Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-08-22


ever alert and ever fearful that they /
might be kidnapped by agents of the
mother.
And in this curiously human story
of the jungle of society there is this
aspect: Alone in their cells the broth
ers hold in scorn the woman who was
the cause of their crime, and for whose
love they took life. AS wife, her
affections were worth the price of a
human life. As the defendant in di-
vorce suit, she is spurned from the
door of her husbands family, and the
accused slayers scorn to suggest that she
should return to the arms of man
who so seriously resented her leaving.
From her own people there came last
night the assertion that the signed
statements now in the hands of the at
torneys for the Captain and his broth
er contained matter the nature of which
the wife did not know -
The surprising statement was made
by Mrs Edith M. Blanchard, an aunt
of the young woman that Mrs. Hams
had told her father that she did not
know what the statement contained.
"Her father told me-" said Mrs. Blan-
chard, "that Mrs Hams reported to
him that Gen. Hams and his two sons
had stood over her, threatening her life
if she did not sign the paper, and that
without any idea as to the contents, she
affixed her signature"
Captain Hams brother is the dark
william who has brought about this ira
gedy," she insisted =.
Flashes came yesterday from the milf
tary posts that would seem to indicate
that the officers who remain loyal to the
prisoners will force an insanity feature
without regard to the wishes of the
prisoners In fact, they will use the
insistence of the Captain that he is n.
insane as the best evidence that he is.
From army friends it is insisted that
for many months the Captain has been
exhibiting signs of insanity. They
point to many instances of the breaking
1 of what was considered one OF the
brightest minds in the army. Candidly,
they might, as in the Thaw case, point
with no little profit. =, .>~2,
Under all this post talk there is COM
ing daily hint of smoldering scandal
that will shake the army when it breaks.
That at least two other cases are hover
ing under the cover of the post silence
was asserted by one of the amiable
gossips who smokes with the officers
{ when they give way to social life. There
is a marked division of officers of what
they would do under the circumstances.
Some favor open aid and comfort to
i the officers; Others are prone to follow
the policy of armed neutrality and
frigid forebearance. ~ .. .n=-.. 4. !.
j Mrs. Peter C. Hams, Jr breads what
4 she calls being Evelyn Thawed" 5
9; Il have consulted my attorney in Bos
4 ton and have talked with my attorne,
j in New York, " she said, and they tel
!. me that I viii be called as witness
J, no doubt, when the case comes to trial
4 ! am trying to make UP my mind to &c
| through this case without flinching.
know I may have to stand many things
I but my name must be vindicated
1T is not right that a misinformee
man, wild with jealousy, should dra,
his wife's name in the dirt-the mothe
of his children. ! owe it to myself ant
7 my children to clear up the cloud OF
, my name. 1t is too bad that an insan
man-insane on some things, at leas
: can make the charges my husband ha
made and not be punished. / was viii
ling to LET him get divorce, but not il
Z New York state"
I. an ~ $780, ~v,~~-~ :