The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-12-21
Clara Smith Hamon Describes
oil King as "MasterfuI but
Brutal Man."
LAUGHED IN MANS FACE
But Finally Surrendered to
His Establishments and
Promise of Wealth.

(Clarn Smith Hamon was found IN
chihuahua city, Mexico. by Sam Blair
star correspondent OF the Chicago Her
aid and Examiner To him she told
tho story Of her life with Hamon, OF
the fatal shooting and her flight A
continuation NJ the article follows.)
(eN SAM BLAIR. Correspondent OF the
Herald and Examiner and Unlversa'
Servloe.l
(Copyrlrht, 1920 by Universal Service.
Copyright 1920, by Chicago Herald
md ENamner)
the story Clara Smith Hamon told me
Saturday night In tho public park In
chihuahua. Mexico. had to do with the
Communicating Of violence and bestinlity
that cllmaxed the niRht OF Nov. In
an Ardmore hotel In the fatal shooting
NJ Jake T., Hamon financial and poiit-
teal dictator Of Oklahoma and northern
TcXas
There was n trace OF wlstful re.
uret In the story. an occasional
upon the past now and Their a bit
~ remlnlseenee that was gently
hRpnV.
900 YOU remember Sentimental
Tommy and Tommy's brutal "a
ther. the 'rasterful man'W she
asked me. "WeIi, he tHamon) was
Iu-t HE thRt--a masterful man"
She went oni "He dominated ma
from the first time I ever looked
into his ewes and noted the strange
pllnt In them.
""I was t7--worked behind the
counter In a little Lawton. ok'a-
store
"pe GOT to coming In quito con:
NtantiV; would not allow any ono
to wait on him hut me.
Didn't like His Eyes,
"SometImes think that girls are
providcd with wonderful instinct
PLANTED In their beings hv God, This
instinct ought 10 guide them, II ought
10 hpvo continued to guide me as Il did
NJ nrst
"For I hated him In those FIRST meet
inRs-hnted him lust ms | rot 10 hating
him In those times long afterward when
he would heat me,
~ dld not like his cves--tho way he
wou'd stare and lcer Mt me,
"put he was 'masterful man
"rhorc wac n how,
There Was a Boy.
"Thore was n hoy--sort Of child
beAu--you know IIo used to bo known
as my fellow
"Hc was such nice hoy, He had
AN automobile And yoa know ten
wears ago there werc not many nutn-
mobiles In little Oklahoma towns. He
was considered something OF n catch.
The other girls th0uGht was lucky.
~ would have been perhaps, " he
md LII Mr. lIamon had not-weii.
MIR llaInon asked mo ono dav "
would 20 riding wfh HIM occaAlenhlly
n no bought himself m automobile.
~ knew then-reailEed fuiiv--
what sort OF q man he was. Ny
instinct was nu,dlnu me truly.
i"unheh at him.
"NEVER lAuaA At MASTER.
TERFuI MAN"
"No alrl ahould ever laugh AZ
masterful man. ID makes him nrlHl
s,.Asd a.dsiermlnsas ard u the ems
peta him what No wants.
~ launhsd az him. was en'y
"'I would not 90 rldIna with YOU
II vcu had string OF autome'
blies.'
"What a STRANGE thIno ! should
have said that and meant u.
80 many hours. DAYS, weary
Iona times. have SAT IN yks .'',.s
mons automobiles and rattlea WIN
rim over Oklahoma roads from
one oil field 20 another
FIRST insult,
again he came into the store anous
Chrlatmas time and I showed hln1
act OF mra that had Just arrived
surqcated that, maybe, he would IKE
To huy thom for his wife.
"T will huy you all the. furs ynuu
can wenr he answered, ~ you WIN
come some time To my once
"My face burned nj the Insult.
THE woman turned more townrd me
and away from the 19-year-old brother
who pat on her other side. Her voice
went Low and tho words were hnlt'nE.
"And then ono day~~t did go 70 MS
o,uce did not like him, despiaed
MIN put~-he was Just n masterfW
man and had laughed nt him.