Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-07-16 | Page 1 | Hammer Slayer's Husband Thinks Wife Maniac

HAMMER SLAYER'S HUSBAND THINKS WIFE MANIAC i HUSBAND IN HAMMER CASE IS NERVOUS Good Looking, Little More Than Boy He Shows Breeding rv h vzfl Mcdonald. International News Service. LOS ANGELES. July 15 "Tho same thing that has happened to mo might happen to any one of us It Is a merciful providence that puards from us all knowh-dn' of the future '' A L. Phillips, husband of the alleged al-leged slayer In the hammer murder was in a Dhilbsophical mood tonight, with drawn face and bloodshot eyes, he considered in retrospect the nerve iraz.-dins events mio hi'ch the last three days have plunged him. Carefully chaperoned by Deputy Sheriff Frank DeWar, Phillips spent todaj winding up his business affairs af-fairs and now stands ready to devote de-vote his undivided attention durlntr the coming months to his wlfo's defense. de-fense. He has not altered his original intention in-tention to stand hv' when Mrs Phillips Phil-lips goes on trial for the murder of Mrs Alberta Meadows, whom Mrs. ' Phillips is accused of having slain With 1 be wva i,,ns and in the wild furv of the stone ace In spite of h:s protests that he has lep well the last two nights, Phil- ' lip is plainly .,n the ragged edge of 'collapse. H tilts nervously backwards , In his chi ll doma rids cis irets. smokes h in with oulck short puffs and ; strains to seem at ease. The husband is little more than a ho, and his youttifulness is acceil-1 acceil-1 tuatod by a Texan drawl. He's,rath-j He's,rath-j er good looking with heavy hair blue 'eves with a glint In them and with j evidence of birth and breeding above-1 above-1 the nvcraire.