His mistress, private secretary and business agent, Clara Smith, was found innocent of murder charges.
[2] He was voted out of office in 1903, amid accusations of corruption and claims of extorting money from local gamblers.
Senator Thomas Gore to support some land contracts that attorney J. M. McMurray had made with the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations.
[2] Gore claimed that the contracts were worth $30 million, and that Hamon stood to gain a 10 percent fee contingent on the sales.
The charge was investigated by a congressional committee, where both McMurray and Hamon denied under oath that they had attempted to bribe the Senator Gore.
[4] Robinson's article says that Jake Hamon met Clara Belle Smith at a store in Lawton when he was 40 and she was 16,[a] and that they began a love affair shortly after.
His opponents in the party began a campaign to undermine his public credibility and reputation, even claiming that he was not a resident of the state.
At the meeting, Hamon first learned that Florence Harding was a second cousin of his estranged wife, Georgia.
[b] After Harding won the general election in November, a rumor spread that the new president had offered Hamon the post of Secretary of the Interior.
She and Hamon had an argument before Jake told her to go back to her room and threatened to have police arrest her for disorderly conduct.
A local surgeon was awaiting dinner in the restaurant, and quickly helped Hutchins get the victim to the nearby Ardmore Sanitarium and Hospital.
Meanwhile, the doctors found that the bullet had lodged against the victim's spine, and they considered the situation inoperable.
While fading in and out of consciousness, Hamon told Hutchins to take Clara to his own home in El Paso immediately and send her to Mexico.
After a trial which lasted seven days, the jury reported back in 39 minutes with a finding of not guilty.
In 2017 the Missouri newspaper Bolivar Herald Free Press ran a series about her that opened with a 1921 headline, "Clara Smith Hamon Film Will Be Barred in City."