Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-01
PROPELLED HIS ADVANCES"
Wife of Annis' Slayer Replies to
Charges in Divorce Suit.
WANTS CUSTODY OF CHILDREN
Says Captains Brother Tried to
Win Her Love and Then Ira
duced Her to Husband.

|
Peter c. Hams described the relations
| that existed between her and William G.
Annis whom her husband, Capt Hams,
| killed last August at the Baysde Yacht
Club.
| She makes use of the term in an al
| fidavit which will be filed next Monday
| in the supreme court in Brooklyn. when
| a motion made yesterday by her coun-
sci, Frank G. Wild. for almony, coun-
sci fees and the custody of her three
| children pending the outcome OF her
husbands suit for divorce will be heard.
| Wild had intended presenting the am
| davit to the court yesterday, when he
made the motion before Justice Carr IN
Brooklyn. but held it back as Welton C.
Percy. counsel to Capt. Hams. was not
| ready to proceed with the argument.
| Mrs Hams in her affidavit. according
to lawyer who has seen copy or II.
| blames Thornton Jenkins Hams. brother
| of Capt Hams, for the breach that came
| between them.
She alleges that Thornton Hams was IN
| love with her, that when she repuiseo
him he became jealous, and then. In a
spirit of revenge. falsely told Capt Hams
| that She had maintained improper rela-
| tions with Annis during the captain do-
sence last winter in Manila.
Husband Taught Her to Drink.
Not only does Mrs. Hams firmly deny
any shade of misconduct in any of her
| relations with Annis, but she accuses
| her husband of having made no EFFORT
! to keep her actions above criticism.
| She declares that he taught her to drink
| and to smoke cigarettes. II any D!ame
| is to be placed for any such 1ndiseretlons'
| she AYERS it must rest upon Capt. Hams.
| The affidavit mentions for the first time
since the sensational shooting at Bay
| side a letter beginning. My Dear Billy.
which Mrs Hams is alleged to have
| written to Annis. In the afhdavit she
denies having written such missive and
| intimates that if such one exists II must
| be a forgery.
The My Dear Billy letter. according
to John F. Mcintyre. of counsel to the
Hams brothers. who discussed 1t after
the contents of the afhdavlt became
known. was sent by Mrs. Hams to Annis
a few days after the alleged illegal opera
ton was performed upon her in an up
town apartment hotel.
Mr. Mcintyre says the defense has sew
eral more letters written by Mrs. Hams
to Annis but none of them will be di-
vulged until the murder trial. All OF
them. he says, figure in the divorce suit
Capt. Hams wife swears IN her am
dayit that no operation was performed
upon her and she demands that her hus-
bands counsel furnish her with the name
| of the physician. who, they claim, per-
| formed the operation and the name or
| the hotel where they say 1t took place.
Mrs. Hams maintains that any attempt
to bring in witnesses to substantfate the
| charge of an operation Will rail- she
wishes to know exactly what her hus-
bands counsel will attempt to prove as
| to this operation so she will be in po-
sition to combat 1t.
Mrs. Hams devotes a considerable por-
ton of the deposition to the assertion
tina, Thornton Jenkins Hams poisoned her
husbands mind against her.
She speaks of Capt Hams going away
from Fort Hamilton to Manila last Oc-
tober, and declares that shortly after his
departure Thornton Hams began his ad-
vances. She resented his conduct. she
says. and in jealous anger he turned
against her.
Dragged, Mrs. Hams Swears.
When Capt. Hams returned from Manila
in the latter part of May. Thornton Hams,
she declares. made accusations linking
her name with that of Annis that were
vicious and false She leads up to the
confession of her wrongdoing which her
husbands counsel say she made and de-
clares she was compelled to sign 1t while
drugged.
She thought it was whisky. she says
and was made to drink 1t. Immediately
after she became dazed. and while in
| that condition, she asserts, she was forced
| to aff1x her name to the written docu-
ment. Mrs. Hams insists that she did
not know what was in the confession; not
word of it was read to her.
Besides petitioning for the custody of
her three children. Mrs. Hams asks 81 O00
as counsel fees and $40 a week alimony.
| This will be vigorously resisted by Percy.
| He takes the ground that Capt. Hams.
| being in Jail and with his income shut
off. is in no position TO pay any money
| to her; that he needs all he .can scrape
| together to defend himself at his murder
| trial.
"a
| Mondays hearing to offset that made by
Mrs Hams. 1t is expected that he will
| attempt to show that Mrs. Hams is not
proper custodian of the children.
To offset this Wild will present two
affidavits by Mrs Hams father and
mother in Boston. who will vouch for
their daughters character and will say
tina: she is able TO support the three chill
dren.
LAWYER Mcintyre declared that he be
lieved the application was instigated by
District Attorney Darrin of Queens coun-
~, so he could learn what evidence the
defense has for the murder trial.
Will Not Disclose Evidence.
Hell get fooled said Mcintyre, "for
not a word of new evidence will reach
him through the divorce court 1t is
quite evident that Mrs. Hams is doing all
she can to aid the prosecution. She
seems anxious to send her husband to
the electric chair.
she learned that We hoped to make
her eldest child a witness against her.
and is now trying to get him out of our
Jurisdiction.
II do not think the court will do any
thing at this time that. would prejudice
Capt. Hams case. l do not think for
moment that Mrs. Hams application will
be granted"
Mcintyre disclosed that in Capt Hams
divorce suit the captain mentioned eleven
visits made by Annis and Mrs. Hams to
an uptown apartment. All but one of
these visits. he alleged, were made in the
afternoon; the other was at night. In
the divorce action Annis alone is named
as correspondent
Capt. Hams charges that it was at An
mis- suggestion that Mrs. Hams submitted
to the alleged operation. The written
confession Is mentioned in the captains
divorce papers. it being alleged that Mrs.
Hains told her husband. after her oral
admissions. that she was willing to sign
her name to statement embodying all
she had confessed In the confession she
Is alleged to have told of the operation.
Annis. the captain alleges. went with her
10 the Doctors Office and made all the
arrangements. Mrs. Hams was gone