The Bathing Beauty's New Hammer
True Crime Historian
Pulpular Media
4.5 • 720 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2025
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Once upon a time, 1922 to be precise, Clara Phillips, a former Hollywood bathing beauty and chorus girl, decided she wanted to have a chat with a young lady she suspected of canoodling with her husband. She stopped at the dime store and bought a brand new hammer on the way. Yeah. That's not going to end well. This episode is filled with a lot of poignant stories of the incident from a variety of points of view, including from the alleged murderer herself, and a daring escape from justice.
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| 0:00.0 | Popular.com |
| 0:03.0 | Clara Phillips. |
| 0:04.0 | Clara Phillips, |
| 0:15.0 | Former chorus beauty of stage and films |
| 0:19.0 | waited for her asserted victim from 11 a.m. until a few minutes after |
| 0:24.3 | 4 p.m. in the lobby of the bank on the day of the murder. Does Mrs. Alberta Meadows work here? |
| 0:32.6 | Mrs. Phillips, who was alone, asked Molly Swain, information clerk of the First National Bank at 11 a.m. Wednesday. |
| 0:42.6 | About what time does Mrs. Meadows get off work? Mrs. Phillips continued. |
| 0:47.4 | About 4.30 p.m., Mrs. Swain answered. Don't tell Mrs. Meadows I called for, Mrs. Phillips insisted to Mrs. Swain. I'm an old friend |
| 0:58.1 | from Arizona, and I haven't seen her in a long time, and I want to give her a surprise. While |
| 1:04.5 | Mrs. Phillips was talking to the information clerk, asking numerous questions pertaining to the girl she's accused of killing, |
| 1:13.1 | two girl employees of the bank walked by the information desk. |
| 1:18.1 | Stopping the girls, Mrs. Phillips asked if they knew Alberta Meadows. |
| 1:23.0 | Yes, she's downstairs in the currency department. |
| 1:26.0 | We saw her only a few moments ago, the girls replied. |
| 1:29.9 | And then Mrs. Phillips repeated her old friend from Arizona story to the girls. |
| 1:35.7 | Don't tell her, the accused woman urged. Immediately after the conversation with the information |
| 1:42.3 | clerk and the two bank employees, Mrs. Phillips walked to the writing room, which is in the lobby of the bank on the west side. |
| 1:50.0 | There she remained until a few minutes after 4 p.m., according to Carrie v. Colley, the maid. |
| 1:58.0 | Mrs. Phillips passed the time reading a magazine, asking the main questions pertaining to employees |
| 2:06.0 | in the currency department and powdering her nose, according to Mrs. Colley. |
| 2:12.6 | Both Mrs. Swain and Mrs. Colley identified pictures of Mrs. Phillips as having been the woman who waited in the |
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