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Title
Murder suspect back in Los Angeles
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1923
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Title supplied by cataloger.; Photograph used for article dated June 20, 1935."; "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. She was released on parole in 1935.
Clara Phillips, also known as the "Tiger Woman," is accompanied by sheriffs William Traeger (left) and Gene Biscailuz at Le Grande Station in Los Angeles after she was captured and brought back from Arizona. Phillips fled from California the day after she brutally murdered Alberta Meadows, her husband's mistress.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00082637
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1106
CARL0000081790
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/27966
Subject
Biscailuz, Eugene W.,--1883-1969
Traeger, William I.,--1880-1935
Los Angeles County (Calif.).--Sheriff's Department--Officials and employees
La Grande Station (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Female offenders--California--Los Angeles
Murderers--California--Los Angeles
Women--California--Los Angeles
Men--California--Los Angeles
Sheriffs--California--Los Angeles County
Murder--California--Los Angeles
Railroad stations--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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