The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-12-03
DIARY IS
FOUND IN
HER TRUNK
Says That Multi Millionaire
WrOngGd Her, Involving
Her in Net
(BULIETIS')

INTERNATIONAL NEWS sERVcEI
ARDMORE, Okla, Dee. 3.-The in
tangible skeins OF "A huge police net
were being tightened today along the
Texas border rs the search for Mrs.
Clara Smith Hnmon, so-cnlIed affinity,
and alleged slayer of JnI<e L. Hamon.
muItt-mtiIionaire OkIahomnn, seemed
County Atty. Russell Il. Brown, was
enrOute to Fort worth today to take
personal charge OF the search follow
Ing receipt of n mysterious telegram.
Copyright, 1920, by Chicago Herald
and Examiner. Copyright, 1879 by
the Illinois Publishing and Printing
Company, publishers of the Chicago
Herald and Examiner. Reprinted by
special permission of the Chicago
Herald and Examiner. Signed, The
IN. s-l
CHICAGO, Ill. Dec. s.-Revealing
the secrets OF a tortured soul. long
pursued and finally trapped by the
colonel" who she alternately terms
"the demon" and the living devil" 4"
the diary Of Mrs. Clara Smith Hamon.
alleged slayer Of Jake L Harmon,
multi-millionaire politician and oil
magnate. became public here today.
The diary was found in the trunks be-
longing to Mrs. Mamon which were
shipped here from Ardmore. Okla, af-
ter the shooting Of Hamon.
CALLS HIM DEMON
In the form OF a man there was
demon (often referred TO as the
"Colonel) who tried TO Xxx ter
rorize me-" says the dairy. and al
thought my life hung by a slender
thread K xI did not show the
slightest weakness and X should
l be found stabbed or choked or beat
en- 20 death I want the world to know
I made a clean fight for my rights and
that have never been a coward or
sneak-or guilty Of unfair play.
WOULD NOT LET HER QUIT.
Some years ago I tried TO quit-be-
fore all my dreams Of Iife's golden
treasure were shattered-but he would
not let me.
Il swear here before the all-know-
ing God that 7 would never have be-
come his sweetheart If he had not told
again and again-that he was going
TO get his divorce anyway and promis-
ed faithfully to marry me. He held
out every possible aIluring picture for
a wonderful future until he had me in
a net which I could not extricate my
self.
The oil OF his soul that fed the
fame Of desire for cruelty must ex-
haust itself and I was doomed to be
the victim.
SAYS HE DESTROYED INNOCENCE,
I can hear the public say Those
who brutally murder are worse but l
don't believe God thinks so for he
would have murdered me physically
besides numbering my soul if he could
have covered It Up and shielded him
self. but he has been too cowardly to
do It with a fair chance to US both.
Murder has no place in his insanity
taking life IS abhorrent to him. but
TO destroy innocence-to kill virtue
to murder a soul-those are common
TO him and his type"
sENsED THE TRAGEDY.
Apparently sensing the tragedy that
was TO come later the w~rnan wrote in
her diary under date OF May u:
let my poor said. broken heart
crushed hopes and blighted life. be
warnig. Know your man before you
give him your soul. and when I say
know him I mean not only the good
and sunny side-the sugar-coated side,
tho pretentious. fattering, false side.
but know the side that is not at his
best. Know the side the world fails
even to see Know the side that
comes to life only in the presence OF
the -Four walls and YOU
BREAKING THE CHARM.
Know him at his worst. not his
best. before you sell your soul aud
become ever afterward his slave. For
once you give it to him you can never
get 1t back again-no matter how
hard you try
"A woman only has power-reaI
power-once with a man. and that Is
when he is madly in love and want all
she's got 60 give. Once given the
charm is broken-for him the battle
is won"
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