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Show FEW CAN ATTEND Courtroom Cnnot Accommodate Accom-modate More Than 300 ARDMORE. Okla, March . With ths scheduled opening- of ths trial of Clara, Smith Hamon two days awajr, public interest seems to center on the number of days necessary to obtain j a jury, ths Urns of ths actual trial, and how ths comparatively tiny courtroom court-room can be mad to acoommodats ths crowds. Indications, according to court officials, of-ficials, were that ths ess would probably b started on schedule Thursday. With mors than a score of newspaper newspa-per men expected, arrangement, for seating them, with no newspaper workers considered when ths courthouse court-house we. rsctsd, hag officials in a quandary. In all, it is estimated not more than 100 persons can a-et into ths room. Officials said that, evsn If ths trial waa held in tho Ardmore convention hall, the most commodious public building here, with a seating capacity of about 1004, not a fraction of ths spectators expected could be oared for. Mrs. Clara Smith Hamon, the defendant, de-fendant, haa taken, a house, in Ardmore. Ard-more. moving hero Saturday from Wilson. Ok la. Mrs. Jake Hamon. widow of ths oil and railroad magnate, who has been summoned as a state witness. Is sx-pacted sx-pacted to arrivo today from Chicago. |