The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-12-26
No Longer a Fugitive From
Justice, Woman Admitted
to Bail in the Sum
of $4,000
NOW WITH RELATIVES
NEAR CITY OF WILSON
CaSE WILL COME TO TRIAL EAR
LY NEXT MONTH; SPECIAL
COUNSEL MAY BE NAMED
TO AID PROSECUTION

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Clara Barton Smith Hamon, charg-
ed with murder in connection with
the death of Jake Hamon, Republic
can national committeeman from Ok
lahoma, arrived in Ardmore short
ly after noon yesterday, coming in
charge of Sheriff Garrett, to whom
she surrendered at Jaurez, Mexico.
Thursday evening Of last week.
When the northbound Santa Fe
pulled into the Ardmore union station.
the platform was not packed with
the seething mass Off morbid curios-
ity seekers as had been expected who
crowded and elbowed and iammed and
craned their necks to catch glimpse
OF the slight, girlish, fur-coaked fig
ure THAT descended from the rear Pull
man of the long train--the crowd of
morbid ones of both sexes and all
eolors who jostled each other TO draw
near enough to see the pule and tired
face of the world-weary woman as
she pressed her lips to those of a
younger brother whose arms encir-
ced her form as she alighted upon
the station platform. On the contrary
only a handful of passengers and
few newspaper correspondents were
there.
Cameras clicked as news reporters
and staff photographers crowded for.
ward as the petit little woman, the
woman with a history, leaning upon
the arm of the stalwart sheriff, made
her way to the waiting automobile
which was in readiness to convey her
up town.
Tucked away in the fore front of the
crowd, with a vantage point secured
right up aginst the steps off the car
from which C,lra descended, was
Edith Johnson, feature writer of the
Oklahoman, armed with a vest-pocllet
edition of the latest style in camera.
And as Clara walked down the Pull
man steps, as her feet touched the
station platform, as she paused for the
her stalwart young brother, as she
climbed into the tonneau of the au.o.
even as the machine, with lombard
ing open exhaust swung from the sta
ton and headed for Main street, Miss
johnson kept her camera trained. work
ing the shutter as regularly as movie
man ever turned the crank while
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in the arms OF some recreant lover
From the Santa Fe station, still
worn and fatigued from the effects
of her arduous journey half way across
the western world, with the circles OF
WEAKNESS deeply drawn benalths hts
world-worn eyes, with the dust OF tho
llanos upon her garments, Clara was
taken, in company with Sheriff G,fr-
rett and her uncle, Benjamin Harri-
son, to the sherbf's office at the Car
ter county courthouse. where a corr
ference was held with Charles A.
Cdlkley, one of her attorneys
Following the conference the par
ties drove to the office OF Hal NJ.
Cannon, one of the justices of thr
peace Of Ardmore who had been sum
moned from his Christmas dinner, and
before whom the defendant was ar
raigned.
Clara waived preliminary hearing
and stated, through her attorney. that
she expected to enter plea OF not
guilty to the charges set forth in she
information.
In leaving the courthouse for Judge
Cannon's office. the defendant and her
party were compelled to force their
way through the crowd which had as
/ sembled In the corridors OF the three
floors and jammed the slairways. The
crowd of curiosity seekers had gath
cred as soon ms the news was whis-
peret ahat Clara had been taken to
the sheriff's office.
AS the little woman who had drank
OF life's hitterest cup, draining it to
the most nauseating drogs. walked
calmly through the courthouse corrl-
dors necks were strained aud brolths
indrawn with gasping sounds as white
and red and black, men. women and
children leaned forward TO see Clara"
TO gaze upon the woman who is
charged In the information filed by
the county attorney with having fired
the shot which ended the life oc the
man who bore the honor OF having
been the dominant power at The Chi
cago convention, Tho power which
snatched victory from defeat and rail-
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charge which named him as tho
Republican candidate for president Of
the United suates--thc woman charg-
ed IN the information OF ending one
OF the most spectacular lives known
10 both modern finance and Repub-
lican national politics.
without the quivcr OF muscle,
without the dropping OF on ,cyelid
Clara walked through the lane which
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