At 9:13 a.m. on Thursday, March 10, 1921, District Judge Thomas W. Champion took the bench on the third floor of the Carter County Courthouse in Ardmore. The bailiff called the court to order. Two minor felony matters were quickly disposed of, and then came the case that had dominated newspaper front pages across the country for nearly four months: The State of Oklahoma v. Clara Smith Hamon. The Daily Ardmoreite, covering events almost minute by…
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