Volume 7 , Issue 36

1920 - Jake L. Hamon Shot in Ardmore Hotel...

Taken from Renfrew's Record, Alva, OK, Friday, November 26, 1920 -- Probably Woman In Case... Jake L. Hamon, Ardmore millionaire oil man and Republican National Committeeman was shot in that city Sunday night. Charges of immorality have been filed against him and his stenographer. Mrs. Clara Hamon, a twenty-seven year old beauty and the wife of a nephew of Hamon. It is said that she has been his stenographer since 1914. She is charged with a assault with intent to kill. Mrs. Clara Hamon is said to be a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Smith of Ringling, Jefferson County. During 1915 she is said to have been with millionaire Hamon constantly, even traveling with him. It was in 1916 that she is said to have married his nephew, but the couple never lived together.
????? Jake Hamon was wounded Sunday night in a room in an Ardmore hotel (Randol's Hotel) where he makes his home. He claims it was an accident, but it is said the woman fled.
????? Hamon showed a pistol to a Physician and said: "There's the d___ old thing I did it with. Isn't it a pretty looking little old d___ thing to have caused all this trouble?"

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