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The Washington times., 1922-08-06
FLAMBEAU PARTY VISITS ROME

kissing the ring. with it's lus-
trous jewel.
Some of the penitents touch
his hand, the Franciscan brothers
grasp 1t with affection, ladies hold
up their beads or other mementos
for a special gesture Of blessing
as he passes by. The Pope stops
a moment beside the Franciscans.
and inquiries their home, says q
word of greeting, Is eagerly answer
ed, and then he continues on
his way.
Slowly he passes around the
large hall, then pauses at the
end Of the kneeling line, to turn
again toward them with hand
uplifted in the final Papal bless
ing, so sought and so deeply cher
ished. All heads are bowed. The
Pope and his secretary return to
the inner rooms Of his apart
ments, and the kneeling throng
slowly rise. The audience is over.
In a dream the people come
away, faces rapt in pleasure at
the experience, and all touched
by the kindly friendliness Of tho
Pontiff. Victor Flambeau's little
party from Washington. d. c..
are silent, but ecstatic. Their
great objective is attained. They
are not disappointed. They have
beheld a vision. The Faith Is not
dead. The Renaissance is with US
still, and st. Francis again walks
the earth.
As we come away from the
Vatican, with lingering steps,
little Italian girl, passing by, secs
that we are Americans, and she
says, warmly, to us, "Vive rAmer'
iaue! And Flambeau salutes
with his best bow, and answers,
"Vive rItaliav'
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Continued from First Page.)
for the occasion. Rosaries. cruel
fixes, and medals are be pur-
chased, to be blessed by the Pope
and carried home to appreciative
friends. The gentlemen must
dress In black or q dark color,
with sober ties. Promptly on
the hour the Washington group
arrives in carriages, over their
left arms the beads to be blessed.
and in the left hand the other
objects. Many other pilgrims
are arriving, too.
The Swiss guard at the door
admits with caution. He is very
grand. More Swiss guards, and
we are inside, cordially welcomed
and soon feeling more at home.
These guards are always Swiss,
since in the seventeenth century
It was their countrymen who so
splendidly defended the Pope, and
since then the Pontiff continues
the custom. Their picturesque
uniforms were designed by Mich
elangelo for a pageant long ago.
Up a flight Of stone stairs,
across a hall and a courtyard,
more and more long flights, and
we pass through corridors into
the antechambers Of the Pope's
apartments. Important-looking
functionaries. garbed in red. re-
ceive us and assign seats. A pass
ing priest observes that we are
American, and stops to say q
friendly word.
IAN Catholics7" he asks.
mo" confesses Flambeau. ap-
prehensively.
Equally welcome" smiles the
priest. as he hurriss on.
Now we are invited Into an
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IF could only get my hands
on that woman" she said.
THE HUSBANDS STORY.
There was nothing between
Mrs. Meadows and me-nothing,
nothing!'
A tired-eyed young man In
crumpled brown suit sat with his
feet on the desk of Under Sheriff
Eugene Biscailuz and spoke retro
spectively, quietly, without any
semblance of emotion. Ho was A.
L. Phillips, whose wife is alleged to
have murdered Mrs. Alberta Mead.
ows, and he said:
There was love and there is
love only in my heart for Clara,
my wife.
II thought 1 loved her before
this thing happened. Now I love
her more, infinitely more. Don't
you think she earned 1t?
I'm going to stand by her
you can bet your life I am. n
ever a woman deserved a mans
sympathy, his help and under
standing. it's Clara.
"I believe in my heart the poor
girl thought she was conscien.
tiously right in what she did.
believe she thinks she did just
what she should have done.
"I believe she hoped to preserve
our little house Of hearts and
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JEWELRY OF VICTIM
WAS NOT PURCHASED
BY HUSBAND, REPORT
Investigation Now DiScIOSeS That Mrs. Meadows
Had Not Been Out ALONE With Husband of
Her Slayer the Night Before the Brutal
Attack Which Ended Her Life.

thoughts whirled and twisted like
ships in a giant maelstrom.
IT remember when the first gray
light Of morning came over the city.
and I remember standing facing
East when the sun came UP.
racked my brain to decide what
course was the best, what What
we should do.
IT was crazy, I think. I don't
know now whether I'm sane. But
had sense enough to go to friends
who were not in my crazed condi-
ton, and they helped me-"
Phillips came to Los Angeles
about three years ago from Hous-
ton, Tex. He was married there
nine years ago after a long court
ship. His wife's mother and sister
live now at his home.
i've got a mother back in
Texas" he said. isn't there any
way in the world that this can be
kept from her? Must she known
i've got a brother back there,
too. I think the world Of my folks.
