The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-04
LANNON'S WIDOW
WON'T PROSECUTE
Declares She Believes Clara
Smith Innocent of Shooting.
Declares Clara Smith Wed HuS-
bands Nephew by Fraud.
SISTER ADMITS RELATIONS
SISTER ADMITS RELATIONS
Los Angeles Relative of Mys
terry Woman "Tells."
Dead MiIIiOnaire's Manager Is
Holding Out Evidence.

Ardmore, Okla. Dec. Airs. Jake
/. Hamon, widow of Jake L. Hamon.
Republican national committeeman
from Oklahoma, and millionaire oil
man. who died last Friday after he
was shot five days before. said today
that she did not believe Miss Clara
Smith, charged with the shooting,
fired the bullet that killed Mr.. Hamon.
Mrs. Hamon said that if Miss Smith
should be apprehended and returned
to Ardmore for trial, she would not
prosecute the case.
Mrs. Hamon reiterated that she
would. accept the tender of Repub-
lican national committeeman in sue
cession to her husband. should the
place be rendered.
7 would regard it as greater than
any monument the state of oklahoma
could erect to Mr.. lannon's memory"
she said.
Los Angeles. Cal. Dec. Airs. v.
A. James. who says she is sister of
Clara Smith Hamon. is living in Los
Angeles. She sad today that she had
known of certain relations between her
sister and Mr.. Hamon but that she
knew nothing of the shooting or of the
present Whereabouts of her sister. She
expressed faith in her sisters inno-
cove with relation to the shooting.
Evidence wanted by the county at
torney's office in connection with its
chGr~cs against Clara Smith Hamon is
in p sse sion of Frank Ketch, business
manager for the late Jake L. Hamon,
County Attorney Brown said today.
l-own announced Ketch has the
sr@ Il ca ibra pis,ol with which Hamon
was wounded and also the clothes
which II anon wore at the time, ''or
did nave them the last 1 heard of the
articles.
Tne sheriff. of Carter county yester-
day w2s asked by Brown to turn the
p.s.ol and clothing over to the county
attorneys office in connection with the
la;ter's efforts to gather up loose
ends of evidence" against Mrs. Clara
Hamon, charged with shooting Hamon.
Manager Holds Evidence.
Announcement that Ketch is in pos
session of This evidence followed a
II .jort that Charles A. Coakly, law
partner of J. II. Mathers, county at
tCrncy-clect, had been retained to de-
fcnd Clara smith Hamon if she is ap-
pretended.
This will result in Brown continu-
ing in charge of the case for the state,
1t wGs believed. COakly declared
char;es against the woman would not
be cropped when Mathers assumes
TrdH Grows Cold.
County Attorney Brown said today
no further tangible clew had been un-
co, cieI as TO the whereabouts of the
NO.lau sought. Following her alleged
departure from Cisco. Tex, the trail
as i,rOwn cold it was apparent today,
cr. ing there insofar as facts are con-
CCvucd in maze of uncertainty.
,fforts to locate a brother of the
woman f2iled today. Brown said the
T"I. who was apprehended in west
Tc2as shortly after the shooting but
latc- released, had completely disap-
pc ed.
Mrs. Jake /. Hamon, accompanied
by her 11-year-old daughter, Olive
Ec,ie. was TO leave here at noon for
oklahoma City. Mrs. Hamon asserted
she would not so to Chicago now to
close her apartment as previously an
nounCCd. and was undecided whether
she would return to Ardmore immedi-
ately or go to her former home at
Lawton.
Mrs. Hamon Is Angry.
Mrs. Hamon today gave her first
statement about Clara Smith. Her
statement was made while she was
packing her baggage preparatory to
starting to oklahoma City
Assailing Clara Smith as zone who
came along with her beauty and par
AIDED with Mr.. Hamon.' the widow of
the millionaire said:
Il have lived with Mr.. Hamon be-
tween the four walls and no one
could be kinder than he. If he was
cross and ugly to Clara Smith, it is
because she must have provoked his
wrath by doing something which she
should not have done. l have lived
with Mr.. Hamon twenty-five years
and much longer than she. and 1
should know. l have always been
kind TO Mr.. Hamon and had only once
asked him to get up at night and
care for the children, and that was
when Olive Belle was i'll with diph-
liberia.
Taking care of children and living
in tent, and trying to assist a hus-
band made me old and it would make
her old I have always been opposed
to kicking a person when he is down
and that is exactly what she is doing.
AFTER 1 have grown old she comes
along with her beauty and gives me
insults by parading with Mr.. Hamon.
II the world knew her as she is. they
would not continue to flaunt her name
and her picture before the public.
Has No Right to Name
Il can bear the hardships of it all
If they will call her by her right name
ms cad of using the name Of Hamon.
'She gives her age as 27 when she
really is 80.
AS for diary being published, as
having been written by Clara Smith,
'Eontinred on Page Two1
n. Y. Sub-Trcasury Quits December 9.
Washington. Dec. "A formal or
der by Secretary Houston fixing De-