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Title: Accused murderer Clara Phillips is escorted to court, Los Angeles, 1922
Date Created and/or Issued: July 18, 1922
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Clara Phillips was tried and convicted of killing Alberta Meadows, a 19-year-old widow Phillips believed was seeing her husband.
A different photograph of Clara Phillips taken on the same occasion appears with the article, "APPEARS BORED WHEN CHARGED: Mrs. Phillips Will Enter Plea Tomorrow; Indictment Leaves Suspect Unconcerned; Family and Friends Attend Meadows Funeral She Smiles With Sheriff at Court Hearing Undaunted by Her Fight for Life," Los Angeles Times, 19 Jul. 1922: II2.
Clara Phillips (center) is escorted to court by Los Angeles County Sheriff William Traeger (right of Phillips), and prison matron Nettie Yaw (left of Phillips).
Text from negative sleeve, Philips (sic), Clara
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_11257
ark:/21198/zz002h989v
Subject: Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Yaw, Nettie, 1872-1943
Traeger, William Isham, 1880-1935
Phillips, Clara, 1894-1969
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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