I'd give my life If all this anguish
could be spared to them.
And her mother-she doesn't
know about 1t yet. don't know
what it will do to her; I hate to
think.
And yet through it all I can't
find in my heart anything but the
greatest love, the greatest devo-
ton for Clara. It's true she acted
impulsively, and / believe she was
insanely jealous without grounds.
Her mind was poisoned. The
neighbors and all her friends
harped to her all the time. They
wouldn't let her be. They drove
her mad just imagining things
that never existed and that never
would exist"
There were traces Of tears in
Phillips eyes when he spoke Of
the parting at the station.
she wasn't remorseful - you
couldn't call her a remorsefuI
woman" he said. She was still
buoyed up by the thought that
she had done what was right, the
only thing for her to do.
-why, when she talked about
going down to the sheriff's office
she said to me, They'll surely be-
lieve I did the only thing there
was for me to do: they can't
blame me- But I had just
enough sense to know that wasn't
true.
And so she went away with q
smile on her lips. She waved to
me when she passed beyond the
station gates. She was going to
Mexico, Of course, to some little
town down there where she could
be forgotten and alone. tod her
I'd meet her in Mexico and you
should have seen her happy smile
when I said that. Surely shell
understand!
And there's lots Of pity in my
heart for Mrs. Meadows people
There's a sadness in that home
tonight, far greater than in mine
Their girl is dead. Mine still
lives"
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WHO HAMMERED WIDOWTO DEATH DEFENDS HERSELF;
YINC PROBE INDICATES JEALOUSY HAD NO FOUNDATION

wife could not decide. They agreed
finally that It was best not to re-
turn to their home. So Mrs. Phil.
lips went to the Baltimore Hotel
where she registered as Mrs. r. s.
jackson. She went to bed, but
probably not to sleep. AS for Phil
lips. he didn't go to bed. He
walked the streets--all night.
In the morning he sought a
friend and borrowed $50 until the
bank opened. Then he met his
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ing her in Jail. couldn't bear
the idea that she, my wife. the
only girl in my life, should suf-
fer.
That's way I tried to help her
to get away"
Phillips had not slept, he said,
for more than forty-eight hours.
All the night after the crime,
while his wife slept in a hotel
room. registered under a fictitious
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to you in one sense. can't, to
save my neck, seem to talk intel
igently.
IT only know I walked and
walked and walked up and down
the streets while the arc lights
flickered, then went out and dawn
came up in the East. I thought
of self-destruction-I thought Of
everything. Ny mind was 4
whirling blank-void-in which
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CHILD.BRIDE CALM
UPON ARREST AFTER
"STONE ACE" KILLING
Fury of Woman Turns to Smiling QuietneSS as
She is Brought Back to Stand Trial After
Worried Husband Turned Her Over to Police.
PREPARED to Defend Her.

\, ANHELES, August D.
DATTERED to a fearful pulp by blows from hammer
X in the hands of infuriated woman, Mrs. Alberta
~ Meadows lies in her grave, the victim of the
most repellent crime in the history of this city.
In the county JAIL clad in gay frock chatting
debonnairly with prison guards powdering her nose
coquettshly smiling at passersby in the corridor sits
Mrs. Clara Phillips, the slayer.
And if you think the crime weighs heavily upon her
science that tnge of clouds her mind you
obviously mistaken California has its traditions stretching
back threequarers of century with figures that still bulk
big in the imagination for unrelentng hatred and
cerned GOODNESS after brutal crimes
But that compares with this pretty twenty
who said she stepped from the Tue
train into the waiting automobile at the station:
eyes, indeed, I'm awfully glad to get back Los An
geles'
And she waved gaiy at acquaintance the immense
crowd that almost blocked the passage Of the big carl
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Bank Clears the Name
of the Hammer Victim

T INVESTIGATION by the bank where Mrs. Alberta
/ Meadows was employed indicates that there was no
grounds for the tragic jealousy of Mrs Phillips Accord
ing to Peggy Caffee the only witness to the terrible
killing Mrs Phillips had accused Mrs Meadows Of being
intimate with her husband
Examination of the bank accounts Of the slain woman
disclosed that she herself had paid for the jewey and
auto tires which the wife had declared Phillips had
bought for Mrs Meadows. 1t also learned by the
bank that Mrs Meadows the night before she beaten
to death had not been with Phillips the wife had
suspected but was accompanied by friend
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crowd that almost blocked tn,
Jealousy was the cause Of the
crime. Mrs. Phillips, who is the
wife OF an oil broker, believed that
Mrs. Meadows, who was twenty
years old and a bookkeeper, was
stealing the affections of her hus-
band. A. L. Phillips. The wife lured
the other woman into the country
In Mrs. Meadows own Ford coupe.
and there, in the presence Of Peggy
Caffee. a mutual friend, the enras-
Cd wife beat her rival to death.
