Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-17
HARNESSES IN COURT
Father of ihe Prisoners Was Also Present Looking After
 Their Welfare.

New York, Aug 17.-Captain Pe-
 ter c. Haines, Jr, U. s. A., who shot
 and killed William E. Annis on Sat
 urday at the Bayside Yacht club, was
 to-day arraigned in the first district
 court in Long Island City, before
 Magistrate Matthew J. Smith. Ar raigned with the captain was his brother, T. Jenkins Haines, who kept
 back the crowd with a revolver
 while his brother carried out his vengeance on the man who he as- serted, had ruined his home. The two men were yesterday taken from the Flushing police station where they had been confined during the the magistrate read the charge against the prisoners. As counsel for the men had not arrived, the hearing was postponed until to-day, in the meantime, the Haines bro h. CTS being kept in. the Queens county jail. T. Jenkins Haines, who was first held on a charge of at tempted felonious assault, was la ter charged with being an access sory to the killing of Annis.
 Harvey c. Rockwell, who had been a close friend of William An his, the slain man, turned over to the district attorney of Queens county package of letters received recently by Annis, in which he was warned that his life was in danger. It was said that the last letter he received cautioned him against vis- iting the Bay Side Yacht club on Saturday The Haines brothers when brought into court to-day seemed little perturbed concerning the proceedings. Since the shooting 1t has been learned that T. Jenkins Haines had been tried in 1891 on a homicide charge when he was 29 years old. He was charged with having shot Edward Hannegan, a friend, to death, while the two were out in a boat of Old Point Con- fort. Haines and Hannegan were among the most prominent young society men in Washington at the time and the affair created a sensa- tion. Haines was acquitted by a jury on the plea of self defense. General Peter c. Haines, father of the young men, was in court to-day looking after the interest of his sons. Yesterday young Mrs Haines, who it is said had been on terms of close friendship with Mrs Annis, wife of the slain man, came hur- riedly to New York from her home in Winthrop, Mass, and went to Fort Hancock on Sandy Hook in an effort to get possession of her three children, who have been living with General and Mrs Haines. She did not succeed in her mission and it was believed that she lett the city for her fathers home in Massachu- setts. The body of William Annis was removed yesterday by a Flush ing undertaken to his former home in Claremont avenue, Manhattan Mrs Annis was completely prostrat- ed by the killing of her husband, and is under the constant care. of physicians.
 The cases were adjourned for one week. During the hearing General Haines, the father of the two broth- CTS, was in court, but did not have an opportunity to speak to them. | They had to walk a mile to the court | house and were followed by large | crowd. The district attorney says he | does not believe that counsel will at tempt to get bail. He considers it a | cold blooded and premeditated mur- der and will present the case before | the grand jury at once.