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Show "Hammer Slayer" Eludes Officers Los Angeles. The search for Mrs. Clara Phillips convicted of beating Mrs. Alberta Tremaine Meadows to death with a hammer, who escaped from the Los Angeles county jail, was in active progress throughout southern California Califor-nia and Lower California. Despite various other "tips" and "clues," sheriffs sher-iffs deputies generally held to their original belief that the "hammer murderess" mur-deress" had fled across the border into in-to Mexico, and plans were made to extend the search for her as far south as Ensenada, on the west coast of the Lower California peninsula, about ninety miles south of San Diego, Cal. They not overlooking other directions, however, and had asked San Francisco authorities to join in the hunt |