Then. leaving the horribly mutt
lated body beside the road, and
threatening Mrs. Caffee with death
II she told. the slayer fled to Tue
son, where she was arrested while
attempting to hide under a false
name. That the crime was planned
rs -bloodedly as It was carried
out was evident from the testimony
Of Mrs. Caffee, whose husband
forced her to- tell what she knew
to the police.
SETTING THE STAGE.
And this Is the story Of the kill.
ing, which still sends a shudder
through this town every time it is
mentioned:
Mrs. Meadows, who was re-
Gently widowed, kept her little
coupe parked near the First Ma
tonal Bank, where she worked.
Mrs. Phillips passed with Mrs.
Caffee. by chance or intent, just
rs the young bookkeeper was
about to drive home. Mrs. Phillips
and Mrs. Caffee asked for a ride
toward her home and Mrs. Mead
ows assented.
The passengers stepped in, Mrs.
Phillips carrying a heavy hammer
wrapped in paper. as It had been
purchased a few hours earlier.
The car sped out Broadway as the
women chatted, and finally on
Montecito road, Mrs. Phillips smil-
insly suggested that they stop and
walk while on the hillside.
THE ATTACK.
Then Mrs. Phillips spoke.
II want to know what your rela-
tions are with my husband"
The mask was off. The women
faced each other in primordial COM
bat-with a man as the prize.
There is nothing wrong in our
relations" was the reply.
But It did not suffice.
"That Is not the truth" declared
the wife. 1T is not the truth, I
tell you. I can show you where
you have been with him. what oc-
CURED ."
Still Alberta protested. "It Is
all right. There is nothing wrong.
You are mistaken when you say"
Snap went something in Mrs. Phil
lips head. She was not simply
angry. She was mad. All the
veneer Of civilization peeled off
and she was q woman whose man
was being taken from her. In q
second she went back q thousand
years.
She struckl
BEGGED AID.
After Mrs. Phillips began strilr-
ing Mrs. Meadows with the ham
mer," said Mrs. Caffee, "the girl
was asking me to help her, and I
went toward her. I was right In
front Of the girl, and Mrs. Phillips
came toward me. don't know
whether she was meaning to hit
me, but she called out to me, Get
out of my way!
"All this girl said was, Lady,
save me- I didn't hear her say
anything else. That was before
she fell down. I started down the
hill, and when I got there I looked
back and 1 saw Mrs. Phillips hit
ting her then and the blood on
this hammer and on her ARMAND
saw thu biood-saw her hitting
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passage or the big car!
~~~~~~~S~~~.~~>~.~~> .~~>~~~~~s~~~~~~~~|>>
and sort Of cried out, oh! to
myself, oh. Clara
COOL AFTER CRIME.
"She didn't say much when I got
back In the girls car. I saw tho
blood on her arms. and she said.
Wipe my face off, and I took my
handkerchief and did 1t.
Mrs. Phillips said, Nobody can
take my husband away from me"
and then she added, I can do that
again
And then she calmed down and
pretended to me that she wasn't
afraid Of anything. But I was
pretty afraid Of her.
"She had the hammer In the car.
and her white silk gloves were all
full Of blood. and she took mine
and put them on her arms, and
there was blood all over her face
and arms and dress and shoes and
stockings.
She drove Mrs. Meadows car
back. After she got me in she
took 1t and went as fast as ever
she could down the hill and way
down along the car line on the
street there, and kept on until she
came to her home. She didn't
bring me home. She let me off at
Ffgueroa and Pico streets"
What did she say to you be.
fore she let you out-anything?''
asked w. c. Doran. chief deputy
district attorney.
Before" answered Mrs. Cafee.
when was up there and started
down the hill, she said-she was
hollering to me-1f you say any
thing I will kill you That was
when I was running down the hill,
because got sick standing there
and sort of fell over against a
wall"
DROVE HOME.
Almost mechanically she drove
her brain reelins from the stons.
age scene on the hill. until she ar.
rived at home. She walked In and
faced her husband. her skirt be-
spattered with blood, her waist a
CORY remnant.
Her sister and mother were told
she had met with an accident, but
she called her husband into another
room.
II want to speak with you," she
said.
