The daily sentinel., 1908-12-17
NEWS, VIEWS AND
GOSSIP OF NEW YORK
tBy Glenn Guernsey.D

New York. Dec 17.-Not since the
| iellyfish soul of Chester Gillette was
catapulted into the hereafter by an
unfeeling electrical engineer; not
since the madman of Matteawan re-
| lapsed into the innocuous desuetude
of an upstate rest-cure resort. not
since those delectable days have the
sob sisters known such eXultation as
is filing their throbbing buzzums on
this day and date, Bloodshed and
| scandal and horrors permeate the
metropolitan atmosphere. and the sob
sisters sniff it as a sweet SAVIOR. Lur
id headlines shout out a story of sin
and shame, of sororw and suffering.
of bloodshed and crime.
T. jenkins Hams. who. with his
brother, Captain Peter c. Hams, is
charged with the Staying of William
Il. Annis. was placed on trial this
week, and the sob sisters are holding
high revel of overworked adjectives.
No murder trial in recent years has
afforded such an opportunity for ap-
peals to passion and prejudice and
salacity.
For weeks the sob sisters have
been at work on their joyous task
dissectinS every emotion of the prin-
cipals in the bloody tragedy. examin-
ing every aspect of the famous case
and setting forth their theories in
lurid and impressionistic chronicles
Some have interviewed the mother
of the accused man. painting word
picture of her whom they term "A
mother of sorrows.' others have
INDUCED in attempts at analyzing
the character of It. jenkins Hams,
the ogre" the sea-wolf." Captain
Hams has been the subject of many
ambitious efforts. One of these, sur
charged with pathos, seeks to bring
tears to the eyes of the reader in this
fashion:
He was the most pathetic figure
on earth-a young man broken on
the wheel of fate in his youth. the
joy of living forever quenched for
him. old in sorrow before he is old
in years. He is the tallest of the
three brothers, a fine, soldierly up
standing figure of man that must
have been handsome enough to have
captured any girls fancy when his
face was lit up by happiness but
now he looks wan and pinched. as If
some cruel wind had blown over him
and blighted him
The gifted authoress shows great
knowledge of the verbal eccentrici-
ties of spooks in the following para
graph;
His face is the saddest human
face ever saw. and his voice when
he speaks is like the voice of ghost,
so sad. so lifeless. so surcharged with
deathless woe in it,
And what sublimity of grief and
hopeless, helpless woe is in the con-
clusion of this sob sisters tale:
His voice trailed OFF into silence
again. his brooding eyes bent upon
the table, where his hands We're
drawing. drawing, drawing meaning
less pictures, while his thoughts, as
in treadmill went their dreary,
hopeless rounds-of sorrow for which
there is no cure"
Poor Peter Hainsi"
Poor Peter Hains.' indeed, He
l'has many things to bear, and not
the least of these is the mock sympa-
| thy of the sisterhood of sobs And
in this sisterhood in his own wife.
| writing for the yellow papers the
story of her life in the army-brazen.
shameless, vulgar accounts in which
she herself occupies the limelight as
a pure and unspotted but much
| wronged woman-an exhibition of
| indecent exposure of the mind such
| as seldom has been witnessed.
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