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Show JAKE INN'S WIDOW TD TAKE STMIDJT TRIAL; Woman Who Was Deserted By, Millionaire to Be State Witness HEARING BEGINS AT ARDMORE TOMORROW Attorneys Arriving for What Promises to Be Sensational Murder Hearing (By Newspaper Enterprise) ARDMORE, Okla . March 9 Mrs Juke Hamon will take the stand as S witness for the prosecution In the trial of Clara Smith Hamon on the charge of shooting and killing the oil multimillionaire multi-millionaire and Republican national committeeman. She will bo the dominant figure in the State's effort to send Clara Hamon to the electric chair- She will tell how Jake Hamon deserted de-serted herself and their two little children chil-dren 10 years ago, when he became Infatuated with the girl clerk who dominated his life until In the hour of their final parting she shot him. HELPED HAMON RISE. She will tell how she look Jake Hamon Ha-mon ' for better or for worse"; how-she how-she made no objection when he asked I her to live In a tent with him in the oil fields; how she let him sleep while I She sat up nights with the sick children; chil-dren; how on the eve of his great piosperltv he deserted her. "Tuklng care of children and lKing in a tent and trying to assist mj husband hus-band made me old and it would have made her otd. too," has boon her only reference to Clara Hamon. "After I had grown old old before my time she came along with her beauty and Insulted me by parading ! with my husband. "1 had aUfays been kind tn Mr. Ha-Imon. Ha-Imon. I had never but once asUed him :to get up at night and care for the children, and that was when Olive was ill with diphtheria." RH ll lit T UNHAPPY. Wealth has by no means brought happiness to Mrs Hamon and her children, chil-dren, hut she eras read) to forgive; In fuct. She was preparing to move buck fiom Chicago to make Hamon a respectable re-spectable home In Ardmore, when the shooting occurred. Just how far Mis. Hamon will go in telling her story, to what extent she will catV blame on Clara Hamon who obtained th- name of Hamon by marrying Jake Hamon's nephew and then divorcing him even the state's attorneys don't know. During the time Hamon and the pirl for whom be had given up his family lived at the Randol hotel here, Mrs Hamon and her son, Jake, Jr. now 19. and her daughter. Olive Belle, now U. li..-.i In Chicago- L v - ERS VTHER. Legal lines began to form todny for (the battle to begin tomorrow to determine deter-mine the future status of Clara Smith Hamon, charged with murder In connection con-nection with the death of Jake L Hamon. Ha-mon. S P. Freeling, state attorney general, gen-eral, who Is In Charge Of the- prosecution, prosecu-tion, arrived and conferred With H. H Brown, special prosecutor Walter Scott of thr Forth Worth, Texas, firm of lawyers retained before Clara Smith's .surrender at El Paso, arrived ar-rived and said the other member of the firm W. P. McLean. Jr.. would come here tomorrow. J. H. Mathers, and C A. Coakley. other members f the defense counsel, with J B. Champion, Cham-pion, twin brother of Judsc T W. Champion, who will preside, reside ID Ardmore Mr, Freeling said he would do all possible to speedup the trial. |