The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-03-11
IIMON JURY
SEES Scene
Of SlAYING
rrp,scution May Prove
on King Shot While
IN His Own Room.

Asdmore, okla, March ia,
- to the rooms in the downtown
As.1l occupied by Clara Smith
p.pon and Jake L. Hamon on the
MT Of Nov. 81, last, when Hamon
,.easved the fatal bullet wound for
,A,ch Clara Hamon is on trial
eh.rred with murder, were in read
,,s,s for inspection today by the
jury.
The visit was the jury's first Of
seial act since the last man was
uorn before adjournment Of court
Yesterday. The rooms had been
uaced, IS nearly as possible, in the
sffct order as when they stood ON
~ nixht when Hamon was shot.
No comment at the rooms by jurors
4 ether parties to the trial was
Dsfmitted.
Presentation Of the states case
iblloved. Last nights conference
d counsel for the defense and
wosecution as to the nature Of the
testimony was broken of without
N agreement. Efforts to restrict
testimony from each side to events
d the life of the defendant and
Hsmon subsequent to 1913 were .
hnnre.
You present your case and we
vfl ours" we're the parting words
.d defense counsel at the adjourn
meat of the conference.
On obtaining q jury so quickly
Yesterday, both defense and state
counsel had said they expected evil
dence to be cleared away by Sat-
urday evening. After last nights
iuule conference, however, neither
Ne would make a prediction as to
~ trend testimony might, take, nor
18th of time neees1aky tos
kxAsASH* y
III 9it SSd beSSf said that
admission Of any testimony
ekher side cared to produce prob
ibly would result in a long drawn
Ut trial with sensational turns.
In connection with the trip oi
Ae Jury to the hotel to view the
suite where Clara Hamon and Jake
L Hamon lived for years prior to
he shooting, 1t was said In circles
cIose to the prosecution that an
Effort probably would be made to
how Hamon was shot while in his
swn room, not in Clara's as has
been previously indicated, and re-
siyed his death wound while ly-
hg on his bed.
II was indicated by statements oi
defense council that Clara's defense
would be either that Hamon wal
ihot in self-defense or that the pis-
tol was discharged when Hamor
truck at her with a chair. Walter
Seott Of the defense counsel said
Clara previously had made those
statements and he did not doub,
NE would SO testify on the witness
stand and they would be made part
Of her case.
"Clara Did IT.
Ardmore, March 11.-Unitet
Press. )-Prosecutor Freezing start
d telling the jury what the state
sxpects to prove.
Immediately after the Novem'
bef elections when Hamon wal
svept in power the defendant pur'
Chased . pistol at . hardware stor(
N Oklahoma City.
AOn Nov. 81 Hamon met some
friends in his office.
The phone rang in his ONCE. He
tied to break OF the communities
uon- He took several drinks.
About 6 o'clock he said he would
b back soon.
He never came back to his Of.
1ce.
He went across the street and
eutered the Randol hotel and wen
70 his rooms.
AT o'clock he went to the hoteI
"ooy to talk over long distance.
he went to room 2S, occupied
y the defendant, and walked
uIoosh the connecting door to hi,
own room.
ne left the rooms later. Senator
s1iock saw Hamon walking to
W. the Hardy sanitarium.
ane proof will show Hamon toli