Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1920-12-23

SurrenderS
to Sheriff
at)uarez
Greets Sheriff Cordially
as She.Steps From Mex
lean Train; Attorneys,
Officers Drive Prisoner
to Parents FL Paso
Home.

(By The Associated Press.)
- Clara Barton Smith,
wanted in Ardmore, Okla,
in connection with the death
of Jake L. Hamon, Okla
homa millionaire, arrived
here at GAS o'clock We'd
nesday night, and immedi-
ately was taken into custody
by Sheriff Buck Garrett of
Ardmore, who had arrived
on the border an hour be-
fore.
Sheriff Garrett announced he
would start with Miss Smith on the
return trip to Ardmore Thursday
morning at six o'clock. The sheriff
made the following statement to The
Associated Press regarding Miss
Smiths plans for the future:
Sheriff Makes Statement.
Clara says she will make her
$4,000 bond the first thing after
reaching Ardmore, will spend day
or two with relatives in Carter coun-
tg, Oklahoma, and then will return
to Ell Paso to make her home with
her parents. When her trial Is call
ed Miss Smith viii of course go
], back to 4rdrnore, but her Isome viii
remain here
You may tell all the world. too,
that the sympathies of the largest
part of the people of Carter county
are with Miss Smith"
Miss Smith herself declined to
make a statement Wednesday night,
pleading her fatigue and indisposi-
ton as the reason.
Wants World to Know.
Il want the whole world to know
my story" she told the correspond
ent of The Associated Press, but I
could not give out any connected in
terview tonight. All I say is that |
want TO get back as soon as / can"
A later attempt to get statement
developed the information that Miss
Smith was i'll and that physician
had been summoned.
After Miss Smith stepped off the
train, which came from Chihuahua
City she rushed to Sheriff Garrett.
shook hands with him cordially and
exclaimed:
Mr.. Garrett, I am so glad to see
you,''
Drive to Fathers Home
The sheriff then conducted Miss
Smith to waiting automobile and
the party of peace officers and at
torneys drove off in the direction
Of the home Of James L. Smith, the
woman's father.
Besides Sheriff Garrett. Sheriff
Seth B. Orndorff. of Fl Paso,
Charles Coakley, attorney of Ard
more: w. P. Mclean. Jr.. attorney
of Fort Worth, Texas; Oscar Har
per, American vice consul here, and
Ben F. Parson Miss Smiths uncle.
accompanied her to the American
side Of the border.
Scribes Pursue Sheriff
When the party headed by Sher-
iff Garrett reached El Paso they were
met at the station by a corps Of
newspapermen. Both the sheriff
Huu the lawyers Teiustu W give oAI
statement at the time and speed
ilv entered a car and drove away.
The newspapermen took another ma
chine and a, lively pursuit began.
lasting more than an hour and end
ing at the passenger station in
Juarez.
The surrender of Miss Smith ends
a nationwide search for the woman
which began November % when the
prosecuting attorney at Ardmore OBJ
tanned warrants for her charging
her with the shooting of Hamon and
with a statutory offense.
Accident, Says Dead Man
Hamon was shot IN his hotel at
Ardmore Sunday, November 81. He
walked to the hospital where he said
that gun he had been cleaning was
accidentally discharged. He die;l
26.
The search for Miss Smith led
Oklahoma and Texas oil
fields and into Mexico. At differ
ent times she had been reported at
Cisco, Texas. El paso and IN Juar
ez, going from the border town to
Chihuahua City from which place
rha arrival Wednesday night.