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Guard feels no guilt
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United Press International
HOUSTON — The man who
has admitted strangling the for
mer director of the Alley
Theatre said he feels no remorse
for her death, but realized he
had great admiration for her as
he watched her die, a Houston
newspaper reported Thursday.
“In those few seconds just
fighting with her, her inner spir
itual strength was so great in that
moment,” Clifford X. Phillips
said in a jailhouse interview with
a Houston Post reporter. “Her
will to live and her will to fight.
There was great strength. I had
great admiration for her.
“It was either her or me who
would die,” Phillips said, refer
ring to the night he said he grab
bed Iris Sift, 58, around the
neck and strangled her.
Phillips, 47, a former security
guard at the Alley Theatre, said
he felt no guilt for having killed
her, but he became emotional
when he talked of her death and
appeared nervous.
Phillips was indicted on capit
al murder charges Monday by a
Harris County grand jury. He
said the two other guards in the
Alley Theatre building on Jan.
12 had nothing to do with Siffs
death.
The former New Yorker is
being held in the Harris County
Rehabilitation Center, where he
awaits arraignment.
Phillips told reporter Rob
Meckel he needed money for
food, to pay his rent and to sus
tain his drug habit. He said he
went to Siffs office to burglarize
it, and said he had burglarized
other offices while employed at
the theater.
“I just took a chance on get
ting a few dollars,” he said,
saying he had no intention of
killing the theater director.
But, he said, when he
approached her office, he click
ed off the light and told Siff he
wanted her money.
“Before I knew it, the woman
was at my chest,” Phillips said.
“She came from around the
desk. I don’t think she got a
good picture of her. She asked
me to get the hell out. She hol
lered.
“She caught me off guard. I
didn’t expect it. She hollered
and kicked me in (the groin)... I
started holding her hands and
choking her so she’d stop. I told
her all I wanted was money.
“After that I don’t know what
happened. A surge of fear came
over me ... It was her life or
mine.
He said he wr;
phone cord aroundhei
cause he did not
strength to subdue het
“After she went
relieved inside,” PI
didn’t feel remorsefulasl
I’d done an awful thing,
because she struggled,
actually fighting for
had no business up thi
didn’t anticipate that
struggle.”
But he said he
for Siff s husband andtvl
“I feel sorry for her i
and two sons becauseiul
loss to them,” Phillips
will be very difficultfoi
readjust their lives
People ask me why Id
guilty. I think she took
right out of me whenskj
that fight.”
Phillips’ girlfriend,Ji
deaux, who gave the
testimony about the
she fears retaliation
lips if he is released from;
finds her.
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United Press International
AUSTIN — An Austin man’s
capital murder conviction,
which had previously been over
turned by the Court of Criminal
Appeals was upheld Wednesday
by the same court.
George Edward Clark was
originally given the death sent
ence for the March 3, 1978*
abduction, rape and murder of
Ann Tracy Drummond, who
was taken fik>m a shopping cen
ter parking lot.
On Nov. 9, 1981, Gov. Bill
Clements commuted Clark’s
death sentence. The governor
acted shortly^ after the court of
criminal appeals’ decision to re
verse the case because of error
during the punishment phase of
the trial.
affirm Clark’s original convic
tion.
Clark said his statement to
police claiming responsibility
for Drummond’s death was
taken illegally. Two police offic
ers, including one who knew
Clark socially, went to the defen
dant’s house and asked him to
accompany them to the police
station.
The officers told Clark they
wanted to check his fingerprints
and get an explanation why
Clark was walking near the loca
tion that Drummond’s body was
found the day after she was
killed.
The state then filed a motion
for rehearing, which the court
considered Wednesday. But the
motion was overruled and the
court, in a split decision, voted to
One of the police officers tes
tified that throughout the inter
rogation Clark was told he could
leave the police station at any
time time.
Clark gave police his finger
prints, which matched some
found on Drummond’s car. Af
ter the fingerprint match, Clark
was arrested and warndl
ricrhfs KUnited Pre«
S Clark contended thaity 15 , 11
did not have probableoB 11 aN °
come to his house and
to the police station. He® , _
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he was never told he coii*., r
the interview with thetw® f, mw, n ;
officers and leave thefo® n enu ‘'
The court found ttefc? 61 C \ S ''
had voluntarily accom® ( , .
the police officers to .
and was told he could 4/ Peab ‘ t
interview whenever he
The court said the poliaB. ■ ,
ers did not detain Clarki: , , *
had given them the into P into Qp
they sought. fconfeder;
Justice Sam HoustonC T M
disagreed with the major,- L 193() ^
the ruling. He said the g#-;,,
had commuted a norF B h >
sentence because theco* . «
had already been overlj iqr^'
He said there was ref*’ ' ’
and Clark !
error,
been granted a new ha g
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