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Show OTTO MEEK BOUND OVEit TO MSTBICT COURT 1 '. 1 ! ! . INOTRACEOF Los Angeles Sheriff Makes Investigation at Tiajuana SAWS FOUND IN JAIL j Weber County Sheriff's J ' Message Cause of Some Excitement LOS ANGELES. Dec 7. Search for j Mrs. Clara Phillips. escaped murderess, mur-deress, from the Los Angeles counly jail, which today took In the western west-ern half of the country, has been without avnll Development south of the California border In Mexico eliminated elim-inated that section from the hunt for the slayer of Mrs. Alberta Tremaine Mcattowa Sheriff William Traeger and pos.-te made an unfruitful search ut Tiajuana and reported the escaped womarrr-had not t.fiTr theft and the sheriff planned to return to Los An- : geles Reports recehed here from j the east showed that Mrs Phillips ! was not on eastbOund trains on which ; I she had been reported. Motor boan along t.ie California; I coast were called upon to maintain n laearch ot the li'tinds alonj the coa.it j las a possible hiding placo. LOS ANCELES. Dec. 7. SIk saws' we e found in the possession of E. A j county Jail on three different enm- , Inal charges, according to Mark Bal- ' ley. jailor. The saws , won ill:icovered In a search of the Jail whin, after tho escape of Mrs Clara Phillips, convicted con-victed hammer murderess." early Tuesday morning, a rumor reached the Jailor that certain prisoners were plotting a '-wholesale delivery V This alleged plot Involved McNabbj and "Pat" McDonald, alleged bandit. recently arresD.d in Minneapolis and returned here for trial, and both were . placed In dark solitary cells. Jailor Bailey and other officials began be-gan an attempt to learn how the saws had been smuggled Into the building-McDonald building-McDonald Is alleged to have been j an accomplli e of Red" Kerr and I Guldo Splgnola, alias 'The Mouse." In j the robbery of Standard Oil company i employes of more than J8u,0t)0 nearly I a year ago. Splgnola. with Herbert Wilson, for- mer evangelist, alleged mall robber, 'and convicted murderer, and Adam Blazes convicted murderer, recently . .......i ....... 11,,. 1r.ll I, lit uiTi' tl.'U i siai'vu wvi'i for only a day. WOMEN QUESTIONED. "CHICAGO. DeO. ' Mrs Elsio Cos and Miss Clara Jlutchlns of Baltimore, d . w.re taken from the Incoming I. os Angeles Limited of the ChlOagO A: .Northwestern today by police seeking seek-ing Mr.s. Clara Phillips. convicted murderess, who escaped from the Los Angeles county jail. Tno women satisfied sat-isfied the police of their identity. The two women left Lps Angeles on December 4, the day before Mrs. Phillips' escape The police boarded the train at May wood on a report that Mrs Phillips Phil-lips was believed to have been seen on the train as it left Omaha Wednesday night, although detectives had said it was extremely unlikely that Mrs pni-lips pni-lips could reach Chicago lo three days without Die use of an alrplano. The woman were not placed under arrest but after being questioned were directed to go to a local hotel and the police suggested that they remain in Chicago for 24 hours until all sub- j plcipn was allayed. Sergeant John Hardy, who boarded tho train in May-1 May-1 wood and found the women. Bald that I Miss Coe bore a resemblance to Mrs. Phillips If photographs of tho latter were good likenesses, but that he was morally certain that neither" of tho women wua Mrs PntlllDS. (ote These are tho two women who passed through Ogden on Tuesday Tues-day on No 8 and who were believed by the conductor to be Mrs. Phillips i and companion The conductor's gtory resulted in much excitement In I Los Angeb'S nicies when ShcrHf I Kb hard PlncocU of Weber county I wired to this effect) |