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Show Police Arrest Reporter Vho Interviews Girl Fugitive I 3 WIHTS JURY OF I WOMEN 10 HEAR H HER LIFE STOHY Alleged Slayer of Millionaire Oil Man Interviewed by Newspaper Man THEFT OF PAPERS FROM WIDOW ADDS MYSTERY Search Renewed in San An-1 An-1 tonio After Publication of IV" Girl's Conversation IPN Hor are today's developments in jik tho Jake Hamon killing i 1 I with officials Df -: seem- , :'E iogly unabh to captun Clara Barto n ftttfeelEl Smith, wanted for the shooting, I ' IBsHI Rose, a reporter succ. ods In m'.rv l v - ''tfSkW ng the woman in San Antonio anfl obtulns from h. . - ' "j 1 : shot Hamon and would be willing 0 SWStT Btand trial If assured a jury of women fM The mvRtorious theft of certain per- VVBfr sonal papers from the apaTtmrtl house In which the widow of Jake llri-jUPtti llri-jUPtti mon resides added further interest to H the TALKS WITH WOM IS gfaMM BAN AN'TMO, Tex., Dec 7. -P. ; .v M. p.ops, a lo.nl newspaper man who 1 laimi to h 1 ri versed near B 1 " Antonio last night with Clara B irton smith, sought in connection with we l'3n fatal shooting at Ardmorc, Okla . oc "vhB Jake Hamon. was taken Into custodj 'itlB by police detectives at his heme here ii&9 early today. The newspaper man aB- IV-lffitl sorted he found Miss Smith .:.: h. -e :y$M aftet her motor car had broken flown. !,:,'5l After a length questioning by the -!HfI police, Ross was released "AlH The story told by Ross of hU inter- A . i,.v.- xvtt 1. Miss Smith, according to SiHr 1. i.'ii e 1 . . 1 1 . v. -. 1 --"tii' ments to E. W Snllls, of Pallas, the ZUP1, ' hauffeur. who drove a young woman i-kLli answering tin- description of Mb hIBsV Smith from Dallas to Cisco. HP FROM HOTEL wHH Ross who is an employe of the Sun tSS Antonio News, said he had heard In IHS a hotel lobby las Saturday that Miss w: smith was in s mi Antonio and through aoahalnl inc during 1 Is pri ' lous 1 m-J'jCMB m-J'jCMB Idoyment in Oklahoma recognized her V v, hlle .1 omp inlon f Ixc d two rial ' : i- t ir'-r on Mlsj Sml 1 automoblh R01 Hfc said he took her to a nearby farm- I house and there she told him the had killed Hamon. according to Reps, According Ac-cording to Ross, she declared she wa willing to face any Just Judge or an) Jury of women. SEARCH TEX iS ITV ABDMORE. Okla., Dec. 7. The search for Clara Smith, wanted "i connection con-nection with the fatal fhoollng here or Jake L, Hamon Republican national committeeman from Oklahoma, early today centered at San Antonio, Tex., after Russell R Drown, county atto. -ney, had received information that Perry M Ross, a San Antonio newspaper news-paper man said h had converged with .Miss Smith near San Antonio last I V night. isMf'"' Acting 1 1 1 c. 1 , Mi. inform Mi I 99 Brown Bent a telegram to the chief of 3 police at San Antonio unking him to . M at ike .in Immediate invi ligation md J&glii ir necessary hold Ross as u material fnUjl witness in the case. CLOTHING I R l IDENCE l; 'laU A suit of clothing taken from the v'-liBM private offu of Mr Hamon w:is s nt ' Ml Brown by l'rank L. Ketch, busl- JH ness manager for tho slain oil mag- yfr 1 in response to th prose utor 1 request thai !" be given the clothing i 1 Mr. Hamon. wore ut th time he was y I shot, II aas annount ed tods ' Another de' 1 lopmenl wa 1 the an a'lJM nouncement by Mr Rrown that Dr IJSjjcH Walter Hardy, director of the private i-foffiH s.iiiltarium where Mr. Hamon died .h'tfS and who treated him for th. wound. r.inS had informed him Miss Smith visited : JSr vir Hamon at the hospital the day after the ihootlng Dr Hard was fefsjej puotcd as saying that he knew vers little about the Interview adding that the nurse who was on duty left the i&lB room while the visitor was there. M W t VLL JI KV fr$m Accompanying the foregoing was iUL another announcement by Mr. Brown jjA thai bi I id been consulted in regard ftfiM to the calling of a grand Jury to In- JiflH sligate che eliootlng and that a petl- IjSBi Hon for calling th.- Inquisitorial body B was being circulated Tin . Vyfijii this utate provide for the calling of a Vi grand Jury bj Uie district jud?- when jgMjl u petition signed by fifteen qualified glflBj voters is filed with him. IPARTM I '.NT Rt BBED 0H CHICAGO, Dec. 7. Four unldenti- M. il men forced an .ntrani'c last nlcht alirj into an apartment huilding here where g&tffl the widow of the late Jake L. Hamon BBS IIvcm. The men seized a quantity of mPjhI personal papers and Beventyflve let- f;-mm ters received from Mr. Hamon during i&fll his absence at Ardmorc, Okla, Where 'CfvjS her husband was mysteriously shot to '"m death The intruders took nothing SB Charles Willis, landlord of the build- ing, had the letters and papers In his ipartment, which is across the ball ShH Actions of the men Indicated the seiz- i-'j had been carefulyy planned, po- he- aald. byH, 00 |