The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-12-09
MRS, HAMON MAY.
SURRENDER.
Noted Criminal Lawyer Knows
Her Hiding Place and Goes
for Interview.
SEARCH SLOWS UP
Prosecutor Brown Awaiting
Word From Sheriff of
FL Paso.

Fort Worth, Tex. Dee al. N So
Plans for the surrender of Clara
Smith Hamon. charged with the MUIR
Her Of Jake {. Harmon Oklahoma "oil
:, smith brother OF the m sN'ng woman.
and noted Texas criminal awver
weru speeding westward TO hi Paso
for conference with her.
The attorney believed 10 BE William
Mclean Jr.. member of the Arm of
Mel can Scott & Mel can, loft with
smith after holding six hour confer
Snce here yesterday.
Tho attorney viii remain In El PaSo
While the brother crosses the interna.
where Clara Smith Hamon is believed
To haNe fled after being discovered in
San Antonio Smith win lay 3efore
his sister the law firms proposal shst
she surrender Immediately
Walter :. Scott member ~ che
as vet been retained as defense coun-
sci but admitted they we're only await.
ing acceptance by Mrs, Harmon Of their
plans before taking her case He re-
vvealed the details Of yesterdays con
ference and declared he believed tho
missing woman would surrender
Smith. he SAID, woulc carry the arms
plans to MIS- Hamon He denied alb
solutely that her father had attended
the conference, branding this story as
event that she agrees to surrender, she
VIII be brought TO Fort Worth for
conference with other members If the
grim and rhen taken back to Ardmore
for the formal surrender 70 county au-
there Every precaution will
trip from the border tc Fort Worth.
Tbs lswyers admitted they ha6 been
told by thu brother the exact hiding
place OF MIRA Ramon in Mexico They |
would net reveal 1t II was also stated |
The firm would demand the immediate
release o. Mrs Hamon on bond follow |
ing her surrender and that II local |
authorities refused TO accept bail APP |
peal would be taken TO higher courts
Awaiting Developments
The search Tor Clara Smith. wanted
IN charge OF murde, in connection
With the fatal shooting here of fake
:. Hamon, Ardmore oil magnate and
epublican national committeeman
lowed down at this end today while
,sheriff Seth b. Orndorf, of El Paso.
,ex., that he knows definitely where
he is hiding
Sheriff Orndorf according to Russell
Brown, county attorney, should have
eceived by today a telegram sent by
he prosecutor asking If he knows the
'hereahouts of the young woman. I'm
II the Ell Paso officer has replied, Mr..
'rown said no developments are eX-
ected.
Press dispatches have quoted MIR.
rndorf as saving that he located the
Dung woman in Mexico, but that upon
aceipt of the information from Ard |
lore virtually declaring that she was
OF wanted there, did not proceed
lrther.
Now In Ell Paso. |,
El Paso, Tex, Dec. Clara Barton
mith wanted in, Ardmore, okla, in
with the shooting of Jake {
anon, millionaire oil operator. Is in {
! Paso, according to Sheriff Seth Orn- $
orf. She arrived at the home of her t
'rents on San Antonio street here c
tuesday, night, according to the sheriff t
Cause of Break. v
Kansas city, Mo, Dec 9.--lt was j
e political and social ambitions of
Ike l.. Hamon, multimillionaire oil 1
In and republican national commit. J
man, which he expected to further
rough the relationship OF his wife
d the wife of President elect Hard ~
, that led to the break with Mira ~
IRA Smith Hamon and his death, s
IS the Kansas City Post today in an | -,
'lusive story from stafr correspond ~
at Ardmore, Okla. The Post de nni
res that Hamon broke with his 10
weetheart' when ne learned from NJ
esident-elect Harding that Mrs "
riding and Mrs Hamon we're second "
lsins. =,
This relationship ano this TACT thai ~,
mon was In line for political honors ~
his casting of Oklahoma and Texas III
,port to the president elect AT the n
lcago convention caused him to toss IN
de the woman who spent ten years fe
his "compa
lnslstent Demand ~
Ardknore. okla, Dec. 0 --hussen II v
own. county attorney 81 Carter ~
lnty, today telegrapheu what he
med an ''insstent demand" for ac-
n by Seth B, Orndorff. shAriff nj El
50, Tex. who Is reported to have
d that he knew tho whereabouts of -.
ra Barton Smith, charged with muT u
In connection with the death of
,e l., Hamon, nliiliouairA politician
oil man
he iather ana son AT their homo on
n Antonio street said they expected
ss Smith would come to the home
soon ; she learned OF tho warrant. ;
ey declared they did not know where
was. but intimated that she was