also deputies, planned to. leave today for Tucson, Ariz., to bring back j to Los Angeles Mr. Clara Phillips. 23. who was taken from an. easibouml j train at the Arizona city Thursday I night, charged with the slaying here I of Mrs. Alberta Meadows. I The body of Mrs. Mcadovs, a wid-' wid-' ow, 2i years old, employed as a bookkeeper book-keeper in a Los Angeles bank, wus discovered early Wednesday nlghi. badly mutilated, beside a lonely road in the northeastern part of the city officers said they found fully GO marks, as from a hammi r, upon her head and face, and .t heavy rm k upon her ehoulder. The body was flill warm when discovered. BODY I Dl ATIITFP. j The body was not identified until A I . Phillips, an Oil promoter, called I upon the sheriff and, adordlng to th-I th-I latter said bis wife, z .; years old, had confessed to him sin had killed Mrs Meadow s b. cau.se ol w hat the husband termed "unwarranted Jealousy.'1 Sheriff Tracger said Phillips de-clared de-clared M had helped his wife (lean I blood from her cloth, s and had pui -'chased her a ticket to El Paso, Texas Later. It Was said, the husband, on advice of an attorney, told his storv jto the sheriff. In this story, as the I sheriff related it- 'he husband said his wife had persuaded Mrs. Meadowa jto drive her in the widow's automobile automo-bile to the lonely part of the city, where the body was found There, It added, his wife askefl -Mrs Meadow.; what were her relations with Phillips A denial of anything improper followed. follow-ed. Then, it was alleged, the women fought and Mrs Phillips struck Mrs. Meadows repeatedly with a hammer, which had b'eeh purchased that afternoon. af-ternoon. CAB ABANDONED. According to the sheriff. Phillips said Ills wife had driven home in Mr, .Meadows' car and that tie later had j helped her take it to Pomona, 30 -.-,1 n l.r. I 1 ' I.. r . A Ml miles euai, uvduuvuiub u v,i,,v-turning v,i,,v-turning to Los Angeles, i Then, it was stated. Mrs. Phillips .passed the night at a hotel here, while her husband walked the streets and that the departure for El Paso was decided on Thursday morning, i In telegraphing th Tucson authorities authori-ties to arrest .Mis Phillips. Sheriff Traeger stated she was ' wanted for 'a brutal murder." Sbei-iff Traeger. in making public ihe details of the case as ho said he 'had received them from Phillips, de-Iclared de-Iclared the slaying, which had been accompanied ac-companied by great brutality, and had 'excised the entire city since the discovery dis-covery of the body on a hillside, within with-in three feet of Montccllo Drive, in ithe northeastern part of the city, was completely solved. . The sheriff summed the case up as follows: "An unwarranted Jealousy; a sun-den sun-den planning of the slaying; a clever decoy to get the victim to the scene of the murder; the fight between the two women, evenly matched in size and age. the blows with the hammer; the stealing of the slain girl's automobile; auto-mobile; a flight home; a confession to the husband his efforts to aid hei In leaving the state; the disposal of the automobile; the departure on the train and the arreat at Tucson." WOMAN ARRESTED. TFCSON. Ariz.. July 14. A wom-( an giving the name of Clara McGuyOrl was taken in custodv aboard the Bun-aet Bun-aet Limited train here late Thursday by local authorities. The arrest was made on telegraphic advices received from Los Angeles police officials. Brought to the police station the woman persistently insisted her name was Mrs. SfCGuyer. Advices received from Ixs Angeles authorities gave her! name as Clara Phillips. alias Mrs. Jackson. On a pasteboard box found In the woman H puss - Ion. according to the police, the name ''Clara Phillips" was, found written with a pencil. When arreatedi copies of Los An-nreies An-nreies newspapers ware found in thai woman s berth, both copies giving full accounts of the murder of which she it; accused. She took her arrest calmly. calm-ly. She said she was married and SG yegra old. According to her ticket, she was iound for El Paso. Texas Following a brief grilling lhe sta- I tion she was locked in a cell, pending 1 the expected arrival of Sheriff Traeger Trae-ger from Los Angeles. TUCSON. Ariz.. July 14. Despite' earlier objections uf both the prisoner; and local officials a representative of the Associated Press was permitted to talk briefly today to Clara McGuyer. allc-Kcd to be Mrs. Clara Phillips, wanted in Los Angeles for the murder Of Mrs Alberta Meadows The prisoner, smiling and seemingly unworried, denied positively that she is Mrs. Phillips and claimed that her name was McGuyer and that she lived at 7 3 West Fifty-third street. Los Angeles. An-geles. The interviewer was the only one1 aside from officials who has yet talked talk-ed to the prisoner. Ho gave her copies cop-ies of the Los Angeles newspapers containing con-taining accounts of the brutal slaying of Mrs Meadows. The urlsoner dls-clbsed dls-clbsed no emotion as she read the newspaper accounts. "i have nothing to say, " she said, as she finished reading. 1 will say nothing here; when I am in Lok Angeles An-geles I will answer questions put to me, but It is wasting your time to iiuetion me further.'" Do you know A. L. Phillips?" "I don't know whether 1 do or not," she replied. is PH'M.lPs- LDBKESS LOS ANGELES, July 14. The ad-dress ad-dress eclvon by the woman arrested in Tucson, alleged to be Mrs. Clara Phillips, Phil-lips, wanted by authorities here for the murder of Mrs. Albert Meadows. Is Identical with that of A. L. Phillips, who Informed the sheriff that his wife committed the murder. It Is 703 West Fifty-third street. |