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Show I Moving Picture Actress Meets Death In Flames 5IKL SOUGHT BY POLICE AOMITS CHARGES. CLAIM Chauffeur Says He Helped Young Woman Hurry From Scene DRIVER DECLARES SHE CONFESSED TO SHOOTING I Tells o Ruse tn Throw Pur- 1 suers Off Trail hy Use of Baggage 2 Countv Prosecutor Ruaaell I'.rown continued H his efforts to traee Clara Smith. H wanted here on a charge(of shooting H Jako L. Hamuli, Oklahoma Republl- H national committeemen, who died H las a result of a wound No- H il, Relief that she had H end t Mexico was strength H tied publication of a sworn state- H inent made by K. W Sallls. a ch.iuf- H ' w of Dallaa, i told of a drive on a lonely road between Delia H and Cisco. Tex., with a "young ladv ' H vvho tod htm she had shot a "weal-' "weal-' thy man" In Ardmore. The Sallls statement, made public Mr Rrown, witnessed tw I members of th Dallas police depart- B Clara Sudth. of P.lngllng. Okhv. wh. H i barged with assault with Intent ! kill In connection with the shooting of Mr Hamon. VNhlle Identity of the H I i iterlbui woman passenger was nn- H I known to Sallls. according to his st itement, it is known that the Smith H woman wont routh after leaving Ard- H more. County 'tornev Rcowcn hr- been 1 'actio- vince fllfng of the charge H Clara Smith In uncovering evi- H li The warrant for the arrest of th- H Smith woman was placed in tho hands H of Buck sheriff of Carter jH county, on Tuesday. November 23. H The Sallls statement detailed that Sailts home was m iaat ih he was employed as a taxlcab drivgl Tuesday) morning. November H 23. 1920 the atab mr-nt contlnuo.1. i H was standing with my car at the tor- jH mlnal station In Dallas when s young I I lady came up to me and asked If I lout jH a service car. I told her 1 had. Sin- tLiVH th.n g"t in m md asked me to drive her lo the aviation field. After H we got to the aviation field she talked I to a Working there, but found jH that m. BVlstors were there but would H be soon. She refused tn wait. H P - HIM I "She then came to the car and H In'iulred what my charge would be j for a four or five days' trip. We com- i ted arrangements and she made a i' a of $ l oo, paving me with a 5 1"" bill taken from very larn roll. j We then drove to Va.ihnchle, where we hail dinner about noon. am ca him and did not eat anything bui a bowl of soup, telling mo to. set- PH tie the bill. She then went scroti the afreet ami got m the . n i flniahed mv meal, settled the bnl and went out anil got In the car. Sbo 'obi mo to rtep on it.' I did this to Hliiaborc a plcioiis md I began to ask her que-lions que-lions and she began to ask me If anyone should kill S person and get across the line into Mexico what could be done with them. pqXPKSKKN TO SHOOI ISQ I . to cry and sabl that he had shot a man Sunday al a hotel in Ardmorj. She sild she had shot him In h'n stomach. She said there were only two persons in the waprld that knew srl . and that was the man and her- ht V1nd of n .run one should use to be sure to kill n fB parson, whether new or old. I told fur thai an old sun that wa rusted Was 'he best for killing H fellow. She said she wished she had known this. TR1 Mvs i M . ' Sh. I lid me thai two men pad 1 1 her trunks and aent them north to Kansas City and that was the way ahe ! 1 vitted the officers. She said the H m in sne .-hot vva- vorv wealthy. She J H refused to tell me what her name w H bui i -id I would find It out In the next j 36 hours. U H ' I grew too suspicious of her and I refused to take her further than CU- 1 H CO, Tex., where I left her about 2.1i ! I VVednesds) morning. She paid $l'o 111 more and aent me tnto the station to i H get her a ticket to Rl Paso. Tex. H I came back to Dallas and talked H H with sotne policeman. He advised me to call the county attorney at Ard- 1 H more. This I did. When the county f attorney from Ardmore called me at H my home Sunday night, of my own j fr win I made the statement of j H " - as substantially sot out above." I |