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Show Clara Hamon, Freed of Charges, Goes to Father A RDMORE, Okla., March 18 Freed of the eharpo of murder for shouting of Jake L. Hamon by the jur s verdict yesterday, yes-terday, Clara Smith llamon today 'was planning to leave Ardmore, the scene of her ten years' association with llamon, which culminated culmi-nated in the shooting last November, she probably will go to Wilson, 18 miles vest of her-, for n shit v isit with her sister, and later proceed to El Paso, where her father is seriously ill After a trial lasting a week the jury in the Hamon ease debated de-bated its -verdict only forty minutes, agreeing upon acquittal upon the first ballot. "I am the happiest -oman in the world." Clara Smith Hamon said with tears streaming down her face when she heart! tho verdict. ver-dict. Mrs Jake L. Hamon. the widow, who attended nearly all sessions ses-sions of the trial, left the court room when the jurj returned.' The state's final plea attacked the theory of self defense on which Clara Hamon s case had hcr-n built up but less than an hour after Attorney General S P. Freeling made the final address in the trial the defendant was receiving congratulations of scores of the attendants at the trial |