The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 15, 1921, Page 12

with Mr, Hamon, T sometimes went by the name of Clara B. Smith WAIST TORN OFF DURING FIGHT Ete Tears streamed down Clara's face, “He said: ‘TH may it was an acck 2,000 of Them Shake Raft=| gen. Wi! make the explanation’ ers ippod: . “My waist wae torn completely © at Hi rome; Happy of mo during the fight Tho Married “Karly the next morning I was T ROTARY MEANS | the hospital, She asked me to go to an international organize. —§ the hospital di { Hi | utes. were there, but left when I entered.” |family lived on her daughter's mon murder trial today, jumped to his feet and shouted. ta Rising majestically to his feet, | feet and yelled: “This girl's mother | President George T. Gunter, of the | is as good as any who ever uve Geattle Rotary club, gazed at the| birth to any lawyer in this case.” “throng before him. Two thousand| It seemed as tho everyone in the eific coast, filled the lower Moor of | of his answer, i Sie paltery. | cleared &@ vain attempt to restore order, draw revolvers during the intense STOP THROWING excitement PLATES Mrs. Jake Hamon at the mention President Gunter held up a hand |of the word “mother” broke down for silence. He is an imperial, sehok| and was led out by her son, Jake, look: r. any “nee den ugg Wess Clara burst into tears and was led “WIN everybody please stop throw. | out by Jimmie, her brother, and vaper " ted, | Dal. . od ss aay a Women sobbed as they left the Daerrage ceased. “Bang? went a pistol shot across Foom. iis soon. | CLARA, SOBRING, ‘There was an instant of absolute) DEFENDS MOTHER HAMON GIRL’S TRIAL called to the phone by a nurse _ | “1 went and was there a few min: | | Charges that Clara's mother and | shame temporarily broke up the Ha: | te.” “Wild BUT McLean fumped to Me) ‘arians, from all parts of the Pa. |court clapped and shouted approval | _. | the day after Mr. Hamon was podrome, overflowed into| The judge ordered the court) me we weabety | JAunt Clara's neck and scratches For five minutes Chairman Bill} Dep~ty sheriffs dixarmed men tnjon her face Her left hand was Moutton’s gong had been clanging| the audience as they started to/ Quiet. Then a Vancouverite, sitting! The whole court was in a panic close to the speaker's stand. filled) Ciara, outside, sobbed: “They can ‘The crowd caught up the tune,/ mother alone.” good old-fashioned fun. The roast| Prince Freeling. when things were were the kind that make any | for 30 minutes. and his trusty trom.|S0rry a bit for doing it—I had to resent—I can't help it at all; im operator did per | remarks stand.” sist in showing “Jingle Bells,” when| Judge Champion adjourned was wanted? There | court until 1! o'clock. pt, the Oriental Dot} Loud conversation again broke the delay pass um. | loose Mrv. Hamon returned to the court tho President Suxzallo, of the room. gram. Monday night the lid was off quiam put on the feature stunts of and everyone was out for a good the evening. time. Robert H. Timmons, third vice Gen. Bramwell Booth, commander. |p In-chiet of the Salvation Army, made was vigorousty “ayed” when he put a splendid talk at the luncheon Mon. jit thus wise: ‘welcome by H. R. King and a speech possible for you to go away from by Will Creasy. jhome with your own wife, and have At 2:45 a business seasion was held |a whale of a good time.” 2ie emTY BIG NEW SHOW WEDNESDAY First Na- tionalat- traction that whoops away with the swiftest set of laugh thrills you ever saw! WESLEY BARRY ‘DINTY’ A whizzing sweep of action in San Fran- cisco’s Chinatown! TUESDAY NIGHT LAST TIMES OF “THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS” Order finally was established bat] |came to me,” maid the mother pong — were |GET DOWN ON KNEES ehicken cream Jim Bolat | quiet, mov for an adjournment ptvonding “Wild Bill" told the court: “A| also an evening of song, temark was made and I am not) Portland, were there |"peak. If the counsel for the state | my the | day noon, following an addres of “Rotary is a club that makes it} dead man. | was no drunker than usual—he was | | |ahe admitted Hamon could usually Starts On Page 1 placed her arms around her mother and maid: “They don't aaré do it, mother |dear; they don't dare.” The mother and sister wore ery: jing aloud, “After Hamon was shot, I said ? X | ‘Lie down on the bed, and I'll call a | dootor.’ | “He said he brought it on himself; | that be would walk to the hospital,” The judge finally rescinded his | decision and allowed the curious to ptay if they kept quiet Little Phyllis Walling, grand @aughter of Clara's mother, Mra Smith, was on the witness stand when the uproar came Phyitis, dressed in a simple ging ran down to comfort her grand. mother DEPUTIES DISARM MEN IN AUDIENCE “Bud” Ballew, deputy sheriff, and “I went directly to Mr. Ketoh's of jother deputies disarmed several in | flee, Mr, Nichols and Frank Adams | the audience ax they were pulling sinshooters from holsters when the trouble broke “Bud” Rallew took a gun from the won of an attorney, “Buck” Garrett, sheriff, stood “Buck” was one of the few calm CLARA'S AGED MOTHER TELLS OF SORROWS | Phytits Walling, Clara's niece took the stand when the trial was | resumed. ‘I saw Aunt Clara at my he she said 1 saw two bruises on soarred.” Clara's aged mother, Mra. J. Le Smith, testified her husband was in El Paso and had consumption and was likely to die any minute. Clara's mother quaked and quiv- ered out her answers. Tears dropped from Clara's eyes as her mother testified “Clara returned from Mexico on iving day,” the mother sud. Ml had bruises on ber body when she came back. She com plained of her back hurting.” Prince Freeling was gentle in hin) to © Crom examination He acted as it} his lunes and began to sing. “Ijdo anything they want to with me, | he didn’t have the heart to ge thru | but they must leave my dear old) with the trial ‘and the rafters rocked to the refrain:} Prosecutor Brown accused “Wild|Hamon called on her five years ago |**oretary of state was nent to the “Oh, dear, I want to stay here, Bil” McLean of causing the uproar./to ask that Clara have nothing to _ “I don't want to go home’ “Wild Bill" cast a counter accu jdo with her husband. WALT JENKINS AND sation “The first I heard of improper relations was when Mre jlamon AND PRAYED FOR CLARA “I spoke to Clara about it, 1 never did believe she was a bad wirl “I called on Mr. Hamon and asked him to send Clara bome. “He answered: ‘I love Clara. I cannot give ber op. I will get a separation from my wife and mar ry Clara. I love Clara dearly” prayed for Clara.” | At this the mother started to sob, | Clara, with her mother and sister, |DUt she did not love control of her Streamed = down Clara's to refute teats "| mony given for the state by W. D. choise, who swore that Hamon died accusing Clara of murder. Carter quoted Nichols as saying shortly after Hamon's death: “Ha mon died mying It was an accident and Clara bad nothing to do with it” The defense expected to complete resident of international Rotary.|its testimony today with the ac cused woman telling her own story of the ten years she lived with the JOTEL, PROPRIETOR SAYS HAMON DRUNK Miss Eta Hisaion, proprietor of the | Randot hotel, where Hamon had his love hovel, was called to testify for the defenne yesterday afternoon, She testified that even if the lights were turned our in the love hovel it would be possible, by the aid of a street light, to see a person ruise a chair. Mise Hission exclaimed: “On the night of the shooting Jake Hamon usually pretty drunk.” In cross examination by Freeling, handle himself, however. Prince Freeling labored hard to break the most damaging testimony against the case of the state. “I can tell by looking at a man’s eye if he is drunk,” she said. “I've had lots of experience with drunks.” George Warner Barber went to the | defense of Clara, His story: SAYS HAMON GRABBED GIRL; YELLED AT HER “I saw Clara drive up in a car the| night of the shooting. Hamon, who was sitting in front, grabbed her and “Where in the hell have you She said, ‘Please don't, out “He pulled her down in a chair. She got up and left and he went in the hotel.” “Bil” Harris, negro porter of the Rando} hotel, came to the rescue of “Mise Clara.” He testified he went to work at 7 o'clock November 21, 1920. “About 7:10 I got a call from Room 28, Miss Clara's room, for toe water “Miss Clara rang me for ice water. I followed Mr. Hamon. Miss Clara pulled the door open. She gave me a five dollar bill and ordered an oyster stew, “As I went out Hamon rushed in. ie slammed the door. heard him swear, en I didn’t hear any more. “When I went back with the stew Miss Clara was washing or powder- ing her face. She was alone. I never saw Hamon up there after that.” Bill swore that Hamon “was drink ing.” Under cross examination by Free. ling, Bill said ft was light in Clara's room and dark in Jake's room at the time of his visit. Dr. 8. D. Deport was called by the defense. “I was called by Dr, Hardy during Hamon’s illness,” he testified, “I was with Hamon the night before he died.” “Hamon told me to gauge my anaesthetic, because he had been drinking heaylly.” Clara Belle Hollman, nurse. at Hardy's howpital, followed. She ut tended Hamon from 7 p. m. to 7 a, m. during his {ness “He never told anyone in my pres. ence how he was shot,” she said, “I was in the room most all the time. “During his illness he used very profane language,” ‘THE SEATTLE ‘BRITAIN, U. S. DIVIDE SEAS |Believe America Will Throw