The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-08
Clara Smith Must Face Altered
Warrant When Taken.
Father Denies Having Seen
Hamon Mystery Woman.
She IS IN JUAREz NOW
Attorneys Declare Negotiations
for Surrender Are On.
Ardmore Official To Go to
Border to Receive Her.

Ell Paso, Dec. S--Sheriff Seth B.
Orndorff, of Ell Paso today said per-
sons in Ell Paso were communicating
with Clara Smith Hamon. who is in
Juarez or near there.
The sheriff said he did not arrest
her in Juarez because he has no war
rant for her and could not bring her
back without extradition papers.
The chief of police office announced
that it had definite information that
the girl was in hiding in Juarez but
that she had not been arrested.
Her Father in Denial.
]. L. Smith. father of Clara Smith,
today said he had been in Ell Paso for
two months and that he did not talk
to any lawyer firm in Ft. Worth or
in any other city regarding his daugh-
ter.
'T have talked to nobody except the
family about the case" he said. 81
do not know where my daughter is.
am not on my way to Mexico to see
my daughter, for / do not know where
she is. and have not heard from her
for some time"
Fort Worth, Dec. 8.-A proposition
that Clara Smith surrender and re-
turn to Ardmore for possible court
action in connection with the fatal
shooting of Jake L. Hamon, Novem-
herself for final decision, it was an
nounced here today by a law firm,
members of which say they conferred
with ] L. Smith, father of the miss
ing woman, yesterday.
The father today is on his way to a
small town in interior Mexico to sub
NIT the proposal to his daughter. the
attorneys said. They requested that
the name of the firm not be published.
Should Clara Smith accept the pro-
posal to surrender, the attorneys said
they would defend her in court and in
sists upon speedy trial if the charge
against her, necessitated taking the
case to court. The woman is not in
Juarez but is concealed in a nearby
Mexican village, the attorneys de-
word of the Woman's decision tonight
or Tomorrow
Change Charge to Murder.
EssyAk kdmore. Okla, Dec. s.--County
PROSECUTOR Russell Brown today alter
ed his charges against Clara Smith
Hamon, alleged slayer of Jake L. Ha-
mon, from assault with intent to kill
to first degree murder.
The information. was filed with
Justice of the Peace Hal Cannon.
/, Brown took this action, he said. $50
as to be ready" following a telegram
from Sheriff Seth B. Orndorff of El
Paso which stated that the latter had
reliable information" that the woman
was across the international boundary
line in the vicinity of Ell Paso.
/ The county attorney asserted that
both he and Sheriff Buck Garrett had
asked Orndorff for further details
Brown intends to dispatch a deputy to
Ell Paso today providing he can pro-
cure defiuitef word that the woman
is the one sought.
Browns new charge follows:
"On the DIST dav of November Clara
Smith Hamon did unlawfully, wilfully and
| maliciously and with the Ineditating design
shooting at and against the body of said
! Jake T.. Hamon with a deadly weapon
| to-wit: pistol then and there loaded with
| gun powder and leaden bullets; thereby
| inflieting mortal wounds of which said
Jake L. Hamon then and there languished
and languishing did on the 26th day OF
| November then and there die which said
pistol. the said Clara Smith Hamon then
| and there held in her hand"