San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-24
GUARD \. !. MAN
AFTER PLOTS
REVEALED
Sportsman Charges Women
Attempted to Lure Him
to Aid Foes.
by the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 24.-As the
result of what he regards as attempts
by women to lure him and other. plots,
Max Phillips, wealthy collar manu-
facturer and polo player. is being
closely guarded on his 700-acre es-
tate near Eatontown, n. J.
Eight armed detectives are on
guard. Phillips carries a pistol.
Watch dogs give warning if a stranger
approaches.
Meanwhile, three women, presum-
ably detectives, and n male detective
are out on bail after being arrested
on Phillips complaint. The purpose
of the plots, he says, is TO weaken
his control of the Phillips-Jones Com
pany, which makes Van Heusen coll
lars. The bounding has persisted for
months at the instigation of New
York banker, he says.
PLOT REVEALED.
Public attention to Phillips troubles
first developed over the weekend
when the arrests were revealed. The
charges against the three women and
the man vary from conspiracy to
The women were arrested on his
estate Friday night after detectives
in his employ had listened TO his con-
yersation with them by means of n
telephone device.
He says the women tried to lure
him aboard n yacht and take trip
to New England with the intention of
having him arrested for violation of
the Mann act. One of the women
posed as countess and the other
as her maid.
DENIES PLOT.
Frank II. Berg Jr., head of his
own detective agency, who was ar
rested near the estate, is out with
statement that the whole thing is
publicity melodrama.
Il cannot see, however, that this
publicity will assist his collar bust
ness" Berg said. 1T certainly won't
alter the standing Phillips achieved
through newspaper accounts of his di-
vorce case in which he was quoted as
saying that he would rather have
good polo pony than a wife. Isn't
it absurd to think that women crafty
enough to engage in such conspiracies
would pick Mr.. Phillips for a viola
ton of the Mann act?"
WOMAN ESCAPES.
Phillips was divorced seven years
ago.
Berg denied his agency is being paid
by a banker. He said he was en-
ployed for a purpose by no means
hostile to Phillips.
Phillips played polo on his private
field yesterday. Asked whether he
was worried by the possibility of the
presence Of foes, he said "They
wouldn't dare come out in the open
spaces"
A heavily yelled woman with abnor-
mally large feet and hands eluded the
guards sufficiently yesterday to ap-
proach Phillips.
Il am sure she was n man." Phil
lips said after detectives had hustled
her out of the house. "She had the
largest hands and feet l ever saw.
She was most unsightly and wore a
scarlet veil. She kept roaming
around. 1t was lucky detectives were
with me or l might have been shot
on the spot"
DRAGGED INTO SCHEME.
Mrs. Margaret Campbell, a New
York spiritualist, was also dragged
into the plots, Phillips said, in order
to give the impression that he was a
spiritualist and attended seances. He
said n woman had lured him to Mrs.
CampbelPs home. While he was there
the police arrested her and summoned
him to appear as witness, against her.
He has failed TO appear in court on
two occasions.