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Show Wilson Withdraws Control In San Domingo CLARA HAMON i I TO ENTER PLEA I BF HOT GUILTY " I 1 1 ' i Gives Interview in Which She Says She Wants to Atone II to to Parents m R DOES GIRL SHARE IN , r DEAD OIL MAN'S WILL? Alleged Slayer Talks Religion to Reporter: Praises Men A P.HMORE, Okla., Dec. 24. ChU Smith Hamon will enter a plea of ?no1 guilty" to the charge of murder filed against her in connection with tho .loath of Jake L Hamon, Republhsanll national committeeman, when the cruse, - I tomes up for trial hero in mc nnwn lerm of court, Attorney James II Mather., one of her counsel, said today to-day "Bv the evidence which We have in our hand. 1 can only feel assured that she will be acquitted," tl e lawyei redded Clara Smith Haroon did not nee from Admoio as a fugitive from jubilee. jub-ilee. It was not until she hud reached Efil Paso that she learned ol Mr jblam-on's jblam-on's death. She did not dream that .Mr. 11 union would die, none of us thought kij at the time." GIVES IM I i: li u 5 PIG SPRINGS Tei. Dec 21 -(Bs f :he Associated Press, i Concentration f her future energies te atontnf to her family, "for the aorrow she has brought it," and determination never tgaln to waste another hour of her life were avowed late today by "'lata. Smith, en route to Ardmore. Okia., to answer a charge of murder in connection con-nection wlf h the death of Jake I. I lamon. in an Interview With Ihe correspond -1 ent of The Assocluted Prcs lasting mutely an hour she spoke earnestly on religion, philosophy, psychic research, re-search, art fancy work and most earnestly earn-estly of all her Impressions oi Mexico! where she stayed three weeks before giving herseir up to the custody of Sheriff Buck Garrett of V. imoi .-. in .luarez Wednesday night She sedulously sedu-lously avoided discussing the charge against her ami mentioned Ilainoii's name onlv once when she referred to. tier opposition to his retiring from ac-; PIRS 1 IN I 1 K II W i'ivSjl The interview which took place lllJHifl nboard the train OU which she is trav- 'iSBfl ellng, was the, flnU granted by her " vSI emce her surrender. ''rtJflB have just been reading some of ', - the many letters I have received from aQBJsfk -v iriy dear friends." she began. "1 v i j'&fBM ed to tell you of the wonderful tjjfltfli friends I had In Chihuahua City. They BMgf were deeply religious, though not or- 1 'tH thodox. They mothered mid lathered iitlM me as If I w ere a child They brought 3iM(5H Ine lwers an'' evi n toys. When I 1828 sought to thank them they protested ''3E that there was only benefactor and fltSwl whatever they did was done by Him through them as friends it was a "'.tHj xreat spiritual lesson and experience irlJm! for Ine- lnat V,K" Chihuahua City. l.o Ks MEXll VNS. ',: :ijis "As I told them befo I left, before iiWSarJ 1 entered Mexico I hated Kiexici i I reB ,,ut 1 ltf'1 11 lov,nK them, although i ; ,pfi haw much of the beautiful religion I : ' JcJ j could not adopt for myself. They be- V'pJtlBBP lleva Ih spirits. Although f do not ,.ij$BM say that this belief Is wrong, I know tjpyH that I need my own level headed religion re-ligion for I have one of my own. T . t am too much ifraid of myself to lot ' myself dabble in the occult )Jt "When i got back to Mexico and js irJ I intend to go there again to rest I shall teach my friends something! iHBB of ventilation, cleanliness and hy- yfigBf glene" When asked Whether she ever e- $BjBJ peeted to resume her secretarial ;,, career, she replied: SL. "f have uo plans; i know only tha' iu;.SK I siiall devote myself to niaklng ? amends to mj famih fo' t!. suffering 1 have brought on them. I shall nev- rajaH er again waste even an hour of pre- ' jjrw olous time left me I do not believe people should pver retire frjm a tic 'i'tRM work. 1 have always opposed any' H W suggestion that Mr. Hamon should n-, HSU tire." lIfr fsce still slightly drawn from 3ujal the strain of her recent experiences, ', ffiflHf took a now glow- of animation as she iJSil leaned forward und added IHBia "I