The Washington herald., 1920-12-05
:DALLS HAM0N
DIARY FORGERY
Widow of Slain Oklahoman
y Assails Motives of Clara
Smith Hamon.
,CALLED ADVENTURES
Dead Husband a Kindly
II Man, Says Mother Of
llN His Children.
CALLED ADVENTURES

ARDMoRE, Okla, Dec 4.-Assail-
ting Clara Smith Hamon as one who
came along with her beauty and
ipsraded with Mr.. Hamon," the
widow of Jake L. Hamon. late Re-
publican national committeeman,
today made her first public state
ment since his mysterious death.
Her statement was made while
packing her baggage to go to Okla
homa City to purchase mourning
clothing.
Il have lived with Mr.. Hamon be-
tween the four walls and no one
could be kinder than he" said Mrs.
Hamon. defending her husband from
attacks. IT he was cross and ugly
to Clara Smith Hamon it is because
she must have provoked his wrath
by doing something which she
should not have done.
Lived with Him Twenty-Five Yearh
at have lived with Mr.. Hamon
TWENTY-FIVE years and much longer
than she, and 1 should know him !
have always been kind to MI.
Hamon and had never but once
asked him to get up at night and
care for the children, and that was
when Olive Bell was i'll with diph-
theria
Taking care of children and liv-
ing in a tent and trying to assist a
husband made me old and IT would
make her old I have always been
opposed to kicking a person when
- l. q aKarflv what
she is doing
after have grown old she
comes along with her beauty and
gives me insults by parading with
Mr. Hamon- II the world knew her
az she is they would not continue to
haunt her name and her picture be-
fore the public
Misusfnx Hamon's Name.
ct can bear the hardships of it all
IL they will call her by her right
name instead of using the name Of
Hamon. She gives her age as 21'
when she really Is %.
-As for the diary being published
as having been written by Clara
Smith, she never had the abiity to
write a diary in that fashion. 1t Is
the work of some unscrupulous
tation and to gain money and. furth-
ermore the picture which has been
published does not resemble the
smith person. for she is now much
older and much worse looking than
when the picture was taken
Il was once young myself but as
one grows older they grow uglier. l
do not see why the newspapers per
sist in using the name Hamon in
connection with her. She has no le-
gal Claim to the name
sE Nephew Married Her.
She went to Weatherford. Texas,
and went to Mr.. Hamon's nephew,
telling him that Mr.. Hamon had sent
her there and for him to marry her.
Mr.. lannon's nephew would do any
thing for his uncle and married her
without question. She secured a di-
vorce later and consequently has no
right to the name.
, She was a Designing person. At
the time she married Mr.. Hamon's
nephew. Mr.. Hamon and 1 and our
daughter were stopping at the Wal
dorf-Astoria in New York City, 30 It
would have been impossible for Mr.
Hamon to have sent her to him"
Mrs. HANOI intended to buy
mourning CLONES. she said, upon her
arrival at Oklahoma City. She had
been unable to buy suitable apparel
in Ardmore.
> Ell PASO. Tex, Dec. f.-The search
Tor Clara Smith Hamon along the
International boundary line was still
without results today although prac-
tically every suspicious character in
the border cities had been ques-
toned by police