Inside she told him. No minc-
ing Of words.
i've killed the one you love
best" she said. II can't live with.
out you. I've killed the one you
love best. You'll never see her
again."
Her husband says she was in
state Of tremendous nervous ex-
citement, distraught and almost out
of her mind. She tried to take a
bath, filled the tub with water and
Jumped in when only a portion OF
her clothes had been removed. The
garments she had taken off she
threw in the tub with her to get
rid Of the bloodstains.
ABANDON CAR.
Then came a discussion between
Clara and her husband Of how the
frightful crime could be concealed.
What to dor The first thing was
the car-Alberta's car. That must
be hidden. But where7
They left the house, Clara still
driving the car Of her victim and
Phillips following in his own car.
In this order, each busy with
thoughts that would have amazed
those who passed on the road, they
drove to Pomona, and there, in the
old Greek amphitheater. Phillips
abandoned the fsteful coupe.
On the road they threw away
the telltale hammer, and there was
much discussion. What would they
do now7 This was the question the
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other hall, where many people
are awaiting the audience. A
school of little girls, all in white,
accompanied by Sisters in black
with white head-dress, attracts
our attention. On the other side
sit a group of barefooted Fran
ciscan friars, patiently expectant.
Is Brother Theophile from Que
bee among them? No, he per-
haps has arrived before US IN
Rome, not beguiled by the
beauty of Naples and its en-
Virons.
THE PAPAL GUARDS
STAND AT ATTENTION.
A clock chimes the quarter
hours. 1t is one. quarter past,
half past, a quarter to two,
almost two. Suddenly a hush
falls over the group, lining the
walls Of the immense rich cham
Der with its high ceiling ana rlch
interior.
The papal guards, in black.
with headdress of fur, and long
swords, stand at attention. The
important.looking functionaries
motion the guests that His Holi.
ness is approaching. All drop to
their knees, reverently bowed.
He enters, Pope Plus XI, sim
pie and kindly man, in white, ac-
companied by his secretary. He
Is more youthful than we expect.
more vigorous and sturdy. genial
and friendly, a man whom all
could love and revere.
without haste the Pontiff turns
toward the kneeling throng, and
slowly passes down the line. His
left hand. with the Papal ring,
10 historic, he extends, and each
visitor accepts the privilege of
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name, he tramped the streets.
"No man alive can understand
how have suffered" he said.
I'm in no frame of mind to talk
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wife who told her she must go
away. They went to the Southern
Pacific station, where Clara bought
. ticket to Ell Raso, while he
waited outside. The last he saw
Of her was when she gave her
bag to a "redcap" at the entrance
to the train shed.
But with her exit from the scene
Phillips thoughts began to run
riot and his conscience to revolt.
The burden was more than he
could handle alone. He needed
counsel-craved 1t. He went to his
lawyer and told him the whole
story.
HUSBAND CRACKS!
The lawyer advised him that he
must reveal the circumstances to
the authorities. So to Sheriff Trae-
ger he went, and quick action, COM
bined with absolute secrecy on the
part Of the sheriff and his deputies,
resulted in the location Of the car
on which Mrs. Phillips was riding
and the dispatch of kilograms to
the conductor and to the authori-
ties at Tucson.
Alberta's grandmother is seventy
two years old. She seemed scarce
ly to realize the tragedy which has
come into her life at its close,
MY baby, my baby" she re-
peated, in an awed monotone.
But Genora, the sister, was more
specific. Alberta was a good
girl" she said. "she has always
been a good girl. I knew Mrs. Phil.
lips. and she was jealous OF every
one" Genora's face grew vindio-
tive,
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THE VICTIM OF VEN
i GEANCE Mrs. Al

berta Tremaine Meadows,
whose head was crushed
by blows of a hammer in
the hands of Mrs. Phillips,
who believed that woman
was winning the love Of
her husband.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-27
FIND CAMDEN WOMAN SANE
Doctors Believe Extreme Poverty
Cause Of Temporary Unbajance

Mrs. Bernidetta Baldwin. 1923 Bulson
street, Camden. was examined by Drs.
William Pratt and Marcus Mines, in
the Camden police headquarters and
found to be sane. She had been found
in destitution with her four children.
Her husband was out Of work and she
did not want him to work. She was
sent to Cooper Hospital, but would not
stay there. She is now in the police
detention room.
The physicians said she Is sane, but
that the conditions of extreme poverty
in her home had affected her. She will
be normal in few days, they believe.
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| One girl had her eyes and Inns pa;nted
a livid green to match her costume an
other to all appearances had her legs
nainted In lieu Of stockings, Others
spurned stockings and oil their imita-
tions.
