By the United Press
Los Angeles, Nov. 6—Mrs. Clara Phillips, accused of the “hammer murder” of Mrs. Alberta Meadows, was heavily guarded here today following the receipt of anonymous threats against her acquittal of the charge.
Additional deputies were assigned to accompany her from jail to the court-room where today Defense Attorney Harrington will dramatically continue his attempts to prove she was a subject of violent epileptic attacks.
As though in response to a playwright’s exigency, Mrs. Hannah Weaver Jackson, the girl’s mother, was yesterday said to have been stricken with epileptic convulsions when for the first time she learned of the serious nature of the charge against her daughter.
Mrs. Hall Takes Up Search
New Brunswick, Nov. 6—Mrs. Frances N. Hall, accused by an alleged witness of the murder of her former husband and Mrs. Eleanor Mills, came forward today in the role of avenger.
The widow, according to reliable information from the Hall home, has taken active charge of a search for the murderer. The pose of reserve and indifference she has assumed since the murder has been dropped, and Mrs. Hall now directs a probe in which private detectives, lawyers and all members of the Stevens and Carpenter families are engaged.
From the front page of the Kinston Free Press, second edition, Monday, Nov. 6, 1922
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