Hamon Trial Dramatic Divorce Motive Emerges
Page one continues with Jake Hamon’s alleged motive to rehabilitate his image by breaking with Clara Hamon. Prosecution witnesses outline a plan to reveal Hamon’s private life to avoid national scandal, including a separation agreement with the woman who would kill him. It also recalls Hamon’s political rise and influence with Harding, Oklahoma support, and a possible interior secretary path.
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Jake Hamon
Clara Hamon
Mamon
Olari Haman
Hamon
Harding
Wood
Chicago
Oklahoma
Hannon
Republican Party
Meade
Clara Hamon and Ardmore Shooting Mystery Recap
Clara Hamon, daughter of 11 and 19, has returned from Chicago to Ardmore as plans to move proceed. She faced a trial over whether she shot her partner in self defense or deliberately to avoid giving him to his wife and children, a death following a life of political and business turmoil with Hamon’s controversial past and a pending settlement in California.
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Chicago
Ardmore
Hamon
Hanon
Wife of slain man to be state witness in Hamon case
Ardmore Oklahoma March 10 Mrs Jake Hamon will testify for the prosecution in the Clara Smith Hamon murder trial. She is described as the dominant figure in the state's bid to seek the electric chair for Clara Hamon. Mrs Hamon recounts desertion, years in oil fields, and efforts to keep the family together while Jake Hamon pursued the younger woman.
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Clara Smith Hamon
Jake Hamon
Bud Ballew
Lett
Buck Garrett
Garrett
Carter County
Bud
Ardmore
Okla
The Rise and Ruthless Gambit of Jake Hamon
Jake Hamon, born in Kansas, rose from a railway project and a townsite scheme to become a leading oil magnate. A former roustabout, he befriended John Ringling in New York, built Ringling oil ventures, and amassed wealth estimated near 50 million before his death. He married Clara Smith to secure her name, then pursued risk with high-stakes poker and bold deals.
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Kansas
Hannon
New York
Waldorf
John Ringling
Hamon
Ringling
Ardmore
Healdton
Clara Smith
Plea for Commutation Fails in Geow Case
Over the last two weeks many appealed to Governor Carey for clemency for Yee Geow, condemned for murder. With the governor and acting secretary of state W. E. Chaplin not intervening, the law proceeded to execution at Rawlins penitentiary. Carey had the mental condition of the tongman examined following the appeals.
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Yee Geow
Thomas Holland
John
Sederden
Carey
W. E. Chaplin
Rawlins
Geow
Hamon’s Oklahoma Swing to Harding Ends in Tragedy
Hamon, once a key Wood ally and Oklahoma leader, faced a clash with Jim McGraw and a warning from the general during Wood’s nomination drive in Chicago. He had risen from poverty to pulpits of politics only to die by gunfire, leaving behind a $12,000 coffin and a tale of personal peril in oil and power.
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Hamon
Wood
Oklahoma
Jim McGraw
Ponca City
Okla
Chicago
McGraw
Harding
Geow executed for murder after Cheyenne trial
The condemned Geow, sane according to examining physicians, was hanged after a Cheyenne trial for the murder of Holland. Federhen died days later from his wounds, while Geow’s defense of insanity failed. The Chinese immigrant, who had entered the US illegally, attacked immigration officer Mansfield and a constable, then killed Holland and Federhen before surrendering. The Cheyenne gallows, built in 1893, witnessed Geow’s execution as the sixth on that machine.
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Geow
Yee Geow
Holland
Federhen
Geon
United States
Canada
Cheyenne
W. R .Mansfield
United States Immigration
Mansfield
Pioneer Avenue
Federden
Canadian
New York
Death House
Charlie Miller
James Julian
Miller
Tom Horn
Rawlins
J. Warren Jenkins
Walter Senn
Evanston
William Planders
Crook County
No Cure 2 Cold in One Day Grove Bromo Quinine Ad
Advertisement promotes No Cure 2 Cold in One Day with Grove’s Bromo Quinine tablets. It warns to buy the genuine product bearing F. W. Grove’s signature and notes the price as 80 cents.
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Grove
F. W. Grove
Quote from Dr James J Walsh on science and destiny
A lecturer, Dr James J Walsh, declares science has not solved mysteries of origin and fate. He argues only a master thinker with a poet mind can pierce the mists surrounding man's origin and destiny.
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James J. Walsh
Five Hundred Dollar Reward for Cheyenne Murderers
A $500 reward was authorized by Acting Governor W. P. Chaplin for the capture of the murderer or murderers of Louis Failer, a Cheyenne taxi driver killed south of the city. Sheriff George Carroll and Prosecutor Mentzer traced the fugitives’ route from Cheyenne to Denver, noting they used back roads and stayed within eight blocks of a Denver lodging house before vanishing. The reward may be posted today as authorities pursue leads across the Denver-Greeley-Fort Collins corridor. British liquor exports have tripled since the United States went dry.
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Louis Failer
State House
W. P. Chaplin
Roche S. Mentzer
George Carroll
Denver
Thalfia
Carroll
Mentzer
Cheyenne
Fort Collins
Garr
Greeley
John C.‘ Vleming
Masonville
LaFayette
Loveland
Fort Colins
Colorado
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Jake Hamson
Wowman
Territorial
Son II Oi
Aayon Rash
Jake Hannon
Clara Hamion
Mr. Hamon
Olive
Wichita
Kas
Carey Decialnhs
Chaplin
Emily
Isaac Branell
Jepsen
Paris Garters
Ven
Hicago
A.stein & Company
Paris
B. Ren Ayem
Honor of
H Were, Inc
Team
Haing
Mario
Frank
Thagi Potteh
Warren Toon
Watson
RICHA
Ardson Erneat Club
Ed Masisen
Talbot
Birthda
Mr Terta’ Park
Pathe
Bex
Spon Pub
the Grue
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