New-York tribune., 1921-03-11
Ha1non Jury to
Visit Scene of
Murder TODAY
Will Be Taken to Adjoining
Rooms in Hotel Where
Politician and Woman
Accused of Crime Lived
Widow, Children Present
l2 Men Chosen to Try the
Famous Case After Only
48 Had Been Examined
scecsa, Dispatch to The r~ibun.

.
ARDMORE, Okla, March l0.-The
two rooms occupied by Clara Smith
Hamon and Jake L, Hamon in the Ran.
dolph Hotel, on Ardmore's main street.
where Hamon was killed, will be
viewed tomorrow morning by the
twelve men who will decide the fato of
the young woman who was put on trial
to-day. The selection Of Jury was
completed this afternoon.
Clara Smith Hamon will be present
when the jury is taken to the place
where the state charges she killed the
one-tme Republican national commit
teeman and millionaire oil man, The
young woman defendant must stand
nearby while the jury inspects the
rooms in which she and Hamon lived
30 long.
The request that the jury look over
the scene was made by Attorney Gen
eral Prince Freezing, in charge of the
prosecution.
"Ihe proof in this case will revolve
about Rooms No. 2S and 20 In tho Ran
dolph Hotel, and we desire to request
that the jury be taken there to view
the scene said the Attorney General
to the court.
Counsel for the defense said they de-
fired to join in the request.
Furniture in the rooms will be ar
ranged as it was at the time Hamon
was shot, and the place will pc made to
appear as near as it was at that time
as possible. This, attorneys explained,
vas so the jury could get true idea
OF NE scene where Hamon met his
death, and so they could fit evidence.
20 be given later, into the scene of the
sfeir.
Immediately after the visit to the
Randolph the twelve men will be taken
TO the courtroom, where it is expected
that Attorney General Freezing will
make the opening statement, outlining
the evidence as the state expects to
produce it against Clara Smith Hamon.
The selection ofethe jury was COM
pleted after forty eight veniremen had
been examined. The twelve men who
viii pass judgment on Glars Smith
Hsmon's guilt or innocence for the
,
life. -Four gray heads are among them.
three appear under thirty-five while
the others are in their forties.
Ine state. judging by qualifying ques-
tons asked the veniremen, is going to
prevent the trial of Jake Hamon, what
ever his shortcomings have been. Pros
pective Jurors time and again were
ssked whether they were willing to dis
regard the life of Jake -Iamon and not
try him. The talesnlen were reminded
BY the states counsel that Hamon did
not always regard his family ties with
she sanctity that others might have,
snd as the Attorney General termed
1t, did not always keep the Ten Com
mandments.
The state. it is known, is relying
principally for the conviction Of the
defendant on the deathbed declaration
said to have been made by Hamon, in
which it is reported that he admitted
CIara Smith Hamon shot him.
Courtroom Crowded
throughout the long afternoon the
courtroom was crowded. The window of
Jake Hamon, dressed in black and
wearing heavy veil Of mourning, en-
tered the courtroom soon after 8
o'clock. She took her seat opposite
Clara Smith Hamon, on the states side
Of the counsel table. Accompanying
the widow were her two children
Olive Belle and Jake jr.; her father,
Jasper Perkins, of Chicago, and q sis
ter and her husband.
Across the table, less than three feet
away, sat Clara Smith Hamon. She
stared at the widow intently for q few
moments, her eyes sweeping the widow
Of the man with whom she was asso-
dated 80 many years. Not once was
lannon's widow noticed to glance in the
direction Of the defendant. AS the aft
ernoon slipped along, both became In
'"rested in the proceedings and ap-
aarently forgot the presence Of the
,ther
Hardly once did Clara Smith Hamon
change expression. If she smiled IL was
not noticed.