The Washington times., 1920-12-03
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IN SOUL DIARY
Girl Slayer Of Millionaire Wrote
Warnings to All Other
Women.
FEARED FOR HER OWN LIFE
"a Tried to Quit, but He Wouldn't
Let Me-" Her Journal
Says.
FEARED FOR HER OWN LIFE

Copyright. 1870 by Chicago Herald and
Copyright. 1920 by the Illinois Publishing
and Printing Company:
u>ublisliers Of the Chicago Herald and
Reprinted by Special Permission Of the Chi
cago Herald and Examiner.
CHICAGO, H.. Dec. 3.-Revealing
the secrets of a tortured soul, long
pursued and finally trapped by the
colonel" whom she alternately
termed the demon" and the living
DEVIL" the diary of Mrs. Clara Smith
Hamon, alleged slayer Of Jake l..
Hamon, mult-millionaire politician
and oil magnate, became public he;e
today.
The diary was found in the trunks
belonging to Mrs. Hamon, which
were shipped here from Ardmore
Okla, after the shooting OF Hauion.
FEARED FOR LIFE.
I'm the form of man there was a
demon toften referred to as The
Coloner) who tried to ter
rorize me-" says the diary. "And al
though hung by a slender
thread I did not show the
slightest weakness. and
should be found stabbed or choked
or beaten to death, / want the world
rights and that l have never been a
coward nor a sneak-nOr guilty of
unfair play.
'Sofne years ago / tried to quit
before all my dreams of life's golden
treasure were shattered-but he
would not let me.
Il swear here before the all-know-
ing God that 1 would never have be-
come his sweetheart IL he had not
told-again and again-that he was
going to get his divorce anyway and
if he had not promised faithfully to
marry me. He held out every pos
full future until he had me in a net
from which could not extricate my
SELF
The oil OF his soul fed the flame
of desire, for cruelty must exhaust
itself, and l was doomed to be the
victim.
CALLS HIM COwARDLY.
Il can hear the public say those
who brutally murder are worse but
I don't believe God thinks so. for he
would have murdered me physically.
besides numbering my soul, IL he
could have covered it up and shield
ed himself but he has been too cow
ardly to do 1t with q fair chance to
us both.
Murder has no place IN his in
sanity-taiing life is abhorrent to
him. But to destroy innicence--to
kill virtue--to murder a soul-those
are common 10 him and his type"
Apparently sensing the tragedy
that was to come later, the woman
To-, hAr tnHar data nf
May 12:
Before another day passes, and ere
my life is taken. I want to leave this
word of warning to any other girl or
woman who may be ready to embark
upon the sea OF companionsiip with
a man:
Let my poor, sad, broken heart.
crushed hopes, and blighted life be
warning.
"KNOw YOUR MAN." SHE SAYS.
Know your man before you give
him your soul. And when l say know
him, / mean not only the good and
the sunny side--the sugar.coated
side. the pretentious, flattering. false
side-but know the side that is not
at it's 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"
know him at his worst--not his
best-before you sell your soul and
become ever afterward his slave. For
once you give II to him. you can
never get 1t back agaiu-no matter
how hard you try.
"A woman only has power--real
power-once with a man, and that is
when he is madly in love and wants
all she's got to give. Once given,
the charm Is broken-for him the
battle is won"