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

aomcway. that knife wasn't there.
lie looked around and IN the mean
| timo. in the interval ho was Chok
| INK Kicking me and beating me
very bad, / cannot remember all ~
10: Il is too much fpr anybody 10
! remember I endured that sort of
torture"
The End THAT Spelled Death.
Failing 20 find his knife, tho
said Colonel lfAmon reached for
another knife with 'nc abatement
he would Just a1 soon sut your
ihrolt as draw on THIS rignr'
"Whrn ne reached Tor thai
knife. / know tho time had come
she continued 81 uuruuscIously -
consciously, or somehow, reached
back and In my purse on the Win-
dow Mll. got my lttlc gun
She Haid she motiouod him away
but ala not order him 80 put IN
his hands which he hnd plncod on
q chair hack She had gotten To the
door to her room 90 leave. riill point
ing the pistol when colonel ilamon
euddruiy YWlthUh,d orr tho llghi
and struck down with the chair she
said
"Itc struck me with that chair.
and the gun wont Otf' Clara sad,
leaving tho witness stand 10 show
tho jurors tho manner.
Tho name ~ tltmou WAS obtained
through marringr To nephew or
Colonel Unm0u are a matter ~ con
vcnicncc ~ the latter. she said, and
n part ~ tho time used the namc
Smith and the other time IinnOn
After hc had boon shot tho dc
foudant quoted Colonel Ii1mun hs
having said "t VIII say % was an
accident. 10 anyone asks sou about
TINS ten them II ig All right / viii
mako the explanations
Denies Chnuffcur's story.
Tho details ~ hcr leaving ArdWore
and her trip from Dur1ut, OKLA TO
cisco. TcEos. by motor car coincidod
with previous statements ~ MT
Kotch and Everett " Sails, her
chauffeur from DALLAS to cisco, cN.
ccpt that she donicd that she had
told Sails anything about the shoot
ing and that sho had nald that she
hoped tho man she had shot would
dio or that she had remarked ns
to the best Kind Of pistol with which
to shoot man,
when shc went 10 tho hospital
where Mr. lInmon was Wing wound
cd. Clara said he told her 10 avoid
scandal and that she had better
leave.
won't YOU come hnck this after
noon or evening 20 see me again"
she said nc said. II said of course
VIM Tie said you will have 10
go, OF course. because we don't want
\ lot Of aCandal, to save you and to
snve everybody and don't 80 until
tomorrow because must see you
again
TcpifyinE on redirect examination
Clara IInmon testified that she had
no reason Tor wanting 90 KIN Colonel
Hamon except go protect herself
from bodily harm, that she loved
him. ana that after no had told her
she had shot him she wanted TO
KIN herself N that were true. She
said that the wounded man took the
weapon from her because of that
and placed it I'm his pocket.
She Crosses Swords with Freezing.
Her first reply on cross cNaminn-
tion. listening attorneys said. indi-
Gated a battle Of wits between her
and tho attorney general
Mrs. Hamon. what shall call
you 2" he asked.
"whatcvor you Ike. general" she
replied.
IAN right. Miss Clara. most people
call you that2"
"Yes, SIR" she answered.
That's been so long ago | cannot
tell what was meant by It," she re-
piled to IA question by General Freei-
ing as TO what she meant by letter
she had written to Hamun In which
sho referred to Mrs. Jake lInmon
and Inlk At the Lexington. Mo-.