South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-03-06
BIackmaH Charged In Hamom Killing Expected
To Bring Ont Thrilling Political Sensations

To this day. however. no formal
declaration has been made by any
Of the physicians who attended Ha-
mon. or the friends who called on
him. that ne changed his story
But when DR.. Hardy. Ketch KEEL
ley Roach ". B. Nichols and others
who talked with Hamou during the
i've days he lay dying. take the
stand. what will they say?
This is the outstanding question
as TIE trial date draws near.
Even should they say Hamon pri-
vately told them Calra Hamon shot
l!m. and shot him under such cir
cumstanc a. the state charges. yet
there is doubt whether their testi-
mony would he admissible. for IL
would have TO be made legally plain
I that Hamon knew he was dyins
when he made any such statement.
It is generally believed that the
mon named Will relate a hitherto
unheard account of lannon's YER
sion of the shooting. and that this
version will not accord with that OF
sclf-defense told by the accused
woman.
More than IS hours elapsed from
I the time Hamon entered the hos
pital until his condition became crit
/ zeal His temperature I'm the mean
time was nearly normal and ne was
able to converse deliberately and at
length.
/ During this time Ketch had much
10 talk over with Hamon. He knew
| every detail OF lannon's oil and rail-
way business and was familiar with
his innermost private affairs.
Kctch Keeps Silence.
/ Since the hour OF the shooting
Ketch has kept silent except TO give
out lannon's message for publica-
ton" that the shooting was acct
dental
But that Ketch's story under oath
Will be something entirely different
is looked for. and numerous other
friends of Hamon who talked with
him while he lay on his deathbed
are expected to corroborate the
story Ketch will tell.
Clara Hamonf in an interview
given while she was in Mexico. was
quoted as saying that the gun with
which she shot Jake Hamon had
been given to her by Hamon him
self.
That the prosecution will seek to
prove that Clara. not Hamon. bought
the gun in an oklahoma City hard
ware store is one probable angle of
the forthcoming trial
The Oklahoma law requires that
every sale of firearms must he regis
tered on the books Of the concern
that sells
1t is said that the state will at
tempt 10 show that the revolver
which figured i'm the Hamon tragedy
was purchased about a fortnight be
fore the shooting.
Previous Gun Episode
Also it is expected the state may
attempt to prove that Clara Hamon
on one previous occasion drew a
gun on Hamon The story. which
so far has not been positively estab-
lished. is that a friend of lannon's
entered his room suddenly just at
the moment the girl was pointing a
gun at Hamon.
Il beg your pardon: do I in
trude?' the visitor is reported 10
have asked. whereupon Hamon
knoked the weapon from the sur
prised girls hand.
The state, also. is expected to
summon as witness a reporter
who claimed Clara Hamon told him
after she had decided TO surrender
and stand tial.
Jake was always cruel and snarl-
ing with me. That bullet which
killed him should have been fired 10
years ago. l was advised TO kill
him-yes. by several OF the biggest
men in oklahoma"
But Clara Hamon. taking the
stand in her own defense. is counted
on TO deny each and every one of
these points by the prosecution.