Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 297, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1920 — CLARA SMITH STILL MISSING [ARTICLE]

CLARA SMITH STILL MISSING

Hamon Case Girl Fails to Appear at Fort Worth —Stage All Set for Surrender. Fort Worth, Tex., Dec. 13. —Clara Barton Smith, charged with murder in connection with the death of ‘ Jake L. Hamon, Republican national committeeman from Oklahoma and millionaire oil and railroad man. has failed to appear at the oflices of her attorneys. McLean, Scott & McLean, here, as had been expected. All arrangements had been made for the young woman’s reception and the law firm’s outer offices were filled with newspaper men. Motion picture cameras were set up in the street, and once, when a young woman reporter hurried up todntervlew Mr. McLean, a camera man ground madly. Miss Smith was not to be arrested while in Fort Worth, ft was understood, but was to be permitted to return to Ardmore, Okla., where, it is charged, she fired the shot November 21 that caused 'Mr. Hamon’s death November 26. Her attorneys expected her to arrive from the vicinity of El Faso, Tex. /