The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-12-08
SHERIFF DIDN'T
HAVE WARRANT
Reason He Didn't Arrest Mrs.
Clara Smith Hamon
When He Saw Her,

III Paso. Tex, Dec. s--Sherlff Orn
dorf, of III Paso. today said person.
In El Paso were communicating witt
Clara Smith Hamon. who is In Juare,
or near there,
The sheriff said he did not arrcs
her IN Juarez because he had no war.
rant Tor her and could not bring he,
back without extradition papers. m,
| chief OF policies office announced thn,
1t had definite information that the
elrl was In hiding In Juarcx but that
she had not been arrested
| MIS- smith now la en- route to n
small town In the interior OF Mexico
70 CONFER with his daughter. one of
.ne lawyers stated According to tho
! attorney, the young woman now Ia In
n village near Juareg, Mexico.
Lawyers with whom Smith con-
lerred here yesterday are said to have
ADVISED tho surrender OF Miss Smith.
). l.. smith, father OF tho young
woman, today ..do0ed thst he had
| conferred with Fort Worth lawyers In
regard to his daughter, as reported In
a dispatch from that city. and de-
clared that he had no information an
Il have talked 70 nobody except the
family about the case" he said. Il
90 not know whore my daughter Ia, T
nm not on my way to Mexico 10 sec
my daughter. for. do not know
her for some time"
. Formal Charge.
Ardmore. okla. Dee. B.-Mrs Clara
smith Hnmon. was formally charged
With the murder OF her sweetheart"
LAKE l.: Hamnon, Oklahoma empire
Attorney Russell p. Brown 'sworo out
the Information in which a warrant
charging frat degree murder was in.
sued by local Justice of the peace.
Young Hamon Paid,
>, Sacramento, Cal. Dec. s.--Thnt
Frank Hnmon, alleged 20 have mar
rled Clara Smith at the behest OF
Jake L., Hamon. Oklahoma oil king.
made the declaration just before no
was going 10 soc the millionaire and |
have IL out with him." was the dec |
larntion made here by Ruth Walker
ldhmon, present wife OF Frank Hamon.
She declared that her husband had
received a check for 500 month reg
having married the Smith woman, but
that he was diRgruntled because he
learned that Mra, Jacob Hamon was
receiving an allowance of 81 900 n
She declared that her husband WINS
divorced from the Smith woman in
FoSas In 1917, and had never lived
with her. Before coming to CaIlfor~
MA, Mrs, Hamon raid. her husband
'ad attempted 90 take her to okla
roma. but had been told by his uncle, I
axe famon, to clear out ana never .
ring that woman around here"
She told Of meeting Clara Smith
iamon In Tucson, Ariz.. and declared !
hat the Smith woman ut that time I
nd showed her nm automatic pistol +
She told me she always carried Il for
protection" she Hnid Mrs Hnmon
aid she had been unable to secure I
my trhce Of her husband since his
Ilsappeafanca i've weeks ago. y
Confers with Counsel n
Fort Worth, Tex, Dec s.--RolatiyeR "
I Mrs, Clara Smith iiamon. fugitive n
LEGGED singer Of Jake l.. Ilamon. D
oklahoma multlmillonaire, today were !
onforring with noted Texas criminal q
ttorncys. aOne such law nrm, which u
as been represented In every big
iurder trial IN the southwest In the y
'st decade, was visited by IA ropreaen. o
alive Of the missing woman The q
rm would not discuss the conference o
meeting between tho missing u
'oman's realtlves with Mrs. Jake l.. Y
Iamon. widow Of the oil king. was to u
. held today. II was rumored this y
Inference woula result In the miss ~
" wouan'H surrender, although tho t'
port could not be confirmed. n