Used in the Exhibit: The First with the Latest! Aggie Underwood, the Los Angeles Herald, and the Sordid Crimes of a City. In 1922, Clara Phillips, a former chorus girl, learned the identity of her husband's mistress, Alberta Meadows. Fueled by jealousy and rage, Phillips went on to purchase a claw hammer, then, in the company of her friend Peggy Caffee, sought out Meadows and assaulted her. The animal-like attack against Meadows, who was left disemboweled and with a severally mauled face, earned Phillips the name "Tiger Woman." Phillips was found guilty and sentenced to ten years in prison for the crime of passion. She escaped from the Los Angeles County prison in 1922 and was found in Honduras in 1923. She was an inmate at San Quentin from 1923 until 1932, when she was transferred to the original California Institution for Women in Tehachapi.; Agness "Aggie" May Underwood (December 17, 1902 - July 3, 1984) was an American journalist and newspaper editor. She worked as a reporter for the Los Angeles Record from 1928 to 1935, and for the Herald-Express from 1935 to 1968. In 1947, Underwood became the first woman in the U.S. to hold a city editorship on a major metropolitan daily, the Herald-Express. Aggie Underwood, right, at California Institution for Women in Tehachapi for the release of Clara Phillips (2nd from left) on June 17, 1935.
Underwood, Agness,--1902-1984 California Institution for Women (Tehachapi, Calif.) Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express (Firm)--Employees Journalists--United States Newspaper employees--California--Tehachapi Men--California--Tehachapi Women--California--Tehachapi Parole--California--Tehachapi Prisons--California--Tehachapi Tehachapi (Calif.) Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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