Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-03-16
HAM0N TELLS
STORY DF SHOOTING


his vest and showed her a widen
ing spot of blood on his right
chest.
EaltCrS and Cries.
1t was a few minutes before she
could continue her story.
Again she faltered and cried
when she said that on the morning
after Hamon was shot he sent for
her to go to the hospital, pulled
her down to him, kissed her ana
said he hoped she had not been
badly hurt in the fight and that
it would not have happened had
he not been drinking.
Mrs. Jake L. Hamon sat few
feet away as Clara testified, in
tently Watching the witness. Her
face for the most part was en-
pressionless, although at one point
in Claras story she bit her lips and
closed her eyes tightly.
Clara Harmon just had testified
in reply to a question by Attorney
General Freezing, that she sup
posed lannon's reason for telling
her and friends to say to those
who might inquire regarding the
shooting that it was accidental,
that ut was to protect me and to
prevent scandal
Steps From Witness Stand.
Twice the witness stepped down
and, with the pistol with which
Hamon was shot in her hand,
walked before the jury to show
how he had been wounded. on
cross-examination, Attorney Gen
eral Freezing had her point the
weapon at him while he assumed
a position similar to that in which
she said Hamon had occupied.
On direct examination she
dropped the pistol to indicate how
it had fallen from her hand when
the chair hit it.
she gave q low-voiced mo" in
reply to a question on cross exam
nation if there had been child
born to her, and in another answer
said she did not know that Colonel
Hamon had left a will but that he
always had said that he intended
for her to be provided for, and
that she had said that if she did
not obtain any money after Colon
ell lannon's death she wanted to
educated her younger brother and
provide for her parents.
Intended to Get Divorce.
| She said HamOn had repeatedly
told her that he intended to obtain
I a divorce and to marry her, and
/ that she had waited six years for
that to be done.
A second contract bearing the
signatures of Clara HamOn and
Jake L. Hamon was read. 1t sci
! forth that the two had entered an
agreement whereby Clara Hamor
was to receive $35 q week as an
employee of the colonel, subject to
termination on two weeks notice
and that should a child be born
$35 week should be set aside for
| the child, that Hamon agreed to
acknowledge it as legal and that
upon his death the child should
share in his estate.
Shortly before she took the stand
Clara Hamon was led from the
| court room almost in a condition
of collapse, while deputy sherittS
and bailiffs Intellectually sought tc
clear the court room.
Sister Knew of Relations.
Mrs. " B. Walling, sister of the
defendant, had testified that fol
some time she had not known OF
the relations between her sister anc
Hamon, but that when her father
J. l.. Smith of Ell Paso. Tex, learn
ed of the fact he had come to Ard
more, she said, "to kill Hamon,
and was disarmed by the sheriff
State objections were sustained
w. Fl. Mclean of the defense coun'
sci insisted that the question was
proper, and that how the family
accepted the matter should be
brought out.
II. II. Brown, special prosecutor
interjected that the state was
i''willing for the jury to know how
they took it, the old woman and
ALL"
Court in FurOrc.
Mr.. Mclean was on his feet in
stantly and asserted Mrs. Smith
who had been referred to as "tht
old woman" was the equal. in hin
estimation. of the mother of any
| lawyer in the trial.
Handclapping greeted his words
and the court was thrown into
furore as the Judge pounded hi