Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 14, 1921, Page 4

MONDAY, Get Ready | @he Casper Dailp Cribune MARCH. 14, '1921 Soe 2S PACKING HOUSE on any matter, the question could be \geferred to an arbitrator. ‘When the schedule of wage reduc- tions, which went into effect today was made pt recently, ur & Co. announced that a plan for em- ployes’ representation in settling mat- that if Hamon did not stop speaking “Mrs. H." she, Clara, would in one way or another, The contract, dated Ardmore, Jan. 27, 1916, was as follow: ‘For and in consideration of $1 and NEBRASKA AND KANSAS ij GACCESOORY AFTER FACT (Continued from Page 1) was lying but said something about a struggle for the gun,” he tes- pus te take the witness stand, altho she tas in the courtroom. When at 11 o'clock the state had exhausted its available witnesses, ex- eopting Mrs. Hamon, it asked for a yacess until 1 o'clock, when other this,” Dunlap quoted Hamon as hav- jing said. The remark was objected to and sustained. “He said he did not haye a chance to the foot of the bed and shot him,” to protect himself; that she walked up} tified. Ketch said Clara bad a three hun- {dred and twenty-thousandth interest {in an oil lease; a 5-70 interest in a | gas lease; a good property and that | Clara and he himself owned a picture show at Healdton. She also has $5,000 | worth of another oil company’s stock, he said. He said Hamon had given her a 10-carat diamond. On cross-examination Ketch said Clara still has some investments joint- other valuable consideration, the re- ceipt of which is hereby acknowledged, I hereby release any and ail claims that I have or may have against Jake L. Hamon and this is in settlement in full and for relations heretofore ex- isting between us and claims for money. “CLARA SMITH.” STRIKEDELAYE (Continued from Page 1) for a conference here between two rep-|to be ‘normal and satisfactory” to- resentatives from each in an effort to | day- reach an agreement on the question of wages and other differences. Mr. Davis has not yet set a date|said he was pleased with the present for the conference, but he is under- HOMESTEANERS SWIM E. J. Smiley, secretary of the Kan- was Grain Dealers association of Topeka, Kan., has been in the city for the past week accompanied by his son, Harold Smiley, who is taking up a homestead near the Goose Egs|{ ranch. Mr. Smiley is interested in the homesteading land here and re- ports that over 17 young men from Nebraska and Kansas have recently taken up land in the neighboring ters affecting them was being formu- lated. The labor situation in the packing industry throughout the country was declared by employers and employes Dennis Lane, secretary of the Amal- gamated Order of Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, situation. “The men have returned to work THURSDAY | Get Ready Dunlap further testified after counsel stood to be considering Friday of this week suggested by the emp!tyes who| Pending the strike vote and there will by then have checked up the re | Were no runaway strikes,” ‘he seid. sults of. their strike referendum: “We will know the result of the strike vote Thursday,” he said. ARMOUR PLANS J.,Ogden Armour, in a statement INDUSTRIAL COUNCIL . accompanying the announcement of justrial the a plan, wut-oftown winesses should be svail- able. The defense said that it was ready to begin its case and that it “had short witnesses,” and assured the court no delay would be encountered when it got under way | country. “Mr. Smiley is returning to his home today and is sending back to the homesteaders some seed wheat which is grown in Russia on dry land. He prophesies splendia crops here in the near future, LESTER RETIRES FROM AUTO FIRM had argued the propriety of this tes-|ly with Hamon and some business in- timony. |terests and had a small revenue from Dunlap denied on cross-examination|the Hamon estate. that Hamon had presented him with| Dr,. Walter Hardy was recalled to the home in which the Dunlap family|the stand and explained the bullet lives. which killed Hamon entered his body at an angle, BALL Clara Hamon, defendant, will te| He said he was not present when oniciGo! he . said . | i : Maron Armour & E R. Néill Rahn, chief deputy United the last defense witness to take the| Clara Hamon was given $5,000 with] The defense counsel smiled as it| President of Park Road Sales and the ‘meat packing industry had + stand, he: counsel said today. Their| which to leave town after the shoot-|4&S been their contention thé buller : SPEEDS: pau peas an bones reached a situation’ where there must | States parapel it us patted Bes kites list of witnesses numbers only nine, | ing. took such @ course. Service Company Sells lant tomarrow be greater co-operation between em-|sas accompan , trip here. He was also interested m the work and may return soon. While in the city the men sent @ wireless from the station at the home of N. R. Hood and received an, imme- diate reply from Topeka, Kan. George K. Thomrson, an sttorney of Denver, has heer. in the city over the week-enl xttending to business employes