A GRATEFUL PRISONER.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 2790, 30 May 1921, Page 2

A GRATEFUL PRISONER.

KISSES FOR JURY FOREMAN

Mrs Clara Hanion, who was charged with tho murder of her uncle Colonel Jake* Hamon, the i ‘mushroom oil king,” was found not guilty at Ardmore U.S.A., after the jury had deliberated for 40 minutes.

Tho announcement was received with cheers, and Mrs Hamon # rushed impulsively to Mr Benjamin Toughridge, the 73-year-old foreman, and kissed him on the check. He was seen to whisper something to Mrs Hanion who again kissed Him, and then resumed her seat.

The foreman asked what he. whisp erod, answered, “I said to her, Go and sin no more.’ ”

Tt was stated while the trial proceeding that Mrs Hamon had promised a woman evangelist to take up evangelical work in Chicago it she was acquitted. Tt is doubted i.ow whether she will do this. She ro ' ciived more than 50 offers of marriage through the post since the trial began. Mrs Jake Hamon, who had dec-la roil her intention of securing Mrs Clara Hamon’s punishment “to the ninit, left -the Court with her two children after the ease went to* the jury, and awaited tho result m a room at the hotel. Her fir ends feared to tell j her alter tho verdict was nul r-ounced because of the possibility of j n collapse if she learned that the jury I had leached a decision so quickly. Mrs Clara Hamon’s friends are now planning n. civil suit to compel the executors of Colonel Ha mom’ s estate to give her part of his millions on the ground that he wronged her.