Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-15
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face that I had never seen before. He
was drunken than had ever seen him in
all the years 1 had known him. He was
drunk and crazy. don't think the
whisky was good red whisky, as Mr..
Nichols said. He usually drank good
whisky and he wasn't usually crazy like
that. When I got to my room the doors
we're locked between our rooms and the
bathroom door was locked. l rang for
Bill, the porter, as l hadn't anything to
eat all day.
At breakfast I couldn't eat. seldom
eat any breakfast and when Bill came
and knocked on the doOr-he came in
with ice water and Mr.. Hamoh slipped in
with him. l had to unlock the door for
Bill. I was afarid of Mr.. Hamon. 1
wanted to keep him away from me for
twenty-rCur more hours and I could go to
California and wait for him to sober up
and come to me looking the sweet, kind
lover n had been before.
SO he came in as Bill came in. Bill
poured the ice water In the pitcher Mr..
hands through HIS hair. as he did when
he was agitated. And the minute Bill
went out and the door was hardly closed
Mr. Hamon said:
You ---, where have you been ~
SAYS HAION
CHOKED HER.
He grabbed me at the same time and
choked me, and he choked me until l was
blind and I couldn't seem to think.
Q. Now. Miss Clara, interrupted Attor-
ney Mclean.
A. Just a minute, wish to finish the
story, Mt Mclean.
The witness was apparently overcome
with emotion.
q All right.
A. He choked me-
He choked me and hit me and some
how he threw me over on the bed in one
cf his licks and after he got me on the
bed he beat me and slapped me and hit
NE two or three times and took me by
one leg and jerked me Off the bed on my
back. I have been operated on in the
back and 1t hurts me extremely. He
took pains 10 kick me in the back and
he kicked me and choked me. l struggled
10 get up and did get up. and he choked
me again and backed me up against the
window and choked me again and again
and slapped me.
lie wasn't satisfied with that and he
twisted the skin on my wrist: he twisted
and he wasn't satisfied with that he
bent my fingers back and tried to break
them.
THREATENED TO
CUT THROAT.
And then he said: At will cut your
throat" and he reached for his knife.
The knife had fallen out of his
pockets in the afternoon while he was
lying on the bed and I picked 1t up and
put Il over on the table after he walked
ont Of the room and then when he didn't
have the knife in his pocket he reached
for the knife I had given him, IA little
gold chain and some how, some way,
that knife wasn't there.
lie looked around and in the mean
time. in the interval. he was choking
me and kicking me and beating me very
badly. ! cannot remember all of It: it is
too much for anybody to remember. l
endured that sort OF torture
Q. Did he make any remarks TO you
A. Well, I am getting to that, Mr..
Mclean.
Q. What was that remark
ACCUSED CLARA OF
RIDING WITH SOMEBODY.
A. am getting to It. He said. You
have been riding with somebody. haven't
you?" and I said. mo. you know
haven't" I knew that he knew I hadn't
He was drunk and crazy. When he
didn't find his gold knife, he saw
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. I had 1t sharpened. 1t was
very. very sharp.
lie reached for that knife. and said:
"I would just as soon slit your throat
as I would draw on this cigar"
When he reached for that knife, knew
the time had come. I unconsciously, or
somehow. reached back in my purse on
the window sill and got my little gun
asked him to stand back and let me
pass
Q. Well. what dld you DO with the gun,
with the pistol when you got hold OF It.
A. held 1t on him.
Q. All right. describe what took place.
SAYS GUN DISCHARGED
WHEN HAMON STRtCK HFR
A. He did back away, sort of behind a
chair, and put his hands on the back of
the chair. He didn't raise his hands.
didn't ask him to. I wasn't very far
from him when l passed the corner O:
the bed and Mr.. HamOn ind the chair
to get to the door to get out. He backed
around to the door between our rooms
and then I went to the door TO get out
Holding my band like this dndicatin@)
to back up to the door to unlock it. the
lock he had locked when riU went o't.
and when he did that couldn't see him.
He was a little back Of the corner Of
the bathroom when 1 unlocked the door,
so I had to let him out of my sight
And, understand 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- 1 could
see from the light Of the hail, the light
that came In the room from the outside
through the transOm The light in my
room was not lit. Mr.. Hamon turned 1t
cut himself. He struck me with that
chair and the gun went off
Q. What happened when Hamon hit you
with the chair, come down here and H.
lustrate that to the jury. This is the
pistol isn't it, or one just like it?
A. 1t looks just like it.
O. Just like it Now, what position.
A 1t is perfectly safe?
O. What position were you In when the
chair came down?
cat this point the defendant took
position in front of the jury box and
with the revolver held in exhibit, illus
trated her version of the shooting)