The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-16

Having snatched her into chair beside
lhim accused her of having been auto
mobile riding with some one.
With the words, Clara, you've hit
me-" which she said he exclaimed when
she shot him.. the young woman came
nearest to a breakdown. She said that
Hamon threw back his vest and showed
her a widening spot of blood on his
right chest.
She said that on the morning after
Hamon was shot he sent for her to come
to the hospital, to which he walked after
being wounded. On her arrival there,
she said, he kissed her, and said he
hoped she had not been hurt during the
fight and that it would not have hap
pened had he not been drinking.
Twice during her story on the witness
stand, the young woman stepped down
from the dais and with the automatic
pistol with which Hamon was shot in
her hand, walked before the jury to
show in what manner he had been
wounded. On cross examination, Attor-
ney General Freezing "a man OF approx
mately the same build as Hamon, mad
her point the weapon at him while he
assumed the position she said Hamou
was in.
When on direct examination she
| dropped the pistol 10 Indicate how it had
| fallen from her hand when the chair hit
] 1t, the noise reverberated through the
packed court room, so silent and intent
on her words had the spectators be-
come.
Only a short time before Clara Hamon
went to the witness stand, she had been
led from the room almost in a condition
OF COLLAPSE.
Father Wanted to XIII Hamon.
Mrs. V. b. Walling, sister of the de-
PENDANT, had testified that for a long
while she had not known of the Illicit
relations between her sister and Hamon,
but that when her father. J. L. Smith,
OF Ell Paso, Texas, learned of them he
came TO Ardmore to kill Hamon, and
was disarmed by the sheriff. The state
objected and was sustained, and w. p.
Mclean of Fort Worth, Texas, leading
counsel for the defense, insisted the
question was proper and that how the
entire family accepted the matter should
be brought out.
H. II. Brown, special prosecutor, in
terjected that the state was willing for
the jury TO know how they took it, the
old woman and all"
MIR. Mclean was on his feet instantly
and asserted that Mrs. Smith. who had
been referred to as the old woman"
was the equal, in his estimation of the
mother of any lawyer in the trial.
A roar of handclapping greeted his
words. The court was thrown into q
furore and was adjourned one hour. The
spectators were warned the case would
be tried without their preGence, should
another demonstration take place. Clara
Hamon said:
II don't care what they do with me,
but they must let my poor old mother
alone"
Breast and Hands Were Bruised,
Mrs. Walling and her 14-year old
daughter, Phyllis, testified that on the
morning after Hamon was shot, Clara
Hamon came to their home at Wilson,
is miles west of here, to bid them good
bye before she left Ardmore on instruc-
tions OF Hamon and his business mana
ger, Frank L. Ketch, and that her
throat. breast and hands bore bruises.
Mrs, Smith testified that her daughter
came 20 her four days later at FL Paso,
Texas ,on her flight into Chihuahua,
Mexico, the bruises still remained. Mrs.
Smith testified that Clara is 20 years
OF age. as the defendant herself did a
few minutes later.
That had been one of the states chief
points of contention, it being sought TO
prove that she was a mature woman
when she took up her association ten
years ago with Colonel Hamon.