to elect representatives to| ployes and employers: The success form an industrial democracy in/of the business is measured by the which employers and employes would} returns to the owners and employes have equal representation and which |and by its service to the public. No would settle all matters of working | business can succeed if it does not conditions, ‘wages and hours in the|serve all three.” Armour plants. The representatives elected tomor- row will form a temporary board which will/work out permanent plans. Frank L, Ketch, former business| MRS. JAKE HAMON Interests manager for Hamon and now admin-| ; agp mo TAKE STAND. istrator of the estate, was the next . witness called. J. L, Modge, assist-| Mra. Jake L. Hamon, who appecr- ant county attorney, sald Ketch onjed thoroughly composed, took the Saturday had been made an accessory stand at 1:40 p. m. after the fact in the murder of| Mrs. Hamon spoke in even tones. Hamon, and asked that Ketc): be pre-| nd answered questions «,cickly and vented from testifying as giving testi-| decisively. She said she on one oc- exclusive of rebuttal witnesses they may introduce. Burton H. Lester, president of the Park Road Sales and Service com- pany, and majority owner of the, con- ce has retired from the organiza- tion, according to annotincement made this morning. Mr, Loster has sold his entire interests te a syndi- CASE SHOULD RE: CH JURY NEXT FRIDAY. ARDMORE, Okla., March 14.—Four of the state's chief witnesses in Mrs. Clara Smith Hamon’s trial for murder when the trial — Mrs. Stanley Sowadski has returned from Denver where she has been on business and pleasure trip of seve remained to be cal mony would give him immunity.{¢asion came to Ardmore and went to bi was resumed tod They included] Judge Champion ruled the witness} Humon's and Clara’s rooms at the| ate headed by C. EB. Kennedy The announcement of the packing | days matters. e Mrs. Jake L. He widow of the! could proceed, however. | hotel here. pannedy Ss Deen erate can company said that it was planned ev- : the garage ever since the institution started here last May. e There will be no chanze at the gar- age inasmuch as Mr. Lester has nev- entually to have plant conference boards of five members in each plant and a general conference board of three members selected from all r ‘eeling, attor- a } ney-general of Okiahome. in charge of] TRIED TO SHIELD the prosecution, said he expected} WOMAN ON DEATHBED, these and a few minor witnesses to] Ketch said he first learned of Clara Hamon watched the witness |closely as sho testified, but otherwise |seemed unaffected, the} Mrs. Hamon said she brought her slain oil man ITA LN || Winter | { complete their testimony in time for| shooting of Hamon on the next morn-|daughter, Olive Belle, 11 years old, | Cr heen actively engaged in its opera-| plants. ‘ the efense to begin its case late| i here from Chicago and had talked|on- W. G. “Bill” Noonan re-|| ‘The outline of the proposed : plan § todayn nk, I am never going to get|with her husband and later went to| main as service manager and will re-/as given out by Armour /& Company Frankl. Ketch, Hamon’s business he quoted Hamon as saying at|his hotel suite, She said Clara came| ‘in his substantial stock interyst in| said that when the representatives of the corporation. the hospital. fm and threw her hat and gloves on ; manager; Erret Dunlap, a close friend, and ‘Sam Blair. a newspaperman to whom, the defendant gave a stcry of the killing of Hamon are the main witnesses yet to be called for the state; SDhrough these ana other wit- reeses,{t is said, the state will at- tempt. to establish that Clara now is J years of age and at the time her aesotldtion with Hamun began was 19 and not an immature girl. Evidence already brought out at the trial and statements previously by the defendant placed her age now at 27. “The case should be in the hands of the jury by late Thursday or Friday,” declared Mr. Freeling, “if as rapid time is made this week as in the first days of the trial.” The defendant was in the court: room carly. She was dressed in the blue serge suit and sailor hat she wore on the opening day of her trial. Mrs. Jake L. Hamon, the widow, entered the room a moment before court opened. The defense asked for the recall of Everett W/Sallis, a Dallas chautteur, ‘who testified, Saturday he had driven Clara on her flight from Ardmore, after Hamon died. Sallis could not be found immediately, and Erret Dunlap, @ business associate of Hamon, was called as the state's first witness of the day. He said on) Tuesday, after Hamon was shot Sunday night, November Z1, the wounded man had said he never would leave the sanitarium “un- til you boys take me out.” “He told me he went over to his room late in the evening, threw off his coat and vest and lay down on the bed for a rest." Dunlap testified. FELT HAND ON HEAD AS SHE SHOT HIM. Dunlap quoted Hamon as having said: “I had been there only a short time when I heard Clara come in. She laid her left hand on my head and I felt her right on my shoulder, when she shot me.” “Of course, I have been looking for “I did it myself’,” be said, Ketch continued. “Don't tell me that.’ I replied. want it given out I did it my- self, give Clara some money and have her get away’,” he quoted Hamon. y wife will be here as soon as she hears of this and I want Clara to g0. Tell the worli any kind of a story, that I dropped the gun; any- thing.” Ketch said he wrote his personal check for $5,000, gave the money to Clara and later reimbursed himself from Hamon's money with a voucher authorized by Jake. He said he went back to the office and sent for Clara Hamon. “Clara, you've got to go. I've never interfered with ‘your personal busi- ness or that of Jake, but the parting of the way has come. You are going away and you are going to stay,” Ketch said he told Clara. “I was going away,” Clara said, ac- cording to Ketch. “You are going now," Ketch said he replied. Ketch said she told him she had to go ‘to see her relatives at Wilson be- fore she left and he told her that he would pack her trunk for her. The trunks were checked to Kansas City on Hamon’s railroad pass, but Clara missed the train by ten minutes, and $5,000. ‘They. decided, she said, she would take the next train to Durant. Ketch said he told the girl he did not think jon would recover,. gl- though at time he himself thot amon would recover. From Durant Clara talked with him, Ketch said, and he told her not to go north but south and “keep g0- ing.” NO MARKS ON CLARA'S FACE, DECLARES KETCH. Ketch said he saw no-marks Clara’s hands or face. He said he reported to Hamon what he had done but defense objected to on he gave her a package containing the bed and ran out. Mrs. Hamon |safd she took a pistol from Clara's room on that occasion. Mrs. Hamon said she saw her hus- band in Chicago from time to time. She said on her visit here with Olive Belle, Hamon took her to the, depot and put her on a train for cago an hour and a half after she had seen Clara in Hamon’s room. The state then rested its case. FIRST DEFENSE WITNESS ON STAND Russell B. Brown, former county attorney and the man who filed the murder charge against Clara Hamon was the first defense witness. He was to be followed by Sheriff Buck | Garrett. Mr. Brown said Frank Ketch had told him Hamon's underclothing had been burned. H. H. Brown, special prosecutor cross examined his younger brother. Sheriff Garrett said Hamon told him “he shot himself fooling with an automatic” and that Dr. Hardy had “held out to the very last it was an accident.” Sheriff Garrett said Hamon, the day before he died, told him he had heard it rumored Clara would be prosecut- ed and he did not want her prosecut- ed; that he did the shooting himself ac- cidentally. J. H. Edwards of icpeka, Kans president of the Kansas Life Insur- ance company, who preceded Mrs. Hamon on the stand identified an application for insurance signed by ‘Clara Hamon in 1917, saying she was, born October 22, 1891. The age of the defendant has been a point of conten- tion, Frank Ketch was recalled nnd iden- tified the suit Hamon wore when shot. Neither the widow nor the defendant showed any discomposure. Ketch then identified two letters and q contract as signed by the defendant. One of the letters postmarked Kansas City, April 18, 1915, said one of the boys at Lexington college had told other THE AMERICA WILL” ~NOT ADVANCE THE PRICE ON “KISMET” DENVER COLO. ATTENDANCE. GEORGE R. STEWART MGR. AMERICA THEATER Above is a copy of telegram sent to the home office in answe: THE POLICY OF THE AMERICA HAS BEEN TO MAINTAIN A. REGULAR ADMISSION PRICE, EVEN ON OTIS SKINNERS GREAT SPECTACLE KISMET, WE FEEL DUTY BOUND TO THE PEOPLE OF CASPER TO PRESENT IT AT THE REGULAR FORTY CENTS ADMISSION. AM CONFIDENT THE PUBLIC WILL’ SUPPORT: US BY PHENOMENAL ing an advance in admission price on “Kismet.” .,, 50 the great ten-reel spectacle, “Kismet,” will be presented to the people of C, In Los Angeles “Kismet” played at prices ranging from “Kismet” In connection with “Harem Fantasies.” with America’ asper at the usual admi: the America will prese CASPER WYO. MARCH 12 1921 THE BISHOP CASS THEATERS CO. 230 FOSTER BLDG. r to their inquiry regard- ’s foremost actor, Otis Skinner, in price, 40 cents. one to two dollars. mt a special staged prologue, The Park Road company will con- tinue to sell and service the Stand- ard, Chalmers and Maxwell cars. There will be no change in its policy and the service department will con- tinue to give the satisfaction that has caused its business to steadily ' in- crease. ¥ AUTO THIEVES CAUGHT Roscoe Wynn, who with his wife was arrested in Casper several weeks ago and later returned to Hutchinson, Kans., to face a charge of stealing an automobile, is facing a sentence of from five to fifteen years follow- ing conviction in district court last week. This information was recelved byj Sheriff Martin. The communication also authorized the sheriff te sell the machine, belonging to W. E. Davis which is responsible for Wynn's predicament. The Ford car was sold for $285. FORMER PIRATES REPORT AT CAMP OF BRAVES! 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