Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-15
BUSINESS MANAGER
FOR JAKE HAMON
GIVES TESTIMONY

ARDMORE. Okla, March Al
want it given out. l did it myself.
Give Clara some money and have
her get away" Frank l.. Ketch for
mer business manager for Jake L.
Hamon. declared on the witness stand
today Hamon told him the day after
he was mortally wounded in a hotel
room here last November and in con-
nection with which Clara Smith Ha-
mon now is on trial on a charge of
murder.
The defendant was in the court
room early. She was dressed in the
blue suit and sailor hat she wore on
the opening day of her trial.
Mrs. Jake L.l Hamon, the widow,
leaning on her sons arm and in full
mourning attire, came into the court
room a moment before court opened.
She took her accustomed seat d.
rectly opposite Clara Smith Hamon.
Erret Dunlap, business associate
of Hamon, the first fitness called
today, told of a visit to Hamon in
sanitarium here two days after
the shooting.
Dunlap said Hamon told him he
was lying on his bed, resting when
Clara came to his room, laid her
left hand on his head, and that ''he
felt her right on my shoulder when
she shot me-"
"Of course, l had been looking for
this Dunlap quoted Hamon as haV-
ing said. The reply was objected
to and the objection sustained.
HE said he did not have a chance
to protect himself" Dunlap testl-
fled.
Dunlap, on cross-examination, ad-
mitted that he did not make any
report to the county attorney or
sheriff. He said he had had two
or three conferences with the prose-
cution but denied that he had stated
he had taken charge of the prose-
cution."
A laugh rippled over the court
rom when Dunlap denied Hamon had
presented him the home in which
the Dunlap family lives and At
torney General Freezing told the
court he would insist on the room
being cleared at the next demon
stration
the county attorney to dismiss the
case, stating there was nothing to
it, but said he had asked hat a
statutory charge filed at the S same ne
time against Hamon and cara
Hamon, be dismissed.
Ketch was permitted to testlfy
over the objection of J. L. Hodge,
assistant county attorney, who an
nounced that developments saturday
were such as to indicate Ketch would
be charged as an accessory AFTER the
fact of lannon's killing.
After Ketch left the stand, S. P:
Freezing, state attorney general. said
that under the law the fact that
Ketch had testified rendered him i'm
mune.
my wife will be here as. soon as
she hears Of this and I want Clara
ing said Tell the world any kind
of story, that I dropped the gun;
anything" 4
Ketch said that while Hamon first
told him he shot himself accidentally
that he later admitted that Clara
Hamon fired the bullet. but that he
wanted the matter hushed up.
Ketch testified that under lannon's
instructions, he drew $4,000 from
his personal account, gave it to Clara
IIamon and told her to leave Ard
more and remain away. He said the
woman still is interested in several
business projects, both with the
administrator, and with him per-
sonally.
DR.. Hady, recalled to the stand
just before the noon recess, explained
that the bullet which caused Hamon's
death, entered his body at an angle.
1t was the contention Of the de-
Tense that the bullet took such a