The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-03-16

better position.
Replying TO few preliminary ques-
tions the defendant launched into her
version of the eventful days history,
hesitating only an instant to say to Mr..
Mclean, Just minute, / will fin
ish the story, Mr. Mclean"
Now Miss Cara" Mr. Mclean had
interrupted as she had detailed the
days history to the moment she said
the fight started.
Resuming after having asserted that
Mr.. Hamon was drunken and crazier
than she had ever seen him and that
she was afraid Of him. the young
woman continued
Resume 0f Statement
He choked me and hit me and
somehow he threw me over ON the
bed in one of his licks and after he
got me on the bed he beat me and
slapped me and slapped me and nit
me two or three times and took me
by one foot and jerked me off the
bed on my back and | have been
me extremely and he took pains to
kick me in the back and he kicked
me and choked me and | struggled to
get up and did get UP and he choked
me again and backed me up against
the window and choked me again and
ne wasn't satisfied with that and he
twisted the skin on my wrists; he
twisted and be wasn't satisfied with
that, he bent my fingers back and
tried TO break them and then he said,
Il will cut your throat" and he
reached for his knife and the knife
had fallen out Of his pocket in the
afternoon while he was lying on the
bed and | picked 1t up and put it
over on the table after he walked out
Of the room and then when he didn't
have the knife in his pocket he reach
ed for the knife / had given him on
little gold chain and somehow, any
way, that knife wasn't there. He took
ed around and III the meantime, in
the interval, he was choking me and
| cannot remember all OF it, it is too
much for anybody to remember. l en-
dured that sort OF torture.
Did he make any remarks to your"
Mclean asked.
We'll, | am getting to that, Mr.. Nc
Lean" she replied, continuing: II am
getting to 1t. He said You have been
riding with somebody, haven't you?
and | said No, you know ! haven't
| knew that ne knew / hadn't. He
was drInken crazy. When ne didn't
find ei5 gold knife and as l was going
to tell you, he saw knife over on
the dresser he had given me a long
time ago an old knife OF his. just
70 sharpen pencils and use around
the room for different things, and |
sharp He reached for that knife and
said I would just as soon slit your
| throat as draw on this cigar Anyway
when he reached for that knife /
knew the time had come. / uncon-
sciously or consciously, or somehow,
reached back and in my purse on the
window sill and got my little gun.
asked him ~ stand back and let me
pass,
We'll. what did you do with the
gun, with the pistol, when you got
troid OF 1t. what did you do with II"
Mclean asked
What did l do with II? What would
anyone do with II if they thought
their life was In danger?
"Never mind that, what did you
do with it," her counsel said
Il held It on him"
Would Slit Your Throat"
Failing to find his knife, she sand
Colonel Hamon reached for another
knife, with the statement he "wouid
just as soon slit your throat as draw
on his cigar"
When he reached for that knife,
| knew the time had come" she con-
tinued. IL unconsciously or conscious
ly. or somehow, reached back in my
purse on the window sill and got my
little gun"
She said she motioned him away.
but did not order him to put up his
hands, which he had placed on chair
back. She hm1 gotten to bhe door TO
her room to leave, still pointing the
pistol, when Colonel Hamon suddenly
switched Off the light and struck with
the chair, she said
HE struck me with that chair and
the gun went off," Clara said, leaving
the witness stand To show the Jurors
the manner.
The n6me OF Hamon was obtained
Colonel Hanon as a matter OF con-
venience to the latter she said, and
part OF the time used the name Smith
and the other time Hamon.
After he had been shot, the defend
ant quoted Colonel Hamon as having
said Il will say It was an accident:
II any one asks you about this tell
them It Is all right; will make the
explanations"
The details OF her leaving Ardmore
and her trip from Durant. Okla. to
Cisco, Texas, by motor car conceded
with previous statements OF Mr.. Ketch
and Everett w. Salhs, her chauffeur
from Dallas to Cisco. except that she
denied she had told Sails anything
about the shooting and that she had
said that she hoped the man she had
shot vvuad die, or that she had re-
marked as 10 the best kind OF pistol
with which TO shoot a man.
When ahe went 10 the hospital
whore Mr.. Hamon was lying wounded