The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-07
RumOrS Concerning Mrs. Phil
lips Fly Thick and Fast.
Authorities Keep Busy But
Woman Has Not Been Found.
SEARCH NOW NATION wide
Utah Sheriff Believes Escape
Was Made on u. p. Train.
Recent Reports Indicate She
Did Not Flee to Border.

San Diego, Dec. 7-.Reports that
Mrs Clara Phillips. Los Angeles mur-
dereAs, had been seen in Tfajuana,
Mexico, yesterday and there was a
possibility that she had taken refuge
IN cabin believed to be owned by Ed
(Goldtooth) Johnson, near Point Of
Rocks. on the ocean, proved false to-
day after investigation by Sheriff Vim.
Trager of Los Angeles, and posse.
Los Angeles, Dec. 7.-Abancon-
ment, temporarily at least, of the
search along the Mexican border for
Clara Phillips. phantom wo.n-n."
who escaped from the Los Angeles
county jail Monday night. loomed to-
had fled for the border failed TO reveal
any trace of her.
May BE in Los Angeles.
Believing that Mrs. Phillips is still
in or near Los Angeles, officials
searching for her planned to center
all their efforts in cOmbing the city
here, hoping % capture her when she
makes a dash Tor liberty.
The opinion that Mrs Phillips had
never left Los Angeles was strength
his deputies ran down countlt sS clues
that she had crossed the border into
Mexico and found that they rad Moth
ing~es,t theory to work on
The search widened today until it
embraced nearly every part of the
western half of the United States and
into Mexico. thru the Lower Califor-
mia peninsula.
Escaped on Train?
Hopes of Los Angeles officials for
her. speedy recapture were based prin-
cipally on the declaration of Sheriff
Kincock of ogden, Utah, that he be-
lieved he had seen Mrs Philips on an
easthOund Union Pacific train which
passed thru that city at 1885 We'd
nesday but a search at Lara ar1'@ Wyo-,
failed to find her.
other reports reaching the sheriff's
office came from Omaha, where IL was
said police officers believed Mrs Phil
lips had been seen last night on a train
bound for Chicago, but it was SAID TINS
was impossible unless she had rIeo
in an airplane."
with the hour of her escape tenta-
lively fixed at about 2 o'clock Tues
day morning the local officers ex-
planned they found it hard to believe
She could have reached Omaha by
Wednesday night
six saws were found in the posses
sion of E. A. McNabb. held in the
county Jail, according to Mark Bailey,
taller. The saws were discovered in
a searhc of the Jail, when after the
escape of Mrs. Clara Phillips, con-
victed hammer rInurderess, early
Tuesday morning, a rumor reacned
the jailer that certain prisoners were
plotting ga wholesale delivery.
This alleged plot involved McNabb
and Fat Mcdonald, alleged bandit,
and both were placed in solitary cells
An effort is being made to deter
mine how the saws were smuggled into
the building.
Suspects Are Released.
Chicago, Dec. 1.-Two women, ar
rested on board a Northwestern train
here today and suspected of being
Mrs Clara Phillips and a companion
were released after a short examtna-
ton at the detective bureau.
The women gave their names as
Elsie Coe and Clara Hutchins of 23lZ
Cuibert street, Baltimore, Nd.
They said they left Los Angeles
November 12, travelling leisurely. They
had gone to the coast last spring be-
cause of the Hutchins' woman's health.
In Los Angeles. they said, they worked
for F. c. Weber. 1918 Munsey building.
Another report was that Mrs Phil
lips was on a later train due in Chi
ceCo tomorrow morning Sheriff Kin
lock, at Ogden. Utah, notified Los
Angeles and Chicago authorities that
she was positively identified on the
train which passed thru ogden at noon
yesterday