Strength to Pacific BY KD L. KEEN LONDON, March lbe-Great Brit ain and America have agreed to an amicable “division” of the seas, ac cording to general belief here today As & result of the agreement, it was believed Great Liritain will po |tloe the Atlantic ocean, America, the ham frock, started to weep. She) Pacific. This impression was strengthened by two announcements from London and Washington on the same day. | From Washington came the state ment that the Pacific fleet probably | will Amume more importance than the Auantic From London came the announce |ment that Great Britain will reduce her naval budget by $70,000,000. therebby abandoning any thought of competition with America’s naval ‘This came when Prosecutor Browm| next to the judge with his hands | program. , }on his hips. ye can show that the wholé/ Smith family lived on the Hamon @ | persons there Is Before Harding WASHINGTON, March 15.—The before the cabinet meeting, called at the White House with « portfotie of papers bearing on the case and went | | inte Harding's office, The matter was expected to be dis STAR TRIES SUICIDE andlady; Rent Is Up AS HELP COMES) BURN TO DEATH ssw ioe" o's | But Discouraged Man Prob-|Fire Destroys D. & R. G.|In\ suse A. |W. Vraters court 2,500 Men Will Be ably Will Die Unable to obtain work and short| DENVER, Colo, March 15.-Five|Monday, increasing his apartment| Ingistence by mine opermtors J, J, Moolen, 42, attempted) persons were burned to death in @ to commit muleide by taking gas in hi om in the Stewart hotel, ewart few|& Denver & Bio Grande tmin pear|rerned the alleged bad condition of farmer's wife ar-| Walsenburg, Colo, this mornin to Ko to work on her farm Hceles has a slim chance of recov-| phe burning car, the last in. the attempted wan made to potice by K. |» | Shidayama, proprietor, who sald that attempts to rescue the imprisoned . * the wage reductions to the When |pumengers on the sleeper. ‘Only one, Coming to America | the coroner arrived he found Bceles | ; nger and the negro porter) WASHINGTON, March 15--The work and the mines will close atill alive, and summoned city 06 | escaped | pital physictans. Beeles was attended by Dr FE | Botts and brought to the city hos) FF 8. Kteelman, Missouri Pacific | United Btates within the next month a man was dead in the hotel While Detectives J. F. Majewski! Pwo unidentified men and one uni | day in offictal quarters. M. Maine were investigating dentified woman. | The mission will formally convey the farmer woman ar —o rived, searching for a worker wucceas to the new administration | Hoeles was on his way’to the hos. Man Pays One Cent and then proceed to the discuasion of| Vuneral services for Lock pital by the time the woman arrived Boeles left two notes, one ordering wage dispute of the packers with|the delivery of his trunks to John | their employes was put up to Presi ldent Harding today "| Seeretary of Labor Davin, an hour! relatives: Henderson, 1106 Virginia st jother giving the addresses of bin a member of 1. O. O. ", No. 299, of Bquim, Wash. ‘and the | “@4 that of a man who reported 25 | cent that compared of Davin | Hecretary of Commerce Hoover and Agriculture Wallace | would sit af a mediating commis sion to heat both sides of tie dis Bliss Third Assistant WASHINGTON, March nomination of Robert Woods Htim, She admitted that Mrw. Jake | of New York, to be third asniwtant ‘The enate today by Preeident Harding Biles was immediately confirmed. Despondent Writer verne, George Redman, writer, from Bowden, Mam, became day afternoon. Mra K. Levy, 715 12th ave, cliffs into the! Weinstein’s mother, reeeived ocean near Gan Francisco carty to | broken rib, and Weinsteln, | Alice Levy, of Tacoma, and Harry | | Greenblatt, Savoy hotel, were severe: | ly bruised. The auto with which Weinstein’s crashed was that of A deapondent and drowned himeetf by | Disabled Veterans Are Given a Piano|*: *““"™*" The American Legion has se| “THE WAYFARER” pageant was cured & piano for the boys at the|to be discussed by Rev. J. E. Crow. Marine haspital at Port Townsend.|ther before the Municipal league It was used during the war for the | Hlanc’s cafe Tuesday noon entertainment of boys at the “I got down on my Knees ana! Sol- | Rovig ‘pac etait ce| HOTEL KEEPER | last week decided to make the offer of government mediation Davis and Harding a commision Delta hotel, 807% Third ave, dying, Monday evening. He @ short time later | years, Weinstein, badly wrecked and four peop’ 24 Tist ave. & speak. KILLS HIMSELF ' | 3. HL Palmer, proprietor of the was found with a bullet hole in his head, want A Very Fortunate Purchase rushed to city howpital, where he died | Guests of the hotel heard the pistot | I | report. 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