The Washington times., 1922-08-20
APEIIC STORY OF HAMMER SLAYNG AS If SHOT BY MOVIE;
GIRL WITNESS EYES PHOTOGRAPH DETAILS OF TRACED


could stand up no longer.
Later. partially regaining my
strength. felt I must reach the
bottom OF that hill to get help.
was fearing then. not only for the
girl. but for my own life. I real.
lied that a frenzied woman who
would attempt to kill one person
would not hesitate to do the same
thing to another.
MY LIFE THREATENED.
And / had seen that look in her
eyes. Az brushed off my wrap
heard Clara coming down the hill
at q very fast clip in the victims
machine. She was footing the
horn ] turned quickly. saw her
and ! tried to brace up. She drove
beside me. and commanded:
Get inr'
obeyed because feared her. I
felt that she might step out and
kill me II I didn't.
After q minute or 90. with the
car going at q tremendous speed,
Clara said:
"If you say anything about
this. I'll kill YOU"
Then, trembling in fear. yet try
ing to maintain my composure, I
said to her:
Don't you feel awfully guilty
after doing such a thing?"
mo; I could do It again TO
anybody who would take my
husband from me-"
I tried not to let on, but I was
frightened Of her. said:
your face Is full of blood"
Her command was:
Pick UP that handkerchief and
wipe the blood off my face"
Then she added:
Let me have your gloves.
Pull them on for me-"
Clara then dropped her rings
into Alberta's purse, which had
been left behind in the car,
I drew the gloves over her arms
as she drove madly down the hill.
She didn't seem so very nervous
after we had driven on q way.
But she certainly was In q great
hurry. r.
Later she casually remarked:
TN stop in after my things
tonight" . ....
As we reached the more popu-
lated parts OF tho city I grew
more relieved. UP to this time I
was on the verge Of collapse.
asked her to let me out at Fig
ueroa and Pico streets. She said
she would.
Before she let me out she gave
me this warning:
Don't dare tell anyone about
this. Not even your husband.
Remember, you are in this thing
Just as much as am"
I FEARED HER.
got out snd went directly 70
my fiat. I wanted to see my hus-
band right away. paced the floor T
for q while, not knowing Just what
to do. then started for Long
Beach, expecting to see my hus-
band there. But he had already
left for Los Angeles. so returned
after phoning my apartment and
leaving word for him to meet me.
When we reached our fiat we
learned that Mrs. Phillips had been
there about 10 o'clock and had
gotten her things. had previously
told the landlady to allow her to
get her belongings II she came. '
She took with her the skirt she
had purchased and pair Of black
slippers and stockings. didn't
tell my husband about the murder
that night for only one reason
the warning Of that womani
II kept ringing in my ears:
eff you say anything about this
TN kill you. Don't you dare tell
anyone. Don't you dare tell your
husband"
My fear was terrible. could
imagine he: hiding. in that very
room in which my husband and
were. I was terrified all the night.
No one knows how I suffered.
felt I must tell some one and yet
feared to. ..
In the dark that night I envi-
stoned the whole scene again. I
could see the wild-mad look in her
eyes through the darkness. could
see again her starting after me
with that hideous hammer.
More than dozen times got UP
in the bed a. my husband slept.
haunted by the sights that had
met my eyes on that lonely road
way. I could imagine those bloody
hands and arms reaching at me