Accused murderer Clara Phillips is escorted to court, Los Angeles, 1922

Title: Accused murderer Clara Phillips is escorted to court, Los Angeles, 1922
Date Created: July 18, 1922
Date: 1922-07-18
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description: 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).
Clara Phillips was tried and convicted of killing Alberta Meadows, a 19-year-old widow Phillips believed was seeing her husband.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve, Philips (sic), Clara

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Yaw, Nettie, 1872-1943
Traeger, William Isham, 1880-1935
Phillips, Clara, 1894-1969
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Homicides--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_11257
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002h989v
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Rights statement: copyrighted
Rights Holder: UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
Rights Country: US
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
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