Bisbee daily review., 1921-03-12

!
 Interest was intense when Dr.
 Hardy under cross examination said
 that Jake L. Hamon was found to
 have been suffering from cirrhossis of
 the liver when he was operated on for the bullet wound and could not have lived two years longer: that Clara Smith Hamon herself is suffer- ! ing from serious malady. from
 which she probably cannot recover. and introduction, through pr. Hardy. of Hamon's alleged dying statement in which he said, referring to Clara Hamon. that is the woman who did the business. She got me while was ! lying on the bed just about as 1 am now"
 Says Girl Bought Pistol Through W. W. Meyers, an Oklaho-
 ma City hardware salesman, the state introduced testimony that Clara Hamon had, under the name of Clara B. Smith. purchased the pistol exhi- bited in court as the one from which | the fatal bullet was fired. Dr. E. c. ' Harlow, an Ardmore eye specialist, ! told the jury he had seen Clara Ha-
 mon with similar weapon a few days | before the shooting.
 Mike German, active vice president of a bank in Ardmore. testified he i once had. seen Clara Hamon in Jake 1 Hamon's officey with what appeared to l be small pistol pressed close to her | employers side. German. said the | incident occurred in 1915 and that | Clara Hamon ran when he approach
 ed.
 | Kelly M. Croach. of Oklahoma City, ! testified that on the evening HamOn
 was shot he had delivered 10 him a
 life insurance policy for $200,000 and
 had taken two drinks of whisky while Hamon had three He denied Hamon
 was intoxicated, the defense pressing hard on that subject.
 The defense counsel has indicated
 it would attempt to prove that Ha- | mon was shot while making an at ] tack on Clara Hamon while he was
 intoxicated.
 Claim Hamon Brandished Chair The defense has announced its in. tention of trying to prove Hamon was
 shot as he brandished chair Tonight counsel for the defense said that 1t had scored ;ts greatest point to date in Dr. Hardy's descrip-
 ton of the wound and other wit nesses' steatements as to the position lof the bed on which 1famon said he
 was lying when shot.
 The defeIise said Clara Hamon icould not have assumed position to
 have fired the shot in that manner because of the wall of the room.
 Dr. Hardy testified that on Monday
 morning after HamOn had been shot h, y1ia oo to the hospital and was permitted to | see the wounded man alone. The doctor testified that he told the purse | to leave them alone. bat that later { she had told him Clara Hamon rush | ed to Hamon's cot, took him in her farms and kissed him. Dr. Hardy said
 that he say nothing himself as he was outside the room and. on cross exam ! inatiOn. denied that the nurse had
 told him Hamon took Clara in his arms and kissed her.
 ! Ketch Financed cIara's Flight | In his opening statement to the jury today, Attorney General Freeling said Frank Ketch Hamon's former busi- ness manager and now administrator [ of the estate, had provided Clara Ha- mon with s5000 with which she if
 nanced her several weeks flight to Chihuahua City, Mexico, after EIa-
 mons death.
 | Girls adn youths below the age of ! 16 are being excluded from the court ' room. which is packed to capacity at all sessions.
 Men and women come early and ! bring lunches, or buy from womel.
 who sell sandwiches during the noon
 intermission.
 | The state tonight announced it
 might be able to complete presenta- tion of its testimony by tomorrow af-
 terpoon, should a Saturday afternoon
 session be held.
 ' On the Njury hearing the Hamon
 case are seated two jurors who few l days ago. in a murder case in which | only circumstantial evidence was pre-
 sented, voted life sentence after II
 minutes consideration. A third of ithe Hamon case jurors about 10 days
 ago was on a jury which sentenced to four years imprisonment a man \ tried for murder.
 fl OKLAHOMA CITY, Okia., March II. Jake L. Hamon had a net estate in Oklahoma of approximately $1,2OO,OOO | debts and inheritance tax deducted. ! according to the report of N. w. II Core, assistant state auditor, which
 was made public today. Mrs. Jake Hamon and the two children received Ii S4OO. 900 each from the estate in Ok K lahoma, the report shows. Outstand- |I ing debts were $3,6S7 ,426.51. and the
 inheritance tax on the estate was S42,O00.