Arizona republican., 1921-03-16
DEFENDANT SAYS
 RAMON WAS DRUNK
 DAY OF SHOOTING
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 eat my breakfast. seldom ever eat any breakfast and when Bill came and knocked on the door, he came in with ice water, and Mir Hamon slipped in with him. I had to unlock the door for Bill. I was afraid of MT. Hamon. l wanted to keep away from him for "A more hours. so I could go to California and wait for him to sober up and come to me looking the sweet, kind lover he had been before. He came in as Bill came in. Bill poured the ice water in the pitcher. MT. Hamon paced up and down, running his hands through his hair as he did when he was agitateds and the minute Bill went out and the door was hardly closed when Mir. Ha- mon said with an epithet, Where have you been?' and grabbed me at the same time. and choked me and he cholxed me until was blind and I could not seem to think"
 Threw Her On Bed
 Now. Miss Clara interrupted W. P. Mclean of her counsel, "just a min ute.'
 T will finish the story, MT. Mclean, ? she said.
 He choked me and hit me, and somehow he threw me over on the bed by one of his licks and after he got me on the bed he beat me and slapped me and slapped me. and hit me two or three times and took me by one foo, and jerked me off the bed on my back and have been operated on in the back and 1t hurts me extremely; and he took pains to kick me in the back and he kicked me and choked me and I struggled to get up ana he choked ms again and backed me up against tho window and choked me again and agair and slapped me: and then he wasnf
 l. 41.. skin on my hand; he bent my finger. back and tried to break them and ther he said I will cut your throat and h, reached for his knife. The knife haf fallen out of his pocket in the after noon while he was lying on the bed ant I picked it up and put it over on tn table after he walked out of the room then when he did not have the knif in his pocket he reached for the knif l had given him on a little gold chail and, somehow, some way, that knif wasn't there. He looked around an, meantime he was choking and beatin, me very bad. cannot remember all o it. It is too much for anybody to re member"
 Hamon Was Jealous
 Did he make any remarks to you ? Mclean asked.
 Well, am getting to that, Mr. Nc Lean." she replied. continuing:
 T am getting to that. He said. sYol have been riding with somebody haven't you? And I said No. yoi know I haven't. I knew that h knew I hadn't. He was crazy drunk When he didn't find his gold knife, h saw knife over on the dresser he ha, given me a long time ago, an old knif of his. just to sharpen pencils and us around the room, and I had it sharp ened- It was very, very sharp. H reached for that knife and said, would just as soon slit your throat a draw on this cigar Anyway. when h reached for that knife I knew the tim had come. I, unconsciously or con sciously, or somehow, reached bac and in my purse on the widow sill go my little gun. I asked him oO stan back and let me pass
 ssWell. what did you do with tn gun, with the pistol. when you got hol of it, what did you do with it?' McLea asked.
 What did I do with? What woul anyone do with 1t if they thought the life was in danger?" she replied.
 Never mind that. what did you with it?" her counsel asked.
 Held Gun On Him
 T held it on him." she went on. "H did back away sort of behind a cha and put his hand of the back of tf chair. He did not raise his hands. didn't ask him to- I passed him to l backed around to the door betwee our rooms and then I went to the do, to get out Holding my hand like tn (indicating) to back up to the door unlock 1t, he had locked it when B went out. I could not see him for ] was a little back of the corner of u bath room so when I unlocked the do I had to let him out of my sight.
 And understand when I unlock,