All Mourned Dead Soldier,
OF course, some one left the permi,
et home, and the party was threatened
with an early and untimely dissolution
the police before II was started. This
was averted only by a special trip to
the studio to procure the missing docu :
The inevitable quart was dropped be.
fore the evening was over, to the In =
tense grief OF Its owner. He was con :
Quoted TO q seat by his commiserating
friends, who left him alone with bis
dead.
Owing to unforeseen circumstances
the artists who were scheduled to do
the stunts" failed to put in an ap :
pearance. Voluntary contributions TO
the festivfty Of the occasion were there
fore solicited, and gladly offered.
Ben Kurtz obliged with n simon,
an Alexandrian dance by Frank An.
drews. The latter's lithesomc grace
and sweet smile aroused mixed feelings
In the individual breasts of the audi :
ence. according to the sex Of each.
Another gentleman, emboldened by the
successes of others, then did an original
dance, while the master Of ceremonies
had his back turned and retired with
his need of applause. His second at
tempt to perform this dance, under the
impression that he had not done Il be-
fore, resulted in his gentle removal
from the scene.
Peter Boyle, with a cake caters
dance, and Georgina Brown Pcmberton.
with an imitation of Madame Paylowa
were received In good part, and an &C:
centric dance by some uns,ing dancer
In production now playing here was
the hit and climax of the theatricals.
After the stunts the fun became fast
and furious. 1t was noticeable, too,
that the crowd had thinned out greatly :.
this fact being explained by the dis.
covery of some seventy five couples
parked In sequestered hooks about the
premises. The room became blue with
tobacco smoke, for the rule against
smoking upstairs was broken before Il
was announced.
Altogether It was an occasion OF n
truly Bohemian character and atmo-
sphere, although masculine names were
conspicuous by their absence and there
were few II any really short haired fe-
males on the scene.
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,.,csd off both my shoes
il.n ! aar''th thsy played those jeIly-roll blues
nast night at the outcast Artists ball.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1922-10-27
Republicans and
Democrats Failed
FL. Party Only Hope
BY Y. C.. Mansfield.

According to a statement of Will
liam McAdoo, son-in-law of former
President wilson, the defation of
the currency cost the farmers a to-
tai of $4,000, 100000 Dividing this
by 1000, it will give you the num-
Der of farmers worth two thousand
dollars that was wiped off the slate.
his gives you a total Of $500 900
families who are without homes by
reason of said deflation. Figuring
five members &c each family gives
you grand total OF 22,500,00O. poor,
honest workers that were struggling
Tor an existence. that are now drift
lng from place to place, crowding
the already oVercrcwded ci;jes. In
Montana there is a distance of $50
niles where only one farm noma in
twenty has any che remaining on
the farm. The homes are empty
and abandoned. There are vast dis
tricts in Washington, Oregon and
Idaho, where they have moved out
and are moving out by the hun
dreds. Thousands Of them will have
to be helped with charity this COM
ing winter.
When this awful crime of defla-
ton took place, our government was
controlled part of the time by the
democratic party and part of the
time by the republican party. Con-
gress was filled with both demo
cratic and republican lawyers, and
nothing has been done to stay this
awful crime against humanity. In
the name of God don't send another
lawyer to congress!
But go to the polls and vote for
the only party that presents to you
the only remedy that can help those
who work with their hands, The
Farmer-Labor party.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1922-10-27
No. $3.50
NOTICE OF HEARING FINAL REPORT
AND PETITION FOR DISTRIBUTION

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF TIKI
STATE OF WASHINGTON, IN AND FOR
THE COUNTY OF SNOHOMlSH.
In the Matter of the Estate of Fannie
FraiIey, Deceased
Notice is hereby given that Ina Lower
the duly qualified and acting eXecutrix Of
the estate of Fannie Frailey, deceased, has
filed with the Clerk of the above entitled
court her final report and petition for dis
trihution in which the court is asked tC
settle the report distribute the property
to the heirs and persons entitled to the same
and discharge the executriX; that the 2Otf
day of November, 1922, at the hour OF
8 80 O'Clock A. M. or thereafter
as counsel can be heard in Department No
2 of the above entitled court, has beer
fixed by the court as the time and pac,
for the hearing on such final report ant
petition for distribution, at which time any
person interested in said estate may APP
pear and file in writing his or her obiec
tions to said final report and petition fol-
distribution
Dated this 18th day of October. 1922.
INA LOWER,
Executrix of the Estate o
Fannie Frailey, Deceased
Date of First Publication, Oct. 20, 1922
Date of last publication, Nov. 10, 1922.