The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-18
CLARA SMITH RAMON
 IS ACQUITTED BY JURY
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cept the days they testified, when each regarded the other closely.
 Tonight. at the home e Mrs Jake Hamon. it was said that she had not been told of the verdict, and that she would not be until tomorrow, because of her physical and mental condition. Jake, Jr. said that if his mother was given the information of the acquittal after such brief consideration by the jury. it would tend to throw her into a collapse"
 ASKS FOR DETAILS
 Young Jake made no comment, in> quiring, however, as to the details of the courtroom scene when the verdict was returned and as to how Clara had accepted the verdict.
 MT Hamon was shot on the night os November 21 last. as the continuation of what was brought out in evidence introduced as being fight with the defendant. He was shot once through the body, and died five days later
 Clara Hamon immediately left Ard more on November 22, and it was es- tablished during the trial, upon in- structions of Hamon as he lay upon a hospital cot, and Frank L. Ketch, for ner business manager for MT. Hamon and now administrator for the Hamon estate, and with $50 900 furnished her by
 
 Chihuahua City, Mexico, travelling part of the way across Oklahoma and Tex as by automobile. and trying ineffec- tually to obtain an airplane for her flight. She surrendered to the Carter county sheriff at Fl Paso and re- turned to Ardmore Christmas day.
 The trial has been remarkable by it's startling developments. according to counsel. A jury was obtained in less than six hours. although MT. Hamon was regarded as probably the best known man in Carter county. and the story of his shooting, Clara Hamon flight. the several weeks search for her and finally her surrender and re- lease on bond, had been given wide publicity
 THE STATES CASE
 The states case was based upon al- leged dying statements of MT. Hamon m which he was quoted as having said that he had been shot by Clara Hamon as he law upon the bed in his own room MT. Hamon was declared in testimony to have said that Clara Hamon came to his bedside, placed her left hand upon his forehead and fired the bullet into his body with the tiny automatic pistol held in her right hand.
 Clara's defense was built about a plea of self-defense and justifiable homicide.
 
 told of the events of the day and nigh, of November 21.
 She did not ceny she pointed the pistol at him. saying she feared for her life, but asserted the weapon was discharged when Hamon struck her with chair, and that the bullet was fired as the chair hit the pistol or as it fell from her hand. That part of her story was the sub ject today of Attorney General Freeling' s effort in the closing argument for the state to break down her plea of self defense.
 He took the pistol in hand to show the Jrry that it could not be discharged by . blow. and that if hand holding il was struck the muzzle of the weapon would fly up while the course of the bullet through Hamons body was down. i, ward. Esx
 Many times during the trial Clara anc Mrs. Jake Hamon were in tears, and or two or three occasions cried in unison once when the bullet pierced blood stained shirt and undergarments worn by Hamon when he was shot were intro. duced as evidence Mrs Jake Hamor never had seen them before and had been told that they had been burned.8.
 ATTACK RAMON INTERESTS The defense bitterly attacked the Iia mon interests, alleging a fight on Clari Hamon by the Hamon millions in whic; the millions of associates were allied