believe that eeryone must grow $8.13 "Von durln" oW When people SKgP don't grow. It is their fault." MOAJtVS I'AN'l'V WORK P deferring to the place of women In -. ' 31 Amerlcun life, he said: :t':.1k1 "r frequently told my Chihuahua' City friends I knew 1 could n. e, make a Mexican man happy, they take' ijjjjfrijj ihelr wIveM too much for granted. anfl they do not believe that women i'.fv should hsvp a will of their own." Mlsn Smith Informed tii - (fit! .El pondent that sh- had learned how to 'f : 'TB Jo Mexican drawn work and showed V n'ni a lacey specimen of her flret ef- 'f ,. fort. It looked like a good specimen. ' - jL 1 wou,d much prefer to read . Jy Kood book to doing this sort o' thing (Continued on Pace Two.) I MM Mm TO ENTER PLEA OF NOT GUILTY Gives Interview in Which She Says She Wan's to Atone to Parents 1 i inn. ,i From Pace One, , After it's done. I ask myself vrhether it's worth while after all." HER REAL N mi During the Interview the emphasized empha-sized that her name whs Mrs. Clara Kmith Hamon and not Miss Smith u.s phe has many times been referred to in tubllshed stories. As thf Interview drew lo a close, because Mrs. Humon comjilained shf fflt tired and diz.y-heuded, she added: add-ed: WESTERN MEN WOK DERI . "One ihir.y mon 1 wanted to tell -fou. How tood It looked to see these t.il understanding westerners waiting for mr at the Juarez station. Tlu-y have all been so Rood and wonderful toward me that I can't help feeling fleeplj grateful. I felt like throwing myself in Mr. Garrett's arms and Wh.-n I had almoi-t collapsed in my home Sheriff Orndorff of E3I I'ujo was So helpful when he said 'there, there, don't worry: you aia- amonjf friemls. you are in the U. S. A.' Oh, til esc w. stern men are wonderful. ' kfORE SYMPATHY. Sheriff Garrett and Attorn, v Charles Coakley. of Ardmore. beamed. One of Mr, ilamon's attorneys W. P. McLean, Ji, of Fort Worth, Introduced Intro-duced a party of young women paf-engers paf-engers to her today at their req o ii Ono of them assured her l hey wanted h' t to feel that "Mexicans were not the oniy ones who sympathized with her." j.Ir McLean and his .ussoclatei? held ' ' -xslonal cynferciiLLS with their C lient. li-ent. Sheriff Oarrott la a typical weatrrn f are- offlcrr of moving picture traditions, tra-ditions, long llmhi i), slow spoken and wearing the inevitable slouch hat Only twenty-nine days of his lorty- i ii mmm nM nine j ears hav leen spent in the nat He Is a second COUdn of Sheriff Sher-iff Pat Garrett, of lis duces. N. M., ho killed "Billy the Kid." the no-! no-! torlOUg outlaw. SBpERIFl IN .1 V J I leriff detrett celebrated his twen-; twen-; -first btrthda) as a prisoner In i Runsell, Wye., charged I with m order In ednuectfon . :m li famous war between Wyoming llve-stock llve-stock men and organised cattle rustlers rus-tlers in which two of th latter were I killed. Korty-flve guards, of Whom Garrett was one .were Indicted and released htr on $40.o00 i.onds each A verdict of acquittal was tho out-, UAXSAS C1TV.' Mo.. Dec. J4. A! I conference having to l vlth the af-i af-i fairs of the Jkc I,. Hamon i s.rit i va.s scheduled here today between Al-, Al-, f rr d Kills attorney for Mrs Huniou, the widow, and Frank L. Ketch, former for-mer business manag'-r for the late Oklahoma Kepubllean national committeeman, com-mitteeman, apd administrator of the c.statr. There was some, speculation -i to whether the men would discuss unofficial unof-ficial reports that there N In existence exist-ence a will bequeathing part of th estates to Miss Clara Smith, now be-' Ing taken to Ardmore for arraignment on a charge of having killed Mr. Ha-j mon. Mr, Kills In statement emphatl-cally emphatl-cally asserted that Mr llumon left no i will. )Ie also declared that Mr. Hamon Ha-mon had told hlmshortly before his J death that he had not made one. Reports of the existence of an In- strunienl m.iklnf,' Mis- Smith a beneficiary bene-ficiary he characterized as "rldicu-lOUS" "rldicu-lOUS" and challenKed those supporting I , the claim to come forward with the ' j prolific evidence. |