The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-30
WIFE OF HAMS
PLAYED FALSE
Stories Told by Several Wit
nesses Agree in That One
Respect.
SAID TO HAVE CONFESSED
CAPTAIN WAS TOLD or HER PER-
FlDY BY OTHERS.

| Flushing. y. Y. Dec z9.-The marital
troubles of Captain Peter c. Hams. jr..
and his story of the estransement with
his wife. Claudia Hams. came out in the
trial of Thornton j. Hams today when
Samuel G. Reid. a government building
| Inspector at North Chicago, related con-
! yeisations he had last June with Captain
| Hams, making known the causes that led
| to the separation OF the captain and his
wife. The testimony of what Captain
Hains said was permitted by Justice
crane as having bearing on the mental
condition of the army officer at that time
Mr.. Reid stated that Captain Hams told
him that his wife had confessed that she
loved Annis. Captain Hams evinced signs
| OF great mental distress in the narration
| OF his troubles, the witness said.
MIR. Reid is said by counsel for the de-
Tense to be a brother of Princess Ros-
pislosi of Rome and comes from Ken
lucky. He is a grand con of S. c. Reid,
Armstrong in the tattle at Fayal, Azores,
during the war OF 1872
stery of the Cock.
Minnie Rhone, negress, who is the
cook IN the Hams household, related the
occurrences in the Hams home which she
said she told Captain Hams on his return
from the west. The witness said that
Mrs. Hams was intoxicated at the house
with Mr.. Annis and that the wife OF the
army captain turned somersaults and Mr.
Annis snacked her. The cook said she
told the captain that his wife smoked
mobile riding with Annis and stayed away
all night.
What did the captain do when you
told him that?"
Captain Hams in Agony.
The witness jumped from her seat and
gave an exhibition of how the captain
acted. crying out: 'Oh, my God Did she
a.. hat x.-f11 - i
dren?'
when did you tell Captain Hams all
this?'' asked Justice Crane, sternly.
The night he came home from the
Philippines was the reply.
The witness said she told Captain Hams
that Mrs. Hams had told her that she
had loved Billy Annis for five years and
that she did not know what love was
when she married. The cook further tes-
titled that Mrs. Hams called Annis papa"
and her affinity and on one occasion
Captain Hams young son called Annis
papa
The witness said she told all this to
Captain Hams. She said she told the cap
tain that Annis made himself at home in
the house and that he hid when someone
called at the house.
cross-Examination of Reid.
The cross-examination of Mr.. Reid car
ried him over all of the direct testimony.
He said ne recalled that Captain Hams
told him that when he first came home
he told his wife the nature of the scan
dial about her. Mr. Reid related the story
of the automobile ride in which Captain
Hams, his wife and Mrs. Annis partici-
pated, the night of the captains return
from the Philippines. The witness de-
clared that Captain Hams told him that
the next day after he returned from the
west his father, General Hams. suggest
ed that they go to the Adirondacks to
find out if the story that she told that
she had been TO the mountains for a
x1-if1 har- r1Giv frrtz. d oil
said:
Captain Hams said to me that he asked
his wife how she went to the Adirondacks
and she replied BY boat | told her
she could not go there by boat, and said
that father and 1 were going 10 the
mountains to see If she had been there.
She then said she did not want to be
mistrusted and was tired of it. She then
said that she loved Billy Annis."
Told Him the Whole Story.
Mr.. Reid testified that Captain Hams
told him that his wife related the whole
matter Of her conduct while he was
away.
THE captain said he asked his wife
why she had done so. and she replied
that she did not know. She made many
trips to New York, the captain said he
was told. and was in Manhattan when
she was supposed to be in the Adiron-
dacks. Captain Hams said to me that
he told his wife that if he had known
she loved Annis he would have permitted
her to get divorce"
MIR. Reid said that later there was
meeting at Fort Hamilton of General
Hains, the defendant. Mrs Hams and
the captain. who said to his father that
his wife had confessed all.
THE captain told me he sent for n
lawyer, who took down her statement
and she signed it. He told me that she
told the same story she told them the
night before"
Mr.. Reid further testified that the cap
tain had said that he had obtained cor
roborative information from two servants
concerning his Wifp'S cDDdyief