Arizona republican., 1921-03-15

said. ketch continued. "Don,t tell me that I replied.
 want it given out I did it myself. oiNe Clara some money and have her get away" he quoted Hamon. My Niie wali be here as soon as she hears o1 ehts and I want Clara to go. Tell the world any kind of a story, that l eEoppeo the gun; anything"
 Aided Clara in Escape ketch said he wrote his personal check for $5000, gave the money to Clara and later reimbursed himself rom Hamon's money with voucher authorized by Jake.
 He said he went back to the office and sent for Clara Hamon.
 Clara, you've got to go. I've never interfered with your personal business or that of Jake. but the parting of the ways has come. You are going away and you are going to stay" Ketch said he told Clara.
 T was going away" Clara said, ac- cording 10 Kctch-
 You are going now" Ketch said he replied
 ketch said she told him she had to Co to see her relatives at Wilson bo- fore she left and he told her that he would pack her trunk for her. The trunks were checked to Kansas City on Hamon's railroad pass, but Clara missed the train by ten minutes, and he gave her a package containing s5ooe
 They decided. he said. she would take the next train to Durant-
 Ketch said he told the girl he did not think Hamon would recover, al- though at that time he himself thought Hamon would recover.
 From Durant Clara talked with him Kesch said, and he told her not to go north. but south, and keep going.
 No Marks on Clara
 Ketch said he saw no marks or Clara's hands or face.
 He said he reported to Hamon wha he had done but the defense objected to the testimony and the court sus- tained
 She shot me in my room in the dark he said Hamon. told him
 ~He didn't say anything about how he was lying. but said something about a struggle for the gun" he testified. Ketch said Clara had a three hun dred and twenty thousandth interes in an oil lease; a five seventieth in terest In gas lease, a good property and that Clara and he himself owned e picture show at Healdton. She alst had S5o.000 worth of another oil com pany's stock, he said
 He said Hamon had given her a tel carat diamond.
 
 that Clara Hamon had some invest ments jointly with the Hamon estat and also with him personally.
 He told me he went to his room late in the evening, threw off his coa and vest and lay on the bed for rest-s MT. Dunlap testified regardinl a conversation with Hamon at tn sanitarium.
 T had been there only a short tim when | heard Clara come in and sh laid her hand on my head and fel her right on my shoulder, when sh shot me-" he further quoted Hamon-
 Refutes ketch's Testimony
 The first defense witness was Rus sell B. Brown. former county attorney who filed the murder charge agains Clara Hamon MT Brown said tha Mir. Ketch had informed him that tn underclothing and shirt worn by Ha mon and recently produced in court had been burned. MT. Ketch a fey minutes previously had denied that h made that statement.
 Sheriff Buck Garrett and deputy ~Bud' Ballew, testified that in his las remarks to them Hamon had told ther he shot himself fooling with an auto matic." and that pr. Hardy who ha previously testified Hamon told hiI Clara shot him. also had held out t the very last it was an accident"
 Sheriff Garrett said Hamon told hiI the day before he died that he ha heard rumors that Clara Hamon woul be prosecuted and that the dying ma said that he did not want that an