Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-07-17
MRS. PHILLIPS
EQUAN|M|Ty NOT
RUFFLED As SHE
MEETS ACCUSE R
Woman Charged With SIay-
ing Mrs, Meadows Re-
turns to Los Angeles in
Charge of the Sheriff.
CONSENTS TO POSE
FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS
Is Examined By AIienists to
Determine Her Mental
Condition. Husband Does
Not Meet His Wife
(By The Associated Press. /,

Los Angeles. July t6.--Mrs. Clara
Phillips. charged with the murder
of Mrs. Alberta Meadows here last
Wednesday, reached Los Angeles
early this afternoon in custody Of
Sheriff William I. Traeger. She was
taken to the sheriffs office and ex-
.amined by alienists to determine
her mental condition. Mrs. Peggy
.Caffee, eye witness to the hammer
Staying after being taken out of
town secretly to meet the train, also
arrived with the prisoner.
|, The meeting of Mrs. Phillips and
her aceusers aboard the train just
before the train reached Los An
geles was staged carefully but the
sudden encounter failed to ruffle
the equa1imity of the woman
charged with what police described
as the most brutal murder in the
city's history.
Mrs. Caffce Boards Train.
Mrs. Caffee, whose story of the
Staying of Mrs. Meadows on an un-
|frequented road in the northeastern
|section of Los Angeles resulted in
Mrs. Phillips Indictment, boarded
the train at a station on the out
skirts of the city in company with
la detective and deputy sheriff.
She was taken to where Mrs. Phil
lips sat, in custody of the sheriff
|and Mrs. Traeger, a deputy. await
ing the end of her journey.
rs this the woman with whom
iyou went riding Wednesday," Mrs.
iCaffee was asked as she faced the
prisoner.
YES" she faltered.
Mrs. Phillips laughed.
"Is this the woman who killed
Mrs Meadows?"
yes" quavered the young wo-
man.
Mrs. Phillips smiled, but said
nothing.
AS she stepped off the train, a
group OF news photographers con-
tfronred- her,
For moment the shutters click
ed and her teeth flashed in q sue
icession of smiles. The deputies
hurried her toward waiting auto
mobile to be whisked away to the
isheriffs office, where DR.. Louis
Weber, alienist, was prepared to
make an examination of her mental
condition.
Smiles as Shutters Click.
AS she started to step into the
car a photographer asked her to
lpose. She consented with alacrity.
mounting the running board, head
land shoulders above the crowd OF
e t1p-. IA Iafa a
street Again she smiled to the ac-
compartment of clicking shutters.
A. l.. Phillips, husband of the al
legged slayer, who told the, sheriff
of her flight from the city, was not
at the station TO meet his wife. He
was in the custody of a deputy
sheriff, the authorities desiring to
keep the two apart until they had
questioned Mrs. Phillips In greater
detail.
Withholds Opinion.
At the sheriff's office, Mrs. Phil
lips and DR.. Weber remained in
conference for about a half hour.
When he left the room he did not
state his opinion as to her mental
condition, but said that she had not
evaded conversation, He added,
however, that she had declined to
answer certain questions, What
these were he would not say.
Chief Deputy District Attorney
Doran was in the room with Mrs.
Phillips for about As minutes, but
declined to say what she had told
him, il anything.
When the examination was COM
pleted she was taken to the county
Jail, where officers were required
to force a Jane through the crowd
which had gathered to see her. Just
loutside the Jail door she again posed
for photographers, but instead OF
smiling, stuck out her tongue.