Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-11-26 | Page 1 | Millionaire, Involved in Mysterious Shooting, Dies

on n I I MILLIONAIRE Ili I MYSTERIOUS SHOOTING G DIES WIFE OF Oil OL MAGNATE SCOUTS SCOUT'S THEORY OF HUSBANDS HUSBAND'S DUAL liFE Okla Nov r 26 Jacob 26 Jacob L L. L Hamon Hamon- millionaire oil magnate A ARDMORE and Republican national committeeman died at Hardy sanitarium sanitarium here shortly after aft rS r'S 3 o'clock this morning t I A Acute ute dilation n of of the they heart caused death it it was an announced Hamon l had ad been nursing a gunshot wound since last Saturday Hamon walked to the the sanitarium here on Sunday Sunday- and and sai said j lie hp w shad had bad accidentally shot hi himself sel w while cleaning a gun p preparing tor fora hunting h trip rip HiS stor story was accept accepted d without question until Monday ond L warrant t was was- as issued for fo the he arrest of a woman who had act acted d as lID 1 rand ramt secretary for several years She was charged l b n and nd th the national committeeman nan worn I Ian an also a accused in of fi statutory offense The woman whose name Is Clara Smith Hamon has not been located She obtained the name name of Hamon Hamo through marriage to a distant relative e of af the oil all king according to reports leports here but it was said she had never lived l with her husband WIFE IS LOYAL Mrs Jacob Hamon Haman the wife was in inI I Chicago with her two children I Shortly before her husband died Mrs Jacob Hamon expressed fullest confidence confidence confidence con con- in her husband i I feel deeply grieved that any any other construction should be placed upon the incident she said She had rushed to Ardmore with her two children as s soon soon on as she heard of ot her husbands husband's injury ROMANTIC CAREER The rise of af Jake Hamon from a apen pen a-pen- penniless pen pen- promoter to one ane of the richest independent oil ail men in the world and anda a leader in the Republican party reads like a fable Hamons Hamon's fortune at at his d death ath was estimated conservatively at The foundation of his fortune lay Inthe in inthe inthe the scheme which he devised and carried carried carried car car- ried through for far the development of and a railroad ad in Oklahoma He lIe had no mone money with which to carry carryout carryout carryout out the project but decided a wealthy circus man would probably be be more I apt to finance the project than any other ather person He made the acquaintance acquaintance acquaintance tance of of- one ane of the Ringling brothers It was said he d deliberately tely turned over overa over ver overa vera a cocktail glass in a New York cafe at a table where Ringling was seated I In order to meet the cIrcus owner awner I FOUNDS TWO TOWNS Hamon made the hg h most mast of the incident I and soan soon g got t Ringling's backing The town of af and another named Continued on page 11 I