The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-03-16
nv MILDRED MORRIS

Copyright. 1921, by the !. y. 50
iRcproductlon IN part sr whole absolutely
prohibited
ARDMORE. March Darling
don't you understand that | love you
dearly, that my life Is wrapped up
in you and that | am only happy
when with you wrote Jake Hamon
in his love letters to Clara smith
Hamon now on trial in district court
here charged with his murder.
Little pct" "Kitten" and The
swceteet little person on earth were
the oil kings favorite terms OF en-
dearmont for the girl VINO later
shared his career and faces a jury
IN the little courthouse here, charged
with his death.
These letters will be introduced in
Clara smith Hamon's trial by the
defense.
Most of them were written be-
tween 1914 and 1916 when the ac-
Cuscd woman was attending Lex
ngton college in Kentucky at Ham
on's expense and some of the most
cndearing ones were penned after
the girl had signed the contract pre-
scntcd in evidence yesterday by the
state In which she agreed TO drop
out of the oil kings life on the pay
meut of 81 and other considerations.
madly in love with the accused
woman and his thoughts centered on
her instead of the wife who sits in
the courtroom.
In one letter Hamon told OF his
witc's arrival in Ardmore and DC
Clarcs She came to kill Roth him and
the girl.
Mrs. H,came up from Fort Worth
Sunday night" he said in this letter;
turned her into my room She tOund
your nat and then the maid told
everything that she knew and later
more.
She was trying to have us both
arrested for adultery. iad en-
ploycd old Judge Brown Of Ard
moro. Had been TO all the banks
and talking. Sent for Mr., and Mrs
Bryan. had them talk to her. SAID
she had come over here to XIII Oolh
YOU and me.
"She had been told by some one
That you were still in Ardmore and
was not going away.
she moved in the parlor bedroom
and stayed two days. ! nave hdu
one IL Of a time Never was onl-
uarrassed like this before in my lie"
If wished several times that inc
train which brought me back mad
been wrecked and that l had never
Got here,
81 will never spend any time in
Ardmore from now on. ] was giad
YOU wero not there to take the pun
Nhmont | had to-
IIamon, empire builder and po-
lucdl car. twenty years older lnan
the girl was In constant fear that
She would fall in love with a young
en- man, according TO his love letters
i'm one letter he wrote.
81 have no one with mo in The
Ardmorc office. | know where there
is one little person who would love
90 take charge there quick ana
s.u'l mo and when I left Ardmore
l1 go right along with me.
You know what you must do
whom you come or we will be both
unhappy. Make up your mind calm
ly ana ! VIII do everything to help
You possible for me TO do.
III | were younger and Nbcttor
looking IL would not be so bad for
you but | cannot help my Sge or
looks.
when I ask the little Person to
come, what will be the answer
Tn another letter he mentions his
nephew Frank who later went
through a marriage ceremony wui
IN" acc1scd woman to give her the
,'amon name and thus protect the
lovers from scandal.
The Myrtle" mentioned In one
letter Is Clara Smith lannon's sister
now Mrs, Van Allen james, Of Los
Angeles Cal. 1t rcadg
II just received your letter Was
very pleased you expressed youl
sentiments towards me.
Darling you know you are tho
real and only little person and thai
love you only.
u liked the two girls that / tool
10 dinner with us very much. DIX
not remember their names. Don
Know where they live. Never eN
pect to see them again unless yo'
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