The morning journal-courier., 1908-08-18
HANS INTIMATE
 FRIEND OF VICTIM Autoing Together as Recently as May 29 With Their
 Wives, Who Were Well
 Acquainted.
JENKINS TROUBLE-B
Captain's Brother Will Also Be Charg- ed With Murder as Accessory Mrs Annls Retained Faith
 in Her Husband.

New York, Aug, 17.-Of far more interest than the formal arraignment in e police court to-day of Captain Peter C. Mains, jr,, who shot and Kill ed William E. Annis, advertising manager of 9 magazine, on Saturday at the Bayside Yacht club landing while his brother. T. Jenkins Hains, held at bay a crowd of yachsmen who sought to prevent the tragedy, was evidence that came into the hands of District Attorney Darrin bearing upon the case of the shooting.
 It was established that Captain Hains and MT Annis were on such friendly terms that they went auto mobiling together as recently as May 29 last. It was also disclosed that there were two women in the party and the police believe the women were Mrs Halns and, Mrs. Annls The police records prove that the men were autoing together, for a motor cycle policeman arrested the party for speeding on Ocean Parkway. The case was postponed in court several times and is still on the calendar
 The party was In Mir. Annis' automo- bile and the police held Annis In st00 ball. Annls only had s20, so the police were about to lock him up when Capt. Hains stepped forward and handed the prisoner four s2O gold pieces, thus se- curing his release The names of the two women were not taken by the po- lice, but from the conversation that took place in the station 1t was gem erally supposed they were the wives of the two men.
 q have also been told by friends of both Captain Hains and Mr. Annis that thls friendship ceased after a talk Capt. Hains had with his brother, T Jenkins Hains," said the district at torney. T intend to have T. Jenkins Hains tried as an accessory before and during the fact, as believe he is as guilty as his brother It was his letter to Captain Hains that made the latter hurry home from the Philippines ant question his wife regarding her alleged conduct with Mir Annis and 1t was T Jenkins Hains who stopped any ont from preventing Captain Hains iron shooting MT. Annis."
 Another remarkable feature of th' case Is the friendship that exists be tween Mrs Annis and Mrs. Claudii Hains, Capt. Hains' wife. Mrs. Hain called upon Mrs. Annis yesterday after noon, 1t was learned today, and re | l. n, Nd nj p h
 Mrs. Annis, who witnessed the shoot ing of her husband, has been prostrat ed since the tragedy and cannot b. seen. It Is said she has several letters written by Capt. Hains to her husband threatening his life. District Attorne! Darrin tried to secure these letters but owing to the illness of Mrs. Anni he was unable to obtain them.
 One of these letters, 1t Is stated. wal received by MT. Annie the day befor he was shot. The letter warned him 1t Is claimed. that Capt Halns woul' shoot him on sight and 1t is said tha Mrs. Annis tried to dissuade her bus
 band from going to Bayside. When sh saw Captain Hains and his brother a Bayside just before the shooting sh shouted a warning to her husband am
 begged him not to come to the land ing from his yacht while Capt. Hain was there. Mrs. Annis did not believ
 Capt. Hains intended to shoot her hus
 band, she says but thought he wante' to serve him with papers In divorc case proceeding. Despite the fact tha
 Annis had been named as correspond
 ent in a suit brought by Capt Hain
 against his wife, Mrs. Annis had tn
 utmost faith in her husband JAS 1, proof of this she frequently entertaine
 Mrs. Hains and several times Mr.
 Hains was taken on automobile ride . with Mrs. Annis and her husband. | L. c. Page, Boston publisher, wh . Is stopping at the Hotel Breslin her ], and who has published number { ! T. Jenkins Hains' stories, to-day mad ; public letter he says he receive Q from T. Jenkins Hains more than : month ago, in which the writer r' : ferred to the trouble between Captai . Hains and his wife That part of u II lelteT WlllCll idS d pSuili oii 'ho Neis
 reads:
 @ T wish you would come and wis n us. I want to see you very much n this time I am in great distress. dl g to family trouble. My brother t broken hearted on account of y scoundrelly magazine writer who h. t broken up his home. Can you n 8 come and help us out?"
 The district attorney was interest, !, when he learned that T. Jenkins Hail killed a man at Fortress Monroe, VI
 seventeen years ago, and will secure IS copy of the court proceedings duril
 his trial. Ned Hannegan, the ma
 Hans killed. was his best friend, al e it is Q striking fact that he shot hi s in sailboat in much the same mann V as Captain Hains on Saturday shot N ? Annis. At his trial Hains was acuui |. ted. MT. Anns was Just leaving | 'r yacht, named the Pam, when Capta j. Hans fired six shots into his body. l. When the Hains brothers were talk to a police station at Long Island til It, morning they had to wait until n of petty cases had been disposed a before their case was called.
 "a Their counsel, William c. Percy, as : ed for an adjournment of week, a i- 1t was granted,
 
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