Arizona republican., 1921-03-15
NURSES TESTIFY RAMON DID NOT MAKE DYING STATEMENT
DEFENSE OFFERS EVIDENCE TO REFUTE TESTIMONY OF
 PRINCIPAL STATE WITNESS

1. STATE WITNESS 1 dying statement, the defense called the two nurses who attended Hamon- Both Clara B. Homer of Warren, Pa, and Rosa Cannon of Ardmore, said that they, in turn, were not away rom his side more than five minutes or ten minutes and that they had not heard the wounded man make statements 10 1 visitors that he believed he was dying or that Clara Hamon shot him.
 Miss Homer testified that Hamon used very profane language
 Miss Cannon testified that she tele- l phoned Clara Hamon on the morning after he arrived at the hospital. She said Clara came immediately.
 She said that Hamon took Clara in his arms and kissed her.
 No Dying Statement
 Miss Cannon testified that no dying statement had been made to Rev. T. G- Irwin and that neither Hamon nor the minister prayed. The preacher prey iously had testified he had prayed with Hamon and that the later had re- pented his sins.
 When an effort was made today to recall E. w Sallis chauffeur, who l drove Clara Hamon from Dallas, Tex, | to Cisco, where she took train 10 Ell Paso to cross into Mexico. it was
 
 he had been released, had drawn his per diem and mileage and had de- parted. A certified copy of an indict- ment charging Sallis with robbery in Pittsburg county then was read
 Three witnesses testified that Sallis' reputation for honesty and veracity
 was bad.
 Two letters read into. the record were l mailed from Kansas City in April and July in 1915. The April letter said in part:
 CIara's Letter
 1 My dear: I am just sick: I am l worried and so mad. Audrey came up
 last night and she told us that one of l the boys at the academy told her that Mrs. H. had written one of the boys there and told everything, and added i, a great many lies Audrey never knew before you were even married or any thing. so you can imagine how I felt l It's awfuEand you stand for
 it. It kills me to think my lovely friends at Lexington college will know
 that mess of stuff but it is even harder
 to think you won't stop it. You can.
 and if you don't think enough of me
 to stop that -. if you don't love
 me. dear, enough to be nice to me in
 that one way of preventing that kind
 of going on, never want to be your sweetheart. If your love for me is , not the kind to protect me. if it isn't . such love, I can live without it I won't stand that any longer and l I'm telling you for the last time. If you don't stop it l will one way or another } = keep it in mind. If you ever do go to see her again-don't speak 10 me.
 "Goodnight--I am too miserable to
 write
 . -AIl my love.
 ] Clara Smith"
 The July letter said in part:
 Dearest: just received your letter
 You complain of not hearing from me
 Dearie, I've written you every day
 One letter was not mailed which will
 make only one day without a letter. I
 am unhappy here, I am wa sting money
 to stay-so believe I will go home I
 oont want to, but since I can't come to you now, believe you would feel
 better if were home. From your
 letters really can't tell what you want me to do- Never saw anything like
 IL - can't always read your mind
 dear, ana especially when you are so
 Tar away. Why don't you be more ex-
 plicit? Is it the Enid matter that makes
 you Keep me away or is it Mrs H 10 save any mistakes and troubles aIter come to Oklahoma you had
 better tell me truthfully before I come 1T IL is any other reason than what
 you nave told, I will some day know ana there will be trouble. I am fore 3 warning you--I am telling you in , plenty of time. You have been as Inuch to blame as I for the ills of the t past ana you have as much at stake 7 as l. You must be as good to me as r you expect me to be to you. otherwise
 | dIn not the girl you are looking for
 wouldn't be happy there if you failed
 me ana unhappiness brings about tuner things Darling. love you s uesriy, but l am not an infalIible 7 human being. Don't expect me fo 51o all the yielding. 0 ) IT you don't want me to leave for r Oklahoma Wednesday night wire 3 phone or send special delivery letter
 immediately. If I come if ,s es have stated. If you expect me +o aa d the right thing, I expect you to do as '. iiiucn. with all my love forever e Devotedly. g CLARA"
 The contract, dated Ardmore ot1s i, Jan- 27, 1916. follows. oAia'' Ardmore. Okla. Jan. 27 e For and in consideration of sI fo,o n ooiar) and other valuable considera
 ,lon, the receipt which is hereby ac . nnno"iedged, l hereby release any and e all claims that I have or may baY,e d against Jake L. Hamon, and this ,s se.liement Tn full had for relations
 heretofore existing between ms anu l. claims for money.
 5 (Signed) CLARA SMITH" 5 ketch Testifies MT. Ketch testified over the obiec f ton of J. M. Hodge. assistant county
 attorney, that developments last Sat
 urday were sufficient to show that the = adminlstrator lis an accessory after It the fact of the offense for which the de- s fendant is being prosecuted. MT : Hodge took the action, he said because t J. H. Mathers. county attorney, is act v ing as part of the counsel for Clara d Hamon.
 s Judge Champion ruled that MT n Ketchs testimony might be taken and $ later Attorney General Freeling said $ the fact that he had testified rendered r MT. Ketch immune under the Okla e homa code. Mir. Ketch testified that e on Hamon's request he had drawn
 s5,000 from his personal account and o given it to Clara Hamon with a de- - mand that she leave.
 e He said Hamon at first denied that his proteGe had shot him. but then had :. amended that statement and directed '' that the money be given to her and that she be gotten away.
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