The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-15

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up and come to me looking the sweet,
kind lover he had been before
80 he came in as Bill came in.
Bill poured the ice water in the
pitcher. Mr.. Hamon paced up and
down, running his hands thru his hair
as he did when he was agitated. and
the minute Bill went out and the door
was hardly closed when Mr.. Hamon
said, with epithet:
Refused To Be interrupted.
''Where have you been?' and
grabbed me at the same time ana
choked me, and he choked me until 1
was blind, and l could not seem to
think
Now. Miss Clara" interrupted w.
P. Mclean, of her counsel, "just
minute"
Il will finish the story. Mr.. Nc
Lean she said.
He choked me and hit me and
somehow threw me over on the bed
After he got me on the bed he beat
me and slapped me, and slapped me
and hit me two or three times and took
me by one foot and jerked me off he
bed on my back.
Il had been operated on in the back
and it hurts me extremely, and he took
pains to kick me in the back, and he
kicked me and choked me. 1 stru,-
gled to get up, and did get up and he
I choked me again and backed me I'D
against the window and choked me
again and again, and slapped me, and
then again.
HE was not satisfied with that. and
ne twisted the skin on my hands; he
twisted and he was not satisfied with
that; he bent my. fingers back and
tried to break them and then he said:
Threatened to Cut Her. Throat.
Will cut your throat, and he
reached for his knife and the knife
had fallen out of his pocket in the
afternoon while he yaS lying on the
bed. l picked it-up and put it over
on the table after he walked out of
The room and then when he did not
have the knife in bis pocket he reached
for the knife 1 Had given him on a
little gold chain and somehow, some
way, that knife was not there. He
. looked around and meantime in the
interval he was choking me and beat
ing me very bad, 1 cannot remember
all of it, 1t is too much for anybody
to remember. 1 endured that sort of
torture"
did he make any remarks to you?"
Mclean asked.
well, L am getting to that, Mr..
Mclean" she replied, continuing:
He said: You have been riding
with somebody, have not your and 1
said: No, you know I have not, I
knew that he knew I had not. He
was drunken crazy. When he did not
find his gold knife and as I was going
to tell you, he saw a knife over on
the dresser he had given me a long
time ago, an old knife of his, just to
sharpen pencils and use around the
room, for different things, and 1 had
it sharpened. 1t was very, very sharp.
He reached for that knife and said, L
would just as soon slit your throat as
he reached for that knife. knew the
time had come. I unconsciously or
CONSCIOUSLY, or somehow, reached back
and in my purse on the window sill
got my little gun. I asked him to
stand back and let me >Rass,
I Held Gun on Him.
"Wen. what did you do with the
hold of it-what did you do with it %
Mclean asked.
what did do with 1T? What
would any one do with it If they
thought their life was in danger?"- the
young woman. dramatically replied.
Never mind that, what did you do
with it?'' her counsel asked.
"I held it on him. she went on.
HE did back away sort of behind a
chair, and put his hand on the back
of the chair, he did not raise his
hands. I did not ask him to. passed
him. too. I passed him.
! "I was not very far from him when
I passed between the corner of the
bed and Mr.. Hamon and the chair to
get to the door to get out. He backed
around to the door between our rooms
and then 1 went to the door to get
out. Holding my hand like this Gn-
dicating) to back up to the door to
unlock it. the lock he had locked when
Bill went out.
+ when he did that I could not see
him. you understand the bath room is
four feet and he had to be little
back of the corner of the bath room
when. unlocked the door, so had
to let him out of my sight. And un-
derstand. when unlocked the door,
to go, in that instant, he turned off
the light and raised the chair to strike
me and did strike me. / could see
from the light of the hall. the light
THAT comes in the room from the out
side thru the transoni. The light in
my room was not lit. Mr.. Hamon
turned it out himself He struck me
with that chair and the gun went off. -
- Showed the Jury.
I The defendant left the stand and
walked before the jury box to illus
trate her version of it. ,.1,.
+ IT was unlocking the door like this
! and holding the gun on Hamon, but
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