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Show HAMMER SLAYER Tl ACCUSE ANOTHER PEOGY DIDN'T TELL ALL SAYS MRS. PHIL! IPS Prisoner Outlines What She ( Expects to Tell to Trial Jury PROMISES TRUTH Story of 'Hammer Slayer's' Flight Told cn Witness Stand LOS NOBLES, Oct 31. What she i will tell the jury If she takes the stand In her own deft nse during her trial 'for the slaying of Mrs. Alberta Tre-rnalnc Tre-rnalnc Meadows, was outlined today In 'an Interview here by Mrs. Oara Phll-lllps. Phll-lllps. alleged "hammer murdress." "It was all llko this." said Mn. Phillips; "Three people get Into a machine jTwo of them nre friends, 'une of the friends ami another rr t r I sot Into a fight. The friend g-ds the worst of jit and the other friend naturally COnv a to her rescue, doesn't she'.' Well fig-iure fig-iure It out for yourself. "Peggy said It was ,i"lnra this' and i 'Clara that. 'Clara did everything' It I was ridiculous. OAST i.Wl DETAILS I "If I get a chance. I am goir.; to tell my story. People tia thought i 'so guilty, so bri l. bdcauso I haven't told my story before. liut If they lonly Knew what was In my heart, they wou'd understand. Thej must understand under-stand 1 have a reason for not talking land i annot iio so until the proper tune I COmeS. There nre many details I could :not toll you for this reason, i "Peggy has not told everything as It was. But In spite of It all. I do no; I say that I dislike Peggy. I will npl do her an injustice. I "If I can get on the stand, :ml I cannot say now wnetner i will or will not. I am going to try and make the 'jury undersrand i.iy i.e'iiu; ;.ml miT- Ifsrlngs. I win ten wnat I hav done I will tell the whole. truth'. Then lei jit end whatever w.-sv lr m LO I M('l I N, CJLAZJ Mrs. Meadows not only "stole tho (low of Armour L. Phillies," but ut-Itemptsd ut-Itemptsd to drstroy ins confidence in 'his wife by repeating neighborhood I gossip Mrs. Phillips charged. "Ijist May or June. I w.-nt to Mount 'Baldy with a family of fle people." 'she explained, "when I came back my husband accused mo of going to the ' mountains with another man. 1 Was I later Informed that Alberta Meadows I had told him this mij: mi l is pjegg) My husband began noting terribly. I tried to overcome It but could not' Only those who h;iv suffered as I did can understand 1 couldn't sat, ind I I couldn't sleep. And It was about 'this time." Mrs Phillips said that she met Mrs Peggy Caffee. the state s star WtneS8 In the present trial, and according ac-cording to the alleged slayer, "a married mar-ried woman who understands things.", Mrs Caffee and B.he talked over their "troubles at home" together nnd went to Long Beach, she said, to vlul 'a friend. THREE IN M U BINE "When we got back to town and tho j jthreo 61 us were In the machine, we. did not know wh'.re we were going. It was my plan to tlnd out what had I been going on between Alberta and my husband. As for having a fight with Alberts or us lor haniK anything harmful In mind, It was never dreamed dream-ed of. If anything ol thai sort had been thought of, certainly I would not have taken any one with me." During tho drive to the lonely hlll-Bldo hlll-Bldo road, where Mrs Meadows was ibeatcn to death, 'Alberts told me more than I knew until afterward:,.'' Id Mrs. Phillips. "They had planned to go away together." to-gether." she added I felt hurt. 1 rr.iiu can't explain how 1 foil beyond that point. Only married folks In this j circumstance can understand. "From here on 1 am going to leave the details for later." STORY OF FLIGHT The story of the flight of Mrs. Clara Phillips after the :l ilng of Mrs. Alberta Al-berta Meadows wa.s begun Monday In the trial of Mrs. Phillips, for murder. The prosecution brought ui thai a! the tune of her death, "Mr Meadovi -had $S6 dollars, unaccounted for as yet. The cross examination of Mrs. Peggy Peg-gy Caffee. who witnessed the slaying, was brought to an abrupt close Monday. Mon-day. She Htuck closely to bei direct examination story of the tragedy lcp-Uty lcp-Uty District Attorney Frlcke Skid the t Continued on Page Two) ssaaaaaaaafl PEGGY DIDN'T 1 TELL IT ALL Mrs. Phillips Intimates She Will Accuse Friend on Stand (Continued from Page One) cutting short of the cross examination would enable him to close his case 6ome time todav. DREW OUT HI MRi:i) Gertrude Tremalno, sister of Mrs i " Meadows, testified she met the latter ut noon. July 12, the day of the slaying, slay-ing, at the bank, where Mis. .Meadows was employ. d. Miss Tremaln ltd her sister drew J100 from the bank and gave her ?lo Jules Lucas, who called himself a sweetheart of Mrs. Meadowe. previously had I istified that be passed the rest of the noon hour with Mrs Meadows, and that she BP -r i nothing Mrs Caffee testified that she and Mrs Phillips met Mrs Meadows just alter th latter b it the bank that .Afternoon and drove directly to the spot where tne slaying ot curred fitter fit-ter the tragedy, Mrs. Caffc said Mrs. Phillips carried away Mr. Meadows' purse. Guy Mlllman, clerk at a downtown hotel, testified that Mrs. Phillips registered reg-istered there, using the nam. of "Mrs. R S. Jamleson." The hotel register wis admitted In evidence, also the county jaii register bearing Mrs Phil-Hps' Phil-Hps' signature for purposes of comparison com-parison Jesus Camnncho, city detective of Tucson, Ariz., testified he arrested , Mrs. Phillips there the night of July -13 on a Southern Pacific railway train ' .bound from Los Angeles to El Paso j Texas. Mrs Phillips ho said, was I traveling as "Mrs it Jackson." but : when summoned from her berth, said she was Mrs. Clara McGuire of Los Angeles. Camancho said he found a pasteboard box among her effects on which tne name Clara Phillips" had been written, and that an attempt b .i been made to erase it. He also found : some Jewelry ana in cash, he ts- I tified. |