Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-03-15
Is 20 Years Old.

VI SO"ctlH&; Know not Wna6
Is 20 Years Old.
After few preliminary questions
In which she said she was 20 years
old. knew Colonel Hamon was mar
ried and that he had educated her
so she might work for him, she was
asked to tell the jury how the shoot
ing happened.
"1n the morning?" she asked. and
was told to begin that morning"
Tells of Days Incidents.
'We had breakfast about II
o'clock she said. After breakfast
Mr.. Hamon left me, / presume he
went to his Office; he usually did on
Sunday mornings. I went back to my
room and in the afternoon about 2;3O
or o'clock, I don't just remember,
he came back to the room and we had
a very pleasant conversation"
He lay down on his bed to rest
and while he only stayed a short
time. perhaps less than an hour,
three-quarters of an hour, 1 would
say, then he went back to the Office
said he had SONG friends waiting or
some politicians. somebody, I don't
Just remember who. was very busy
cleaning up my room, reading news
papers and getting my. clothes ready
to go away to California for my trip,
and 1 decided that / would like to
have little ride, so got In my car
and went for ride; that was about
6 o'clock; I started for my ride about
6 o'clock and I think rode about
an hour.
Perhaps little more than. an
hour. 1t was about z, dark enough for
the street lights to be on when I came
back. When 1 drove up in front of
the hotel. Mr.. Hamon was sitting in
front of the hotel in a chair: between
Mr.. Hamon and the door of the hotel
there was another chair.
He Immediately grabbed me as I
passed and showed me down in the
chair and said he wanted to talk to
me and used profane language.
Pleaded With Him.
II told him, Please don't curse
here, don't make a scene. If you want
to curse and be mean to me and abuse
me, let's go to the ROOM He contin-
ued to curse me and I noticed that
the lights in the car were on and 1
said. Wait minute. I want to turn
the lights of my car off, He turned
me loose and 1 walked to the car and
switched off the lights. I passed By
him, and turned to set through the
door, he again grabbed me by tho arm
and jerked me down on a chair and
again cursed. | said, Go to the room.
Mr.. Hamon, if you want to abuse me,
there are some men standing there,
you must not talk that way here in
public So he got up and 1 went up
stairs to me room. I was afraid of
Mr.. Hamon. very afraid of him. r
saw a look on his face that I had
never seen before. He was drunken
than l had ever seen him in all the
years l had known him. He was
drunk and crazy. 1 don't think the
whiskey was good red whiskey as
Mr.. Nichols said. He usually drank
good whiskey and he wasn't usually.
crazy like that. He was crazier and
drunker than he had ever been in all
the years I had known him.
Doors Locked. a
when 1 got to my room the doors
were locked between our rooms. The
bathroom door was locked. l rang
for Bill, the porter. I thought had
better eat something. I had not had
anything to eat all day. At breakfast
I could not eat. I seldom ever eat
any breakfast, and when Bill camo.
and Knocked on the door. he came
in with ice water and Mr.. Hamon
slipped in with him. I had to un-.
lock the door for Bill. I was afraid
or Mr. Hamon. l wanted him to keep
away from ME for "a more hours,
so l could go to California and wait
for him to sober up and come to me
looking the sweet, kind lover he had
been before So he came in as Bill
came in. Bill poured the ice water
in the pitcher. Mr.. Hamon paced
up and down running his hands
through 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
an epithet: Where have you been r
and grabbed me at the same time and
choked me and choked me, until I was
blind and couldn't seem, to think.
Mclean Intezrupts.
Now Miss Clara" interrupted w.
F.. Mclean. Of her counsel. '.jua
minute II will finish the story.
Mr.. McLean." :" she said. RS
He choked me and hit me, and
somehow. he threw me over On the
bed and after he got me ON the bed
he beat me and slapped me and slap-
ped me and hit me two or three times
and took me by one foot and ierked:
me on the bed ON my back ana hay0
been operated ON In the back ana it
hurt me extremely and he took pain9
10 kick. .ne In tho back aAd Kicked
me and choked me ana 1 struGnleA -
get up and did ret up and NE 0hokeAs
me again and backed me ii akninftl
the window Apd choked me aSaiA
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