Bisbee daily review., 1908-12-03
HAMS, DRIVEN
MAD BY NOTES,
TELLS STORY
Army Officer Can Not Recollect
Anything Connected With
the Shooting of Aanis, and
Denies He Fired the Shot.
One Of the Letters That Helped Drive
Haias Mad.


One Of the Letters That Helped Drive
Haias Mad.
My Dearest Husband: It's terribly
late and can hardly see, but / have
had the queerest experience / have
ever had in my life. / paved (paid)
calls tails afternoon and went to Mrs.
HIS about four thirty. / was asked
up to her bedroom. She was attired
IN her night gown. drank two
glasses of whisky and threw dice. !
came out ahead. Captain p. came
in later and we sat on the floor in her
room and drank.
Mrs. +. is rlglt i'll tonight. I don't
know what is the matter. There are a
lot OF things / would tell YOU but /
don't like to write them. l have had
too many drinks and cigarettes. but
also the experience.
Captain and Mrs Baker came in
this morning; they are going to move
the day after tomorrow. Good night,
sweetheart. Lots of love and Kisses.
Your affiectionate wife CLAUDIA.
NEW YORK, Dec. 2.-Ih the dim
twilight OF ais cell i'm the county jail
at Long Island City today speaking as
a man Just awakened from uou
menting dream. Captain Peter o.
Hains, Jr., gave for the first time ms
version OF the events that led up to
hts killing of William E. AnnIs, tlN
magazine publisher, last August, at
the Bay Side Yacht Club
He declared that Annis had sulIied
the sanctity of ais home; that it was
III fgNs, a
knew of the intrigue that had gone
on with Annis during his own absence
last winter in the Philippines and from
her own letters, the wild reYels that
had taken place at Fort Hamilton
while he was away.
Captain Hams declared he did, not
know that he had killed Annis until
his brother, Thornton Jenkins Hains,
told him. At times during ais inter
view Captain Hams burst into tears,
giving way to paroxysms of grief.
Tell what you remember of the
shooting at Bay Side," was urged.
Captain Hams started from his bench.
Il don't know anything about that"
he replied. Il only know what Thorn
ey has told me about it. Idon't know
where Bay Side is. l don't think I
was ever there.
Il did not shoot Annis, though they
, tell me l did. 1t is all queer. l knew
Annis, | knew him very well. He
used toscome to my house. He was
one of my friends. He ate at my
table. He stole nay wife.
Il went to the divorce court and
there I intended to get ny satisfac-
ton. wanted to get separation
! from the woman I had loved beyond
anything else in my life. did not
want to harm Annis. had no thought
of it in my mind. I thought the
courts would attend to him. My
mind gave way and what came after
that do not know"
Il made two trips to the Philippines.
I The first one ended in January,
( think, and was ordered back on the
/ transport Crook.
when the Crook hauled in at San
/ Francisco a package of letters from
Claudia was handed to me. What
read amazed me. Claudio spoke of
| drinking and smoking cigarettes at
! Fort Hamilton. She told of disgrace
full times that had been going, on.
Il could not believe what read.
Then 1 opened the rest of them. In
nearly every one of them Claudia told
| of drinking
II wondered if Claudia could have
, forgotten her love for me. The thought
| il maddened me. thought of all the
terrible things she pictured In the let
/. ters, and the more though the more
dazed became. My mind was cun-
fused. .--
4 when / reached the fort my braafr
8 was in a whirl. sought Claudia out
and found her sitting on the steps OF
. Lieutenant Andrus' quarters.
Claudia put her arms around me
and kissed me. She told me she had
> not meant what she wrote, that she
: had been lonesome, but had not done
any wrong. / was so happy to heal
. that that took her in my lap and
: kissed her. I told her 70 telephone
Annis to come to dinner with us thai
night. AS remember it, this was the
night of May 81
My awakening came the nexi
. day, when learned from some OF tn
: officers at the fort that what, CfaGsdis
, had told me was gossip had ACTUALLY
: happened. That night l questioned
l her about it IN our room. Sac crfet
: and confessed that she had been de
I they had been together.
: My Cod cred Captain Hams, '1
was an awful blow to me. Her letter
had been ghastly enough, her confes
J sion was horrible but tde charges sh
J, made against me in the divorce sui
!. were worst of all.