Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-23
Il CAME TO PROTECT BROTHER, "
Annis' Boating Companion Tells How the
First Shot Was Fired, Passing Under
His Left Arm, Hitting Annis in Side.

Flushing, y. Y, Dec 22-Testimony
OF character designed to corroborate
the stories OF the killing of William
f. Annis, which have been told in the
trial OF Thornton j. Hains was devel-
oped today from several of the prose-
cution'- witnesses District Attorney
D2rrin told Justice Crane, when court
adjourned, that the state would proba-
bly, take Il week to complete its case.
Walter Knapp, a Bayside Yacht Club
| member. was given rigorous cross
| examination after he testified that
while sailing toward the dock after his
impromtu race he heard shooting and
saw Mrs. Annis run down the runway
II saw her EoTc across the float"
continued Knapp 'Then she was
stopped ard she went back up the
runway again. Someone tok her by the
arm at the runway. / could not see
who stopped her because she was hid
by the Jib of Aunis' boat"
Mrs. Helene Annis testified yester
day that Thornton Hains turned her
back with & revolver when she ran
across the float toward her wounded
husband.
club member of Annis. caused a sem
saton when he testified that he heard
the defendant say, after the shooting,
that Il came to protect my brother and
would have shot anybody who inter
fared." Lawyer Mcintyre endeavored
to shatter the testimony of Mr..
Stephens, but his evidence remained
unchanged when he left the stand.
~
Stephens asserted on the stand that
there was a noticeable interval be-
tween the first and subsequent shots
fired by Capt. Hams at William E.
Annis.
Flushing, n Y. Dec. 22.-Lawyers
for Thornton J. Hams today asserted
that every effort would De put forth
to shatter that part of Mrs. Helene +.
Annis testimony that the defendant
beckoned his brother and the two men
went to the float where Captain Hams
shot and killed William E. Annis as
he was making a landing with his boat.
This evidence, Hains counsel declare,
was suggested to Mrs. Annls In order
that her testimony might bring the
defendant within the meaning OF the
statute, that there must be some overt
act to show that he induced or pro-
cured his brother to commit the crime.
Mrs. Annis must have been coached
in this part of her testimony, sala
.Joseph Shay, an associate counsel III
the Hams case today. 1--WE have an
idea who told her to say this and we
will bring it out before the trial IS
over We intend to subpoena District
Attorney Darrin and Special Prosecu-
for White as witnesses. 1t is a strange
thing that she did not recall this beck
onine episode or speak of it to anyone
until last week The telling of TINS
would have been intrusted to another
witness but it was known that Mrs
Annis would not be subjected to such
a rigorous cross-eXamlnatioii aS d"
other witness would be.
The defence hopes to develop that
from the position in when MIS- A'ihi'
was standing, she could not nave seen
her husband make the landlhg anu a'
the same time see Ihorntoii ii"ii'7
beckon his brother. Dlstrlct Attoine!
Darrin may recall Mrs. Ahhls " 'ii'
stand. , ;,
Counsel for the state declared asa'i'
TODAY that further reports tha' .ni"'
cuaudia Hains was now in a Brooklyn
boarding house and would be called as
= witness are without foundation.
srec,al Prosecutor White said tnat
,Irs Hains is not within the Jurlsdlc
t;on of this court and was not "ah'eu
as a witness
Joseph Shay of Hams counsel saio
o,oro court opened that the defence
,vou,d nut on the witness staho d
r,ember of the Bayside Yacht oiup
who would testify that Mrs. aims
was not upon the float at any 'ill.e
a,,r;pe the afternoon when the snoo'-
49,. took Mace. This testimony VIII De
dayaloped to refute. Mrs. Annis sto.s
that the defendant drove her from ''o
float with revolver
Morrill, l.. Downs, of Flushins'
Ravside Yacht Club MEMBER, was ~
erst witness today. He went 70 w
o,,b house with his Wlfe anu 'nen
vent to the piazza. where he was WHEN
the shooting took place.
"rhere was an unusual noise ana
oon,motion on the dock. l hearo ',ie
ar;nr and the screams OF the peop"'
darted to the clubhouse ana thui,
,,,ent to the float and said: Who alo
this shooting?'
Mr. Downs said that Mr. ROBERTS,
ar. Andrews. Thornton Hains ana
M. rI.;,s vare on the float. The